Syd's gear!

[sydsbluesky]

Okay, I finally got AA batteries for my digicam.

Shown below is half of my jam room. The Marshall 4x12 isn't mine.


This is the other half of the jam room. That's the bass amp I bought not too long ago, and on top is the Blackstar head, mated to the cabinet I made out of the bottom half of the head shown in the last pic. That's the one with the power strip on back... I didn't feel like moving stuff to get that picture... it has a lotta stuff plugged into it. That isn't tolex, either. That's four cross-layered coats of Gorilla Glue's version of duct tape.



This is the guts of the Dean I rewired. That was going to be a killswitch, but... I don't like those.


Back of the gibby, with the sanded and sealed neck. Much better than that nitro. Name that sticker!


The front. Has some nice flame, but you can't really see it.


The white strat I built. This is the one with the neck pocket I had to route from one of my first posts here!


Cort earth 200-12. I love this thing. Was only like 320 bucks new with case. Amazing guitar. 12 strings are a blast.


The back of the Takimine. I accidentally deleted the picture of the front, but the back does it justice.


The cool tube. Sounds crazy good through an amp. Better than the acoustic sound, maybe. And a ton of extra features. I talk about it a review on the acoustic page. Amazing guitar.


Another of the ESP M-200 just for giggles. It has it's own thread someplace with more. This is my gigger.


And the bass, of course.



I don't have the other acoustic around at the moment, so it's not pictured... just a black dreadnought tak. Nothing special. I keep dead strings on it and use it for a darker, woodier sound than the other tak gives me.

That's all of the exciting ones. The rest are unfinished. And one free acoustic you can see in the corner in the top pic.

[newey]

A growing family, I see! Very nice.

And, just a guess here, but is the sticker from the Wish You Were Here album?

[sydsbluesky]

Yeah, it's painfully obvious where my summer job money went all those years, eh?

Well, the LP and the Marshall (head+ghetto cab) were graduation presents from parents/grandparents... Who needs an open house, right? And the 12 was for Christmas one year. They stopped making those right after I got mine. I was lucky.

The rest have almost all been second hand fixers.

Close, Newey. DSotM.


See that Dean Markley in the corner of the first pic? It's a beautiful amp. That's what I use for all my clean cleans and the acoustic.

[cynical1]

Apr 27, 2010 18:04:42 GMT -5 sydsbluesky said:

...Name that sticker!

That would be a Pink Floyd sticker...the one that came with the original Dark Side of the Moon album...before vinyl was environmentally friendly...

BTW, nice assortment of toys. I bet your neighbors just love you...

HTC1

PS: What did I win?

[sydsbluesky]

Pride!

Self respect!

The right to be a cynical ba$tard...!?

I probably gave the answer away too soon, but Newey was pretty close. So all of the above. And yes, the neighbors really love that half stack. That's one loud S of a B.

Especially when I'm practicing something. Most people have the common courtesy to turn down below 7 when they are playing something they don't know yet. Not me! ;D

P.S. - oh, and the karma point, of course. I just remember that I forgot (remembered that I forgot... someone is gonna have to explain that one to me) to give you that.

[ijustwannastrat]

Wait, I thought the numbers below 8 were just jokes that amp manufacturers thought were funny.

In all seriousness, I like a good clean channel cranked to 8-9.

[sydsbluesky]

Yeah, the Dean Markley gives up the goods around 4. The thing is scary loud for 100 watts. Much louder than the Marshall ever was when it was 100 watts running to a 1x12.

The Marshall has a super handy "gain" knob on each of the three channels, and the clean channel can be prodded to crunch very nicely. It has a darker, ballsier sound that I would attribute more to a "humbucker" type tone. The DM has a brighter sound with a good deal of flavor added from the 30 year old speaker, which is VERY broken in. It makes sweet tones with either humbuckers or singles, but I prefer it for a single coil type sound.

Yeah, funny story as to how I got that.

Bassist bought it from a pawn shop several years back to be used as an "amp." Bass, vocal, guitar... whatever needed to be amped. He used it for about a year as mostly a bass amp (and cranked, too. We were keeping up with drums with 1x12 amps back then!) until I had to borrow it one day, and I discovered how amazing it was. I traded him my bass for the thing. I paid 200 for the bass. He paid 30 for the amp. I'm still convinced I ripped him off.