I'm sure this has been done before, but whatever. I'm trying to fucking breath new life in to this subforum lately; we have a TON of musicians here, it should get more posts. For leads I use: Rhythms/metal DJENT/Chuggachugs: Acoustics: Amp: Pedal: The amp and pedal suck major ass, but whatever. Buying a new pedal probably next payday, so yeah. And none of these are my exact instruments, don't have a camera at the moment, so yeah. Should be getting one soon, then I can post legit pictures.
For a full list of what all this shit is, go to http://www.ghostcircus.com/gear.htm and view the list for Stuffy Room Studio: USA. C.S.
Gallien-Krueger 1001RB-II Gallien-Krueger 4x10 NEO Ampeg BA-115 (practice amp) Gator Rack (for GK gear) Conklin GTBD-7 7-string bass Peavey Cirrus 5 BXP 5 string bass 1988 MIJ Fretless Fender Jazz 4-string BOSS Effects pedals
Fender American Standard Strat Carvin CT6M Rickenbacker 4003 Plus a Les Paul, a Spector bass, an Ibanez bass, and an Ibanez acoustic that I don't have pictures of.
Haha. is that the strat you were talking about nolan? I LIKE IT. BUT APPARENTLY IVE ALREADY TOLD YOU THIS.
Yeah it has really grown on me. I think I may prefer it to the twice as expensive Carvin. The Carvin is more versatile, but for what the strat does, it's unmatched.
Left handed guitars don't even look like the models that they are. I never understood left handed guitars and basses, by the bye. If you're left handed, you don't play a different clarinet, or a different viola. You don't play your cello from the other side. You don't set your tympani up differently. Your piano keys aren't backwards. If I were a lefty, I would try as hard as I could to play right handed, just so as to have more options and not pay a premium for the few instruments I could find.
It's good because if I played righty, I would own about 25 times as many guitars/basses. The fact that it's much harder to find good quality left-handed instruments means that I purchase far fewer of them. The clarinet is a bad example because it's not really "biased" to one hand or the other. Same goes for piano. You're using both hands to do relatively similar things. The first instrument I learned was the trumpet, which doesn't utilize the left hand at all. I got in the mode of fingering everything with my right hand, and that, combined with the strumming motion feeling infinitely better with my left hand (from being a lefty), basically cemented the fact that I would play guitar left handed.
Point taken. But what about the entire stringed instrument family except guitar-related instruments? I'm not sure anyone ever played a violin or a cello from the other side.
Problem has to do with your right hand being the rhythmic proponent in the guitar, and your dominant hand being much more effective, naturally, at being rhythmic. It's a huge struggle to overcome to have your non dominant hand be the more rhythmic. With piano...it's not even a consideration because it's an ambidextrous instrument, both hands are being used in the same facility.
I'm left-handed, and decided to learn how to play right-handed from the very beginning. Initially it was because I didn't want to limit the choice of instruments available to me, but I realise now that it isn't really an issue - most mass-manufactured models seem to have a left-handed counterpart, and these days I don't honestly see many that carry a premium for the privilege either. Another reason was that I'd previously played keyboard and clarinet, and for those I didn't get a choice in the matter as you rightly pointed out. Apart from that though, considering I've had to adapt myself to a right-handed world on some level or another my entire life, why should playing an instrument be any different? If anything it just means that my fretting hand is slightly ahead of my picking hand in terms of natural dexterity, rather than the other way around.
trying to breath I play a Pearl BRX kit with a Pearl Sensitone snare. 3 rack toms 2 floor toms 1 kick Zildjian A Custom cymbals (22" medium ride, 16" crash, 14" fast crash and a set of 14" hi hats (my 18" crash broke and needs to be replaced) Wuhan 12" china cymbal DW 9000 double pedal Tama Iron Cobra hi hat pedal Vic Firth 5B sticks (thinking I should switch back to 5A) All the pictures I have are old as fuck. Will try to get some new ones soon.
