Hopefully within the next year or two, if i get a job, i'll be able to get my dream setup. Well, within my means, anyway.

It'll be a Fender MIA Deluxe Strat HSS, sunburst body with a rosewood fretboard. The amp would be a Marshall TSL 100 head and cabinet combo. If i could afford it, i'd get a Fender Strat Pro (custom shop) but that ain't happenin'.

So what's your dream setup?

-Jake

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"I don't care how good you are, how fast you are. You ain't good enough no lessin' you got the soul." -Hubert Sumlin

Mine would be an aged cherry burst strat with a maple neck running thru a Princeton Reverb.

A mansion on an isolated beach in the South Pacific with beautiful girls hovering all around me, attending to my every desire and say, about 100 million in the bank and no cares in the world. Oh yea, and owning a nice piece of FMIC.

How's THAT for a, "dream setup"!

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On second thought....
that's a nice setup Martian.

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Hhmmm...I'm not sure I could define my dream setup with only one rig any more...there's just too many different things I like for different styles of music I play. For example when it comes to amps, I really love my new Bugera V22 but my old Lab L5 is really a great old 2x12 combo and between those two amps I can get a HUGE variety of sounds even using the same guitar. That said however I'm also still a really big fan of the old Fender Twins and I would LOVE to have a Roland JC-120! The same thing goes for guitars too...right now my 2 main axes are my '96 MIM and my '85 Squier E series. Both have very different sounds and feels...the '85 Squire is my "clean" Strat right now...very nice vintagy tone, where as my '96 is my "dark and dirty" Strat. If I feel an over-whelming desire to really shred, then I break out my ol' NJ Kramer! On the other hand, one of these days I would love to have something like a Gretsch White Falcon as well.

Even if I had one guitar that "does it all", I still don't think it would be my dream guitar...at least not all the time as sometimes I'll just be in the mood to play something different. While I love my '85 and my '96, some days I just wake up in the morn and just feel like playing my '08 Squier Standard instead because she's the "pretty Strat".

I guess if I were to look at this from the point of view of ordering a "custom guitar" and if money weren't an object, hhmmmm... I guess from a practical and utilitarian point of view (meaning building my "every day" guitar), I'd have to start with a Strat. She'd have to have a very 50's like Strat jangle but would have to be virtually noiseless (which I'm not really sure is even possible! LOL!). Vintage trem with full size steel trem block -or- a Kahler trem (and I'd -really- have to think about that). I think I'd have to stick with the contemporary C shaped neck with jumbo or medium jumbo frets from a quarter sawn blank (even though that's a bit wasteful)...probably something nearly identical "feel-wise" to my '96 with good dress and polish. Contemporary tuners, with roller T's (-if- I went with the vintage trem...if it's the Kahler trem the T's aren't necessary). Either a maple or ebony fretboard...again hard to decide (I love the look of maple and I like the way it feels but I -LOVE- the feel of Ebony!)...with the 7.5 radius. Light/thin lacquer finish on the neck. Even if it had the ebony fretboard, I'd still want the skunk stripe down the back just because I like the way that looks (LOL!). The body would probably be alder but I would want to go to the factory and pick the body blank out myself...I would want to go thru their supply with the person who was building it and say "yea...this one". The body would have all single coil routing...no humbucker or swimming pool routing. Color....hhmmmm....that's tough. I would probably lean towards a vintage 2 tone sunburst...but I do like that old "purple paisley" or even a nice purple burst, you can never really go wrong with "basic black"...and a few others...I'd probably end up with an aneurysm trying to chose just one finish there, LOL!!! It would be top coated with a thin clear lacquer (acrylic or nitro...I'm not picky, LOL!). -If- I were to go with the 2 tone sunburst, it would have to have a white or parchment 3 ply 11 hole pickguard with white or parchment cosmetics (and I'd have to sit down with the finished body to choose between the white and the parchment!). If it were the paisley finish, that would have to have a clear pickguard instead...the cosmetics would really depend on the color of the body. Let's see...what else...strap locks...probably a graphite nut...10 gauge strings...shielded cavities...some sort of engraved neck plate...if it's a vintage trem then 4 springs...tweed case...

