I play a Jackson/Charvell Guitar, along my baby which is my Line 6 pocket pod.

My baby's Jackson RR ,LTD/ESP F 200 ,Bass Esp B 55

how are you liking the ESP Bass??

Yamasidious wrote:

I play a Jackson/Charvell Guitar, along my baby which is my Line 6 pocket pod.

Charvel are the best

Our guitarplayer uses CHarvel too

mazzie wrote:

how are you liking the ESP Bass??

I love the ESP sound ,is very good !!!

Yamasidious wrote:

I play a Jackson/Charvell Guitar, along my baby which is my Line 6 pocket pod.

I ahve a pocket POD, it's good only when run through an AMP or into another external processor or three.....I take the road of running it through all my rack gear to get a unique sound. I don't have an amp.

My guitarplayers constantly bash Line6
What is your opinion on line 6 in general ?

i play washburn 7 string
i want to get a 8 string

Matt wrote:

My guitarplayers constantly bash Line6
What is your opinion on line 6 in general ?

It's like this: if you know how to properly dial in a sound using any type of effects processor and couple that with the right type of gear you can achieve great things with them. the Line6 gear was primarily made to be coupled with tube amps which is why the sound is so flat and lifeless when run direct. shove that same line6 product through say a tube head or even a compressor/mixer the sound is much fatter. Though I run it like this

channel one
pocket POD
into instrument in on
zoom gfx 8 [left channel out]
into compressor
into mixer

channel two
Zoom gfx 8[right channel out]
into compressor
into mixer

channel three
pocket POD
into mixer from headphones out

I mix the three signals together and get a nice fat tone.

My favorite guitar is a
Charvel/Jackson (early model, i believe its a japanese make, but its a beauty from the early 80's) Its got a neck thru body with Jackson pickups and the Jackson floyd rose lisensed tremelo, that I just had new parts machined for and its an amazing guitar. Best guitar ever made, Charvel/Jackson.. I love it much more than the Jacksons out now... great guitar.

I also have a Fernandez w/ Neck thru body and I put a Steve Via Evolution Pick up in there last summer. Its got a tremelo and is a GREAT back up guitar for live shows. I have to gain the mids on the pre amp to get it too sound right though for metal.

Washburn Pro. i dont know the model, it was a gift and is a great guitar. Its not too fancy, stock tremelo (think the stupid tremelos on Fenders and you get the point) and it has stock pick ups... I recorded all guitars for BTP ep on this one. its a good guitar. I like that it doesnt have a locking nut etc..

Halo - has custome halo pickups and a floyd rose wanna be tremelo. This is in need of a doctor, i am going to put a new tremelo and a new jack in it. then i will play it again.

I have a Hohner acoustic laying around

I also am in the process of putting together a Cigar Box Guitar.

My wife has a Yamaha around thats a solid guitar
my daughter has an Epiphone Les Paul pee wee
and I just sold a Kramer focus to a co worker.

dang I wish knew you had the Kramer I would have bought it form you I've been looking for another. I just like them early 80's Kramers if that is what you had.

It's so strange that guitarplayers constantly want more guitars, I really don't know a lot of musicians that want 15 of their instruments or a crapload of amps. I think it's amusing

Drummers do it with thier cymbals
Keyboard players do it with old analogue synths
Bassists usually do it, but they get rid of the old bass when they buy a new one. (ha ha... maybe i just know broke bassists)
singers do it with thier clothes

I have never met a musician that isnt a singer that doesnt want more gear, or an upgrade or something new. Sometimes a musician is content with what they have, as they know it does what is needed and they are happy with it, thats where i want to be.

True. And I think those that play multiple instruments have it the worst. As Tink says, Guitar Center is his crack

Matt wrote:

It's so strange that guitarplayers constantly want more guitars, I really don't know a lot of musicians that want 15 of their instruments or a crapload of amps. I think it's amusing

Matt, how many tshirts do you own again?

good one blackearth.


I'm pretty sure I'll end up with collection of bass guitars in future. I'm enjoying mine although ti's not the best quality but I just want to use it ot learn the basics then get new one when I feel I'm ready to go up new level.

blackearth wrote:

Matt wrote:

It's so strange that guitarplayers constantly want more guitars, I really don't know a lot of musicians that want 15 of their instruments or a crapload of amps. I think it's amusing

Matt, how many tshirts do you own again?

I counted them today ...

I have 78 bandshirts

Only 78? Hmm, I think I can help you weed them down

(note that I said weed them and not shroom them )

Update: I have 67 shirts

haha

blackearth wrote:

Matt wrote:

It's so strange that guitarplayers constantly want more guitars, I really don't know a lot of musicians that want 15 of their instruments or a crapload of amps. I think it's amusing

Matt, how many tshirts do you own again?

In all seriousness, it's really a matter of having the propper tool for the job. I could have one guitar and then re-tune it every time I wanted to play a different song, or I could have one guitar for standard E tuning, one tuned to straight D, a 7-string for B, maybe another for drop D, etc. So you can see how any serious musician would have multiple guitars.

yeah, I know, that's what our guitarplayers have too (well, 2 of them in the tuning we use for BD and then some regular tuning etc)

'83 esp mirage. with an emg 81 and 2 single coil emgs.
Standard sunburst tele.
Crappy Squire with a humbucker (i actually use this one the most with erasmus)
SG standard
Epiphone bolt on neck acoustic (it's awesome and old)
Epiphone banjo
Cort strat rip off with lace sensor pick ups
OLP stingray rip off bass

Matt wrote:

My guitarplayers constantly bash Line6
What is your opinion on line 6 in general ?

Line 6 is awesome. I'd totally trade in this crappy Crate amp I have for one of those Spider III 15 amps.
Anyway, here's my guitar gear:

Yamaha PAC012, my electric. Works nicely for metal.
Cordoba C5-CE, my main classical guitar. Works nicely for classical, obviously. I play classical guitar.
Squier MC-1, my old classical, shortscale. I retired it, but I suppose I could use it as a spare.
Yamaha RBX170, my bass, which has had the same strings on for 2 years and I cannot convince my parents that is not good.

Matt wrote:

Nah, I just never felt a guitar player ...