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Post by saguitar on Nov 23, 2012 21:06:21 GMT -5
Here's what is usually staring up at me from the floor when I'm playin'. It all starts with a Visual Sound volume pedal, and then branches off to your standard Boss TU-2 Tuner. The main branch goes off to a Seymour Duncan SFX-1 Booster, and then into my overdrive selections. Overdrives start with a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive, then a Keeley modified Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, followed by Boss' FDR-1 Fender '68 Deluxe Reverb pedal, then a Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde. That section allows me to dial in and choose many different levels of overdrive/section. From there we move into the coloration section! That starts with a Boss CS-3, then a Boss Super Chorus CH-1, a Boss Digital Delay DD-7 (The delay is also hooked up to the Boss FS-5U foot switch just to the left of the volume pedal, for a tap tempo function). From there we move into a Boss TR-2 Tremolo. Actually, that particular box gets changed out from time to time. I also have a Boss BF-3 Flanger, and a Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter, and I swap those in that spot occasionally. Finally, we go to the secret weapon, the stomp box that is always left on, the BBE Sonic Stomp. So there ya go, it's quite a large setup but since it's mounted to a SKB Model PS-45 powered floorboard, which has a nice top that latches onto it so I can carry it offstage whenever I have to. I can pretty much quickly dial in any tone I can dream up.
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Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2012 12:06:17 GMT -5
Great looking board Stan.
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Post by slapjaw on Nov 25, 2012 11:23:17 GMT -5
Nice board. I too have the Visual Volume, with the lights on the side you can't go wrong. (well sometimes but that's not my fault)
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Post by saguitar on Nov 25, 2012 13:04:49 GMT -5
This is Ashley, the Tele I put together from the best parts I could find. Here's Lester, my '75 Les Paul Deluxe, and he's been modded so many times I've lost count. Currently, he is wired with the "Jimmy Page" configuration with 4 push/pull pots and a pair of Seymour Duncan pickups. And here is my Les Paul Elegant, which is one beautiful ax that I got from James.
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Post by steve on Nov 27, 2012 15:48:41 GMT -5
Nice one Stan. I have similar settings to you on my Sonic Stomp- and my Boss CS-3 settings are almost the same as yours though my Jekyll & Hyde settings are way different ( and I rarely use the Hyde section). Impressive board though- a lot of variety.
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Post by saguitar on Dec 7, 2012 20:15:18 GMT -5
When ya gotta play bass, ya might as well enjoy it!Here's a pic of my bass rig. I'd rather play electric guitar, but sometimes we don't have enough bassists to cover all the weekends, and that's when I get to fill that position. So, here you can see my two main basses, both by Carvin. The one on the left is a Bunny Brunel model and that one has frets. The one on the right is an LB75, and that one is fretless, although it has inlaid fret markers and those help me intonate more accurately. I have played bass for many years, and it reached a point where I was just not feeling challenged. That's when I decided to get the fretless, and that certainly brought back the challenge again! It's not like I'm a major talent on the bass, I just try to play simple and solid, but I reached a place where I needed to be stretched. And the fretless bass adds such a huge new dimension to the basement octaves. The beautiful growl on the bottom, and lyrical expressiveness of the higher notes take the bass to a different level. The amp stack is an Eden World Tour 800 head with two Hartke cabinets, one with 2-15s, and one with 2-10s, and they get the job done. In the midst there is my wireless rack, I'll show y'all a close up of that later.
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Post by saguitar on Dec 7, 2012 20:45:23 GMT -5
And here's a closeup of my wireless rack. Sheesh, the money a guy can blow just trying to get rid of a couple of cords. It takes a lot more cords to hook this bad boy up than without it! On top is a nice Furman Power Conditioner, it not only provides clean power for this little rack, but I also plug my amp and floor board effects into this also. Right below that is an Aviom A-16R unit. It takes a signal from our mixing board through a Cat5 cable, and then sends a custom stereo mix to my in-ear monitors. This puppy gives me my own sixteen channel monitor mix so I don't have to ask the guys at the board for more, or less, of anything. I can just turn around and adjust it myself. Actually, it gives me 17 channels because their is one extra channel just for my own guitar amp. "More of me in the monitor!" Right below the Aviom is a dbx stereo equalizer, I have it hooked up right now to just control my in-ear eq, and that's kinda nice. So I can control, in stereo, right in my ears, all the other instruments on stage. I have four channels on there just for the drums, then the bass, acoustic guitar, another electric guitar if we have one, the percussionist (one channel from an overhead mic), both keyboards, click track, loop track, lead vocal, and one ambient mic that picks up the whole room. I can dial them all up in any configuration I want. And then the bottom of the rack has my Sennheiser wireless units, and they talk to the two belt packs I get to wear when I'm playing. The unit on the left is the receiver, which gets the signal from my guitar (or bass) and then sends it on to the amp input. The one on the right is the creature that sends the signal coming out of the Aviom to my belt pack receiver and then up to my in-ears. Pretty crazy, eh? Yeah, but it gives me the freedom to wander about while still being able to play untethered, and to also hear my monitor mix without having to stand right in front of some poor floor monitor.
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Post by saguitar on Dec 8, 2012 11:33:05 GMT -5
OK, here's a more recent picture of Lester, with Sapphire (a Carvin Bolt-T), and Neva Marie, a quilted blonde Gibson ES-335 that I bought from James during one of his weaker moments (and those are rare). I like to have some nice choices behind me when I play on the weekends. Neva is without a doubt a crown jewel, and never fails to get compliments whenever I take her out. And yes, James, we did put a Bigsby on Les a few years back, during his overhaul. But I wasn't using it, and it just added another pound or so to an already heavy Les Paul. So I removed the Bigsby during Les' latest revamp. He now has a variant of stealth "Jimmy Page" wiring scheme. All four of the pots are now CTS push/pull units. The volume knobs split their respective pickups into single coil mode. Pulling on the neck pickup's tone knob sets the two pickups out of phase, enabling me to dial in Peter Green tones. Pulling the tone knob for the bridge pickup takes the pickups from being wired in parallel to being in series. In effect this is like having an on-board boost. This crazy wiring schematic puts a huge range of tones under the hood, and you can't even tell by looking at the outside that anything is different. It is a very involved project, and took me nearly all day to accomplish, since I had to take a few breaks during it to cool off. And just for the record, the pickups in there right now are both Seymour Duncans, a '59 in the neck and a Pearly Gates in the bridge.
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Post by slapjaw on Dec 9, 2012 18:41:40 GMT -5
SA, love the basses.
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Post by steve on Dec 12, 2012 16:28:12 GMT -5
Wow what a collection Stan. I love the way we accumulate so much gear to pursue our love of music and playing and the great thing is, there is always something new to get!
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Post by saguitar on Dec 12, 2012 19:55:22 GMT -5
Yeah, buddy, it never ends, that's for sure. I can't even pick up a guitar or plug anything in without trying to analyze it and see what I could do to make it better. Sometimes I wish I could just play and let that stuff go, but that's just how I roll.
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Post by saguitar on Dec 16, 2012 21:39:14 GMT -5
Thanks, Slapjaw.
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Post by collinsman on Dec 21, 2012 11:38:26 GMT -5
Nice arsenal Stan , you're a blessed man.
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Post by saguitar on Dec 22, 2012 0:52:16 GMT -5
Thanks, bud. I truly am a blessed dude. But then I made the choice a long time ago to budget a bit every month into my music fund, and over time, the fun just keeps increasing.
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Post by saguitar on Jan 9, 2013 20:39:37 GMT -5
For the really classy gigs, sometimes I get Lucille out of her satin sheets, and let her sing.
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