Post your guitar/bass/drum rig

[Theldios]

I have no idea how to post pictures sorry guys but I have been playing guitar since I was 7 years old and I am in my 50's now. and I prefer my old Yamaha acoustic I got back when I was 8 or 9 years old. It has lasted me many many good years of fun on the beach at the bon fires

[Troy]

Originally Posted by Abacab "The REAL truth" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Figured as much, metal bands and shredders have been talking JCM900 up for years so pretty much any Marshall head unit you see at huge retail chains will be a JCM900 or it's offshoots.

Actually the common "wisdom" is that the 800 rules and the 900 sucks. In reality they are both great though...

I don't have many photos of my stuff but here's my #1 axe and some other crap:

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Horrible photo with my 7-string Carvin that I wish I hadn't sold:

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fun pink Ibanez:

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LP I just picked up:

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Amps and keys/bass/etc stuff I have no photos of but my 2 guitar rigs are an old Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ and a giant rack rig based around the old DigiTech 2101 preamp/processor. You can hear a crappily produced demo of my current band at:

http://www.allegro-furioso.com/

[Abacab "The REAL truth"]

There are FAR better head units than the 900 or to less extent the 800, but most kiddies buy the JCM900 with their parents money because it's highly accessible, cheap, and has high distortion thresh-holds... That or because it's what Slayer/Malmsteen/Wylde or whatever the top shred master at the time uses.

Literally I can walk into a Guitar Center and see several 900's lining the walls next to flying V's

[Troy]

I liked both the 800 and 900 that I had, only sold them because they don't sound great until you get them up to stadium volume levels. Truth is I'm not going to be playing stadiums anytime soon!

In the next year or 2 I'll either be moving to an all-digital rig that goes straight to PA with no cabs to carry, or shelling out for a Soldano SLO-100 half stack and some ridiculous MIDI switching setup with rack effects. Probably the former, instant setup/teardown and less shit to worry about going wrong.

[Troy]

ugh can't edit here.

I meant to add that my GC is full of crappy low end Line 6 gear and GC's house brand Raven - outside of the Mesa section at least. There are also very few high end guitars besides PRS/Gibson and a few nice Fenders. It's all cheap stuff in there.

[Abacab "The REAL truth"]

Originally Posted by Troy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I liked both the 800 and 900 that I had, only sold them because they don't sound great until you get them up to stadium volume levels. Truth is I'm not going to be playing stadiums anytime soon!

In the next year or 2 I'll either be moving to an all-digital rig that goes straight to PA with no cabs to carry, or shelling out for a Soldano SLO-100 half stack and some ridiculous MIDI switching setup with rack effects. Probably the former, instant setup/teardown and less shit to worry about going wrong.

I used to have a lot of modern amps and cabinets, the usual 4x10's 2x12's SWR rigs and what not which sounded loud and clean but I play a very Sabbathy/Sleep style of music so I needed to find a rig that was suitable for a mammoth low-end sound. As you can imagine I'm running through Sunn amps and 2x15's so I'm pushing out some major dirtgrind low-end at my place.

It's not too uncommon though anyone that plays stoner/doom/sludge metal tends to stick around old vintage amplifiers or brands such as Orange, Mata-amp, Laney, and Sunn because of they're tailored to give that classic 60's-70's fuzz distortion and heavy bass response.

[Troy]

Yeah we're playing fast shit so need a much more defined and mid-heavy tone, the Soldano is basically perfection but it's a $4000 head... not happening anytime soon, especially not to play to 15 people in shitty bars.

[Troy]

You guys have any recordings up? I dig some of that stuff, usually depending on the vocals more than anything. Candlemass has some awesome tracks.

[Koota]

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Actually? thats unreal, I tried to get into it but I couldnt find a decent cart.

nerd tracker, Milkytracker, and LSDJ are good places to start

[Abacab "The REAL truth"]

The guitarist I jam with slaves a 1965 Fender Bassman head to some cheap poweramp cause the unit is only 50w or some shit like that, so he just routes that into two fender 2x15's so when he palm mutes it sounds like a freight train running loose