Your fav Guitar/Amp combo

[angelodp]

Seeing as how this is a place where users have many different types of instruments and amps, what is your go to set-up for gigging in small to medium venues. If you can post a pic great. I am not much of a " playing out " guy, I jam with friends, but I love to hear what works for various artists.

best Ange

[sydsbluesky]

Gibson Les Paul Deluxe w/duncan "hot" p-90(A-) in bridge stock neck mini humbucker(B+)->
OR ESP MH-200 with Duncan livewires in it.
OR the new frankenstein single coil, with EMG SA set in it
OR the newest dean vendetta HB guitar, with the '59 and JB in it
boss ME-50 mutli FX pedal->
Marshall AVT100 head w/MXR 6 band EQ in loop->
Crate 320 watt celestion loaded 4x12 stack.

The Marshall is my 100 watt option. It's one of those hybrid thingies... the onboard OD sucks, but with some gain on the clean and the blues driver through the pedal it's a monster, and the clean crunch is great. The cab I found at a pawn shop. It hadn't ever been used from the look of it. I don't usually like Crate, but it's well built cab with nice speakers.

That much volume will handle anything. The issue is to PA or not to PA the speaker.


The other guitarist in the band uses:

'84 squier telecaster '52 reissue - stock->
boss OD-20(again using the blues driver setting)->
marshall MG100 head with a random 4x12 cabinet.

Don't let the "squier" fool you, the first squiers were intended to be reissues of the 50s fenders. They were made in Japan, but they are very high quality instruments. This plays and sounds better than any other tele I've tried, and I've tried more than a few of the top end MIA fenders. Heavy, but not plagued by the poor fret setting or shoddy workmanship of which 80 fenders are often accused.


And the bass rig:

ESP Viper 104 stock w/totally custom DIY paint job->
Boss GT 10B->
Peavy tour 450 + the suggested 4x10 and 1x15 by peavy.

It's loud and chunky. The Viper is a surprisingly flexible bass for the low price tag. He has a pair of them covered in his custom pop-art-panda-and-katamari murals.

We don't mic the drums. We have a PA with about a thousand watts, and we can play to rooms holding anywhere from 50 to 500 without having to change any gear. any bigger than that, and PA is usually provided, anyway.

Recording rig:

One of the many guitars->
Boss ME50->
blackstar ht-5h head with FX loop->
The MXR in said FX loop, probably->
MArshall 1x12 box with full pimpage, and an Eminence speaker->
sennheiser e609 silver mic for the cab->
mixer->
computer interface->
Computer.


The AVT100 isn't really a head... Picture it as being more a pumpkin, and the pimped marshall box to be a horseman. The mesh/speaker cone got smashed on our way back form Columbus a few months ago, so I cut the two apart with a circular saw. As the box wasn't being utilized in any way, it was just loosing dead weight anyway. The box is retolexed, remeshed, metal grill has been added, has new handles, and a new speaker. Also has a built in GFCI protected, 15 amp power strip that I added on a whim.


I'm gonna get pics of my stuff up as soon as my two graphite nuts come in and I finish my two project guitars. I'm so vain I actually got black diamonds for one of them... Hey, they're nice strings!

[ashcatlt]

My Behringer Strat (3HB, no pots) is my standard live axe because it is currently the most reliable. Also the most flexible, tone-wise.

In Circadian Nations, I run this (almost always on the middle local series setting) through a Boss TurboFuzz (set to Boost) and into my Bass V-Amp Pro on the "British Class A" (AC30) with a little of the pre-amp compression dialed in.

In Lorenzo's Tractor (live), it usually goes Boss Autowah>Boss DD-3>Boss TR2>V-Amp Pro on the "British Class A". The Autowah is set to act more as an envelope controled treble booster, and is counteracted to a certain extent by the "amp" tone controls.

Sometimes with LT - especially when it's just me (ok, usually) - I'll split the signal using my Boss Pitch Shifter. One output has the original signal through the chain above. The other output sends an octave down signal through the Bass V-Amp set to something like the Ampeg "flip-top" model, with a healthy dose of the onboard compression.

The V-Amps feed whatever full-range system happens to be available at the time. This can be the FOH PA at a club gig, or the component stereo in the living room at a house party.

[Teleblooz]

One of my Teles into my Blues Junior is always the go-to for me.

For an actual gig I'll bring the pedalboard...

Dunlop Cry Baby > Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde > Dano Cool Cats Trem > Behringer Vintage Delay > BBE Sonic Stomp

For a bigger gig, a bigger rig:

Modded Crate V33H into the matching V412A cab.

[sydsbluesky]

Ash -

I've been meaning to get a signal split setup together for live stuff, but so far it's only been used in my bedroom, as it's a little clunky to operate.


Tele -

I like the tele on the left. What breed of puppies are those, and what does that toggle do? Single/series/parallel on neck, or something more devious?

I updated my posted rig at the top to reflect the changes/additions that have been made.

[lpdeluxe]

Let's see: my '70 Les Paul Deluxe through my Fender Jazzmaster Ultralight; my 335 through my Band-Master VM head and 1-15 cab or Blues Jr NOS; my SG through my Pignose G40V; anything at all through my '63 Silvertone 1484.

Gone but not forgotten: MSA pedal steel through a Music Man HD-130 Reverb + 2-12 cab; '63 Country Gent through a '63 Ampeg B15N.

[Teleblooz]

Sept 5, 2009 12:02:13 GMT -5 sydsbluesky said:

Tele -

I like the tele on the left. What breed of puppies are those, and what does that toggle do? Single/series/parallel on neck, or something more devious?

The neck is a Rockfield SWV www.rockfieldpickups.com/swv.html; the bridge is a standard American Fender.

And yes, you nailed the toggle switch. I'm not that devious...

That guitar is one I put together from parts thru the magic of eBay a couple of years ago. It's still a work in progress - I've probably swapped out pickups three times since that picture was taken. Oddly enough, I just today put it back to that same configuration.

Edited by newey to fix link.

[sydsbluesky]

I like.

I've always preferred humbuckers in the neck and singles in the bridge.

Shame that most guitar companies that do three pup stuff (fender/ibanez) tend to do the other way around.

Looks like a nice guitar. What's in the light blue one in your profile pic?

[Teleblooz]

Sept 27, 2009 13:04:13 GMT -5 sydsbluesky said:

I like.

I've always preferred humbuckers in the neck and singles in the bridge.

Shame that most guitar companies that do three pup stuff (fender/ibanez) tend to do the other way around.

Looks like a nice guitar. What's in the light blue one in your profile pic?

Baby Blue has stock Fender single-coils - the neck is the one that came with it, the bridge is an American standard I bought later on. I thought the original bridge pup was too wimpy, so I ran a SD Lil '59 for a while but I couldn't warm to it. The guitar finally found its 'bloom' when I put in the new standard. And with the 4-way switch it now has all the tonal variety I need.

I'm still not 100% satisfied with the SH configuration on the other one - wondering what a P-90 might sound like.

[sydsbluesky]

I love p-90s. Can't go wrong with them.

I have a duncan sp90-2, I believe it's called, in the bridge position on my les paul. Couldn't be more delighted with it.

Great, thick sound. Very hot. Easy to draw personality out of it with different pick attack. Has a nice percussive sound to it with muted strings.

A little loud but, if you already play singles, it's nothing new.



As far as humbucker sized p-90s, I kept coming back to GFS for neck position, but I never got one. Let us know what ya do!

Jesse