Guitarists are there any?

[Aether]

Anyone here play the guitar?

If you do list your GEAR:

Tokai lp copy(pretty shitty doesnt stay in good tune)
Another Tokai 335 copy again ( pretty good one like it being semiacoustic)

I havent played longer than 2 years so im pretty noobish :)

[loomer]

Aww man..how i love the geetar
I have a Gibson Les Paul Special with P90 pickups
an ancient Epiphone acoustic that I took from my father-in-law (who got it from HIS uncle) -it's cool cause it's so old, but I need another acoustic
and then there's my baby
the Gibson Les Paul Standard ...she's a beauty

Right now I play through an old Fender Dual Showman Reverb Head from '72. The speaker cabinet is from a custom maker, Avatar Cabs. It's a 2x10- one Celestion Speaker and one Eminence. I got a shitload of pedals and effects too..
Man - I love this stuff

[Dan.v.D.]

i got a cheap yamaha rgx whatever and a not so cheap yamaha rgx something
(well the guitar wasn´t too expensive but i replaced everything that was chrome with black hardware) unfortunately the neck is the biggest piece of shit i ever had im my hands and i kinda grew to hate the emg's sound haha.
and a marshall jcm 2000 dsl.

[MoP]

My main axe is my avatar icon here... Ibanez RG448 in natural ash finish, they don't make 'em like that anymore... it's damn fun to play and sounds great.

Also have a black Epiphone Flying V (for alternate tunings - Ibanez is double-locked), but I want to sell that and get something slightly more versatile.

I recently bought an old, partly broken Epiphone Les Paul for next to nothing, got some new EMG 81 + 85 pickups, new chrome hardware, and gave it a big overhaul... then I gave it to my brother for his birthday, heh.

Also have the body of an old Marlin which is slowly getting re-formed and I hope to actually build it up into a working guitar eventually... just don't have time at the moment.

For recording, I run my Boss GT3 through the line-in of the sound card, works very well. The overdrive/distortion effects are too digital sounding most of the time though... takes a lot of tweaking to come up with something good.

Main amp is a 65w Laney TF200 combo... I don't gig or anything, so I don't need anything bigger at the moment...

I'd love to own one of the Musicman John Petrucci signature 7-strings... they're awesome. A Parker Fly would be fun too... they're really nice to play. However I've been thinking of buying a Yamaha APX5 electro-acoustic, I like the sound.

My playing is somewhere between Santana-random and Paul Gilbert shred (although not quite as fast :P)

[Aether]

We have a prs c22 in the family and its great tho its not mine wich sucks.

Planning to buy a new geetar soon, cant decide what tho.

Esps seem decent ( the more expensive ones like horizon / mh1000)
Gotta look into it.

[Advocate of Fate]

ive been playing (self taught) for 5 or so years now, and ive still got so much to learn. Im currently rebuilding an ibanez g10 , but im super lazy about it. About a half year ago I bought my baby, a BC Rich Warlock Pro Platinum seven string, the old kind too. Weighs more than I do, but it kicks super ass. Fastest action ive ever seen, even in lower tunings (C# F# B E Ab C# ftw.)
snappy of my baby:
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3441/untitled6vh.png

i play on a shoddy 180 watt practice amp, because i really have no intent on spending alot of cash on a bigger amp. for the infrequent shows i play, i steal my friends pro reverb; kickass amp.

I morph my signals with a korg toneworks ax1500g mod (http://korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=AX1500G&category_id=6), the thing kicks super ass.

i play mostly anything, but my heart lies in tech metal and hardcore

[loomer]

man...all you guys are metalheads!

[Hanuka]

this is my current fair lady:
http://carlinoguitars.com/images/PC131947.JPG

An ESP Viper 400 in olypic white. To be honest, i hate the color atm, but it is a great guitar. Fine action, EMG-81s...
initially the f-400 was to be my next guitar, but they were low on stock and i would have had to wait 4 months or so. So I went with the viper.

