Musical Equipment Porn!

[Liam_snorkel]

What's the orange pedal next to your wah?

Envious BigNath

I only just saw this Nath. It's a Catalinbread SCOD.

 

[sponge]

I didn't even realise this thread existed... touche ahb... touche...

I'm primarily a guitarist, but started off learning bass 10 years ago and played drums in my spare time.

A couple of months ago I managed to pick up one of these

Lovely delay pedal with the mods. Without being as good as a tape echo, its a lovely bit of gear.

I don't have a picture of my axe, but it is a LP Supreme that was given to me by my parents for my 18th birthday when they found it it was my alltime favourite guitar.

Really keen on grabbing a PRS as well at some stage as theyre a beautifully made guitar, and also means I have something to play that I'm not as worried about gigging with since the LP will always remain so close to my heart.


Sponge

 

[bowie in space]

More pictures sponge, or they don't exist, just sayin...

I didn't even realise this thread existed... touche ahb... touche...

I'm primarily a guitarist, but started off learning bass 10 years ago and played drums in my spare time.

A couple of months ago I managed to pick up one of these

Lovely delay pedal with the mods. Without being as good as a tape echo, its a lovely bit of gear.

I don't have a picture of my axe, but it is a LP Supreme that was given to me by my parents for my 18th birthday when they found it it was my alltime favourite guitar.

Really keen on grabbing a PRS as well at some stage as theyre a beautifully made guitar, and also means I have something to play that I'm not as worried about gigging with since the LP will always remain so close to my heart.


Sponge

 

[Maxt]

Got this new last week:

Comes with Burstbuckers. I like the neck but I am swapping out the bridge for a Seth lover.
New bone nut, set up and new Gotoh tail piece and bridge = One smoking Les Paul sound.

 

[Maxt]

And some more..my Peter Ponzol Keilwerth tenor

 

[black_labb]

I spent a fair bit of time building guitars/bass guitars and amps as a hobby. I have slowed down to the point of just doing some so that I can envision myself actually finishing most of the projects I started.

This is a bass rig I built. The amp runs 6 6550's and can put out 300w. Currently I have the head apart so that I can rebuild the preamp circuit to get the sound where I want it.

Here is few things. Notably a guitar and a bass I've built. The guitar was my first build from stratch and I'm pretty happy with it, though the neck angle looks a bit odd to me amongst a few other things. Plays well and sounds great but the solid walnut body means it weighs alot. That amp is a 70W amp that I built with some second hand stuff including some old TV tubes instead of audio tubes. Sounds very nice and has a really nice breakup point. the 15" speaker cab was the top one in the above photo before it was finished, the other is an aussie made 4x12 from the 70's.

The bass in the photos above is one I built. I used the technique fender uses on their maple necks where they put the truss rod in the back so that the neck is one piece, but I used a 5 piece laminate of new guinea rosewood, wenge, zebrano, wenge, NG rosewood. Having a neck through design gives the instrument a pretty cool look where you have the same timber laminate through the whole instrument front and back. The finish on this and the guitar above is danish oil which I love on instruments for it's feel and natural look.

Here are 2 holden/wasp amps made in marrackville in the 70's. They both run 4x6550's at around 700v making for VERY loud amps. They also sound great, though the circuitboard material isn't great. I've since sold one of them and completely rebuilt the other using point to point circuits as the circuit board material was starting to conduct and made the amp very buzzy. I kept the same circuit.

 

[Lecterfan]

I spent a fair bit of time building guitars/bass guitars and amps as a hobby. I have slowed down to the point of just doing some so that I can envision myself actually finishing most of the projects I started.




This is a bass rig I built. The amp runs 6 6550's and can put out 300w. Currently I have the head apart so that I can rebuild the preamp circuit to get the sound where I want it.
Here is few things. Notably a guitar and a bass I've built. The guitar was my first build from stratch and I'm pretty happy with it, though the neck angle looks a bit odd to me amongst a few other things. Plays well and sounds great but the solid walnut body means it weighs alot. That amp is a 70W amp that I built with some second hand stuff including some old TV tubes instead of audio tubes. Sounds very nice and has a really nice breakup point. the 15" speaker cab was the top one in the above photo before it was finished, the other is an aussie made 4x12 from the 70's.

The bass in the photos above is one I built. I used the technique fender uses on their maple necks where they put the truss rod in the back so that the neck is one piece, but I used a 5 piece laminate of new guinea rosewood, wenge, zebrano, wenge, NG rosewood. Having a neck through design gives the instrument a pretty cool look where you have the same timber laminate through the whole instrument front and back. The finish on this and the guitar above is danish oil which I love on instruments for it's feel and natural look.

Here are 2 holden/wasp amps made in marrackville in the 70's. They both run 4x6550's at around 700v making for VERY loud amps. They also sound great, though the circuitboard material isn't great. I've since sold one of them and completely rebuilt the other using point to point circuits as the circuit board material was starting to conduct and made the amp very buzzy. I kept the same circuit.[/quote]


I own some nice ****, gig regularly and retract my humble statement form approx a year ago ( - both in regards to gear and ability, I have two gibsons, a V and an explorer, both with Bareknuckle painkillers in them and through an orange 50 watt with gain on 11 they chew up and spit out most other rigs we play with)...but the above is very sexy, and having messed with some WASP stuff I am happy to say that is some serious tone right there. Super-arpeggio playing means nothing without an ear and feel for tone...whereas the guys with tone can hold one note for 3 minutes and it works...and works better than can be expected (like the piece of **** guitars with a decent pickup in them expecting layers of plywood to sound like mahogany all of a sudden). The WASP/Holden stuff has great tone, awesome setup(s) dude!!!

