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'52 Reissue Telecaster, Butterscotch, swamp ash body, maple neck. Seymour Duncan jerry Donahue bridge pickup,
Lindy Fralin neck pickup, neck re-radiused by Fret Guru Kenny Marshall. (Compound radius neck). Bridge replaced
with solid brass Gotoh replacement bridge. Super light guitar. My main axe.
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1981 Les Paul Standard. This was the first nice guitar I ever had. Bought it in 1983 or so. I think it was about $350.
Nothing special about it, just a heavy Les Paul, The bridge pickup is a Burst Bucker Pro?. I'll never sell it. It has a pickguard,
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1949 Gibson J45. The old fellow that owned it before me said it was under the bed in a house fire, so it
has a strange smell inside it. My only acoustic steel string, needs a neck reset bad! I added an LR Baggs pickup
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Just a closeup. I love beat-up guitars. So much character. New guitars are like new jeans. Too stiff. |
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Takamine Nylon string acous/elec. I bought this back in '91 or so. I really like the way it plays. Cedar top,
rosewood back & sides, pickup system. Good for getting Bach to basics. (yeah...Bach) |
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Breedlove Quartz FF Mandolin - something I picked up because I am a little obsessed with the violin. I figured this
would help me learn the violin fingerings faster. Ended up liking it, so I play it a bit. All solid spruce,
two pickup systems, the Schertler DYN-M transducer and the LR Baggs bridge with piezo element embedded in it. Why
two? the Schertler sounds good for low-volume gigs and the LR Baggs handles loud soundstages without feedback.
Thanks Carter Gravatt for suggesting the Baggs. |
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Violin - Here's the instrument I really wish I could play! All I know about this one is that it was made in the
30's and it isn't a great violin. I bought it really cheap in the form of a shoebox full of fiddle pieces.
Put it together and it sounds good enough for me. I am almost done building one, which I hope sounds better. |
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John Suhr (custom audio) OD50 (it says od100 but he uses the same chassis) Ch.1 has Fender-like cleans and Ch.2 is like a
Marshall. Killer amp, Loud for a 50 watter. I had him do the classic mod on this, which made the Ch.2 less gainy,
something he developed for Mike Landau, to emulate his old Marshall head. Very unforgiving amp to play, but the tone
is solid. |
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The backside of the OD50. FX loop, depth control (low end), feedback control (?!!) and speaker jacks. |
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Avatar G212H 2X12 Cabinet. Half-open 2x122 loaded with Eminence Red White & Blues |
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Fender 65 Reissue Deluxe Reverb, Eminence Patriot Red White and Blues speaker. Groove Tubes Solid state
rectifier for more clean headroom.
I use this amp for all sorts of gigs, great sound. Can't beat a deluxe. |
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The backside of the Deluxe. |
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1965 Fender Twin Reverb, all original (except the tubes!) This thing is a monster. Original speakers and all, it
will rip your head off with fat punchy tone. I did replace the grillcloth too. |
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Backside of the Twin. |
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Mesa Boogie DC-5 I bought this amp in 1990 after downsizing from a big rack setup with cabinets and racks of goofy 80's
stuff. This amp gets a nice sustainy solo tone, decent clean sound. A keeper. The Mackeson beer emblem was added because
I got tired of telling people what the amp was...now they ask even more than before... |
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Marshall 1960A 4x12 cab. Everyone has one of these, right? Vintage 30 Celestions, standard stuff. |
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My pedalboard. This changes sometimes, lately not much, but basically it's a modded Boss compressor (modded to sound
good), RC booster for a slight boost and edge, AC boost for fattening up the single coils and providing overdrive,
into a DLS Echo tap, then into the tuner and out to the volume pedal. The Fishman EQ is for acoustic gtr and mandolin,
it feeds through ch2 on the volume pedal, out to it's own xlr jack. The footswitch is for the OD50. Pete Katz
at Katz cases built the roadcase. |
