Pronger Musicians Gear Thread

Discussion
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Kinda got off topic on the thread about the new pic of Paul, but discussing gear is something I really enjoy. Hence a new thread.

What kind of rig do you have? What have you used in the past? Have a project studio? What gear do you wish you had, but don’t?

I’ll start…

I haven’t gigged in about 5 years but I still play everyday. About 80% of the time I just pick up my Yamaha APX-3 strung with Martin Bronze Phosphor Medium Strings. It’s an acoustic/electric so I can plug in for recording. I also capo at the second fret a lot and then play in G, which is really A.

Got a lot of other toys laying around but I thought I’d save the best for later.

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Been a long time but used to have a Peavey Fury Bass w/ some ancient 100W Ampeg tube head. I sucked at the bass and the Ampeg hummed. A good fit.

Do you still have the Ampeg?

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I have a cheap Mexican made Strat, a slightly upgraded Epiphone Les Paul (57 reissue humbucker in it, sounds nice and gritty on that switch)
and a Yamaha acoustic/electic full body (not the smaller flat body) which sounds just fine as acoustic on its own.

I have a Peavy 2x12 amp of some kind, that i wish I had not ‘upgraded’ to as it’s heavy as a brick. I shoulda kept my 1x12 tube amp peavey. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

As for what I wish I had? I would trade both electrics for a classic Jazzmaster (not a pink one, that looked horrific) and a Fender Twin.

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I have a cheap Mexican made Strat, a slightly upgraded Epiphone Les Paul (57 reissue humbucker in it, sounds nice and gritty on that switch)
and a Yamaha acoustic/electic full body (not the smaller flat body) which sounds just fine as acoustic on its own.

I have a Peavy 2x12 amp of some kind, that i wish I had not ‘upgraded’ to as it’s heavy as a brick. I shoulda kept my 1x12 tube amp peavey. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

As for what I wish I had? I would trade both electrics for a classic Jazzmaster (not a pink one, that looked horrific) and a Fender Twin.

My Yamaha acoustic/electric is one of the smaller, flatter ones with a cutaway and I have to say…it sounds great…and feels more like an electric than a acoustic. Even the intonation is fine.

I’d love to have a Twin. I had a Music Man HD-212 that I gigged with for years which is similar to a Twin but had a dirtier distortion sound. Loved it but it weighed about 80 pounds so I bought a Fender Stage 100 to gig with.

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Wurlitzer Piano (hand me down)

Bryant Pianola- antique from 1923 with the player piano mechanism (unfortunately) removed. A popular hotel in Melbourne closed down and I asked if I could have it and scored!

Korg 01/WFd- great synth from early nineties with a floppy drive a shitload of discontinued effects

Casio CDP 200- cheap, but surprisingly excellent electric piano. Sampler as well! My prank calls have been granted a dimension previously unthinkable!

Gibson SG- Not sure what year it was made, but I got it new in 2009. Great tone, but I’m pretty sure tuning it down to G has sort of fucked it.

Epiphone Les Paul Copy- Pretty ordinary, but not bad sounding for a first guitar

Cort V Bass- 5 string bass, nothing special

Shitty no name 4 string bass I use purely for smashing

Two shitty no name drum kits I use for the same thing. Only thing that makes it any good is that the two bass drums make it KVLT and one’s black and one’s white, so it’s even more KVLT-er.

Korg AX1500G Multieffects- multieffects pedal for people who don’t know what good tone is.

Marshall JCM 2000- Killer triple channel 100 Watt half stack I’ve got. Thinking of adding another cabinet purely for volume’s sake.

Martinez Acoustic Electric- total fucking shit

Regal Mandolin- mandolin made in the late 1890s that an old man that I met on the bus gave to me.

Banjo-mandolin- looks like it could be a home made job, but it’s basically the body of a banjo and neck of a mandolin. Belonged to my great grandfather.

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But as soon as you plug any guitar into a Marshall it just sounds like the Marshall.

I agree with this but when you start switching tubes out is when you start to get the different sounds out of the marshall.

Never been a fan of Fender. I’d owned a telecaster once and was never fond of it. (It was given to me) I hate that fender head stock.

I own 2 electric acoustic Ibanezes, 2 electric Ibanezes, and the blue epiphone Les paul. I also own a stratacastor my buddy won from the breakfast with Korn contest through KROQ (funny since korn doesn’t play fender)and I love my ibanezes over everything I currently own or have owned.

