Guitar choice/amps

[jestaudio]

Just out of interest it would be interesting to know what combinations people use, to throw it open my usual combination is 89 us strat with a wreck build, Ibanez JS with a Mesa dc5 and a fender double fat strat with my hi plate dumble build, i have others but thats pretty much my choice.

We are a bit limited in the uk with having to pay a premuim for Andersons, etc so i tend to stay with Fenders for the main

[Reeltarded]

72 Marshall Super, and an alnico LP Custom... but secretly I prefer an early Ibanez RG-550, and a Randall RG-80.

shhhh

[jestaudio]

72 Marshall Super, and an alnico LP Custom... but secretly I prefer an early Ibanez RG-550, and a Randall RG-80.

shhhh

kudos for the marshall, had a few over the years but always went back to Mesa

[Reeltarded]

I have always had a problem with note definition with the Mesas I like most.

[jestaudio]

I have always had a problem with note definition with the Mesas I like most.

I have only ever used the DC series mesa's due to the same issue, tryed a few others and found them to be to muddy and lacking clarity, i think speakers has a lot to do with it as well as tubes, i use celestion c90's ,NOS winged "c" 6l6,s and brimar 12ax7,s

[sliberty]

When I was growing up, I always had humbucking based Gibsons. Still have them (68 SG std and a 72 LP Custom), but I have acquired 4 - P90 based guitars, and they are now my favorites. I also have 3 Tele's and love them too (one is a Cabroinits type with a Gretsch Filtertron, which is a humbucker). So I am really mostly a single coil guy.

As for amps, I have always loved cleanish amps. My all time favorite is my 1972 HiWatt Custom 100, although, I never get to play the beast anymore. I also love my Rockets. And Recently, I moded my Express to be much less over the top, and love it too. I really prefer clean, bright, articulate tones for my own playing.

I do admire hard rock Marshally tones too, but not so much for my own playing style.

[Jana]

Since 1975, I have played a strat. I try other guitars and sometimes try humbucking pickups but I always go back to single coils. There are also some guitars that are certainly "better" than a strat--fast, low actions, a smooth, fast feel, etc. But, there is something about a strat, for me, that has something that no other guitar has--it just feels right.

I'm certainly not saying one is better than the other--there are some awesome tones recorded with humbuckers. For an amp, I prefer the Marshall type circuit with a closed back cabinet. It's what I grew up with and it's what just feels right to me. I do have a high gain amp that I sometimes play but mostly I prefer the feel of a lower gain amp. Again, I suppose it's because I grew up on amps that didn't have a master volume and any sustain I got had to come from my fingers.

I use the volume and tone controls on the guitar a lot. I wire my strats to have a tone on the bridge pickup.

As for Mesa amps--I have tried some of them, even owned one for a short time, but just couldn't connect with them. They seem to have one sound--the Mesa sound. Nothing wrong with that but it seemed like no matter what guitar I plugged into them, they all sounded the same.

So, for me, it's Strat-->maybe a booster pedal-->>Marshall-->closed back cabinet.

[tubeswell]

Strat (I gotta 89 too), rangemaster boost (sometimes), princeton reverb. Recently I've been diggin' my Jazzy (62 AVRI) with a set of stainless flats and the PR

[ampgeek]

My two primary guitars are a 72 LP Deluxe and a 74 LP Custom but I also use a Hgwy 1 Strat and a 64 Jaguar on a couple of songs when the spirit moves me.

I use a Dumble'esque for cleans and an Express'ish for means and switch between them on the fly with a homegrown amp head switcher.

My current speaker array is two 1 X 12" "cubes" (one oval back and one closed back) with either Scumbacks and/or Weber alnico BlueDog and/or alnico Silver Bell. Still trying to figure out what I like best but have come to the conclusion that I am schizophrenic....and....I am OK with that!

Cheers,
Dave O.

[Gibsonman63]

My main rock rig now is a 1962 Gibson Melody Maker with a Seymore Duncan mini-humbucker into my Liverpool clone. It's a great guitar for an old man. It plays super fast and doesn't weigh anything.

Parts-caster works well with my Super Reverb and other Fender amps.

I like my SG into the Marshalls, but a humbucker equipped Strat sounds pretty mean too.

The Express clone works well with just about everything, but admittedly, I need a good, straight-up telecaster.

[thejaf]

Les Pauls (CR8 and Elegant); nothing else feels right to me. I've owned several strats, and tried to like them, but the volume knob is way too close to the strings: I'm always turning it down by accident. Love the big jazz boxes too, but opposite problem: volume knobs are so far away it's like reaching across the table for the salt. Yes, I use the knobs a lot when I play, and I don't have to think about it with the LPs.

[M Fowler]

My old 1975 Gibson "The Paul" stock pups dolled up with cream plastic into my Rocket Reverb with Lopo 212 vertical slant cab loaded with Scumback H75-16HP-LHDC speakers.

Mark

[Structo]

My go to rig is my Schecter C1-Classic (dual humbucker) into my 100w ODS clone.
60's VOX 2x12 with EVM 12L's.
TC Electronics G Sharp and Dumbleator plus pedal board.

[img:359:640]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jRMR ... G_1023.jpg[/img]



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L to R:
EHX Stereo Memory Man, Xotic X-Blender, Cool Cat Chorus, EB Volume Pedal, EB Wah, ODS Foot Pedal, Hardwire TR-7 Tremolo, BYOC Comp, Godlyke Auto Wah, Peterson StroboStomp2.

[jestaudio]

My go to rig is my Schecter C1-Classic (dual humbucker) into my 100w ODS clone.
60's VOX 2x12 with EVM 12L's.
TC Electronics G Sharp and Dumbleator plus pedal board.

[img:359:640]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jRMR ... G_1023.jpg[/img]



[img:800:400]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gGm3 ... G_1020.JPG[/img]

L to R:
EHX Stereo Memory Man, Xotic X-Blender, Cool Cat Chorus, EB Volume Pedal, EB Wah, ODS Foot Pedal, Hardwire TR-7 Tremolo, BYOC Comp, Godlyke Auto Wah, Peterson StroboStomp2.

Fantstic looking guitar, got to say i,m quite jellous

[overtone]

got to love a thread like this!

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'56 ES-295 > '54 GA40
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