F400:

http://espguitars.com/images/guitars/f400fm.jpg


Apart from that I have an old fender squier strat in black/white and it sucks. I used to have an Epiphone SG-310 with EMG 80/81 PUs. Man, that sweet axe was probably the best guitar I ever had. Fast as lightning.

I'm not only a metalhead and I like (semi-)hollowbodies just as well, but so far i didnt have money or opportunity to get a decent one.

edit: oh welll, and here it is, the best plectrum in the world:
http://www.jingoloba.com/image/00018/m5article/50003001.jpg
Always got some with me.


MoP: I LOVE natural finishes. Gorgeous :D

[Mavrick71]

I have a candy-apple red Fender Stratocaster and a Line6 Spider2 150 watt amplifier. Other guitars in my household are an Ovation, a Epiphone Casino(like the Beatles), uh some kind of spanish guitar, and my dad sold his Gibson Les Paul right before I got into guitar.

[Scubasteve]

I used to, but drawing won out. I had a fender and an ibanez but sold them. Most of my equipment was Pevey. My brother plays though, he is a terrific guitarist. He has an ibanez and a BCRich Bitch. Sorta like that one above.

[Aether]

Nice gear everyone, keep it coming. We need more guitarists to post their GEAR :D

[John]

Beat up US Strat. Sucky Yamaha. Love the strat, i have now idea what made me buy the Yamaha. Wasn't all that cheap as well. Whatever, i don't play a lot anymore. I'd like to learn more about Jazz, i listen to Rock mostly but Jazz is so much fun to play. Playing rock songs is pretty boring, playing metal isn't for me as well.
When i gots money & fame i'll buy a nice tube amp, probably Framus or Vox, maybe Mesa Boogie. I may even practice again.

[dfacto]

I played classical guitar for a few years, and got somewhat good, but I've been playing less and less lately. Have a Ramirez kinda like this one:

http://www.theguitarsalon.com/images/guitars/RamirezJoseMG_1962-front.jpg

[endregan]

i found my moms classical yamaha g-55 in the basement and just started learning over the summer..restringed it and all, got a chord book to learn/.

i wanna get acoustic so crisp mmm.

[M.C.Barrett]

My everyday pickin' guitar is a slick little Yamaha APX-6N classical. Thin body, slightly radiused fingerboard, narrower neck than in a standard classical. It's my musical Chris-Craft runabout. It has a glowing orange stained top, white body binding, and a fantastic wood checker-stipe inlay for the soundhole. It was love at first sight, and it sounds exactly as warm as it looks. My other guitar, aside from the Yamaha FG-401 steel string dreadnought I started on (tough action, not a lot of fun to play anymore), is a custom Carvin DC-200T, classic sunburst finish, 2-piece cross-grained alder neck w/tung oil finish, active electronics, dual 22-pole-piece humbuckers, wilkinson-style tremolo (I don't do any heavy bending anyway, just the occasional accent). Gorgeous guitar, with the best neck I've ever held. My amp is not worth mentioning.
My playing style ranges from classical to bluegrass to blues and folk, with bluegrass being my main influence. I have no digital camera, or I'd have taken photos, sorry.

[SirSushi]

My electric guitar, a Jackson dx10
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/3408/1222204img4kz.jpg

goes through a Ibanez tubescreamer ts9dx and a Danelectro equalizer into this amp
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/4259/1181876img0rl.jpg


Actually I have an acoustic nylon string guitar as well, but I have no idea what model it is (it's pretty old)

[gasmask]

whatsup with all these metal guitars? anyhow

72 telecaster custom
vox hyrbrid amp of some sort
some shitty acoustic ive been using for years even for shows

boss dd-3 digital delay


i keep it simple as im more of a rythm player, i focus on that and singing, just overall song writing, i leave the crazy stuff to all u lead guitarists out there.

[SirSushi]

whatsup with all these metal guitars?

