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• #27
Roundwound twelves, they're the business! Face-kickingly great tone and stay in tune forever.
Nice one, get some flatwounds on there though man, beautiful soft tone for jazzing, what kind of stuff are you playing?
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• #28
I just have one 1968 Fender Mustang in tobacco sunburst. It's a bit smashed up these days though.
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• #29
Guitars:
There is but one... Gretsch. Nice heavy set of strings and you're flying.
Amps: Just about to have an amp custom built for me once I get the deposit to the guy. Fender Deluxe Reverb clone, can't wait! Should be surftastic.
Pedals: TU-2. My best friend on the floor.
Very Nice! Ive just picked up a G5120, not as nice as the one youve got there, but its hard to judge the quality on a Gretsch since theyre all so top notch. I cant wait to get a pair of TV Jones Classics in mine... Sparkle like glass it will!
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• #30
1963 all original Gibson SG Standard with Lyre tremolo
1981 Rickenbacker 360/6WB in Burgundyglo (custom colour for model year, customer made double bound)
Also have a nice Korina Flying V and a Gibson J45.
I love guitars!
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• #31
Have had loads of pricey guitars, including Gretsches and Gibsons, but sold them all and bought Rick/335/Firebird copies worth on average about £150 each, before I forgot about something expensive in some shit pub or had it nicked.
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• #32
1989 Japanese Fender Jazzmaster (sunburst) Really quality reissue. Still cost a bomb. Could never afford an american one.
1984 Takamine Acoustic.
And a crap Banjo I fiddle with sometimes.
I'm actually more of a drummer. I sold my kit to buy my plane ticket to get here :(
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• #33
I have a fender telecaster that i fitted mini humbuckers to, and a rickenbacker 330. I have no real desire to get any other guitars.
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• #34
recovering guitar geek here. i used to be a right gear nerd and have tonnes of stuff including spare stage guitars for different tunings and spare amps, mandolins and a handful of acoustics but have just massively cut down on my collection. i seem to care way less than i used about what gets used for what now to the extent where i'm regularly DI-ing guitars for recording demos and just picking up what's about for recording. I'm sure that'll change if and when i start playing live regularly again. Maybe not.
sorry nahuavkine but i really don't like PRS's! as a rule i'm all about the fender + fender combo. there are always exceptions of course but generally i prefer a 25" scale length, single coils and few effects into a cooking valve amp.
following the great gear cull i'm now now down to:
2000 Fender M Tele (MIA w/glendale bridge and brass saddles)
Late 70s Sigma DR28 acoustic
Early 90s Fender Strat (MIM)
Late 60s Framus solidbody (in red sparkle!)
60s Reissue P-Bass1974 Fender (SF) Pro Reverb.
1968 Fender (SF) Champ
Peavey Classic 30
Ampeg B200 Bass amp
Sessionette 100 Bass ampi generally don't use much in the way of effects. Reverb and Tremolo from the amp if available but i do use a bit of the following:
Ibanez TS9 or Digitech Badmonkey overdrives.
Marshall Bluesbreaker II (used as straight signal booster)
T-Rex Tremster Tremolo
Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
Danelectro Danecho and PB&J for slapback, echo and delay.Errr and that's about it actually. Got a a pod for playing with on demos.
Other than that lot I tinker about on Uke and Mandolin and Melodica at home.
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• #35
fuck I came here to kick my guitar gear obsession. this is not a good thread for me.
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• #37
I play a squire fender copy with 3 strings with a electro harmonix big muff and an electro harmonix reverb pedal turned up to max.
And a fender jazz bass with 3 strings that i re soldered the wiring in myself and now sounds so fuckin awesome and distorted i cant ever bring myself to get it fixed properly itll ruin the sound.
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• #38
When my dad passed away a few years ago, he left us with quite a collection of guitars. He had been a musician his whole life, playing with some pretty dope bands, on tour and as a backing/set bass player. Anyways we were looking to re-value the guitars that we have left and I was just wondering if anyone out there felt they could help me, they seem to be quite rare so am having trouble finding examples on ebay or whatever. The only 2 I know from memory are a 1967 Fender precision bass and a Wal bass (signed?) from the late 70's.
