Gear Talk

[admin]

Hey Guys,

to get you to know better. Talk about your gear here - show us what you are having fun with when you play guitar. ?

[Antonio Duarte]

Hi

My gear is:

-Epiphone Les Paul Standard Pro

-Marshall JTM 30 1x12 with a Celestion Speaker

- BB-AT Preamp 

- Carl Martin Dual Compressor Limiter

- Keeley Super Phat Mod

- MXR Phase 90 Script '74 reissue

- MXR Carbon Copy analog delay

Now I just need to learn how to play it properly

[admin]

8 hours ago, Antonio Duarte said:

Marshall JTM 30

Thats a cool Amp - is it with Valves ? ? and the playing will come - just keep the practicing up ?

[Michael Bates]

I'll get around to this probably tomorrow. There's a hockey game coming on in a few. Ok, I love hockey and we have a great team in Tampa

[Antonio Duarte]

1 hour ago, admin said:

Thats a cool Amp - is it with Valves ? ? and the playing will come - just keep the practicing up ?

Yes, it has 3 x ecc83s preamp and 2 x 6L6s.

It sounds good even in neighbour friendly volumes. Pretty warm.

[Michael Bates]

On 8/3/2020 at 3:48 PM, Michael Bates said:

I'll get around to this probably tomorrow. There's a hockey game coming on in a few. Ok, I love hockey and we have a great team in Tampa

I play through a small Fender Mustang I/II solid state. 

Les Paul Standard Pro Epiphone 

Les Paul Studio 100 Epiphone

Squire Strat 

I have pedals however, I don't use them. 

I do have a signed Kirk Hammett Wah wah. I met him back in the early 80's before anyone knew who was.

I have more gear. However, just sitting or standing in my bedroom I don't need a lot. That small Fender kills it. 

I believe in learning to use what you have is always the best trick....once you practice enough and that gear isn't getting you to where you want to go, try out new stuff!

[admin]

11 hours ago, Michael Bates said:

That small Fender kills it. 

A small Fender Amp can be something really cool. B-) And yes the equipment makes only 50% of your sound. The rest is playing technique.

[Sara]

My gear is very simple - just an acoustic guitar:  the Lag Tramontane 88.  It is a no-frills model but has a solid spruce top which makes a big difference to the sound I think.  

I used to play electric guitar too when I was younger and I hope I can get an electric guitar again someday.  I still have to convince my husband who does not understand why anyone needs more than one guitar (sigh) so in the meantime I am enjoying my acoustic life. 

 

[admin]

2 hours ago, Sara said:

just an acoustic guitar

Thats nice - I will be starting with regular acoustic guitar tutorials in the next days.

[Andrea Joy]

Hi...

Guitars

If I gig(ed) ...I play a Eastman Acoustic Dreadnought or a smaller Sigma , A Zoom A5 Pedal and a Looper.

 

On the electric side I play Strat most of the time, but have Tele, Semi etc.

I have plenty guitars, but until today I admit: I still dont have my real No1 where everything fits  ?

Anyway... if I feel good I can play something on every guitar. (with correct tuners and strings ?).

Momentary I play a cheap self built Strat,  because the neck is small and it is very dynamic what I like.

Amps

I prefer my cheap 50Watt Tube Amp in the practice Room. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/SubZero-Tube-H50R-50W-Valve-Guitar-Amp-Head-Nearly-New/RUA

At home I play a cheap Fame Tube5 Amp or with DrivePedals and the NUX SolidStudio and Headphone.

I also have a Marshall Haze Amp and some more Amps .. but these two are the ones I prefer in the moment.

 

Pedals:

 

This is my pedalboard. It changes all the time. I  have built a lot of guitar pedals because - I can -? .I feel The King of Tone is the best Drive - because of the schematic and the oldstock (fast) diodes inside. It is very dynamic. I dont gig with electric guitar and so it is just a hobby. For years I put all my small money only in the music gear because: (Who knows? ?  )

I hope you can see the pics.

Greets Andrea

 

 

 

 

[Michael Bates]

21 hours ago, Michael Bates said:

I play through a small Fender Mustang I/II solid state. 

Les Paul Standard Pro Epiphone 

Les Paul Studio 100 Epiphone

Squire Strat 

I have pedals however, I don't use them. 

I do have a signed Kirk Hammett Wah wah. I met him back in the early 80's before anyone knew who was.

I have more gear. However, just sitting or standing in my bedroom I don't need a lot. That small Fender kills it. 

I believe in learning to use what you have is always the best trick....once you practice enough and that gear isn't getting you to where you want to go, try out new stuff!