Have a solid state 20w marshall I haven’t plugged into in years. usually play everything dry, even my electrics.

Late,
grmpysmrf

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This is the main stuff I use

-iMac with Reason, Ableton and Pro Tools, though I find myself using Reason most often. I use my Macbook for ocasional DJ gigs and programming on the go.
-M-Audio Axiom 49 first gen
-Roland Alpha Juno 2 (Craigslist find of the year)
-Akai MPD 26
-Korg Monotron
-Zoom MRT 3b Drum Machine (needs fixing but I love the preset sounds)
-M-Audio MBox Mini 2 (to use Pro Tools 8, not the biggest fan)
-Yamaha Audiogram 6
-Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty Custom (EMG pickup replacing the stock bridge pickup)
-Ibanez acoustic steel string (some piece of crap)
-A random Schecter I aquired from a friend kicked out of the country. I absolutely love Schecters, they way they play and all that jazz, but their designs just don’t float my boat.
-Yamaha Classical Guitar
-Peavey Vyper Amp 40 watts or so
-Peavey Envoy 110 amp
-KRK Rokits 6s

And other random effects units

EDIT: I really want to try a Juno 106 or 60, I prefer having my parameters tangible with knobs instead of using the dial that the Juno 2 utilizes.

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not a musician, i have chinese squire (fender) p-bass and mega cool short scale korean hofner (‘beatles’ bass) replica that i fuck around on.

thinkin’ of buying some good bass though, tired of crappy squire. well not totally crappy but not great though.

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I use the Erie Load Signature Series Home MiXXX’ing Kit from 13th Planet . . . .

It’s amazing.

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HOLY FUCK, ME WANT

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Gibson SG- Not sure what year it was made, but I got it new in 2009. Great tone, but I’m pretty sure tuning it down to G has sort of fucked it.

Epiphone Les Paul Copy- Pretty ordinary, but not bad sounding for a first guitar

Banjo-mandolin- looks like it could be a home made job, but it’s basically the body of a banjo and neck of a mandolin. Belonged to my great grandfather.

Tuning down with a short scale guitar like an SG is hit or miss I’ve found. My son has a really nice Epi Les Paul in transparent blue that he usually tunes down 2 half steps that sounds really tight…but be uses .056 - .012. The strings seem like bridge cables to me. Love to see a pic of the banjo-lin. Sounds intriguing.

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Nothing hugely spectacular, but at home I have:

Dean ZX Guitar
Ibanez electro-acoustic
Full size acoustic
3/4 size acoustic
Antoria hollow bodied bass
Cheap fender jazz bass copy
Marshal Valvestate amp
Bass amp (forget the model, but it was given to me by Mute Records/Abbey Road)
Carlsbro hornet amp
Various practice amps
Pod XT
Various pre-amps and mics
Various bits of drumkit (some bastard stole my sonor snare)
PC kitted out with Cubase, Sonnox plugins, complete IK Mulitimedia set of plugins, loads of other stuff
An old RME Hammerfall 9632 soundcard
Genelec 8040 monitors
M-Patch 2 switching unit/volume control
Various MIDI keyboards and controllers

…and at work, rather more spectacularly, some of what we have:

£50K+ (at least) of mics
SSL G Series
Euphonix CS3000
5.1 Post Pro dubbing suite with Icon D-Control desk
Soundcraft 1624
Several Pro Tools HD rigs with control surfaces and other hardware
2 Otari 2" tape machines
Various high end monitors
too many plugins to mention, but includes McDSP, Sonnox and UAD bundles.

[:)]

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I’d owned a telecaster once and was never fond of it. (It was given to me) I hate that fender head stock.

Late,
grmpysmrf

You and I shall never marry. [:(]

[:)]

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Korg Monotron
-Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty Custom (EMG pickup replacing the stock bridge pickup)
-A random Schecter I aquired from a friend kicked out of the country. I absolutely love Schecters, they way they play and all that jazz, but their designs just don’t float my boat.

EDIT: I really want to try a Juno 106 or 60, I prefer having my parameters tangible with knobs instead of using the dial that the Juno 2 utilizes.

