Gear Thread - Pics

timbob said:
A bit of experience - I looked into one before getting my XK3c, and the dep Hammond chap in my band uses one.

His is the 1st version of the Electro. Good sounds, if a little bright. It's limited for Organ due to only having one set of (virtual) drawbars. EP sounds are great. I think it has a clav too? Action is interesting - very light, only semi-weighted, and designed to be a best compromise between organ and piano actions. It has waterfall fronted keys.

I few people on various forums swear by the Electro2 over the newer Electro3 as selecting presets/voices on the go is a little less fiddly.

I'm not sure that the Electro2 has the upgradeable memory of it's newer brother though - with the Electro3, you can download new sounds (Nord just released some newly sampled pianos, for example) and add them in.

All in all, if you're after something as maybe a 2nd keyboard for a gig-rig to take care of occasional lead organ parts, or EP/Clav parts, the Electro is pretty hard to beat - I think it's reasonably industry standard.

Don't get it if you're really after a stage piano though.
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Thanks for your thoughts. I'd probably be looking at the Electro 3, and it would be a second keyboard for most gigs or a main one for tight venues and rehearsals. I've played on the Nord Stage in various forms and wasn't hugely impressed by them, but the portability aspect of the Electro interests me. It would be for organ stuff primarily.

Already got a stage piano (RD-700) so don't need another one of those :D

arty
 
Cheap Strat clone, **** STG003. Had it about 5 years and never really got around to playing it much. I can strum out a few songs and that's about it.
Had to replace all 3 pots had to be last week because the shafts had snapped off, first time I've done any soldering on a guitar.

I bought it when I thought I really, really wanted a red Strat but what I *actually* wanted was a red SG and a Seafoam Green Strat. Oh well.

Plays alright as far as I can tell other than it seems to go out of tune reasonably quickly.

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Cheap (see the theme here?) Marshall Valvestate 8020, not a bad amp for £35 second hand. Filthy, really needs a clean, might try some polish like Brasso or something on the gold panel?
Before this I had a 10 watt Starfire amp which just made my guitar sound muddy and actually convinced me my guitar was a lot worse than it is. Buying this amp has actually made me want to play the guitar properly.

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Also have a Zoom 606 somewhere.
 
Lopez, brasso will take of the black priniting, try a foaming upholstery cleaner on it all. Re the **** strat clone (i know the brand is pap but no need to be auto filtered out as a sweary) you may want to get the machine heads / tuners replaced as cheapo ones can be the culprit of de tuning or an unstable truss rod in the neck. Anyway, Axesrus.co.uk for the machine heads is probably the cheapest but unlikely to be worth it.

One of my Ibanez SZR720 which has a Seymour Duncan 59' in the neck and Custom 5 in the bridge and a coil split push pull tone.

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And one of my hardly used Fender HSS USA Strat with S1 switching. I am selling this simply as I never play it, will be a shame to see it go but I never play it.

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OK, after a quick bit of research, picked this up :)

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Very impressed with the build quality, the looks, the organs and the clav. Not quite digging the pianos yet but I think with a spot of tweaking they might be brought up to par.

On a related note, I have quite a bit of kit (various keyboards, studio stuff, live rigs etc.). If people are interested I can see about getting some pics of it up in here? :confused: Don't want to come across as boastful or showing off or anything though. Let me know if you guys are interested :)

arty
 
Love the Nord, I've got my eye on a Nord Stage Piano 2.... but going to hold out a little while till I've outgrown the little NP30 (which I'm already hating the non weighted action)

Would love to see other kit you have.

I'm gonna not go synth mad this time round, will have one nice controller and a copy of reason 5 on wall in front of me... all thats needed really.
 
Well, my Fender HSS USA Strat sold today so to celebrate, I thought I would post another of my Guitars. This is my mint Ibanez SZ2020 Prestige in natural flamed maple finish. Also up for sale, lol starting to get sad as seeing all my gear go but needs must.

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Well not musical instruments but two things that have now become an essential bit of gear:

I'm a bit rubbish remembering words and my Advent Vega has now become a very useful piece of gear

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This has solved so many problems over the last few months -

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Loving the nord, the extreme lead is on my want to own list :P

Just took delivery of my nice shiny YDP yesterday, will take some pics of it as soon as I can find the lead for my camera.
 
Got this deliverd yesterday :)

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Its a Squier Classic Vibe 50's and so far im loving it :)

Ohh and I bought the Mustang II amp a few months ago, again not a bad amp for the type of music I aspire to play :D
 
PU7E said:
Loving the nord, the extreme lead is on my want to own list :P
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I really like it. It feels more like a crafted instrument than most of my other kit - less mass-produced, more personal somehow. Always liked the look of Nord gear but this is the first one I've owned :)

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arty said:
I really like it. It feels more like a crafted instrument than most of my other kit - less mass-produced, more personal somehow. Always liked the look of Nord gear but this is the first one I've owned :)

arty
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Sweet, I love the look of the Nord keyboards... Want one myself, but can't justify it as I'm not gigging (or really up to gigging, properly) on keys.

I think I read something about them releasing a bunch of new pianos a few months back, might be worth checking out. Definitely interested in pics of more of your setup - be very interested to see what you gig with :)
 
Now for my latest bit of new gear...

I bought a new mouthpiece for my baritone over the winter. I've been really struggling with the intonation on the sax - some notes are flat, some notes are sharp. A couple of notes were nearly a semitone out, and I had to use alternative fingerings to get them anywhere near playable. If I wasn't careful, F and F# in the middle octave were nearly indistinguishable!

Anyway, a lot of reading and chatting to guys on the saxophone web forums revealed that older baritones were designed to use mouthpieces with larger "chambers" inside. The bore of a sax is conical, until the neck, where it's sliced off at the end. The chamber of a mouthpiece should ideally match the volume of the missing imaginary part of this cone, and older saxes have bigger cones than newer saxes. Even the mouthpieces with the biggest chambers on the market today aren't big enough for old saxes like mine :(

So, a chap in Seattle took a 2nd hand hard rubber mouthpiece, re worked the facing to ensure it was straight, constructed a big wedge shaped baffle in it to give me the punchy sound I like, and bored out the chamber inside to bring it in line with the requirements of my sax - which now plays as near as makes no difference in tune with itself! :)

Unfortunately, the only pic I have has the rest of me in it (sorry!) You just want to look at the mouthpiece bit...!

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Oops, humble piano turned into reason 4 studio with help of shiny new Alesis USB monitors (sound pretty nice for dosh) and a old laptop which had broken screen.

Zero latency from ASIO4ALL drivers... perfect, just gotta stop playing with reason and learn piano.

22" Widescreen fits perfect on sheet music stand

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This is my guitar family:

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The Brian May I got a fair few years ago once his first model was coming out from Burns guitars. I saved and saved during the summer hols of my GCSE's many years ago for that, it was my first "expensive" guitar since my entry level Squier Tele which I have since sold. It can only really do one or two good sounds, but they are stunningly good, in their own way.

There's my Epi LP which I kinda like in its dirty, cheap, agressive way. It has its own place.

The Tanglewood Oddyssey I got for £30 off ebay! It isn't a quality product or top of the range but it was an absolute bargain and I really love it. For the price, you can't go wrong.

The final addition to the fleet is a Made in the USA Fender Stratocaster HSS which arrived this week. I absolutely love it, I mean, really love it. Its finish is flawless and it looks simply stunning, I can stare at it all day. I adore the sound and love playing it.

Oh and behind them all, for the record, is the worlds most uncomfortable sofa!
 
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