Violin Ibanez RG7321 Ibanez RGT6EXFX Carvin DC127 Koa Aria Acoustic Jay Turser Strat copy - Hughes & Kettner 20th Anniversary 20W Tube Combo PodXT
Record and play everything through my POD X3 Live in my bedroom, have a little Peavey amp but its been unplugged for years... My new guitar (American Strat) for E tuning: My baby (PRS CE22) for Drop C/C#: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1qyST0T62s"]YouTube- Cynic - The Unknown Guest (Played by iamrichlol)[/ame] My 7 string (RG1527 with Dimarzios and tremol-no) in Drop G#: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfa_rGkQj8"]YouTube- Periphery - Icarus Lives (Played by iamrichlol)[/ame] OLP 5 string bass for recording:
Lashie, or anyone for that matter...when you setup an instrument for lower tuning (like yours are)...does "setting up an instrument for drop tunings" entail simply getting the right strings or do you have to do a bunch of other stuff to it? I've always wondered this.
A friend of mine who is left handed chose to play a right handed guitar because he thought your fretting hand was more important than your strumming hand. And he says that only using left handed guitars really limits your options.
I wouldn't say one hand is inherently any more important than the other, but I suppose a lot of it does come down to what style of music you want to play.
Guitars: - Fender Stratocaster '59 - Fender Stratocaster '73 - Fender Stratocaster Jimmie Vaughan signature model - PRS McCarty - Gibson SG '73 - Gibson SG worn brown - Gibson Les Paul Goldtop VOS '57 - Epiphone strat copy I've modded to hell - Yamaha APX6A Pic of the guitars here at home: Amps: - Soldano SLO-100 (main amp) - Ampeg VT-40 (backup for gigs) - Vox AC30 (studio only, for those extra nice cleans) - Uraltone Jr (small tube amp for home use) - Roland Microcube (home use only) - selfbuilt 100W tubeamp, based on Mesa/Boobie mk1 - selfbuilt 60W tubeamp, based on Mesa/Boobie mk1 Effects: - Fulltone OCD - Custom made Insane Kane TS-808/09/10 clone (all built in one box) - Mad Professor Little Green Wonder - Mad Professor Mighty Red Distortion - Budda Wah - Korg Pitchblack - MXR Carbon Copy - MXR Dynacomp - MXR Phase 90 - Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Plus - 11 selfbuilt Ibanez TS-9 clones, all with slightly different characteristics and base sounds - Dunlop CryBaby, can't remember exact model, it's the one with volume pedal built-in and true bypass - Boss Flanger, Chorus and Delay pedals - some old 70's Equalizer where the brand name has worn off over a decade ago - A closetfull of other random pedals that I use very rarely such as Octavers, Harmonizers and other gimmicks - Ibanez TS-808 - Vox Wah
Currently rocking the Ampeg svt classic 8x10 cab, ibanez sr305, GK Backline 600 for my live performances. Often use a Boss ME-50B when I'm recording though. I try to keep it simple..
You have an Ampeg cab and GK head, yet you still use an ME-50B for recording? Can I ask why? Not that I'm criticising, but I am curious.
Instruments: MusicMan Stingray 5 Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus Top Gibson SG Gothic (currently de-tuned to C standard) Ibanez AEB305 Ibanez AEF18 Yamaha P-85 Amps: Mesa Boogie M-Pulse 600 Ampeg SVT-410HEN (same as the HE but handles 500W RMS instead of 400W) Hartke Kickback 12 Pedals: Korg Pitchblack DOD 250 Overdrive (reissue, used for guitar & bass) Boss DS-1 Distortion Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Russian, used mostly for bass right now) Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Microphones: Audio-Technica ATM41HE I think that's everything. Next gear purchase will probably be an Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Plus.
