Show Me Your Guitars
Otis_Funkmeyer
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My old standby, a 1999 Epiphone Dot Cherry semihollow (AKA The Red Destiny):
Very versatile, feels great to play, excellent intonation and stays in tune well.
It was my only ax for a while but eventually the frets wore down and it got other signs of aging so I started looking for a replacement. I've bought two this year and plan on a third. Picking which it should be is my latest addiction.
I had wanted a full hollow body for a while and picked up this beauty used for a great price this summer:
Chocolate Brown Ibanez Artcore AF95 with gold hardware and Abalone inlays:
It gives rich harmonics that you can only get with a full hollow body, and I can even use it with a fuzz pedal without getting feedback issues. One of the nut slots needs a little filing but other than that it plays perfectly.
Since I go to Las Vegas a few times per year to visit my in-laws, I decided I needed a guitar to keep there as well so I can practice. Also, Spidey has been hooking me up with jam sessions and I don't want to have to keep borrowing his guitar. This summer I was out there for a week and after monitoring craigslist for five days I got this:
Epiphone Les Paul Classic with Black Quilt top
In excellent condition and it came with a practice amp, stand, strap, cords, an even some picks so I am all set. So much fun to play. There is nothing like a Les Paul.
Now I still need a solid-body at home, and one with some single-coils. Time for my first Telecaster. I've pretty much decided I'm going to get a Nashville Deluxe model so I can get both Tele and Stratocaster sounds (it has a Strat pickup in between the standard Tele bridge and neck pickups). I also plan on modding it so I can get all combinations of series and parallel and in and out of phase configurations. I see a few used ones in EBay, craigslist, and even the Guitar Center website for decent prices, and I plan on pulling the trigger sometime before my birthday on the 12th.
After that, I need some P90s! Thinking about either replacing the neck pickup on my Ibanez, or going for a Casino.
Show me yours! Include any stories or reviews too. I have also gotten way into pedals so we can get into that too.
- The Lord of the Strings
Very versatile, feels great to play, excellent intonation and stays in tune well.
It was my only ax for a while but eventually the frets wore down and it got other signs of aging so I started looking for a replacement. I've bought two this year and plan on a third. Picking which it should be is my latest addiction.
I had wanted a full hollow body for a while and picked up this beauty used for a great price this summer:
Chocolate Brown Ibanez Artcore AF95 with gold hardware and Abalone inlays:
It gives rich harmonics that you can only get with a full hollow body, and I can even use it with a fuzz pedal without getting feedback issues. One of the nut slots needs a little filing but other than that it plays perfectly.
Since I go to Las Vegas a few times per year to visit my in-laws, I decided I needed a guitar to keep there as well so I can practice. Also, Spidey has been hooking me up with jam sessions and I don't want to have to keep borrowing his guitar. This summer I was out there for a week and after monitoring craigslist for five days I got this:
Epiphone Les Paul Classic with Black Quilt top
In excellent condition and it came with a practice amp, stand, strap, cords, an even some picks so I am all set. So much fun to play. There is nothing like a Les Paul.
Now I still need a solid-body at home, and one with some single-coils. Time for my first Telecaster. I've pretty much decided I'm going to get a Nashville Deluxe model so I can get both Tele and Stratocaster sounds (it has a Strat pickup in between the standard Tele bridge and neck pickups). I also plan on modding it so I can get all combinations of series and parallel and in and out of phase configurations. I see a few used ones in EBay, craigslist, and even the Guitar Center website for decent prices, and I plan on pulling the trigger sometime before my birthday on the 12th.
After that, I need some P90s! Thinking about either replacing the neck pickup on my Ibanez, or going for a Casino.
Show me yours! Include any stories or reviews too. I have also gotten way into pedals so we can get into that too.
- The Lord of the Strings
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Ex-Captain Sensible, apparently. Scratchplate off The Charlatans.
I am currently looking for a low B again, so in the market for a nice 5 or 6 string bass, with wide string spacing.
My brother is the big guitar collectro, currently hunting a Gretsch White Falcon. I'll try and dig out some of his pics.
PRS custom 24 in golden quilted maple with bird inlays, 99 vintage for about 5000 of your dollars.
Collings 99 vintage acoustic for another 5.
All thats left is a 71 Strat in black and white with a bolted on synth pick up, beautiful tone but battered. Or if you prefer, weathered. Pre-loved maybe.
And a baby Taylor that is my go-to. So tactile, warm, pure and, well, cute. Dinky even.
I have some fx to go: a Boomerang floor unit with expanded memory. Such a killer piece of stage kit.
And a Roland guitar synth floor unit with an amazing range of sounds. Playing arpeggiated chords of flutes backed with vibes is one of the most joyful things.
Holler!
"Age-correct patina" I believe is the correct expression.
I like that. Purposeful.
Main axes:
1959 Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul VOS
Billy Gibbons / Jimmy Page for days
2008 Bill Nash Timewarp Strat
Reliced custom strat with Lollar pickups... Dakota Red with Gold Pick Guard.
Looks, feels, sounds like a vintage strat without the price tag.
