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[stdntDrvr]

i've played guitar for 8 years...mainly acoustic
i've owned:
fender dg-10
ovation adamas smt
gibson chet atkins sst
ovation standard balladeer
ovation viper
taylor 714
taylor w65
taylor 614ce
taylor 914celtd
taylor 600spec (x14ce)
taylor w14ce
another taylor 614ce
baby taylor
epi les paul custom
danelectro '56 u2

the only guitar i currently own is my dano...i have plans on ordering another taylor soon...as soon as i can save up 5K. i've never played anywhere...i just play for myself mainly...it helps with stress.

 

[mp3moose]

Here are some old pics of my living room. Our equipment stack never stops growing.

 

[yashooa]

I played drums for 8 yrs back when I was a kid. My Dad bought me a really cool double bass Ludwig set then I started played guitar and for years all I did was play guitar now I just got back into it with my beat up Jackson and a amp of some sort forget the name. I sit on top of the amp and go through my ancient Guitar World magazine tabs. I also use Powertab and some other fancier tab software but it is a pain in the ass so I don't use it very much.

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Kids and 5000.00$ worth of bills a month take a huge bite out of Guitar time/budget. But soon I will have 2 cars paid for and a credit card paid off so 1200$ a month will come back into the "disposable" income category.

 

[yashooa]

Here are some old pics of my living room. Our equipment stack never stops growing.

No SCO heehee...

 

[yashooa]

rock on brother! playing some music makes a person well rounded.

That's not a fat joke is it?

 

[jmv]

I'm pretty music intensive... i'm a music education major, after all.

I'm primarily a drummer (as in drumlines, although i do play a bit of set), but i also play guitar, piano, and bassoon

For my guitar, i've got a gibby les paul standard and a '66 Fender Bassman Halfstack. Good stuff.

 

[GrandBelialKey]

I'm not all that good at guitar, most of my talent resides in piano & keyboards. I also write music of my own using my computer and some excellent software (Cakewalk Sonar and Propellerheads Reason). In the past, I've used an old Cakewalk sequencer and some hardware MIDI synthesizers (a Korg NS5R, Yamaha AN1x, and an Alesis Nanosynth) to create everything, but I've just gotten into the soft-synth / 'studio in a PC' thing. The new software is incredible and I need to basically re-learn everything from scratch, but it will be worth it in the end.

how/where did you learn this stuff ? I wish I knew more about making my own music on the puter, even just midi music... a few years ago I started messing with fruity loops, but hit a roadblock and ditched it. I bought one of the roland digital 8 tracks when they were new about 8 years ago but I wasnt able do to everything I wanted to, so I sold it pretty quick... did you learn these softwares just by messing around with them or did you read the directions ?

 

[mp3moose]

check me out here: www.epistemic.org

 

[motchai]

Here are some old pics of my living room. Our equipment stack never stops growing.

you want to get rid of these stuffs, contact me first. ok

No acoustic guitar??

 

[motchai]

check me out here: www.epistemic.org

what kind of music does ur band plays?

 

[motchai]

I'm a bassist as well.. been playin' since 7th grade. I have two guitars and may be buying a 3rd

daily driver: 2001 Fender Pbass
excalibur: original issue 1972 Fender Jazz Bass, blonde finish white guard, black inlays in the neck

new possible purchase: 1978 Gibson RD Artist

Amps:
4x10 GK cabinet
Hartke Head
Electro Harmonix Micro Synth
Korg AX10B Multieffect

mini amp:
fender bassman50

I think what you have are good stuffs and you have to take care of it. it'll go long way if you keep it and sell it in a couple of years, if you do u let me know because i would collect guitars

 

[xelderx]

I've been playing guitar for abotu 15 years now. Not as heavily lately since I haven't had the time. I had a couple of good bands going a few years back. one that was actually self supportive. We were able to buy our own conversion van, enclosed trailer, and PA system which made things 500 times easier. I just sold off a lot of my amplification equipment to pay some other bills. I'm looking to get a Mesa Boogie Stiletto for my next head. My main guitar is an Ibanez S1520 w/ EMG's, but I've got a few vintage axes hanging around for effect including a mid 60's Gretsch and a Gibson lap steel. I played trumpet and french horn in high school band. my high school actually had a classical guitar class that I was in for 3 years. That tought me a lot about technique, but I don't remember much from it.

Here is a googled photo of the S1520. my camera needs new batteries.

 

[wannabe]

i play bass and guitar. i have played guitar since i was in 9th grade, bought one of those "all in one" kits from AMS, had a "Premier" guitar cheap Gorilla amp and a gig bag. but hey, for $200 cant beat it. i then upgraded the amp to a Fender (i dont remember the model name/number) and i bought a Gibson SG from the local pawn shop. there were 4 of us that used to play when i was in high school, our drummer had a bass, so i used to play that while we jammed, and eventually he moved away so i bought my own. its an Ibanez SG200 (saw someone else has the same one) I'm cheap and it was on sale...and i have a Crate bass amp for it. i dont play nearly enough anymore...since getting engaged and then married i haven't been quite depressed enough to really crank out some good tunes...but i still consider myself a musician.

