Mikey's Gear - as of lately

mikey383 · #1 12.21.04, 11:03 AM

I'll try to keep this updated as best as I can. There's been some additions and some stuff that I got rid of when I got divorced. Here's some old
pics. I'll get new ones up as soon as I can.

*Note* The new Recto looks the same as the old one. I had to customize it as well.

Guitars

1996 Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 (Tuned D with 10s)
2007 Schecter C-1 Classic Diamond Series (Tuned Drop "C" w/.010 - .046 strings)
2002 Epiphone Les Paul Limited Edition w/Burstbuckers 3B,2N (Tuned Drop "B" w/.010 - .052 strings)
1993 Yamaha RGZ model with EMG 85B, 81N (Tuned "D" standard w/ .010 - .052 strings)
2000 Samick Artist series 29 fret w/ DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge (Tuned Drop "A#" with .011 - .070 strings)
1997 Simga by Martin Acoustic (Tuned "D" w/.012 - .056 strings)
2007 JB Player Acoustic/electric (Tuned "Eb" w/.010 - .052 strings)
199? Epi Strat

Amps

1995 Mesa Dual Rectifier w/ Mesa STD 4x12 Cab
1970's Earth Producer bass head w/AVI 4x10 cab
Fender Jam - 25 watt practice amp

Pedals

Fulltone OCD
Budda Budwah
DOD volume pedal
Pearl Flanger
Behringer FCB1010 MIDI controller footboard

Rack Gear

Aphex Aural Exciter 104c w/Big Bottom
Furman PL-Plus power conditioner
Digitech DSP-128 effects unit
TC Electronic M-300 effects unit
Behringer Headphone amp

Drums and stuff

Tama Rockstar set
22x16 Bass
9x10 tom
10x12 tom
12x13 tom
16x16 tom
Pearl Piccolo snare 13x3

Zildjian Cymbals
20" A Custom Ride
16" A Custom Crash
18" Z Custom Medium Crash
15" A Custom Thin Crash
16" A Medium Crash
8" A Custom Splash
14" New Beat hi-hats
DW5000 double bass pedal

Recording Gear and Stuff

Korg D3200 32 track digital recorder
Sennheiser HD280 studio headphones
ART tube mic preamp
Bose bookshelf speakers (for final playback checks)
Pioneer Stereo reciver w/above Bose speakers

Mics

Rode NT-1 condenser mic
MXL-2001 Condenser mic
MXL-900 Pencil Condenser mic
Samson 8 peice drum mic kit
Sennheiser e609 guitar mic

MISC

Planet Waves cables
Monster speaker cable
Whirlwind mic cables
Dunlop Tortex picks (orange)
Jim Dunlop purple gel picks

I think that's all for now. More to come soon. I'll update the pics shortly.

mikey383 · #2 12.22.04, 10:58 PM

Does anybody have any recommendations for my gear? I'm not sure what else I could get, but suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
-Mike

screamingdaisy · #3 12.22.04, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mikey383
Does anybody have any recommendations for my gear? I'm not sure what else I could get, but suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
-Mike

You don't have any phase...

Triton · #4 12.22.04, 11:44 PM

I don't know what else you could get, but that Recto is gorgeous.

EDIT: Oooh, you could get a clean boost or a noise gate. Or take SD's suggestion for more phase. I know I am. (Everybody needs more phase.

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mikey383 · #5 12.23.04, 1:07 AM

The Valve FX has lots of phase....and delay. So does the Quadraverb. Plus, I'm running the Behringer Composer, which has a nose gate in it. I pretty much have all that covered.
One thing that Triton mentioned...a clean boost....I kinda dig that, since the cleans on the Recto seem to break up very quickly unless I run some kind of modulation effect, like a chorus or phase shifter.

Other than a clean boost, I really can't think of anything else that I could add to my rig to enhance it. I've been thinking, but keep coming up short on thoughts.

mikey383 · #6 12.23.04, 1:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Triton
I don't know what else you could get, but that Recto is gorgeous.