 

[bum]

I...I've never posted in this thread? I know I've read it tonnes of times. How does that happen?

Haven't played in ages but I've got:

Maton Mastersound MS2000STD (gold)
Trace Elliot SuperTramp Twin (back when they were still green, predating the not so great valve pre-amp-ish era models)
Sovtek Big Muff PI (old green type)
BOSS Hyper-Fuzz 2
MXR Blue Box (crazy octave fuzz)
Danelectro Daddy-o (looks like a toy but is fairly useful on small doses)
Pro Co Rat (modded)

Some old recording gear (digital) that I haven't used in years but think about pulling out every day...

 

[Maxt]

Super-arpeggio playing means nothing without an ear and feel for tone...whereas the guys with tone can hold one note for 3 minutes and it works...and works better than can be expected (like the piece of **** guitars with a decent pickup in them expecting layers of plywood to sound like mahogany all of a sudden).

Wow you really have gone from being a drummer to a guitarist! Reminds me of the joke: How many guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 100. One to change it and 99 to stand around saying they could have done it faster, with more feel, etc.

As for having guitars that are not 'big brand'. The best bit of advice I ever heard about how to know if your guitar was any good: Give it to the best payer you know and see if it sounds nice in their hands.

Have heard plenty of guys over the years make very expensive gear sound like *****.

Practice cures most tone problems- J. Suhr

 

[Maxt]

Black_labb, I got into making a gear this year as well. I always wanted a 2x12 speaker cab that wasn't aimed at the back of my legs. I also did a lot of research on side by side v stacked speakers. There's a reason hifi speakers are the way they are (sound), and why guitar stacks are the way they are (looks!).

 

[Lecterfan]

Have heard plenty of guys over the years make very expensive gear sound like *****.

Practice cures most tone problems- J. Suhr

Ha! How true - but playing with/listening to countless metal bands running terrible amp/pedal board combos can wear out the ears pretty quickly. I'm not knocking gear as much as I am the use of it...so...errr...long way to say I agree with you; I didn't mean for my post to come off as brand-snobby - tone comes from the player and the utilisation of gear for sure.

But seriously, knock out some crunchy 12 bar on those WASP amps and you can feel the dirt from sunbury between your toes haha...

 

[sponge]

More pictures sponge, or they don't exist, just sayin...

My phone camera never works and I don't own a digital camera... everything I capture is stored in the old memory banks of the brain, which are on a very downward spiral...

Obviously my word does not come into play here

 

[black_labb]

I own some nice ****, gig regularly and retract my humble statement form approx a year ago ( - both in regards to gear and ability, I have two gibsons, a V and an explorer, both with Bareknuckle painkillers in them and through an orange 50 watt with gain on 11 they chew up and spit out most other rigs we play with)...but the above is very sexy, and having messed with some WASP stuff I am happy to say that is some serious tone right there. Super-arpeggio playing means nothing without an ear and feel for tone...whereas the guys with tone can hold one note for 3 minutes and it works...and works better than can be expected (like the piece of **** guitars with a decent pickup in them expecting layers of plywood to sound like mahogany all of a sudden). The WASP/Holden stuff has great tone, awesome setup(s) dude!!!

Thanks

Black_labb, I got into making a gear this year as well. I always wanted a 2x12 speaker cab that wasn't aimed at the back of my legs. I also did a lot of research on side by side v stacked speakers. There's a reason hifi speakers are the way they are (sound), and why guitar stacks are the way they are (looks!).

Very true. Also think about how people claim smaller speakers have more high frequency and larger ones more bass because larger speakers have larger spaces between the edges and the highs cancel eachother out. then they go an put 4 smaller speakers in a square arrangement and ignore the distance between the speakers. Get speakers that sound good.

I've got a pair of 12" guitar speakers I've been meaning to put into a cab, though I love my openbacked 2x10.

 

[Maxt]

O.T, I had a gig last night and was not driving so could have a few drinks. In this situation I usually sneak a small bottle of vodka and buy softdrink (why don't band get free drinks anymore?!) Anyway, I was charged $4 for a schooner of lemon squash. $4! When did post mix get so expensive?

 

[Liam_snorkel]

You're playing at the wrong pubs if you don't get a rider!
I'd speak to the promoter...

 

[bum]

Ya, I've been out of the game a little while but even FOH used to get free drinks. Something is wrong there.

 

[sponge]

Just ordered some dimarzio pup's for an old cort that I am working on upgrading at the moment...

I'll just be using this guitar to test pickups and (although guitar buildp/materials/etc) will all affect the sound through a pickup, can swap them over on some of the other guitars if I find anything i fall in love with...

 

[jlm]

Last gig I played in bris there were no free drinks for anyone....luckily I had a keg of Munich dunkel in the van.

 

[sponge]

Last gig I played in bris there were no free drinks for anyone....luckily I had a keg of Munich dunkel in the van.

You sir, are a genius!

 

[Maxt]

No rider in country pubs, but we did have some smashed ladies (was Lismore Cup race day) doing pole dancing in front of us.