Updated pictures of my gear

Surferosad · #1 04.28.04, 4:53 PM

Okee dookee, to my great amusement and everyone elses despair, here's a guitar gear update!

My two main bitches:

My CIJ (that's crafted in Japan for you heathens) Fender Jaguar and my Rickenbacker 330

http://www.crappity.com/attachments/Rick__Jag.jpg

Surferosad · #2 04.28.04, 4:54 PM

I'm very impressed with the quality of my jap jag, the building is as good as the much more expensive american made reissues. The only gripe I have with this guitar is the pickups: they're crap. And not in that jag pus are crap anyway vein (a point of view usually shared by metal playing ****heads who don't know any better), more in the they're crappy crap crap vein. They sound ok clean, put each time I use a bit of gain, they squeal like horny pigs. I'm gonna have them swapped for american vintage jag pickup reissues as soon as fender corp starts selling them again.

Surferosad · #3 04.28.04, 4:55 PM

My updated pedal board:

http://www.crappity.com/attachments/Guitar_pedals_2.jpg

My guitar set-up:

2001 Rickenbacker 330/1981 Gibson The Paul Deluxe (tuned to D)/2002 CIJ Fender Jaguar/Harmony H-19 Silhouette (tuned to open G) --> Ernie Ball Volume --> Zoom Ultrafuzz --> True Bypass Vox 847 --> Boss TU-2 -->Vox Valvetone --> Keeley Mod. Vintage Rat Reissue --> Akai Intelliphase -->Boss DD-3 --> one loop Loooper bypass pedal with Alesis Nanoverb in loop --> Akai Headrush --> Mid seventies Ampeg VT-22 (2x12" eminence speakers) or 1965 Traynor YBA-1 Bassmaster head into Sixties 2x15" Traynor cab (also used with a beaten Roland bass) or non-master volume silverface Super Reverb that has been converted to a head into sixties Sunn 2x12" cab

Other FX: Jap. Boss HM-2, Boss GE-7, Morley A/B/Y, guyatone FL3 flanger, Mod. by Effector13 Boss OS-2, DOD FX90 analog delay, Dunlop Tremolo, ebow+, Boss CE-2

It seems like a lot of pedals, but I often simplify things. I rarely use anything else than a tuner and the valvetone with the Fender amp. And I often play with only the fuzz or the rat into the traynor.

Follow the link below for more pictures.

Surferosad · #4 04.28.04, 4:57 PM

I've added a Fender Super Reverb "head" that looks like **** but sounds wonderful. It's a early seventies silverface no-master volume amp that was converted into a head by it's previous owner. It is so beaten up that I got it cheap. But when hooked to my Sunn 2x12", it sounds great. It has that beautiful Fender sparkle and a really cool reverb. I'm going to keep it has a head, but I'm going to have a new enclosure made. I’m also going to get really good speakers for my cab, so that the head is working at the correct impedance.

Pictures when I'll be over with the repairs!

Surferosad · #5 04.28.04, 5:02 PM

Wrote this somewhere else, but I think I should post this again for those who missed it.

I got my hands on a dirt cheap Traynor cab for my Traynor YBA-1 head, and I learned something interesting about it:

I have a Traynor YBA-1 bassmaster head, one of the early ones, with a tube rectifier and two 6L6 tubes. It has a bass and a guitar channel. The guitar channel, when used with my old Sunn 2x12" cab, tends to be really, really trebly and brittle sounding, and I usually bridge it with the bass channel to tame the treble. I've always wondered why old Pete Traynor had made it that way, and I thought it was because of some sixties treble fad...

Well, I recently acquired one of the 2x15" cab that was supposed to go with the YBA-1, and I played my guitars through the guitar channel. And lo and behold, all the treble harshness was gone! Good old Pete Traynor had jacked up the treble on the guitar channel to compensate for the woofiness of the two 15” speakers! Right now, my little Traynor head cranks out a smooth, raspy, mean tone, with nice clear highs! And it looks so cool on top of it’s big closed back 2x15” cab! I gotta get photos of this!

How cool is that?

d y l o n · #6 04.28.04, 5:23 PM

Neat info about your Traynor

I LOVE your guitars!!! Mmmm

Surferosad · #7 04.28.04, 6:25 PM

Thanks! A lot of people get Traynor YBA-1 heads and later modify them. I don't have to, it sounds perfect with the traynor cab.

d y l o n · #8 04.28.04, 7:12 PM

I have the limited edition YCV40 signed by Pete Traynor, I feel special, his amps rule.

But seriously, you have a killer rig man

Iron Gland · #9 04.28.04, 7:19 PM

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Originally posted by Surferosad
Thanks! The trem is cool, pretty warm sounding and versatile. It comes close but doesn't beat my super reverb's trem. Also, there's a noticeable volume drop when I engage it. But I don't regret having it, it's a good pedal.

Have you seen my gear update?

http://guitargeek.com/chat/showthrea...threadid=27935

Yes, yes I have seen your gear update. I like the Jagmaster, and I'm generally getting this thing for Fenders lately, have you played the Fender Tornado? It's hot!

As far as the Tremelo goes, the volume drop is the bane of my existence...I'll just to figure out how to fix that...

I heard that the Traynor Bassmaster head, which I've seen for a steal on Ebay when you can catch one, is pretty much equivolent to (but cheaper than) the immaculate and impressive Fender Bassman?
I played a Fender Bassman a little while ago and was just blown away. It's just a great amp. Period.

Surferosad · #10 04.28.04, 7:31 PM

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Originally posted by Iron Gland
Yes, yes I have seen your gear update. I like the Jagmaster, and I'm generally getting this thing for Fenders lately, have you played the Fender Tornado? It's hot!

As far as the Tremelo goes, the volume drop is the bane of my existence...I'll just to figure out how to fix that...

I heard that the Traynor Bassmaster head, which I've seen for a steal on Ebay when you can catch one, is pretty much equivolent to (but cheaper than) the immaculate and impressive Fender Bassman?
I played a Fender Bassman a little while ago and was just blown away. It's just a great amp. Period.

It's not a jagmaster, it's a jaguar. Different guitar. I haven't played the toronado, I'm a single coil man right now. I would say that the bassmaster head sounds closer to an early Marshall (which is a reinterpretation of the bassman). It has more gain than a bassman, and less sparkle, with a raspier edge to it.

Surferosad · #11 04.28.04, 7:36 PM

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Originally posted by d y l o n
I have the limited edition YCV40 signed by Pete Traynor, I feel special, his amps rule.

But seriously, you have a killer rig man

Traynor are so underrated! Hopefully, people will end up realising how cool these amps really are. And then my bassmasters value will shoot up

I wonder what part Pete played in the development of the YCV amps?

Iron Gland · #12 04.28.04, 7:42 PM

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Originally posted by Surferosad
It's not a jagmaster, it's a jaguar. Different guitar..

Correct. I always get the two mixed up.

As far as the Tornado goes I was referring to the P-90 equipped one, not the humbuckered Highway 1 version. The DE9000, P-90 Tornado, is just great...you get that single coil tone with the output of humbuckers, it's just a neat guitar.

Surferosad · #13 04.28.04, 7:59 PM

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Originally posted by Iron Gland
Correct. I always get the two mixed up.

As far as the Tornado goes I was referring to the P-90 equipped one, not the humbuckered Highway 1 version. The DE9000, P-90 Tornado, is just great...you get that single coil tone with the output of humbuckers, it's just a neat guitar.

Wow, there's a p-90 equiped toronado?! I absolutely gotta try one of those!