Thanks man, I did a lot of work to make it stand out in the crowd of Rectos. You wouldn't believe the hassle I went through to re-do it. I'm glad it turned out as good as it did.

Triton · #7 12.23.04, 10:46 AM

I thought it was a custom shop job until I saw the picture labels.

I'd still like to set up some kind of jam or something sometime. Now isn't a good time because of the weather obviously.

Mic · #8 12.23.04, 4:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mikey383
The Valve FX has lots of phase....and delay. So does the Quadraverb. Plus, I'm running the Behringer Composer, which has a nose gate in it. I pretty much have all that covered.
One thing that Triton mentioned...a clean boost....I kinda dig that, since the cleans on the Recto seem to break up very quickly unless I run some kind of modulation effect, like a chorus or phase shifter.

Other than a clean boost, I really can't think of anything else that I could add to my rig to enhance it. I've been thinking, but keep coming up short on thoughts.

I'm not sure if it's your style or not but you can buy a Line6 filter pro is a really cool rack with new interesting sounds from your setup, it might get you to a new place

noname · #9 12.23.04, 5:07 PM

Nice gear -- the rec. is a beauty. I fell out of love with the whole diamond plate thing, and would totally get a custom if i was to buy one.

mikey383 · #10 12.27.04, 3:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mic
I'm not sure if it's your style or not but you can buy a Line6 filter pro is a really cool rack with new interesting sounds from your setup, it might get you to a new place

I've never even checked one out. There's nowhere around here that I can find one to try it. Everybody is into pedals, and nobody seems to carry rack gear around here anymore. It's like it went out with the 80's or something

What exactly does it do? I have one rack space yet to fill

hjaltiz · #11 12.27.04, 5:05 PM

It takes all of our favorite filter and synth sound and puts them into one sexy purple monster. Many great sounds come from it, I would like to have one myself. One can doubt how musical it is though.

Triton · #12 12.28.04, 10:31 PM

Mikey - if you want to make the trek down to Centerville Music, they have a Line6 FM-4 (or they did last time I was there). I would think the rack and this thing would be at least somewhat similar.

I wasn't really impressed with it, but then again I don't have any experience with synths and filters.

mikey383 · #13 12.31.04, 8:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Triton
Mikey - if you want to make the trek down to Centerville Music, they have a Line6 FM-4 (or they did last time I was there). I would think the rack and this thing would be at least somewhat similar.

I wasn't really impressed with it, but then again I don't have any experience with synths and filters.

S**t man, I've never even been there. I'd get lost going there. I'm not very educated on Line 6 stuff. If it's a pedal, I wouldn't be interested anyway, since I like to keep my stepping to a minimum, and the more pedals I have, the more money I have to spend to make it simple again.

But get ahold of me sometime this week. I'd like to jam around sometime.

lp_man · #14 01.07.05, 1:32 PM

Yeah that messa looks way better did you really do it yourself? How much did it cost?

mikey383 · #15 01.07.05, 2:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lp_man
Yeah that messa looks way better did you really do it yourself? How much did it cost?

Yeah, I did it myself. It ran me a total of around 115 bux to redo the whole halfstack. That's including the grill cloth ($85 off the 'bay), staples ($5), foam for the head ($5), glue for the foam ($5), and double-sided tape to remount the grill on the head ($15). I had the wood for the template laying around. Plus I have enough cloth to redo it again, in case it gets a hole torn in it like my last cab did.

The major kicker was the time it took. It took every bit of two hours just to do the cab. That's with 2 people working on it too. There are an assload of staples holding the original grillcloth on. Seriously, they are so close together that you couldn't fit another staple between them. It's like that all the way around the grill too. I had to have a buddy do the stapling while I pulled the cloth as tight as I could around the grill frame.

For the head, I had to cut a peice of 1/8" paneling to the exact size and shape of the diamond plate, then trim it down another 1/8" all the way around. I put glue down, then layed a layer of foam over the paneling, and wrapped it in the cloth, stapling behind the panel, and used the double-sided tape to hold it back on the head (that's also how it's put on from the factory.)

The only other thing I would do differently-- I would use a white colored piping around the cab, instead of the stock grey color.

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