The amp would most likely be a tube amp...probably with 6L6 Groove Tubes (although I'm starting to become a fan of that "British sound" with the EL 84's...maybe have both with a selector dial like the Egnators)...lot's of good clean head room but with channel switching and a "gain" channel for the on board crunch...probably identical to my new Bugera there. Long spring reverb, the same kind of vibrato that's on my Kustom Lead III head, Roland JC chorus circuit, probably a 2x12 combo with Jenson speakers (although Eminance, JBL or EV works too), 60 to 100 watts would be fine, tilt back legs like on a twin would be great, vintagy looking cosmetics (maybe blond or tweed).....

Outboard effects would have to include a "good" Cry Baby wah (one of the older ones, not one of the newer Dunlap reissues), probably an Electro-Harmonix fuzz of some kind (as long as I could adjust the depth of the fuzz...something you can't really do with a Pi), a really good delay (I prefer analog but digital works...something with that old Echo-plex sound but without the associated problems), an old MXR phase pedal and a decent flange pedal (probably Boss or Digitech), decent compression pedal (DOD or Digitech), probably an over-drive (possibly an old TS-9), accurate, easy to read tuner, etc....and all of this would have to be mounted in a fairly sturdy road case with it's own power supply so I could just pop the cover off, plug my guitar in, plug the pedal board in to the amp and power, then go.


Gee...I guess there's a reason why I have more than a few guitars and amps and pedals, LOL!!!!

Peace,
Jim

Oh...yea...and a large tropical island similar to Martian's to play it all on! Gotta have a good sized night club...or small arena type stadium though!

Anyone know if Hawaii's still for sale? LOL!!! I guess a 150 acre ranch down in Southern Mexico somewhere would work nice too.....



Peace,
Jim

I want to live next door to Martian. He could lend me a few quid and a few women and sort out any pick up problems I would have!

I love my Classic Series 72 Tele Custom RI and at the moment I love it through my DeVille.

But this year I'm adding a couple more Teles:

An American Vintage Series 52 Tele RI kept stock and and a Classic Series 69 Thinline Tele RI with 2 Hot Rails and a Bigsby fitted as well as a Fender Super-Sonic Head through a Marshall Vintage Modern cabinet.

My pedal board is perfect for me (see my signature) but the chorus is awful. Once that is replaced I am happy!

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

There's a plan!!!

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My Strat with a wall of vintage Fender and Marshall amps of every model. And one of every fuzz and wah ever made. And Claptons fingers.

All original '69 strat through a Fender Bassman.

Fender Coronado II or Fender Stratocaster '57 Reissue (surf green) through two original '65 Super Reverbs, two original '59 Bassmans, two original '64 Vibroverbs and two vintage Marshall stacks. Oh yeah, and a couple of rotary speaker cabs powered by another couple of Fender amps would be the cherry on top.

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I already have it with my 2009 HWY 1 Tele, 2009 Standard, and Telecoustic into my Fender SCXD. Adding a Blues Junior in Tweed and soon my CS masterbuilt tele. Pedals I go through either my Digitech RP 355 or Boss ME20. I live a fantastic life!

My say would be a Vintage strat in black or sunburst thats a little worn and has a maple neck and going into a Princeton Reverb.

I'm still learning alot of techniques atm so my next guitar will be a MIJ ctmpry Strat but after that I'm probably going to save for something a little more traditional and try to recreate the JM "the black one"

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski~

I am not too far away, either. My four guitars cover all kinds of ground with a vintage Gibson '79 SG, black SSS & sunburst HH Strats, and a Squier Thinline tele. That, with a Digitech RP350 ... all into a Line 6 head driving a 2x12 cabinet w/ vintage EVM 12L speakers.

HOWEVER ... my dream setup would be just my above current rig in addition to a nice home recording studio and drum machine. That is really my next horizon I am going to start to tackle in 2010.

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