 

[SilverBulletES]

i have and play

American Standard Telecaster (sunburst)
Guild D4 (acoustic)
Squier P-bass (blue, 120 dollar Chinese special)
Charvel Strat knock-off (black, first guitar)

 

[GrandBelialKey]

heh, on a side note, last december I was about to sell my guitar.... then dimebag darrell died... and I watched the price of one go from maybe 500 at most, to over 3,000... but then after the dude died, I didnt want to sell it anymore... I met dimebag in 1997 at a guitar center, when I knew he was within earshot I cranked up an amp and played as much of the song 'floods' (same riff as 'the polices' 'message in a bottle') as I knew.. He walked over and said "thats killer" to which I replied "I dig your s***" he gave me a high five and said "keep diggin' it!" ...was one of the happier days of my life... then I talked the store manager out of a lifesized cut-out and got it autographed, along with my vulgar display of power CD... heh heh... good times....

 

[GrandBelialKey]

I'm looking to get a Mesa Boogie Stiletto for my next head.

mesa makes great stuff, esp their combos/heads wrapped in different types of skin.... I'd suggest that if you have the chance, to try out a mark2/mark2c+ head before you buy a new mesa.... the old ones sound GREAT. and I do mean GREAT.

 

[mp3moose]

what kind of music does ur band plays?

rock/metal....we have a lot more guitars than pictured there. The good ones are a martin accoustic, ramirez classical, Petruchi (sp?) music man 7 string, and a parker fly deluxe. And a s*** load of other things like 4 jbl monitors and crown amps, trace elliot stack and amp, several mixers and a full mackie active set up for meduim gigs.


We don't have chairs at our kitchen table so we use the jbl's. =)

 

[rjmhotrod]

I was a music education major for 2.5 years, then switched to music industry because the thought of being a band director just scared the crap out of me. I was a trumpet player, but I've since given it up. I've been playing acoustic guitar for about 13 years. I currently own a Larrivee D-03 with an LR Baggs UST pickup and external LR Baggs preamp. It sounds really nice. My friend has a Taylor 814CE with the new Expression pickup designed by Neve. Though they have very different sonic qualities due to the different technologies, mine in no way sounds inferior (though it cost about $2k less than his). Currently though, I'm a bass player. I have an Ibanez BTB 400 with the red quilted maple body. It has a great sound (the low end rocks) - it's easy to dial in a host of different tones. Though I do get a bit of string buzz that I'm not happy with. I've also never had it setup. I'm hoping to get a GK rig at some point in the future. A great piece of gear that I would like to pick up or build is a pedal called the orange squeezer. It's a simple compressor pedal with an on/off switch. No ratio or threshold settings. Just turn it on. I demoed my friend's and when I plugged my bass into it and then straight into the amp, it was absolutely perfect compression. Much better than what I was getting through the Hartke head. Got to get one some day.

 

[jersey_emt]

how/where did you learn this stuff ? I wish I knew more about making my own music on the puter, even just midi music... a few years ago I started messing with fruity loops, but hit a roadblock and ditched it. I bought one of the roland digital 8 tracks when they were new about 8 years ago but I wasnt able do to everything I wanted to, so I sold it pretty quick... did you learn these softwares just by messing around with them or did you read the directions ?

Pretty much I taught myself with lots of free time and patience. Although I must say...using the new software that's out (I tried them all -- Cubase, Sonar, Reason, Live, and Pro Tools) has definitely been a wakeup call. I've been using an old version of Cakewalk Pro Audio (the predecessor to Sonar) for years but never upgraded. I missed the beginning of the 'virtual studio' and am now starting to play catch-up. I've settled on using Sonar and Reason (they integrate well, and both are awesome products. Cubase seemed incredible too but Sonar felt more 'comfortable'...probably because of my past experiences with Cakewalk software).

But I've bought a few books and magazines, and have searched the web for tutorials, samples, and loops. For the most part I've just been messing around lately without actually sitting down and writing anything. I need to get more comfortable with the software.

A whole new world of creative opportunities awaits us now...the amount of power you can get with a single PC and some software is mind-boggling.

Here's my current setup:
AMD Athlon64-based PC running Sonar 5 Producer Edition and Reason 3.0
Edirol PCR-30 MIDI controller
KRK RP5 powered monitors
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card (soon to be replaced with a simple Firewire audio interface for better quality...producing music really brings out the flaws in the Audigy 2 series).

And that's seriously all you need to create some amazing things.

 

[GrandBelialKey]

A whole new world of creative opportunities awaits us now...the amount of power you can get with a single PC and some software is mind-boggling.

thanks for the info dude. I've been waiting for the technology to get to this point... this sure wasnt the case a few years ago... now I just need to spend the next 4 or 5 years writing and recording my music.... - peace.