Heh, I actually bought that guitar because back in the day, I was like "OMG, I need 24 frets and a floating tremolo to be like Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett and stuff..."
Needless to say, I ended up blocking that darn trem and never used anything beyond the 22nd fret.


Here's a cool link for all of you:
design your own custom guitar (http://www.nymphusa.com/kisekae/kisekaeE1.asp)

[fukifino]

I used to play. Still kinda noodle around on the old acoustic, but don't do the band thing anymore, although I kinda miss it.

I have an old Ovation electric guitar (yes, I said electric). I guess not a lot of them were made. It weighs a ton compared to most guitars of its style, but I've never played one that sounded quite like it. Very beefy, fat metal sound.

Have a 50watt crate tube amp and half stack that's been sitting in my garages now for years, and an old peavy practice amp.

My acoustic is an Ovation acoustic/electric. Don't remember the model number off hand. Another great sounding guitar though for the money. I swear, this thing never goes out of tune (dunno if it's the guitar or the elixer strings but damned if I can remember the last time I had to tune it, and that includes month long stints in the case.)

[MoP]

whatsup with all these metal guitars?
I was like "OMG, I need 24 frets and a floating tremolo to be like Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett and stuff..."

Huh? Kirk Hammett sucks!
Vai, on the other hand...

Nah, 24 frets is awesome, I love having two full octaves. I don't really appreciate it when I'm playing it, but whenever I switch to a 21- or even 22-fret guitar, I always end up at some point stopping and going "Damn, where are the other frets?!".

Likewise with the Floyd Rose trem, you can ignore it if you don't need it, but now and then for Vai/Satriani/Van Halen/Michael Romeo stuff, it's a godsend... just squeezing out some pinch harmonics then knocking the bar down before sliding up a couple of frets sounds really cool in the right place, and it's a sound you absolutely can't get without a trem. Dive-bombs are fun too :)

The double-locking system is great for keeping in tune, too, but it's annoying if I want to do any different tunings, which is why I keep a guitar with a standard bridge and nut around for that.

Truth is, I haven't yet found a guitar with a faster action and neck (for my hands, anyway) that wasn't 3 times as expensive (Parker Fly, I'm looking at you!). And hey, I like to shred now and then :)

[Hanuka]

i just received my new baby :D

It's a Yamaha FGX 412C in blakk with white details :>

this one just as 6-string-version:
http://www.mh-studios.dk/Instrumenter/Billeder/YamahaFGX412C12BL.gif

you can plug it into an amp, but the accousitc unplugged sound is much greater. very loud and vibrant. plays like a dream just as well - thin and fast neck, perfectly adjusted action.just gotta get used to that huge corpus. its my first own accoustic axe so far. eric clapton, beware... >:|

[csteingart]

Haven't been playing long, just noodle around for fun by myself,or with my friend on drums, we switch after each ditty (playing drums fukin rules too). We don't know any songs, we just jam. It's pretty much the most fun you can have, with your clothes on.

Gotta black squire strat,
and a really nice black ibanez accoustic (enid is her name, i love her).

Creating rules,
be it a cool painting, or a cool riff, it's all good <3

Rock on,

c

[Aether]

we badly need a conceptmusic.org to go with this site so we could all start our audio sketchbooks :)

Ive gotten it sorted fairly ok now with school/guitar/drawing and it takes time but rewards are good so keep playing and drawing!

[SirSushi]

Huh? Kirk Hammett sucks!
Vai, on the other hand...

Yeah, I know that Kirk Hammett sucks (I still like him though), I just didn't know back then.

