Gear Thread - Pics

Haha, just noticed my post caused some mild chaos! I don't mind taking the flak

The MG was my 1st amp. The the guys at GAK threw it in with my 1st guitar. It's only really there because it has a nice spring reverb that I use on the output of the GK. Also, if you know what you're doing you can pull some well rounded blues tones out of it.

The Spider II is awesome for what I use it for. It's got probably the highest quality digital effects built into any amp in it's price range (at the time). The fact it's effects are also stereo is a massive bonus for me. Admittedly it does a very "digital" job of distortion, but for my tastes in that area, Deftones style, it's just the ticket!

The GK is by far the most difficult amp to usefully make something of. The tones you can pull out of it are impressive when it's sounding right, but it can turn into a bit of a mess if you nudge any dials when you move it. It really needs the expansion speaker cabinet to give it some extra low end response.

The biggest heap in my pic is the Flying V. Bought for £90 off ebay, the neck was basically snapped (now repaired and set up for a further £90), the pickups were somehow ruined and I've had to replace the entire of the electronics with new parts; pickups/pots/switch/wiring all new!

The fact is it's all useful gear and while none are exceptional at everything they can all do at least one thing well.

P.S. Out of shot was my pride and joy. My Mexican Fender Strat. I'm told by the fine people at Chandlers Guitars that it is part of a limited run of very high quality output from the Mexican factory. I took the liberty of fitting a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail in the bridge while I was at uni trying to play Iron Maiden!

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naffa said:
So you have a rack and sell any guitars that don't fit on it? :p I don't know whether to laugh or cry. :p
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Don't worry its only a crappy old yammy that I never use.

RBX 200 with a pointy headstock.

In red :eek:

The 1972 musicmaster bass replaced it.

never got around to getting rid.

Now I do.:p

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The Fender is far more my thang!

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If anyone wants to buy the Yamaha Bass email me :p
 
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Gustov said:
So one salesman is a good representation of the whole spectrum of music store employees. .
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Silly boy, again it's the experience of buying gear from all over the country for the last 40 years.
My equipment list is massive and I could equip 2 bands with 5 musicians with all gear including PA's.
Then take into account all the equipment I've had and sold over the years and I can honestly say that salesman are 99% more likely to point you to quality gear.
100s of times I've done my homework, gone to a shop to buy said item and come out with something a lot better.
Line 6 is treated as a joke by the majority of professionals and salesman won't point you in that direction unless your requirements fit it.
To say that a salesman will suggest a Line 6 Spider over a Marshall TSL series is foolish and you know it.
In fact, last year in AOS I asked what the new valve Spider was like and they said that Line 6 had finally made a good amp.
 
Does no one wanna buy my Gibson Classic Antique? i hate to put it on the bay. its an awesome guitar it really is and prolly my best, it comes with classic 57 pafs as well. I am selling to raise funds for a 58 RI.
 
Gustov said:
They are pretty much the 'beginner amps', the peavy and the blackstar are far superior.
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Without meaning to sound pedant, I'd imagine 90% of the public spend less than £250 for there first guitar and amp, so the blackstar is more of an upgrade amp, if anything.

I hate to break it to you but not all salesmen are 'good'. I'm not saying they go out of their way to sell the spider range but the majority will recommend it when there are better options out there.
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dmpoole has been around the block playing gigs for almost double my age and has experience with a lot of gear - if he claims something, it won't be from inexperience or lack of knowledge.

EDIT - oh he already replied :o
 
Jimbo said:
Does no one wanna buy my Gibson Classic Antique? i hate to put it on the bay. its an awesome guitar it really is and prolly my best, it comes with classic 57 pafs as well. I am selling to raise funds for a 58 RI.
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Yes if I could spare a grand :(

Nitefly said:
dmpoole has been around the block playing gigs for almost double my age and has experience with a lot of gear - if he claims something, it won't be from inexperience or lack of knowledge.
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I may disagree with the guy from time to time and sometimes not even like the tone of his posts, but I have to say that he does have the experience and posts useful stuff.

/brown nose
 
I fully understand that gear is not everything but through all your years of experience and buying gear for the last 40 years etc, how comes your guitarists are both using marshall valvestates? (I'm sure you have more gear but this is what I found on your site)

It's a genuine question by the way, no problem with using them but surely through 40 years of testing different amps they are not the best you've encountered? If they are fans of Marshall amplification wouldn't the JCM/JVM/TSL/DSL/Plexis be more desirable?

Back on topic to the spiders, the spider valves are renown for being considerably better than the solid state ones. No surprise there really. I've heard the Vetta is still a much better choice though. (I've only tried the SS Spider)

Your comment on the TSL range is kinda silly, I said those with a 'budget'. The TSL series are £900+, of course a salesman isn't going to recommend a spider over those...

I'm not trying to be an idiot for the sake of it. I'm genuinely presenting my argument and unlike others, I'm not going to bow down to the hierarchy of post count.

