First and foremost- remember that I moved from my humble (Yet WONDERFUL) city of Nashville, TN (aka “Music City USA”) and came to the Caribbean to do the whole med school thing. Not complaining though, as this is the adventure I thought it would be. I’m just saying all my good gear was either sold or put in storage, and after being in Puerto Rico now 3 years- I don’t really remember what I have…. heh.
So I’m listing what I definitely do have, how I organize it, and what I’m pretty sure I have back at the house.
Guitars:
Epiphone Les Paul Standard (stock, so far… )
I named her "Ashley." Why? Well, all the greats named their guitars after a girl. Like Lucille. And thats classy! No other reason, I just think she looks like an Ashley. Or a "Ms Purty" but that definitely shows that I came from Nashville...
Cort Action Bass
Takamine Electric Acoustic
Amps:
Fender Super Champ XD
Epiphone “something or other” 40w single state amp
Kustom Bass Amp
Effects: anything with a * is currently on my board.
Compressors:
Boss CS3 Monte Allums Mod
CMATMODS Ross Clone
Barber Tone Press*
BBE Orange Squash
Overdrives/Preamps:
Boss BD2 Monte Allums H2O Plus Mod
Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer, 808/Brown mod by Analogman
Hermida Audio Zendrive*
Hermida Audio Distortion
Boss DS1 Analogman Mod
Boss DS1 Keeley Seeing Eye Mod
Fulltone OCD v4*
Barber Small Fry
Blackstone Appliance Mosfet Overdrive
Boss BD2 Monte Allums H20 Mod
Bixonic Expandora 2001 model
Modulation:
Seymour Duncan Shape Shifter Tremolo*
Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo
Danelectro Pepperoni Phaser
Delay/Ambience:
Line 6 Verbzilla
Line 6 Echo Park
Boss DD3
Boss DD20 Gigadelay*
Others:
Jim Dunlap Crybaby Wah (CMATMODS TB mod)*
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal Jr.*
Ebow (RIP …)
self cut capo (cut it when I got bored, return to it when bored)
Power:
Visual Sound 1 Spot- 2 of them with a 5 daisy chain and 8 chain.
Patch Cables:
George L’s
Board:
Lyt pedalboards
Strings:
Acoustic: Elixers or D’addario’s in phosphorus bronze, lights. When playing acoustic heavily, I use mediums.
Electric: D’addario 10’s, Ernie Ball Slinky’s (whatever the green pack is!)
And lastly, I have never seen one these type of lists on a GEAR page before, so here goes-
Want List: Of course this is not complete, and is every changing!
Effects:
Ibanez LF7 Low Fi Filter pedal
Analogman SD1 808 silver mod with clipping switch
Carl Martin Octa-switch pedal switcher
Pickups:
Wolfetone “Dr Vintage” humbucker pickups
Guitars:
Fender Standard Telecaster- Ash
Fender American Standard Stratocaster
Hey Les P.—
My p’board chain is:Guitar,Furman SPB8(in),out to EBVP,
Analogman TS9 tubescreamer,Voodoolab Microvibe,V’lab
Sparkle Drive, T.C. Chorus Pitch Mod. Flange, Boss DD-3,
Keeley Katana Clean Boost & to front of amp(tube amps,
no FX loops)& george L’s start to finish. I have no problems
noise wise, just curious on your thoughts about my signal
chain. I use mostly strats & les pauls(jr’s & standards).
Thanx for your time & thoughts on this matter.
Thanx again & Take care, Jeff——————
Hey Jeff, thanks for checking in. Sounds like you have a HOT rigg there bro!
Your chain is great! What do you need me for?
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
If it were my chain, I would switch up 2 items. I would put the Sparkle Drive probably first before the TS9– reason:
with the blend knob you can get a more transparent tone, and I want my natural tone to shine more through the drives. I would use it as more of a light OD, and then crank the TS9 as lead boost or as a lead pedal. Or if you prefer heavy stuff, tweak the Sparkledrive to sound good heavy, then LIGHTLY boost it with the TS9 Or keeley boost.
I would put the Katana after the drives— so as I said before:
guitar- your SP8, Sparkledrive- TS9- Katana then the modulation.
You can switch that up if you really like the microvibe sound or chorus sound and want that equally boosted with your drives, then have the Katana come AFTER those effects. All in all I think it would sound more natural the way I just described though.
But it looks great as you have it. The question you have to ask is one of two: 1) Is my rig the most versatile the way I have it and 2) Am I getting my best sound as it is set up? (which is the more important of the 2 I guess).
God bless!! Let me know if that helps!
Hey again Les—
I’ll reconfigure per your suggestion & give it a whirl!
I’m happy with my sound/tone as is but, I know it can
be better. I will update you on my progress. Thanx for
your quick reply & input.
Take care, Jeff————–
This is what I worship Jesus with…
Gibson Les Paul Standard w/WCR Goodwood in bridge & Darkburst in neck… & or Fender Esquire w/Lollar Special in bridge…
on my pedalboard…
Geoffrey Teese – RMC3LE
MXR – ‘74 RI Phase 90
John Landraff – Dynamic OD
High Voltage – Rebel Booster
Brown Tone – Hoochee Mama
Hudson Electronics – Stroll On
1979 Marshall 2204 JMP 50 watt Head
Marshall 4×12 w/Greenbacks
hey..stumbled upon your site. good effort man!:) and great explanation on your rig. do u have problems on the light indicators if playing outdoors?
well..im using a 99 Gibson LP Standad, 3 epiphones (one limited edition standard with EMG 81/85,one custom with seymour duncans Jazz/JB and one with an ESP floyd rose installed) and a takamine.
and it goes through a tuner – gcb95 wah -ts9 – MIJ Boss DS1-Boss Chorus CH1 – Boss EQ GE7 – Boss Delay DD3 – Vox amp.
I have never had problems with the lights…. other than I never can see the digital display on the DD20 in ANY light. But its preset so I know what is on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th light…. Which I can see. And I use tap tempo, so no problems with actual settings.
Nice rig you have there!
I don’t want to sound all “Mod-Happy” but I bet if you modded the DS1 and the Equalizer, you’d be extremely happy. I was
But I bet you are getting killer sounds out of that setup!