Brehaut has a modest collection of gears:
Guitars
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Ibanez CN200 – This is my primary guitar. Made in japan in January 1978. Looks like a cross between a Les Paul and a PRS, and has two humbuckers (Super-80s?) . The ‘midnight olive’ finish is a bit dinged up and most of the gold plating has worn off the hardware, but it still looks way cool and sounds nice too.
- Jamboree Steel string – Jamboree is a different trade name for Ibanez’s parent company. Reasonably easy to play, although the action gets a little tough round the octave. Made in Japan some time in the 1970s
- Silver PRS Tremonti SE – very light, reasonable sound if overdriven but kinda lifeless clean, could do with better sustain, but not made-in-japan enough for some people. Named for the guitarist from Creed. {i am ashamed :( – brehaut}
Currently using Ernie Ball heavy / 11-56? gauge strings on the PRS and Ernie Ball 11-49? gauge on the Ibanez.
Effects
- Diamond Fireburst – My second fireburst, the first was nicked. Fancy-arse fuzz pedal. [Heh, I’m mentally moving the hyphen one word to the right - Fraser] Has Bass and Treble controls rather than the more common tone, and an additional foot switch for mid boost which gives a more ‘distortion’ tone than regular fuzz. {This pedal is really quite amazing, Works well in front of both the sovtek and my tiny terror with a lot of range. Surprisingly makes Jim’s little solidstate fender frontman roar almost nicely. Almost. I have continued to be impressed with it, my only complaint is minor and that is that it can produce a a bit of signal hiss. – brehaut}
- Boss RRV-30 – half rack digital reverb unit with my old marhsall’s foot switch.
- Red Witch Pentavocal Trem – Hand made tremelo from Red Witch in beautiful Paekakariki, New Zealand. My original Pentavocal was chrome, the replacement is cream colored. Just not the same
- Diamond J-Drive Mk 3 – Overdrive + Clean Boost. Its blue. This is easily my favorite pedal, and one of the most versatile drive pedals I’ve played with.
- Ibanez DL10 digital delay – Borrowed (long term) from Fraser :) Unfortunately the switching mechanism is nearing the end of its life and when it goes its probably not fixable.
- FuzzieBro Custom Japanese Saturation Machine – A half germanium, half silicon fuzz pedal with the bias set to be a nasal snarl. Noticeably more usable than the standard JSM, the silicon snarl and bite backs the more traditional smooth fuzz tone.
Amplification
- Orange Tiny Terror. 7w/15w switchable with a Brown-Bier index of 33%
- Sovtek Mig 50 (bright channel mostly) Brown-Bier index of 16% – Not for sale, Tony is slowly osmosing it, as well as the…
- Marshall Powerbrake – Volume attenuation to undo some of the good work of the Sovtek –
- Mesa Blackshadow 1x12 cab
The mesa, sovtek and powerbreak were previously part of Greg’s setup. There was also an older marshall 50watt solid state, but that lives at ABC now.
Recording
- Presonus Inspire 1394 – outboard firewire sound interface
- Shure SM57 Mic
- Apple Garageband – recording software
Stolen hardware :(
- Maxon OD-9 – Maxon built TS-9’s for Ibanez, this is their branded version of the exact same thing.
- FuzzieBro Japanese Saturation Machine – brehaut accidentally won a trademe auction for this prototype pedal. Its apparently based on a Shin-ei Companion Fuzz. Officially insane, this thing just rips silicon buzzing fuzz everwhere, almost uncontrolable. kinda interesting but not something i’m going to be using much at all.
- The cheapest Shub capo ripoff he could find on trademe.
Tell ‘em he’s dreamin’
He would quite like an electric with a Humbucker bridge and P-90 neck pickup (after playing Fraser’s gear), or an Ibanez thinline telecaster as well as some form of steel string acoustic.
Red Witch Empress Chorus – Despite not being a huge chorus fan, this pedal is the buisness. It can be subtle! has a huge variety of tones available and importantly the delay time is a knob not a hard wired value. See also this demo video.
Other potential thoughts include fitting an EMG-89 — splitable S/H active — bridge pickup and EMG-H — single in hum enclosure — on my PRS in place of the stock pickups.
Some sort of delay to replace the DL-10 when it inevitably packs up completely. greg suggests possibly a Boss/Roland Space Echo modeler.