I understand you have a lot more experience than me so I'm more than happy to listen but no need to label me as a 'silly boy'.

Please answer my questions with honest answers rather than trying to assert your superiority.
 
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Gustov said:
I'm not trying to be an idiot for the sake of it. I'm genuinely presenting my argument and unlike others, I'm not going to bow down to the hierarchy of post count.
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But the hierarchy of post count is what keeps us in order, without said guidance we are doomed!

I understand you have a lot more experience than me so I'm more than happy to listen but no need to label me as a 'silly boy'.
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Fair comment, really.
 
Salesmen... you actually listen to them? because i sure do not. most of the time they do not care about the customer their just after a sale... if you want to know your best options, talk to studio owners/producers.. thats how i find out about all our gear etc etc
 
Gustov said:
I fully understand that gear is not everything but through all your years of experience and buying gear for the last 40 years etc, how comes your guitarists are both using marshall valvestates? (I'm sure you have more gear but this is what I found on your site)
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That part of the site hasn't been updated for a very long time.
Phil's amp is the bottom right Marshall thing that is totally valve in the picture - http://www.disturbinthepeace.co.uk/pics/philamp.jpg and the stuff on the left is spare.
Colin's V265 is the most awesome sounding rock amp I've heard coming out of a backline and it would be impossible to better his sound with anything else.
My main bands sound comes out of the backline and very little goes through the PA and that's why I'm deaf.
Now here's the truth of the matter and GUITARIST magazine also agree with with me that the difference in sound between valve and electronics is virtually negligible now with a bit of tweaking and has been for a while.
The guitarist in my other band also plays in a very authentic sounding SRV/Hendrix tribute band using his Marshall TSL602 but once he had to borrow my Valvestate and his sound was no different however he had to turn the master nearly up to full.

And to fully answer your question - Just because I've been gigging + buying gear for 39 years it doesn't mean I'm always buying what I actually want and I certainly don't have influence what my band members buy.

This morning I have also bought a piece of equipment that I can afford and hopefully it will do the job but I would have liked something way better.
The shop salesman also tried to get me to pay for something better quality but I'm taking a risk - http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/F1220A.aspx
If it does the job then I'll buy 2 more.

A few months ago I also bought something else from Behringer who I wouldn't have bought a screw off before - http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/SX2442FX.aspx
Once again I took a risk because I hadn't got the available money to buy the Allen & Heath or Soundcraft I wanted.
I must have had around 10 stage mixers over the years and this is easily the best I've ever messed with so we'll see what how long it lasts before breaking.

And the silly boy comment was because you suggested that I suggested that one salesman was representative of all of them.
 
Neoni said:
Salesmen... you actually listen to them? because i sure do not. most of the time they do not care about the customer their just after a sale... if you want to know your best options, talk to studio owners/producers.. thats how i find out about all our gear etc etc
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That is a very narrow minded view seeing that 99.9999% of music shop salesman are also working musicians and often suggest stuff they would like to have.
And what does a studio engineer/technician know about stage equipment?
dmpoole, don't be narrow minded because most of them are also working musicians too.

Neoni said:
Eurgh, Behringer avoid like the plague!
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I agree and I always have above however that mixer is bloody awesome and I'm hoping that since they moved factories to Behringer City their quality control is better.
Hopefully the monitor will be quality but a price tag of £150 tells me otherwise.
 
dmpoole said:
That is a very narrow minded view seeing that 99.9999% of music shop salesman are also working musicians and often suggest stuff they would like to have.
And what does a studio engineer/technician know about stage equipment?
dmpoole, don't be narrow minded because most of them are also working musicians too.



I agree and I always have above however that mixer is bloody awesome and I'm hoping that since they moved factories to Behringer City their quality control is better.
Hopefully the monitor will be quality but a price tag of £150 tells me otherwise.
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We know a studio engineer producer, that engineers our live shows he's bleeding awesome and knows what live gear to use, he works on a lot of big shows such as V festival etc etc!
 
Neoni said:
We know a studio engineer producer, that engineers our live shows he's bleeding awesome and knows what live gear to use, he works on a lot of big shows such as V festival etc etc!
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Exactly and 99.999% of music shop salesman also play in bands or do something else related to music.
In fact a music shop salesman who doesn't play in a band would be a rareity.
 
I lack a really quality amp actually. I nearly bought a Marshall MG 100HFX half stack head and cab. I know its solid state but I cant afford a DSL or JVM yet. So at the mo ive got a Fender super champ XD tube/hybrid .. very good but im looking for more. Also have a Roland cube 30x.. was ok at the start but not now. Got a POD xt live and its good fun, but maybes a bit of a pain to gig with, but im not at the mo.

Its a sin the guitars i own are quality, so i should have a better quality amp. next on my list is a cheapy Ibanez AW10 acoustic, £179 but it sounded better than the £600 guitars i played.. bargain.

I still fancy something like a Peavey classic 30 or a maybes a Fender 65 princeton or a marshall tubed up half stack lol... oh man.
 
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