1952 Fender Telecaster Reissue
Country spank for days
Martin HD-28V
Fell in LOVE with this guitar at Guitar Center. Has a tiny hairline crack in the wood so I got a $1500 discount on it! Loud... thundering bass notes... Plays like a dream.
2005 Gibson Hummingbird
30th birthday present... Main axe when I play unplugged gigs... Definitive Keith Richards sound... not terribly loud. Compliments the voice beautifully
2011 Fender Telecaster Acoustasonic
Bought this for acoustic gigs... The emulator sucks... not a substitute for an actual acoustic. As an electric guitar it is awesome... just had to get it set up because it is Mexican Made.
Some Basses.
Geddy Lee Fender Jazz Bass (MIJ)
Fender Mustang Bass (MIJ)
and a couple other cheapies...
A Casino and a Dot Royale, my kind of player!
It's a semi-hollow but the sides and back are one piece, and are a little thicker than normal. Volume knobs for each pickup, one tone knob and a master volume.
He gave me this electric-acoustic Mitchell MD-100 CE when my Yamaha acoustic got stolen. What a guy!
This was my first electric. It served me well in high school and college. Ibanez EX-140.
(not my actual one, I gave mine away years ago)
Raj, looking forward to pix of your studio!
I had a really nice Taylor Acoustic, but it actually didn't sound all that great. I'm looking for a nice cheap japanese one to replace it
I like simple guitars that I can slam around, so both of my main guitars are Telecasters. The silver one is a 1997 American Standard Tele with a hotter pickup, and the green one I put together from various parts I scrounged up. I took the neck pickups out of both of them because I never use them and I think Esquires look cool.
The Ampeg amp is the one I use sitting around in my basement, but my main gigging amp is a 100 watt Sovtek half stack that lives in my practice space. I also have a collection of 10 or 15 fuzz pedals that have been built for me by some pretty talented guys, no stuff from Guitar Center in my setup.
I have a couple of other super-strat type guitars that rarely get played, and then there is my baby, this is a 1972 Strat that I got from a metal dude back in the early 90's, he had tricked it out with a locking whammy bar, mirrored pickguard, coil taps and phase switches, and he even had an extra fret added so he could hit a high D all the way up the neck. I've restored it to mostly stock condition, but it's gotten a little creaky in it's old age so I don't play it out anymore. I love this guitar to death, if I had to grab one material possession before a flood came this would probably be it.
Sadly, I'm selling it if anyone's interested
Wow yeah that's a keeper. I never played one but I played a Godin 5th Avenue with similar specs that blew me away.
My mate Nige, who sold me my MusicMan...
"76 Gibson Thunderbird:
Thanks, I really love it.
Let it be known that I do not work it Jaco stylee.
I put some black nylon strings and a tortoise shell pick guard on mine and it looks totally badass.
it's daunting, but i'd like to get one of these too:
How do you like these? Never tried 'em, but they do look cool on the right bass.
Fender Acoustic/Electric
They only work on acoustic instruments IIRC. They are not metallic enough to affect the magnets in pickups. I played some of these strings on such an instrument and they were, to me, horribly bendy. Just not tense enough. I don't use a pick though, so they might give a certain ping if you play that way.
I think I borrowed a fretless P-bass with flatwounds for that gig, and that sounded horrible too. Action was so high, I think Felix Baumgartner had bought it for practice. My fingers blistered to f*ck. In fact the whole affair was doomed. But I digress.
Anyone own, or ever played a Godin-LR Baggs fretless bass? That was the best-sounding bass I've ever played. Just sang, like Ron Carter on steroids. You could throw it on the floor and it would sound like a Jaco solo. It was reserved for a dude from the Halle Orchestra and was waaaaaay out of my budget. But the shop never got another one in that I could get a deal on.
talking about the tape wound strings:
Actually, they are made mostly for electric basses, to give a vintage 'acoustic' sound.
Fretless P-Basses sound awesome, there must have been something wrong somewhere else in the rig.
Ah, thank you - And Horse - for clarifying. Yes, tapewounds. IIRC, they play better than flatwounds, sure. I've never owned a set though - and I think they go dead quick?
I was speaking of the pure nylon things I'd tried BITD. I think Peter Hook may have rocked them on something? You could also get these freaky rubber/latex ones on this bizarre 1/2 size travel bass...
Worst waste of money were Maxima gold-plated strings. They sounded dead when new and went downhill from there. They were obviously not cheap, I could not get these out of the shop for free. I bunched them up and hung them from the car mirror for a while, which is where they worked best.
Re: Fretless P. Man, it was like a worse-than-Chinese-bad copy, before like China were even making things. I had to borrow it when all my stuff was stolen. It would break a string on every gig. That probably improved the sound, as it made me play less notes
I got quite OK at that thing Marcus Miller does, where he mutes the strings with the pad of his thumb, and plucks with the outside of the thumb-tip. It gives a passable acoustic thud, even on roundwounds.
I got a good method for getting fretlesses to growl like a thundering upright; pluck the string over the the octave (12 frets up on the same string) from the note that your are "Fretting". If that explains it clearly?
So, for example, you want to play the low G on the E string, fret the 3rd fret on the E and pluck the E string over the 15th. If you get the touch right, you can hear the acoustic and harmonics come into it. Hard to do on a fretted bass as the plucks usually clatter.