Hey I am fairly new to the forum

Describe your rig, fantasy or current.

And be specific. Do you prefer tube, solid state, digital? Do you employ lots of pedals, maybe none? What guitar do you rely on the most? Just go nuts, I'm curious as to what other musicians are doing. It might be fun, and you might get some ideas

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I'll go first:

Main guitar: Fender Strat American Parts Guitar (idk what to call it )
Amp: Music Man 50 RD full tube
Pedal (yep just one): Fulltone OCD Distortion

The Music Man has got a wonderful clean tone with an if-y distortion tone. But, when I run my Strat through that OCD, the distortion compliments the amps clean tone PERFECTLY and I think it is the best, most simplistic and beautiful tone I will ever find. Perfect the blues!

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Rivera Fandango 112 combo with matching 112 ext. cab.
Egnator Rebel 20 head with two 112 cabs.
Strat, Tele and on occaision a Les Paul.
Foot candy includes:
Ernie Ball Volume, Keeley Compressor, Fulltone MDV-2, Clyde Deluxe & Supa Trem, Strymon Lex, Eventide Pitch Factor, Fulltone GT500, '69, early issue '70, OCD & Catalyst, EMMA Discumbobulator, early 80's BOSS DC3, Strymon Ola, Radial Bones Twin City.

I'll be thinning that group out somewhat once I decide what to include in a new baord I'm planning to build. Other options consist of a Strymon blueSky, Ibanez AF-2, H&K Rotosphere and a Diamond Drive SE. Since there is some repetition in my collection I'm considering building two boards, a full sized one and a smaller one.

The EMMA and BOSS pedals are both discontinued, immensely useful and infinitely valuable. They will never be fore sale. The early issue '70 is larger than the '70 currently available but it also sounds better.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

A Strat, a Tele, a Korg X-50, a Vibrolux, Super Reverb,
a few pedals and all mic'd with SM57s into a Mackie powered
board with JBL Jrx125s and Jrx112Ms and SM58 vocal mics.

SM58s have been the industry standard for decades. They don't require phantom power so they can be used in any rig.

It can bounce out of the truck and go the last ten miles to the gig dragging on its cord and still work great.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

2010 Am. Dlx. Telecaster
2009 Am. Std. Stratocaster
Marshall JVM 410 100w head
Marshall 1936 2X12 cabinet
Marshall MA 50 50w combo (spare)
Pedaltrain board loaded with Voodoo Lab Wahzoo wah, T.C. Electronics Nova Delay and Poly-tune, MXR 108 10 band EQ and 6 button Marshall controller for the JVM 410 Head.
I keep a Shure 57, compact mic stand and 50' mic cable with me (I always come prepared to get my signal to the snake). Other than that I use a Hercules Triple guitar stand and one other very important item: a compact utility fan. Keeps me cool on stage and in the summer for outdoor gigs it keeps the bugs away, no insect repellent needed.

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Tim

i run a fender blues deluxe re issue as my main amp, im a valve man, just the tone and depth of a tube amp cant be beaten by a solid state amp in my opinion, i used to play on solid state amps, went through a whole pile of them so i know what can do and that they are a hell of a lot more reliable than a valve amp... but i dont care if i need to bring two spare amps and spare valves, fuses... im not going bak to solid state...

thevtwo main guitars i use live are my kenny wayne shepherd sig strat and my baja tele, i have other guitars that ive heavily modified but i mainly use them for studio work, i run 10 guage strings on all my guitars, and i enjoy medium jumbo or jumbo fretts

in the studio i can run pretty large pedal boards but live i like to keep it simple and focus more on giving the best playing i can give rather than relying on all the efx to make me sound good

my live pedal board varies slighly depending on what the song list is but its normaly

dd-20 delay
tonerider chorus
tonerider american overdrive (i always run my amps on clean and pump it to a light overdrive and use pedals more as boost and let the amp do the overdriving)

im not a massive fan of distortion but i still use it when its needed, for that i use a tone rider brit distortion
boss tuning pedal
crybaby wah
and my little finger on the volume

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blues - its a religion...

