The new guitar (image intensive)

[Josh]

I'm totally bumping this because I want more people to post pics of their gear.

Get to it!

[Rick]

I would've gotten around to it by now had my friend not realized I still had his digital camera. Fucker.

[arjue]

haha, my first bass was a hondo. biggest piece of shit I've ever played.

cool gear though dude

[Rick]

I'm bumping this because I just got me one of these. (Pic blatantly stolen from eBay.)

Mesa Boogie V-Twin Preamp. Pretty much a Duel Rec in a footswitch. This thing is god, it'll make the most piece of shit amp sound beautiful, the tubes warm up the sound on a solidstate so much, the difference is astounding.

[Josh]

Mesa makes good stuff. Nice purchase.

In slightly related news, I found a dealer who will sell me an Orange AD140 for $1400. Almost $1000 below its list price.

[Nikorasu]

Here's my new guitar - A Pacifica 112L - lefthanded job. I'm really pleased with so far. I'm a complete beginner and my fingers are aching, but I'm enjoying it.

http://www.spectresound.co.uk/images/1446.jpg

Here's my amp:

http://www.samsontech.com/products/p...1661&brandID=4

I seriously recommend this - it's like having an effects peddle it's so loaded with options including great overdrive, metal and acoustic settings, plus a built in tuner.

[arjue]

Have any of you's heard of light wave pickups? They are definitely made for basses, and I presume they make them for guitars as well. They replace the bridge, and use an infra-red beam to read the frequency of the string.

Its supposed to have a wild sound because the strings movement isn't impeded by magnetic fields. Apparently they are so astoundingly clear that they make a bass sound more like a piano. also, because it doesn't use magnetic fields you can experiment with virtually any string. I'd love to hear them, but you generally have to have them installed when you get your instrument built for you, and its a little costly considering you may not even like them.

[rich88mph]

Hey yo 88mph (said Rocky style with druel pouring out of the side of my mouth)...I'm bored at work and felt like finding the forum your always on. Hi everybody. This is Rich from Josh(88mph)'s band. I'll start off by showing off a bit of my gear as well. Oh...BTW, that blue and black guitar with the 3 active humbuckers was originally going to be made from a bunch of mismatched parts from old guitars I had, but I ended up using a pretty nice Yamaha Pacifica that my mom bought me when I was like 14 or so and filling the whole thing with bondo, cutting the horns down a bit, routing out the spaces for the pickups, building up a bondo mound on the end of the neck to put a locking nut on, blah blah blah. All in all it has about $650 worth of hardware on it.

So...right...axes...here's that custom yammie:





and a bunch of pictures I took as it was being built:

First pictures after stripping the old sunburst finish off of it and completely disassembling it:



Just trying to visualize what it will look like after its done:

Filling the back of it in with bondo:

Sanded bondo on the back of the guitar:

The top after I filled it with bondo and used wood blocks to keep space for the humbuckers (I ended up filling the whole top in with bondo and using a router to cut out the spaces for the humbuckers as it came out much cleaner that way):

The neck getting a lip of bondo so the locking nut I had could actually fit properly on the neck:

Body completely sanded and filled in with electronics just about ready for paint:


My room during the process of building the thing:




Okay...so...oh yeah...my other guitars...not a good picture, but here you can see my Yamaha 12 string acoustic/electric and korean strat in the background:


I don't even know the model of this guitar, but it has a floyd rose which is a huge PITA to tune...it was given to me by a lady friend a couple of months ago, its an Ibanez, and I kind of like it:



Other equipment...I turned my computer into a recording rig...it has:
-1.53 GHz Athlon, 2x60GB hard drives in a striped RAID for the audio drive, 512 MB RAM, dual monitors, etc
-M-Audio Delta 1010LT audio card (8 analog in's and out's, 24 bit, 96 KHz)
-Steinburg Nuendo recording software
-Cheap Behringer mixing board (we're just using it for the pre-amps)
-3 Shure SM-57 instrument mic's (for guitars and drums)
-1 Shure Beta 52 mic (for the kick drum and bass guitar)
-2 Oktavia MK-319 condensor mic's (for drum overheads and vocals)

and so far it sounds kick ass. Here's some pictures of that stuff:










And here is Josh and Mike having fun with large PVC tubes:





And a picture of me:



Thats all for now...hope you enjoy.

[Josh]

For some odd reason I thought you cut the body of the guitar out of a tree trunk or something.

Don't exactly know why.

P.S. lose the mega man avatar.

[rich88mph]

Oh yeah...the 3 humbucker blue/black guitar doesn't really work right now (I have a wire grounded out) but I should get it working soon since I spent mad money on it and don't want it to just sit idle collecting dust doing no good for me...it was a wiring nightmare to get it all wired up, and hopefully it will be worth it in the end.