Music
Ok so I'm going to talk about my setup for the band both live and recording, guitars, amps right down to my favourite plectrums.
Guitars
I went through a bit of a crazy time collecting guitars when I first discovered ebay. Once you have a guitar you really like it's really hard to
get sell it again which is why I have way too many. Anywho here's a list as of present:-
Yamaha Pacifica 112 - My first guitar and a little legend plays as nice as any fender stratocaster. Picups are a little weak but for a begginer
guitar you can't go far wrong with this.
Fender USA strat plus deulux - Probably my best all round guitar. The work horse of the collection
Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty - Stunning looking guitar. I find the strat style necks suit my hands better than a les paul so this collects a bit of dust.
Ibanez RG420 - Amazing neck on this, wafer thin and quite wide. Really good for fast playing and rocking out. Floyd rose helps keep it in tune
for whammy bar antics but can be a biatch to restring.
Fender 1997 Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster - Fender only made these for two years untill they lost the license to the Hendrix family. In my opinion
a great mid cost investment piece. Also beautiful looking, fantastic to play and a quality vintage sound.
Epi SG - This one I completely rebuit. Sanded the body back to the wood laquered and made into a really nice looking guitar. Not great built
quality or electrics though.
Precission bass copy - ebay special.
Tanglewood acoustic - really nice, gets knocked about alot and tends to go through batteries, most likely caused by leaving the jack in. Great
playable acoustic.
Ibanez AEL40 - A really beutiful acoustic guitar. Particuarly stunning fretboard inlay. I bought this with non-working electrics and ended up
replacing the entire pickup, eq system for a chinese one which is suprisingly good model prener-pm.
Amps
On to amps I used to have a Marshall 50w Half stack which I loved but was rarely turned up past volume level one. A fantastic amp but not if you're
living in a semi. I sold it and ended up buying a modified epiphone valve junior 5w valve amp which for home playing is phenomenal. It's tiny, sits
in the corner of the room can push an el84 valve all the way while remaining at 'dont upset the neighbours' levels. This is mainly due to the mods
that were done on it. It can also be used live for a classic rock sound and can easily hold it's own in a small pub. The clean sound is too quiet to
use live but then we almost always plug it into...
A Yamaha 250w PA system - I can't remember the model but it's the one where the mixer can be put away into the back of a speaker. This is a great bit
of kit. Small, powerful enough for any small band, simple, good sound. Just another all round winner from Yamaha. Must take this out to the park at
some point next summer.
Recording
I have a br-864 which used to get alot of use but now sits under the bed most of the time due to a slow change over to laptop recording. I think
there are swings and roundabouts with both types but laptop recording offers so much more potential. On the downside you can quite easily setup and
spend an hour fiddling trying to find out where a hissing is coming from and still not have anything to show.
I use an 8 track M-audio interface for getting music to and from the laptop and then various freeware goodies to record.
Other bits and pieces I often use are a DI box which is great for pluging straight into the M-audio and then layering effects on once in the recording software.
A whole host of analog effect pedals. Some I've made myself, mainly boosters, i'll try and find the schematics and put them up. Couple of SM58 copy mics.
Harmonica's in various keys. And of course no collection would be complete without a whole spagetti junction of leads to connect everything up.
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