Any help is gratefully recieved, I will endeavour to put some photos up once I have them down from the loft.
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• #39
A '67 P-Bass is gonna get you some money, can't help you on the Wal... PM me if you want some help, I'm an old mate with the boys on The Guitar magazine, they'll sort you out... They owe me...
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• #40
G&L ASAT Special
G&L S-500Way too many pedals.
'73 Hiwatt DR103
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• #41
merge him right the soundhole
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• #42
My daughter is starting to play bass at school. I don't know if she'll latch onto it, but if she does, what's a good bass for a 12 year old? Guess prioritising weight over anything else.
I'm guessing that despite looking awesome, and my trigger finger over a few on eBay, an Epiphone Thunderbird is going to just be too heavy.
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• #43
Hard to go wrong with a Squier Mustang bass.
Thomann's inhouse brand Harley Benton do a cheaper copy which apparently isn't terrible but would probably be heavier. -
• #44
Def not what you're asking for, but bassist in my band has one of these for when bringing the double bass is impossible and, plugged in, it's fucking great. Sounds like a double bass (sounds decent unplugged but drowned out by guitars and fiddle) - obviously might smaller/lighter than any electric bass. Just a thought anyway.
https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Deluxe-Electro-Ukulele-Bass-by-Gear4music-Sapele/33VV
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• #45
I never knew this thread existed! Vintage!
I'm an old mate with the boys on The Guitar magazine, they'll sort you out... They owe me...
O rly?
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• #46
I think I probably owe you!
What was I on about?
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• #47
There's is only one.
A bit of a leftfield choice but. Short scale, light, sounds great and the crazy looks might just inspire a young person to pick it up more often than not. IMVHO, obvs.
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• #48
Excellent, a 2nd guitar thread to rival the 2nd hifi thread
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• #49
'58 Gibson Les Paul Junior (d/c, cherry)
'75 Fender Tele Deluxe (natural, maple neck)
'62 Silvertone (amp in case model, black sparkle)
'37 Kalamazoo K14 (natural)
'78 Tokai Silver Star (strat copy, white/white, rosewood neck)
'00 Tokai Love Rock (Les Paul TV copy, TV yellow)
'04 Fender Jazz (medium scale, white on white, rosewood neck)
'97 Custom Andy Sier electric mandolin (black, kinda like a cross between a Fender/Vox)
I've probably forgotten something! Don't really play much anymore...I've still got all of these bar the Jazz bass. Sadly, long gone. I toured around Europe on that thing.
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• #50
I didn't know this thread was actually here - I searched for guitars and posted without checking.
A 13 year dredge!
I only need one bass - my rickenbacker 4003. As far as i'm concerned it is the perfect bass and I absolutely love it. it's the possesion that I know I will never part with.
guitar wise, my wife inherited her grandfathers 1940 Patrician H1450 archtop when he passed away a few years a go, so that is very special for both sentimental reasons and also becuase it has a beautiful tone. it could do with a little restoration work which we've not gotten round to yet but it is a lovely old instrument.
I've had quite a few (mainly not great) electrics but just have the one now - an epiphone SG. it is one of the last to be made by epiphone with a set (rather than bolt on) neck. I showed it to a Gibson collector once who was surprisingly excited to see it and said that basically the only differnece was that it was made in korea, not the US. apparently they are not very common. A bit like certain japaneese squire basses, that are more sought after than some fender USAs of the same period, just in my case it isnt worth perticularly much!
amp wise I've got a Laney .... something, 200 watt bass combo that is surprisingly good, especially when used with an MXR M80 DI. That's the only thing I use between my bass and an amp / the desk when playing live. well, that and some planet waves action. my guitar amp is a Marshall JTM60 valve amp that weighs about as much as I do but has a great warm tone. I don't play the guitar live so that stays put luckily.