Guitar Geeks

[Senses]

Any other guitar geeks out there? Come talk geek talk about your fave bits of gear.

I'm addicted to buying pedals and stuff - but I've gone from the soft stuff like chorus to looping stations and that now! I've even gone onto things like Xylophones too now. What will become of me!?!

[Senses]

For the geeks out there here is a list of gear off the top of my head:

Rickenbacker 4003MB
Rickenbacker 4003*ontezuma
Hayman1010
Norman Acoustic
Aria ProII Acoustic bass
Boss DR202 Drum Machine
Hartke VXL Bass attack
Boss Bass Flanger
Boss CEB3 - bass chorus
Boss BF2 - flanger
Boss CE2 - chorus
Boss OC2 - octaver
Boss RC 20 XL - Looping station
eBow

Obviously I don't get em all out on stage and depending what kinda set/place it use I change 'em about - sometimes using none and sometimes a few.

Amp wise I steal my cousins Laney guitar amp but bas wise I use a Trace GP7300w amp.

The best thing I got thought which I gave to the guitarist is a Yamaha UD Stomp - the delays on this would make Bloc Party and Interpol drool!

[DrFurry]

Fair trousers, let's be geeks together:

Guitarwise:

Rickenbacker 360
Shine 909 guitar (an affordable Gretsch!)
DeArmond X155 archtop (a fantastic jazzbox, DeArmond guitars are awesome).
Epiphone Dot (upgraded to Gibson 335 levels with wiring etc)
A very fucked up Squier Strat that currently lives in Southampton
Yamaha APX5A acoustic guitar
SX Precision Bass copy

A couple of Vox amps and a Behringer V-Amp 2 which is getting sold in August. Loads of pedals, no digital stuff at all, gear ranges from a Russian Big Muff to an Analogueman Juicer compressor to a DHA overdrive pedal (Dave Hall makes pedals and sells them on Ebay, the overdrive is fabulous).

A PC running Cubase hooked up to a MIDI unit and a cracking Ensoniq EPS16 synth. I couldn't bring the Ensoniq ESQ-1 synth back from Canada, too heavy, so it'll be here sometime in the future.

Erm.. plectrums, strings tec.. some other stuff littering around here too...

[atomjack]

I have:

Fender '72 Custom Telecaster
Fender Blues Junior amp
Fender D-8 Lap Steel guitar (given to me for FREE!!)
Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
Little Lanilei Reverb Pedal
ProCo Turbo Rat
Electro Harmonix Big Muff
ZVex Wah Probe
Robotalk

[Smileadelic]

DrFurry said:

A very fucked up Squier Strat that currently lives in Southampton

Really? I should pay it a visit some time

I'm not much of a guitar geek really. I only have two: a bog-standard classical guitar and a rather sweet telecaster, in burgandy with a pine fretboard. Mostly I use a Zoom 707 for effects, which will doubtless piss you lot off no end! I do have a couple of nice bits though: a crybaby wah, an Ibanez chorus flange and a Boss blues driver. I also use my Marshall amp distortion, which is nice. And I have an EBow!

It's my other instruments that you really wanna hear about though. I also play:

Ocarina
Panpipes
Various flutes / recorders
Thumb piano

As well as more the conventional keyboard / piano. I gave up 'cello a while back but I'm thinking of taking up the clarinet (again).

But for all that my main "instrument" is still my voice.

Or possibly my laptop

[atomjack]

But I have a Lorenzo electric harmonium, I like playing that bit from 'Terminator' on it, I also have a thumb piano it's lovely for making very fractured sounds on.

[John Brainlove]

I have like a fake flying V that looks cool.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrr
It was cheap and nasty.
I never bought a guitar I truly loved because it would only end up getting trashed and break my heart.
although a saw a mint green firebird that was just sex.

[DrFurry]

Mostly I use a Zoom 707 for effects, which will doubtless piss you lot off no end!

Never! You should see my Arion Stereo Chorus pedal.. 10 quid in a pawnshop in Worcester, the battery cable's been yanked out, the top cover is smashed but it sounds great. Still got my Zoom 505, needs a clean.. it's going up on Ebay next week as part of my 'Fuck me, I'm poor' category.

Actually my favourite effect at the minute is the Bigsby on my Shine semi. Sooo much nicer than the Fender vibrato, a bit of delay on it or some phasing and it sounds positively sexy

[Monpot]

I've got a Zoom multi pedal thing as well. My lack of being in a band means I rarely ever use it. I don't even plug into my amp any more.

[cadd]

Tanglewood acoustic-Completely covered in stickers on top of stickers.

1975/6 Ibanez Flying V.

Epiphone Flying V, rarity, droopy headstock, standard trem, great neck but maybe for sale.

Vintage Strat copy, giving to relative as it'd be a perfect 1st guitar, great for the money.

Vintage SG copy, wavering about selling.

Epiphone Special, cheapo Les Paul plank, just sold it but still here, buyer stuck for cash.

Japanese Squier strat, single Seymour Duncan humbucker at bridge, just a volume, Schaller Floyd Rose and tuners.

Encore Precision copy bass.

Epiphone Les Paul Standard-wine coloured with white binding on neck and body, maple top, etc.

Mexican Fender Tele-Sunburst with maple fretboard.

Mexican Fender Strat-Mexican assembled but U.S parts, natural finish, no paint, rosewood fretboard, 70s reissue, big headstock.

Crate GTX-65 Amp-3 channel, multieffects, footswitchable, seriously loud, 2 hours home use from new, for sale.

Crate GTX-30 Amp- 2 channel, multieffects, couple of days old.

Carlsbro Cobra 100W Bass Amp-9 band graphic, very nice.

Yorkville 100W all valve guitar amp head.

Ross 10W practice amp

Jim Harley 10W practice amp

Coloursound 70s wahwah

Arion Stereo Overdrive

Zoom 505 multieffects

EMA Overdrive

Yamaha Keyboard-cheesy cheapo

Casio Tonebank-Found in bin at Paddies Market

Marimba

Mouthorgan

Just sold a Squier tele

[Wiggles]

This is my kit. Bitchin', or something.

[DrFurry]

I'm staggered that you can use that with a stand-alone amp... how do you think those push flower button-powered riffs would sound through a bloody great Marshall stack?

I bet Steve Howe from Yes and Johnny Marr already own one.

[cadd]

My first thought when I saw it was Gary Numan.

[Monpot]

Have you ever seen those Girl Guitars? There's a daisy-shaped one and a heart-shaped one. So cute!

[SCL]

heheee - LAUGH AT THE GEEKS!!!!!!

no, honestly I'm just vaguely jealous..