As far as guitars go, I switch it up between my: 61 reissue MIJ Jazzmaster, a partscaster, or squier tele modified with a bigsby (yeah, I love vibrato).

As of now, my gig-rig is a peavey delta blues 115 with a marshall JCM600 4x10 ex. cab.

My peadal board signal path is: Fender tuner, Morley Bad horsie wah, modded berhinger vintage phaser, Boss SD-1, modded Boss DS-1, Johnson stereo chorus.

I have a Boss TR-2 that I'm modding as of now, and can't wait to put her inthe mix!

For playing "out" it's a PRS McCarty into a Boss ME-70, into a Hughes and Kettner tube amp, or for smaller venues a Vox Night Train head into an Egnater cab. I use the PRS because it's built like a tank and versatile, and never had any tuning issues even outdoors.
For playing at Church it's an Am Deluxe Tele, Schecter Corsair,PRS, or one of my Strats, into the ME-70 then into a Sans Amp direct to the board. I much prefer my tube amps but stage volume is an issue at Church, so I do what I gotta do. Once in a while I'll play a Les Paul , but not often.

My main live rig is: Guitar-Effects:Octave Distortion,Overdrive,Wah,volume pedal, tremolo, vibrato,flanger,phase shifter into a Marshall JCM 800 4210 then slaved out into an Ibanez DM 1000 Digital Delay with the dry signal going into a JCM 800,2204 stack and the delayed signal going into a 1969 Fender Bassman with a 1968 Fender Bassman 2-15 cabinet and a Leslie model 16 cabinet.With the 4210 in the middle and the other amps placed about 6' away from each side of it, the Leslie really throws around the signal with the echo repeats.

My short notice live rig would be my Vox AD120VTH with the VC12 Foot Controller plus my effects even though the Vox has dozens of on board effects.I use the Vox onboard effects for the Leslie and Uni-Vibe simulators and use my other effects the same as I would with any other set up.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

strat, tele, or 6120> monster cable> tuner> delay (just a little slap-back)> monster cable> twin or Oahu Tonemaster depending on the size of the room.

Fender Precision - mixing board - house/AVIOM - audience ears/my ears.
We have a big auditorium at our church (1,000 - 1,300 seats), and all musicians are now using these AVIOM units to cut down on stage noise, and to help everyone hear each other better. It works great. But lacks the excitement of loud, live amps for the players.

What I would like to use:
'60's Fender Bassman head (blackface) and cabinet like they used in the Monterey Pop festival on stage.

Ya we use these at the church I play at in OR and I've never really grown accustomed to them cuz Ive always playde played live secular music where monitors are the norm, plus Im not allowed to my amp on stage...

Personally I prefer the ear filling quality that a fully equipped band has, somethimes, because of the aviom, it sounds a little thin in there

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I hate those personal monitoring devices. I also hate those soundproof boxes you put your amp into and then mic it. A buddy of mine plays guitar in a church where they use both. He was so proud of it all. I finally darkened their doorstep one Sunday to have a listen and it was pure crap. Very well balanced and very well mixed crap. Nobody was too hot, everyone came through in the mix and everyone sounded like crap. A soundman's dream and a musician's nightmare. The vox and the keys weren't quite as bad as the stringed instruments.

I left early. I didn't want my friend to know I had been there because I wasn't about to lie to him.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

We use Avioms with floor monitors at Church, but it just isn't the same as the real deal. I tried the in ear but it just sucked the life out of the sound. A few of the musicians use the in ears but most hate them.

Yeah, see at my church, I seem to be the only that doesnt LOVE the in ear monitors. For some reason everybody is so taken by them. But what happens is that, everybody sets their individual monitors however they want them and NONE OF US actually know what it might be sounding like to the congregation.

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