Guitars:
1996 Squier Stratocaster. 12-51 in standard. This is my baby. Found it at a cash converters for $80; they thought it was broken because it was missing a string. I've subsequently rebuilt this hunk of wood; only thing left on it that's original is the body. Using Lindy Fralin Blues Specials pickup set, and I found an American '57 maple neck also from 1996; meant to be together! Sounds like everything I want in a guitar. Especially the neck p'up

2007 Fender Baja Telecaster. 11-50 in standard. I actually went and cut the body up on this guitar to add a neck p90. I almost sort of feel bad; I've totally changed the voodoo of this guitar; replaced the 4-way switch to make use of the p90, and I've added a GFS overwound Alnico Fatbody to the bridge. The neck P90 then got changed to a GFS Liverpool mini-humbucker. Despite the blonde finish, maple neck, and brass saddles, this really ain't a Tele-sounding Tele. But I still love it. Wanted it to really sound different from my Strat

2006 Eastwood Delta 6. 16-56 in open G. When i first learned of this guitar's existence years ago, I told myself I would buy one for the right price. At the start of the year, one came up on CL while i was at work; so I left to go buy it (it was right near me). Patience paid off; $200 CDN. The piezo in the bridge is pretty shrill and metallic, but i find setting the blend to about 55/45 in favour of the p90 works really nice. This is strictly a slide guitar. I should definitely be using it more than I do, but it's the way things go I guess...

Also have a handmade classical guitar that I bought in Paracho village, Mexico. I'll get a good steel string some day, but I never really play acoustic, so if I do this one suits fine.


Amps:

Epiphone Valve Senior w/Camaro 1x12 cab. I had heard great stuff from the Valve Jr, and was finding my Fender combo to be too loud for practical gigging. The Epi VS at 20w is only half the power, and it sounds really nice. Can do blackface cleans, good breakup, and takes pedals like a champ. Stock tubes, will upgrade when I need to.

Fender Blues Deluxe tweed reissue. Pretty solid amp. My first tube venture. It's great, but way too loud for every gig I've ever done except one. Replaced the speaker with an Eminence Texas Heat and retubed the power amp with TAD 6L6s. Mullards are in the preamp; really nice and smooth gain with lots of clean headroom, which is what i require on the clean channel.

Orange Crush 10. I heard that these little orange amps sounded sweet in a big cab, and I really like the EQ/gain knobs on this thing. Spent $25 to get it modded for a speaker out jack, and I was using it with the Camaro cab until the Epi came along. Now I run it through the Fender's speaker or use it on its own, either way it's for practice. Would make a decent backup head should I ever need it assuming the gig is mic'd.



Pedals:
Effects. I decided to buy a small enough board that I could fill it up fast; now any change I might make has to be an incredibly careful one; I have to lose something to gain something else. It's a decent way to curb my spending.

The chain is: Korg Pitchblack tuner > Ibanez TS-808 > Dunlop 535 Wah > Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret > EHX Nano Small Stone > EHX Freeze > Carl Martin Red Repeat



Bass Rig:

1984 Rickenbacker 4003. Wow. This thing kills. I use it for prog, reggae, funk, whatever. It can take it all. So gnarly, and it sustains great. Easier to play than I figured it would be as the neck is a bit thicker than I am used to with the Fender bass. Definitely not a sound that everyone loves, but I find it great.

2007 Fender Precision Bass. So I decided the best way to sound like King Crimson era John Wetton was to get a big ol' nasty P-Bass. There it is. Seymour Duncan pickup, and a heavy duty Gotoh bridge.

My main amp is a 1965 Ampeg B18-N. This is the greatest sounding bass amp... perhaps any kind of amp, I will ever own. It is pure motown vibe, but it can do anything I want. Turn it up and the break-up is killer, or run my pedals and it sounds mammoth! Just a great piece of kit.

I also have a Yorkville Stage 120B. Sounds really tube-like for a solid state amp; i think it's that the 15" speaker drives really smoothly with volume. Insanely loud and punchy. Even takes pedals well.

I don't have a pedalboard per se, but I run a small chain: Korg stage tuner > Boss OC-3 > EXH Nano Bassballs > MXR Zakk Wylde OD. I have an MXR classic fuzz which I can hook up if I need to do Muse songs or something like that, but I don't usually set it up. I'm trying to avoid too many bass effects, and I've managed to successfully keep it capped at 3 for a long time now.

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Real neat. I really do need clips of that resonator, though.

Clips or didn't happen!

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Selling BOSS FW-3. I live in Brazil, mind you, so prepare yourself for $30-ish for shipping and waiting. Local pickup available, along with beautiful beaches and cheap bitches.

thanks.

true though, that clips prove existence.... alright, well the only way i can get you a half-decent clip will be from a recording i did at home with a buddy of mine on drums and voice.

Hmmm.... now to find some way to upload it. I can't live life knowing my guitar is a lie according to you, Gus.

