Jim has some guitar equipment,

Guitars

• Blue Squier bullet strat – as used by Saponification
• Red Ibanez GAX-70 – Double cutaway solid body hardtail (Eg, Ibanez Artist series shape) double humbucking (previously used by The December Switch)
• Tanglewood TW28-SN – Picked up from cashies at what seems like a bargain for how nicely it plays. No pickup so for the time being won’t be a useful church guitar, but will be a great for the living room. Apparently tanglewoods were the best selling guitars in the UK in 2006, which seems like a good thing at first, until you realise that Ashtons are probably one of the best selling guitars in New Zealand - to beginners who don’t know better. Anyway, looks old enough that if the neck was going to bend forward horribly like happens on a lot of cheap acoustics it would’ve already and it hasn’t.
• Franpton SG Bass (Gibson EB-0 copy) – Deep wine red bass guitar made in Japan in the early seventies. Like the Gibson it is bassed on (geddit?) it is a shorter scale than most fender style basses. After a few months playing, it is clear that while it has a lot of character, this is less versatile than most modern basses. Reviews of the original often refer to the pickup as a “mudbucker”. Seemed to sound alright through the big old amp at church (with a 15 inch speaker) but doesn’t punch through much through smaller amps not designed for bass ( duh). New roundwound strings (replacing the flatwounds it came with) have dramatically increased the sustain on the E and A strings - In the case of the E string, it now has some.

Effects

• Ibanez TS7 tubescreamer – (previously used by the now defunct band disarm)
• Tech 21 XXL – Distortion pedal
• Belcat DLY-303 – Ridiculously cheap delay pedal. might be analog but no-one really knows. Jim wants to play Come Before like the Gredge.
• Digitech RP50 – Digital modelling pedal (as definately not used by the gredge)
• Magnetogain – A NZ made prototype pedal Brehaut accidentally won on TradeMe (again)

Amplification

• Fender Vintage Modified Champion 600 – cute little retro looking modern mass produced version of an amp Fender made in the late 40s/ Early 50s. 5 watts, all tube signal path (but solid state rectified) Brown Bier index of 1 and a little 6 inch speaker. 6v6 power tube gives it a different sound to valve juniors. Fun to play with. Sounds nice on it’s own with single coils - and sounds good with a band with single coils and humbuckers -kinda idiot proofs you against bedroom guitarist tone with humbuckers - you know, that rich, overdriven tone, where the E power chord just sounds big and fat and full - but then you try playing with a band and the guitar disappears somewhere into mush/mud- well you can’t seem to get that with this. Which is kinda good. Used it at church and was real pleased with the tone where I was, and how it sit tonally with the other instruments - however , some people commented it could’ve been louder- so might be good miked.
• Marshall JCM900 50W – Hi-Gain, 2x12 combo. In need of new tubes as the old ones make an awful noise when the amp is sitting flat - but not when leant back against the wall. I am getting better at using it effectively and figuring out how to get nice tones out.
• Fender Frontman 15G – Silver face version, made in indonesia not mexico.

Temporary acquisitions

In addition to the above, Jim has developed a habit of temporarily acquiring other people’s gear. At it’s peak this collection included 4 guitars (3 electric, 1 acoustic), a bass, a mandolin, 3 amps (of varying quality) one not so great, one real good for some uses, and one is basically the holy grail), a drumkit, a bunch of effects units, oh, and a PIANO!.

some of this has since been returned to it’s owners or handed on to other scroungers.

I think you’re forgetting your biggest acquisition…. greg Oh yeah… In my head I had written that in… updated now jim

Just an observation, ‘as used by’ implies its just the same model, whereas ‘previously used by’ implies it’s the actual instrument… — Greg

fair enough… – Jim