I do have an Ibanez, acoustic electric that i play like crazy. I have a Line 6 that gets used as a live amp....too loud to use at home!

[Sara]

11 hours ago, admin said:

Thats nice - I will be starting with regular acoustic guitar tutorials in the next days.

Great news!  I saw your new acoustic guitar and was hoping that it would be appearing in an upcoming lesson soon.  ?

[Sara]

10 hours ago, Andrea Joy said:

Momentary I play a cheap self built Strat,  because the neck is small and it is very dynamic what I like.

Interesting to read about your gear.  It must be cool to be able to build your own guitar/pedals.  

 

On 8/5/2020 at 5:46 AM, Michael Bates said:

I have pedals however, I don't use them

When I used to play electric guitar in my 20s, I found I would spend too much time fiddling with the settings on my pedals instead of practicing/rehearsing - is that why you do not use them?   My solution at that time was to limit myself to just using the overdrive pedal with very rare use of the wah wah pedal for a few songs.

[admin]

16 hours ago, Andrea Joy said:

I hope you can see the pics.

not all of them - you can upload pics. As a premium member you have more storage space so it should work. ?

[Michael Bates]

12 hours ago, Sara said:

Interesting to read about your gear.  It must be cool to be able to build your own guitar/pedals.  

 

When I used to play electric guitar in my 20s, I found I would spend too much time fiddling with the settings on my pedals instead of practicing/rehearsing - is that why you do not use them?   My solution at that time was to limit myself to just using the overdrive pedal with very rare use of the wah wah pedal for a few songs.

Good question Sara. Back in my 20's I was a big gear hog. However, I was playing in bands and had the money to buy pretty much whatever, I felt I needed. Today, I have become a get up a go player. If I want to play electric I just turn on an amp. I have 2 amazing Modeling amps that pretty much give me what I want for what I want to play as far as effects go. If I want to go outside and play I just grab my acoustic. Pretty simple

[Sara]

That makes sense.  Yeah, simple is good!  ?  

[admin]

8 hours ago, Sara said:

Yeah, simple is good! 

Thats my opinion too. I can not even tell how simple my home equipment is where I always practice. Just an Roland AC-60 Amp. Just that - since many years.

[Michael Bates]

19 hours ago, Sara said:

That makes sense.  Yeah, simple is good!  ?  

I just think at this point in my life keep it simple and build up from there

[Andrea Joy]

OH yes - I forgot - with my Acoustic Guitar I use a Roland AC-33 for outdoor playing with looper! ?

[Andrea Joy]

On 8/6/2020 at 9:54 AM, admin said:

not all of them - you can upload pics. As a premium member you have more storage space so it should work. ?

HP ... I am a 5€ premium member ?

But nevermind ...it is not important for me to upload more photos.

I just wanted to support your work as a member, because I like your teaching!

I tried to upgrade from 5 to 10€ monthly but I didnot find a way here. So I sent extra 5 € the last month per paypal.

Greets Andrea

[admin]

6 minutes ago, Andrea Joy said:

I just wanted to support your work as a member, because I like your teaching!

I tried to upgrade from 5 to 10€ monthly but I didnot find a way here. So I sent extra 5 € the last month per paypal.

Hi Andrea,

thanks for your support. ? Yes there is only the 5US$ Premium Membership - if you want to send more do as last month. The 5 extra $ arrived thanks for that or you can use this link here https://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/members/index.php?/clients/donations/2-support-the-hpcrazy-guitar-academy/

[Tony]

My Digitech RP-360 is fubar so I spent the morning searching through You Tube's multi-effect pedal reviews. My current favorite is Jam Pedals Pink Flow, but I need something a little cheaper. Any recommendations?

[admin]

Mooer has some cool and pretty good stuff for an affordable price.

http://www.mooeraudio.com/

[Tony]

4 hours ago, admin said:

Mooer has some cool and pretty good stuff for an affordable price.

http://www.mooeraudio.com/

I almost ordered a GE-250 from Reverb.com but ended up buying a Boss GT-1 at my local Portman's Music store. There were two things that drove me crazy during set up. One, the expression pedal default was a volume pedal and the pedal was set to 0db. It took me a long time to figure out why I wasn't getting any sound out of it. Two, my Windows 10 mic privacy setting was causing an error with the PC interface.  I got both those sorted so next I will be exploring some new tones.

[admin]

Expression pedals are always tricky to handle - when I owned the GE-200 the expression pedal worked but it was tricky to make the setup. On my AXE FX III - it works better but also there it was the most tricky part of the setup.