I crave a Monotron just for the luxury of using it with an external source. So unique and so portable. We’ve (my younger son and I) have a killer Schecter Damien 6 laying around that doesn’t get played much. I used it as a backup guitar years ago. Put is on craigslist a couple of times but no nibbles.

I’ve owned/played a couple of Juno 106/60 over the years. A lot of the synth on early Ministry recordings was Juno 60.

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…and at work, rather more spectacularly, some of what we have:

£50K+ (at least) of mics
SSL G Series
Euphonix CS3000
Soundcraft 1624
2 Otari 2" tape machines
[:)]

Have you ever worked with a Neotek desk? I was the production manager there in the early 90’s. All handmade, better specs than SSL at the time. Since no edge connectors were used they ended up in a lot of remote trucks.

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Acoustic Taylor Jr.
Mexican Strat installed a Seymour Duncan in the bridge and stock in the neck
Washburn J-3 with P-90s
and recently Gibson Les Paul / Traditional Plus with Classic 57’s[cool]

Usually stick with 9’s.

As for amps, sold my old Marshall Modern Vintage and looking at going with a Fender Tweed or Deluxe.

Some Rode Mics.

DAW -Abelton and Reason, but I hardly even use Reason. I cant stand their Gui.

Roland 24 bit monitors

Various controllers

All of Native Instruments Plug-ins and just recently acquired Maschine.

Various Wave Plugins

And last but not least, various old arse analog drum machines and couple of keyboards and Peavy Drum kit.

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[reply]…and at work, rather more spectacularly, some of what we have:

£50K+ (at least) of mics
SSL G Series
Euphonix CS3000
Soundcraft 1624
2 Otari 2" tape machines
[:)]

Have you ever worked with a Neotek desk? I was the production manager there in the early 90’s. All handmade, better specs than SSL at the time. Since no edge connectors were used they ended up in a lot of remote trucks.[/reply]

no, sorry. just spoke to one of my colleagues and he’s used them before (but it wasn’t in the 90’s), he says they’re (currently) comparible to Audients or DDA’s. Over here in the UK it’s SSL or Neve all the way these days.

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Mexican Strat installed a Seymour Duncan in the bridge and stock in the neck
Washburn J-3 with P-90s
and recently Gibson Les Paul / Traditional Plus with Classic 57’s[cool]

Usually stick with 9’s.

As for amps, sold my old Marshall Modern Vintage and looking at going with a Fender Tweed or Deluxe.

I once had a nice Mexican Tele that I switched out the bridge pup to a Seymour-Duncan mini-bucker. It was a nice guitar…but the strings didn’t go through the body and it didn’t have a lot of sustain. I sold it a few months ago. My next electric purchase will be a P-90 guitar. Maybe a Squier Tele Custom…which are actually pretty nice guitars for a little over $200. Love to have a Fender Tweed amp. Played through a Fender Hot Rod 1 x 12 a few months ago and was really impressed. A lot of tone for the $$$.

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An imitation Telecaster, a jazz style electric guitar that I can’t remember the exact name of, an acoustic 6 string, and acoustic 12 string, a custom BC Rich Warlock bass that doesn’t work right, a Fender 5 string banjo, a cheap Shure mic, an Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard, Propellerhead Reason, a harmonica, a didgeridoo, a wooden flute, and a little frog woodblock. I can’t remember the brand of amp I use.

At work I don’t have a lot of gear outside my Yamaha board, the studio monitors, and a Neuman U-87 microphone. We mostly just record voice over.

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[reply]Mexican Strat installed a Seymour Duncan in the bridge and stock in the neck
Washburn J-3 with P-90s
and recently Gibson Les Paul / Traditional Plus with Classic 57’s[cool]

Usually stick with 9’s.

As for amps, sold my old Marshall Modern Vintage and looking at going with a Fender Tweed or Deluxe.

I once had a nice Mexican Tele that I switched out the bridge pup to a Seymour-Duncan mini-bucker. It was a nice guitar…but the strings didn’t go through the body and it didn’t have a lot of sustain. I sold it a few months ago. My next electric purchase will be a P-90 guitar. Maybe a Squier Tele Custom…which are actually pretty nice guitars for a little over $200. Love to have a Fender Tweed amp. Played through a Fender Hot Rod 1 x 12 a few months ago and was really impressed. A lot of tone for the $$$.[/reply]

Yeah, for sure, I also heard the Fender Champ has great tone for the price and has been used in the studio a lot.