Damn, nice list. And that SG looks sexy as fuck in black. Could have sworn I'd already made a list in here. Oh well. I'm gonna keep this limited to bass gear anyway. Simnett MK-5 Maple and White Korina custom: (2 pics because I don't have any of the entire thing in one shot.) ESP Ltd F-205 (2002 model): Peavey Grind 6 NTB: Peavey Milestone III (lol): Warwick ProFet 5.1 head: Warwick Pro 411 cab: Warwick Blue Cab 30 for practice and small gigs: Sonic Research strobe tuner, EBS MultiDrive, Maxon CP9 Pro+ compressor and EBS OctaBass: Sansamp Bass Driver: I'm going to be phasing out the Warwick stuff eventually when I have a bit more cash. It's done its job well enough and the price was right at the time, but I'm after something that sounds better and is easier to manouvre for gigs.
I have a few patches that adjust the tone in a way that translates better to recordings so that it needs less post production to fit in a sonic sense. Also I'm never really sure when the mood to use a subtle effect is gonna strike me. I read in a different thread that you were gonna ditch your ME-50B. I've never really taken much issue with mine, perrsonally, I just don't use pedals live. So that might be where the difference between us lies..
Yeah, I did get rid of it. It did a decent enough job for a while, and I used it for recording in the past myself, but the pause between patch changes really started to bug me, and I often found myself hitting more than one button at a time when changing sounds in a rush, and ending up going to the tuner mode or something like that. Very annoying in the middle of a gig. Considering that the effects that I do use are rather few, I thought it made more sense in the end to go for individual stomp boxes. Have you considered using the ME-50 as well as the amp for recording though? I'd have thought that would work best overall, especially given that the ME-50 has two outputs. You could take a direct signal from the pedal and one from the amp at the same time, and blend the two when mixing to get the best of both worlds.
Haha, yeah actually that's how I record with the amp and the ME-50B. But yeah, I noticed I had similar problems with it as far as hitting more than one pedal and switching modes and whatnot. That's why I've pretty much filed the pedal into 'studio gear only' territory.
hmmm.... 4 drum cases coming to £205 total OR a fucking godly Zildjian 22" K custom dark ride at £300....What to buy for christmas?
Pics from my studio: Crappy bass my friend left here and my other friends Ibanez acoustic that I've borrowed indefinitely. PRS Singlecut SE (My main guitar) M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 (MIDI controller) Yamaha 01v96 Digital Mixer and DBX 386 Mic Pre Pair of Behringer 2030A Monitors and 17", 2.5Ghz Macbook Pro (main software I use is Pro Tools 8 and Reason 4, just picked up Ableton Suite 8) Digidesign 003 Rack (w/ factory bundle) Alesis Midiverb 4, Yamaha EMP700, DBX 266XL and a BBE Sonic Maximiser Line 6 Pod X3 Live and Boss Tuner Marshall 50/50 Power Amp and 4x12 Things not pictured: - Epiphone Explorer (My old guitar - Collecting dust these days) - Takamine D-Series Acoustic
Oooh. Is that a one piece mahogany body? Mason, great stuff! I'm gonna have a few additions to the family soon
Nah, it's great. I love mine, and get some great tones from it. The MesaMkII model is ace. Amps (some of them, changed a bit now) L-R- Marshall 30th Anniversary (GODLIKE amp), Blackstar HT-5, Peavey JSX, Marshall 1936 2x12, Yamaha DGFX-60 modelling amp. Guitars (same) L-R- Tanglewood Odyssey, Epiphone Emperor Regent, Gibson 335, LTD EC-1000, US Standard Strat, Jackson Dominion Mark Morton Sig, Ibanez RG1527 (w/ Seymour Duncan Blackouts), Yamaha RBX something active 5-string bass.
Yamaha 211, pretty good student model. Would love to have a gold flute though, maybe if I win the lottery...
So guys, i'm relocating soon and will only be able to take the bare minimum of my gear with me (the rest will have to go into storage), so what should I take? I'm thinking...Laptop, 003, PRS, Pod and keyboard. Anything else you think is essential?
That's a tough call. But you're taking the monitors right? If it was me I'd take that Marshall HS, or forget the pod and just buy a 1x12 combo. Speaking of... I have some better pics on my camera that I might upload... they really show the color, and the high quality of the fit and finish, including details of the grille cloth, leather piping, metal face, etc.
