Updated June 2011

Guitars

97 American Standard Strat in Lake Placid Blue
- Hot Rails pickup in bridge position
- Graph-Tech saddles and string trees
- Bridge 'blocked' with a Tremol-No

My first and best guitar, old faithful. Thinking about going back to the stock pickups or maybe a nice vintage set.

Fender Blacktop Telecaster, black with maple neck
- Graph-Tech saddles and 2 string trees

The tone from the stock pickups is actually pretty great! They are low output compared to the hot rails in my strat and allow for a lot more headroom, but they compress quite a bit over the last 1/4 of the volume knob. I can turn them down to get a punchier full sounding tone without losing any output. Much more thick and full sounding than the strat. Unique and versatile but still undeniably sounds like a Tele.

Effects

Boss TU-2
- Not part of the chain anymore, as the buffer messes with my fuzz pedals. Still on the board and powered up though incase I need to plug into it.
Mojo Hand Analog Filter
- Custom green colour, basically a clone of the DOD 442. Won it in a draw from Tonefactor! Can't remember the last time I won something, so this was awesome.
Subdecay Liquid Sunshine OD
- very natural sounding and easy to tweak with the double drive knob setup. Currently using it as a very slight warm gain boost, so it just barely adds some edge to notes and thickness to chords.
Earthquaker Devices Dream Crusher
- 2 knobs, based on a fuzz face. Huge dynamic range, and can go from thick spluttry fuzz to dead clean with a small volume roll back or lighter picking. Its got a treble boost to it and has no EQ, but I like that about it. It makes it musical and fun to squeeze different tones out of it by playing with pick attack and the rest of your guitar controls instead of getting bogged down in finding the perfect knob settings. This might become my go-to overdrive as well, we will see. Love it so far.
Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler
- heavily gated. layers of fuzz and distortion that sound like a few pedals together, huge nasty nine inch nails type tone. I don't get to use this as often as I'd like but its very unique.
Line 6 M9 + Exp. Pedal, exp. switch
- Fills in for whatever modulation I need, as well as being the main delay and reverb for my rig. Sounds great for a digital multi and the utility is impossible to beat. Love this pedal more and more, hope it lasts (build quality-wise). Expression pedal controls the amount of reverb on most of my patches, wah, pitch and volume on a few others. The switch jumps between fast and slow modulation, or sends delays into feedback.
Loop Master TB box
- one switch for amp channel changing, one for a master true bypass loop. used to cut all reverb/delay/whatever when switching to the gain channel.


Amps

Fender Pro Junior
Soldano Hot Rod 50+
- My amp search is over, and has been since I got this a few years ago. I keep having ideas about changing things around but end up sticking with it.
Marshall 1960B 4x12

Misc.

Pedaltrain 2 HC
Voodoolab Pedal Power 2

Pics of my gear

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Fender Strat
Fender Blacktop Tele
TB FX Loop/Channel Switcher > (in loop) > Mojo Hand Analog Filter > EQD Dream Crusher Fuzz > Subdecay Liquid Sunshine > Frazz Dazzler > Line 6 M9 > EHX Memory Toy > (end of loop)
Soldano HR50+

Rig Thread

Great rig, love the Soldano!!

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Rig: http://guitargeek.com/chat/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100910

Cool. I was wondering what amp you'd end up with.

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R. Mutt

Guitar -> Wah -> Amp -> Cab

i basically bought it based on research without ever trying one, very happy it ended up sounding exactly like what i was looking for

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Fender Strat
Fender Blacktop Tele
TB FX Loop/Channel Switcher > (in loop) > Mojo Hand Analog Filter > EQD Dream Crusher Fuzz > Subdecay Liquid Sunshine > Frazz Dazzler > Line 6 M9 > EHX Memory Toy > (end of loop)
Soldano HR50+

Rig Thread

Killer. I'd love to see pics of that pedalboard though. The more I hear about the Liquid Sunshine the more I want one.

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New Rig Pics!
Rig Thread-
http://guitargeek.com/chat/showthrea...threadid=92114

In one of those pics, your Big Muff looks like it got caught in a fire.

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The Machines

its just dusty, but there is a lot of rust on the edges from leaving it in our old jam spot which was a bit damp.

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Fender Strat
Fender Blacktop Tele
TB FX Loop/Channel Switcher > (in loop) > Mojo Hand Analog Filter > EQD Dream Crusher Fuzz > Subdecay Liquid Sunshine > Frazz Dazzler > Line 6 M9 > EHX Memory Toy > (end of loop)
Soldano HR50+

Rig Thread

Also, how many pedals does your Voodoo power?

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The Machines

its got outputs for 8 pedals, plus the courtesy outlet on the back. it even handles the holy grail and wah pedal by using the 2 special outputs with higher current capacity.

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Fender Strat
Fender Blacktop Tele
TB FX Loop/Channel Switcher > (in loop) > Mojo Hand Analog Filter > EQD Dream Crusher Fuzz > Subdecay Liquid Sunshine > Frazz Dazzler > Line 6 M9 > EHX Memory Toy > (end of loop)
Soldano HR50+

Rig Thread

I love Soldanos. Your Strat is cool. Your pedalboard is cool. I love your rig.

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Love it man. Your strat is SO hot!

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Pandas and People

Nice amplifier. Does your Soldano have the same type of sound as the SLO? Also isn't Dr. Scientist stuff really high dollar? I've heard it was pretty expensive somewhere. I'd love to hear what you sound like through it.

I've never actually heard an SLO in person, but the HR50 has a really fat drive channel. I think the SLO has more gain and a better clean channel with more control, but I really can't complain too much about the HR50. It sounds very close to Silverchair on the neon ballroom album.

The clean can also get into a tweedy kind of SRV OD when cranked, so the amp does almost everything except a really sparkling clean.

Dr. Scientist has a really popular reverb that is a bit pricey, but overall I'd say they're a bit underpriced compared to other boutique pedals. Also he's just a really good guy to deal with and will go a long way to make sure you're happy with his gear.


Thanks for the kind comments about my rig!

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Fender Strat
Fender Blacktop Tele
TB FX Loop/Channel Switcher > (in loop) > Mojo Hand Analog Filter > EQD Dream Crusher Fuzz > Subdecay Liquid Sunshine > Frazz Dazzler > Line 6 M9 > EHX Memory Toy > (end of loop)
Soldano HR50+

Rig Thread

I think Hot Rods have the same drive circuit as the SLO but do not have military components.

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