Too much guitargear!

I want to be cool today and just post something about all the guitargear I have. It is too much, but still not enough! There’s always room for more, there are always more sounds to find, etcetcetcetc. Here’s my list of stuff, and also a description of what I’d like to add or change.

Guitars:

Gibson SG Worn Ebony Black. This is a guitar I bought last summer in the States. It’s a limited edition (I think), and i’ve never seen another guitarist with it. It’s worn black and has a white pickguard. It has 3 pickups. 2 490R pickups and a 490T pickup in the bridge. The last one is the one I use most. It’s very aggresive, and loud. But, I’m not completely satisfied with the pickups. I think this little monster could rock so much more. Therefore I’m thinking of putting in a Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucker in the bridge, a Gibson P94 (P-90 in humbucker-shape) in the neck, and either a 500T in the middle or just kee the 490R there. Oh, and I just found out that this guitar has been discontinued by Gibson, hehe, it IS limited!

Squier Telecaster Custom II. This is one sweet guitar. Especially once I’m finished fixing it up. It’s a remake by Squier of the Fender Telecaster Custom from 1972. This one came with Duncan Designed p-90′s. They were nice, but not nice enough. So, I built in 2 Gibson P-100′s. That was the best thing I could ever do for this guitar. It’s nearly perfect now. I’m totally in love with the Neck P-100.  I want to replace the Squier neck by a lefthanded Fender Stratocaster neck, to add some spice and originality, and so that it’ll have better tuning machine heads as well, because the ones I have now aren’t very special.

Fender Telecaster Nashville Deluxe. This guitar was perfect when I bought it. It didnt need any modification, and it will never need any modification. The pickups (Tex Mex) are really good and rock so hard, but also have a gorgeous clean sound. I´m never going to change anything about this guitar. I want to keep this one for the rest of my life.

Amp:

Fender Blues Deluxe 40 Watt (Tubes). This is a great amp. I’m a big fan of the clean channel. I never use the drive-channel. All my effects go over the clean channel. I just love the fact that I can do everything with this amp. If I really wanted, I could play metal with this amp. But, I don’t. I still play really loud stuff, and it works fine. It’s also great live, and it has always been very reliable. If I would ever have enough money to buy a different amp, or another amp I’d go for the Hiwatt Hi-gain 100 watt , the Fender DeVille 60 watt, or the VOX AC-50, although I hear that VOX amps aren’t very reliable on stage. Bummer. But, for now I’m keeping my Fender, and I’m going to play many more shows with it.

Effect Pedals:

Boss SD-1 Superoverdrive. This is the first and the only overdrive I’ve ever had. To be honest, I’ve never tried the Tubescreamer, and Im not sure if I’d love it more than my SD1. But, for now, the SD1 just does everything I want it too. It sounds so perfect over my Fender Blues Deluxe.

Boss DS2 Turbo Distortion. It’s a good distortion and it’s loud. But, not my favorite. I think that if I get the chance I’ll get a Fulltone Distortion Pro, and that one is amazing, and expensive.

Boss DD-20 Delay. This is my newest toy. It’s a 23-second delay by boss. It has a lot of cool delay sounds, and nothing is overdone. It’s a very easy-to-use delaypedal, and very reliable. I’m so happy that I can bank 4 different delays in this baby and then on stage press one button and have them ready. Great!

Boss TU2. Stage tuner. Very good.

Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster.  This is a pedal I use when I play high-end riffs. It’s intended for solo’s, and also for Single Coils to sound like Humbuckers. It’s an awesome pedal and I love the sound of it. It can boost a signal with up to 25 dB’s.

Accessories:

Ebow. Such a fantastic little thing. Every guitarplayer needs one of these.

Dunlop Slide. I still have to figure out how to use it properly, but I think this thing can create some awesome sounds.

That’s all.

Martijn

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