Guitars
- Diplomat Tele — an old school MIJ tele copy- has a jazz-style humbucker at the bridge and has been retro-fitted with a seymour duncan hotrails at the neck. No longer has a dodgy nut, after Canterbury Music spent a month fiddling with it.
- Profile Strat — another old japanese gat that plays really nicely. Recently treated to a set of Kinman AVN Blues noiseless single coil pickups- sounding good although still very bright- I’m thinking the guitar itself is just a very bright guitar, regardless of the pickups.
- Ovation S778 — roundback, adamas top acoustic guitar- tone is as good as you’ll find plugged in, and not too bad acoustic either.
- Ibanez TV Series 12 String — An old school solid top 12 string guitar- sounds mint, but neck needs some work.
- Diplomat Hollowbody Electric — Bigsby trem, dual single coils, very old school. Sounds pretty good but needs a re-fret- however I’m reluctant to spend $300 fixing up a guitar that only cost me $40. Makes a nice collector’s piece anyway.
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Baby Taylor — 3/4 scale solid top acoustic- sounds a lot better than you think it will… and fits in your carry-on luggage.
Effects
- Korg Tuner — Self explanatory really- also functions as an impedance buffer betweeen guitar and low impedance effects:
- Vox V847 Wah — The quintessential vintage wah…
- Voodoo Lab Microvibe — Univibe (of Hendrix fame) clone
- Boss SD-1 — Standard boss overdrive
- EHX Memory Man — Bucket-brigade, modulated goodness… when it works :(
- Diamond Memory Lane — More modulated bucket-brigade tonal bling- this one works reliably and also has tap tempo! (unfortunately the delay time is such that you need a very fast foot to make the tap useful – Jim)
- Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive — Ibanez TS-808 (vintage overdrive) clone, plus a blendable clean boost
- Ibanez DML delay — Great sounding and versatile modulation delay- one pedal which I’m glad has 6 knobs as it lets you get anything from a shimmering chorus to edge-style dotted quaver delay to spacey echos.
- Ibanez PT-9 — Old school analog phaser
- Several other boxes in various operational states…
Amplifiers
Matchless Spitfire — a 15w, all tube, EL84 powered, tube rectified tone machine
Acoustic Image Clarus — ultra-light 200w acoustic instrument amp, paired with an Ampeg 1x10 cab
Recording
- Alesis iO|14 — Firewire recording console with 4 mic pres
- Audio Technica AT3035 — Studio condenser mic
- Shure Beta57 — great vocal mic, tends to pick up a lot of highs when used to mic an amp- good for clean but not so much for dirty
- Behringer B1 — microphone, could be used for studio recording but perhaps better suited to the role of studio doorstop
- AKG k240 — Monitoring headphones
Other gear
- Alto mixing desk — 16 channel, pretty cheap but does the job
- DI boxes — one Behringer, one Alto
- Cables — mostly homemade, with neutrik connectors
- Piece of wood — with velcro, to which pedals are stuck
Wishlist
- Peavey Wolfgang Archtop — basically, this thing out Les-Pauls every Les Paul I have ever played {but it’s bloody ugly! fraser What the… is not!! Greg}
- Fender Strat — like, a proper one- L-Series perhaps…
- Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb — for use with the above
- Roland Space Echo — tape delay
- 1913 Gibson Mandolin — As played recently at Emerald Music, Seattle - only $2k!