[Cthogua]

Ah...I've got a left handed black standard Strat (not sure what the actual model is called) and another lefty fender acoustic guitar. Being lefthanded is a blessing and a curse....well mostly its a curse, but I wouldn't trade it for anything :D

http://www.darkergreen.com/forum/GuitarNBooks.jpg

Going to guitar shops is totally a bittersweet endeavor for me. Surrounded by backwards guitars. I've had enough friends who played guitar that I learned to sorta play upside-down, but I'd always rather play on an actual left handed guitar. I've wanted to get an SG for a long time because 1. they're badass and 2. it would be fairly easy to just restring it and play it lefty...the knobs would be in the way but oh well...I can dream! More realistically I've been thinking about replacing the 3 single coil setup in my strat to a dual gibson humbucker arrangement. Any recommendations on pickups?

James Ball

[Dan.v.D.]

actually i know a lefty that plays regular guits and i can't really say that it had harmed the overall playing.

[Hanuka]

same here - im left-handed and i'm playing normal guitars.

[Cthogua]

Do you just restring it, or play it backwards? I was under the impression that something had to be done to the bridge (like flipping it around, or adujsting the little saddles) in most cases to restring a right handed guitar lefty...is that wrong? Playing backwards is fun, and makes a good party trick...but as far as serious playing I'm better with a regular lefty guitar, although I guess its really just a matter of learning the scales and stuff

[Dan.v.D.]

you usually have to mod some parts to put the high e string where the low is meant to be but i´m talking about havin the neck in your left hand like a right handed player would.

[Aether]

if i was a lefty and had to play a right handed i would reverse string it.

the only thing that probably could cause some interfering are the volume/tone knobs.


ps. bought that prs lol :)

[M.C.Barrett]

I really don't see why other lefties seem to have such a problem playing 'right-handed'. The left hand has about as much precision work to do as the right hand has, so I generally consider guitars to be ambidextrous. I'm a lefty, and I have no trouble playing my standard guitars. It was easier to learn, anyway, than to have to constantly mirror everything I learned from others or books.

[MetroidMan]

I play the Bass guitar, although my old one broke so im getting a new one hopefully. Why bass? I can't play more than 4 strings!

[Pixeldragoon]

I play... I have a black strat, white faceplate. Rosewood fretboard. D'Ddario steel strings.

Me and my mom share a Yamaha acoustic, with really old strings (Older than me), but it's reliable. I enjoy acoustics a lot more.

[Kai_sama]

I have a Ibanez Electric RG321, for the tune that were meant to played loud.

I have a Samick Custom acoustic-electric, with a horrible built-in pick up.

A small practice amp, if i am playing a venue, they usually provide the gear.

Then small accessories, like an ebow, slides, capo, a pod, and a few other pedals.

~Kai :ninja++:

[Dan.v.D.]

i'd really like to have an pod myself. it's a nifty thing to have for home recording or tracking ideas in a simple but not to shabby sounding way.

[loomer]

This is a pic of me rockn' London back when I used to be in a band. It's my Les Paul Special ( I didn't wanna bring my Standard overseas). I'm also rockn' some E-bow action there. Ahhh..those were the days

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/saltmann/150474984_l.jpg

[Krystallwolvelt]

I only have a accoustic guitar and I'm not that good so I don't use it much.

[BT2000]

so yeah, i'm a guitarist too, i'm starting a crust punk band with a buddy of mine, yeah i'm in the punk scene whatever. i used to be in a band called without papers, it was a stoner punk band.
i have an Ibanez RG120, it's great, still all in one piece and i plan to put in EMG pickups. the pickups that came wiht the guitar suck.
so yeah, i mostly play metal, but i also play d-beat and crust punk.
if you wonder what i listen to, i listen to alot of scandinavian metal, black metal, death metal, regular classic heavy metal such as iron maiden, etc.
NO nu-metal...
it pisses me off how i can't find anyone in the detroit area who wants to start a black metal band...

[MoP]

loomer: Nice one! I've been thinking about getting an E-Bow recently, they seem like something I'd have a lot of fun with... worth getting, then?

[Flake]

Do I win the prize for most beat up guitar?

It's an 80's Ibanez Roadstar 2 btw, don't think the strings have been changed this millenium.

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I'm another lefty that plays regular right handers too.