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let's see if i did it....

i think i did. forgive the lo-fi quality; we aren't exactly what you would call skilled at post production

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That resonator... sounds... beautiful. Any chance I could score one of those on the cheap down here?

Yes, that was a joke...

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Selling BOSS FW-3. I live in Brazil, mind you, so prepare yourself for $30-ish for shipping and waiting. Local pickup available, along with beautiful beaches and cheap bitches.

You haven't wasted any time, it's all very classy, nice low-key pedal board to boot

Maybe not a pro rig, but who cares as long as it's jealousy inducing?

re-ordered my pedalboard for some new sounds. realized my wah was eating up a lot of the dirt before it, so i tried putting it in the middle.

It was:
Voodoo Lab Proctavia > Ibanez TS9 > Korg Pitchblack tuner > Ibanez TS-808 > MXR Classic 108 Fuzz > Dunlop 535 Wah > EHX Nano Small Stone > Carl Martin Red Repeat

Now:
tuner > TS9 > wah > proctavia > fuzz > TS-808 > small stone > delay

i'm liking the fuzzed wah sound. the MXR has a nice buffer switch which allows it to play nice with wahs in that order. and i like what the heavy drive of my 808 is doing to finish off the grit from the fuzz. the other bonus is now getting a slightly boosted signal into my proctavia; it seems to like that quite a bit!

too bad it required moving some things around. man... sorting out pedalboards is like a bloody puzzle. and a really frustrating one, at that! but it's a small way of staving of too much gas; i can almost pretend i got something new to play with based on the new sounds available. still, a micro pog would be sweet...*sigh*

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I love your pedalboard. Nothing ever looks as cool as a pedalboard completely covered in pedals! Haha, I approve.

Out of curiosity, you wouldn't happen to be a fan of the band "Sloppy Meateaters," would you? I only ask this because I believe at one time all the members of the band had stage names that consisted of their first names prefaced by the word "Sloppy," (like your user name), and at the time they were promoting an album called "Shameless Self Promotion," (much like your the title of this thread), haha.

Regardless, high-five to a sweet rig!

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thanks for the approval! *returns high five* the only problem with a board like that is that it's become a goddamned maze. any time i want to try anything small (like rearrange pedal order), it takes some serious engineer skills, which i forgot to get in university.

That band is just a really hilarious coincidence, unfortunately. i haven't heard of them, although they sound mucho interesting. What really seals that is I comped their album title without realizing it! Sloppy Phil is an old stage name from my first band; I wasn't a particularly skilled drummer when we started, and needless to say, some of my fills were pretty sloppy. Phil isn't even my name, it just worked for the stage... ah, the foibles of dumb teenagers.

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Any chance you could re-up this clip? I'm curious how that thing sounds. Tindeck.com is a great site for hosting clips, btw.

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http://www.tindeck.com/listen/inun

try that one out. again, apologies for the poor recording quality. the guitar is run through an orange tiny terror and randall 1x12 cab with a greenback. only pedal used is the wah...

this is not the best approximation of the tone, i think it is far better in actuality.

thanks for the point towards tindeck. looks good.

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thanks! sounds good.

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I guess time for some updates.


The top post has been amended for these already:

Got myself a new bass amp , an Ampeg B18-N from 1960. Just amazing. i've got a thread running on it here if you're curious.

I put the Proctavia back on my board and took off my MXR M-108 Fuzz; I play in a band which mostly does reggae, and I've found almost no use for the fuzz... listening to Bob Marley's Babylon By Bus album has convinced me that fuzz-octave works in reggae music, and so I've gone back to it.

I put a set of Lindy Fralin Blues Specials in my Strat, and they are everything I had hoped for in the guitar's tone. It's that big Fender blooming clean, and totally raunchy dirt tone. Sweet and well-balanced across all positions, which is key.

Finally, I switched out the P90 in my Tele; the (formerly current) Rio Grande Bluesbar was designed for the bridge slot and clocked in at around 12k; way too hot and overwound, thus seriously lacking in cleans and trebles, plus the mid-position took on no tonal characteristics from the pickup despite proper soldering; maybe it had to do with it not being reverse wound? I don't know. Anyways, put in a GFS alnico vintage P90 instead and it's great. The tone is much cleaner and brigher, it matches the volume of the bridge p'up nicely, and the mid position sounds like a Tele mid position is supposed to; about damn time! Shortly I'll try out the GFS Liverpool mini humbucker I got to see if i like it more than the P90... I've been usually a single coil kinda guy, but who knows?

Yeah, I suppose that's all. Uh... go me?

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All very cool upgrades. Any recordings of the Reggae band?

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My Shine So Hard Rig
Rig for my old band
new "solo" music

indeed. we just finished recording some tracks, and they're up on a very tentative/temporary myspace.

www.myspace.com/theresponsables

I play drums on tracks 1 and 4, bass on tracks 2 and 3 in case you're curious...

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