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The bare essentials of your guitar rig


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Or put it another way- you're doing a small gig and space is limited, both transport and on the stage. Out of all the gear you own, what would you use for that gig?

I often do this, and always end up with the following:

 

strat -> overdrive -> delay -> fender tube combo. If I can't bring one of my own amps (which have tremolo), I'll add a tremolo pedal too. The rest of the pedals on my main board are just goodies - I like to be able to use those tones, but I can get by without them.

 

I remember one time back when I was mostly using a Mesa Blue Angel combo. We were playing a gig (regular party/covers gig), and I had asked the others to bring my amp and case of pedals, cables etc (I'd left it at the same rehearsal space where they were going to pick up the PA system, and having them bring it saved me a very long roundtrip). I got to the gig carrying only my guitar, and of course they'd forgotten the case with my pedals... Luckily I happened to have a cable in my gigbag, so I set the BA to its 2x6V6/15w mode and gunned it... It was some of the best tones I've had, actually :D

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Been there, done that. Last year my wife was unemployed and we were hit with some devastating medical issues and their accompanying bills. I sold about $4K worth of gear. The only untouchable items were:

 

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Eastwood Airline and The Blues Box Silvertone 1481

 

Fortunately, things have turned around and we're back on our feet financially and I've been able to reassemble a small pedal board, pick up another acoustic guitar, etc. The upside: the gear sold relatively quickly and got us the cash we needed to stay alive and in our house.

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The backbone of my guitar rig.


The bare essentials of my own guitar rig is:


My main guitar -> ESP ltd ec-400, with Suhr Doug Aldrich humbucking pickups

My amp -> Mesa/Boogie MarkIV, with footswitch

My effect unit -> Visual Sound H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo

My speaker cabinet -> Mesa/Boogie 4x12 Stiletto cabinet, with Celestion Vintage30s

My cables -> one long one for the guitar to the amp input; three short patch cables for the effect unit; one speaker cable

And that is 95% of my guitar tone! The rest is just tasty gravy :) .



This is everything I have, but have exiled some of it to the back of the music room.


Guitars
ESP ltd ec-400 w/Suhr Doug Aldrich humbucking pickups


Effect pedals
ElectroHarmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress flanger
ElectroHarmonix Polyphonic Octave Generator
Visual Sound H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo
Boss DD-20 Delay
Danelectro Fish & Chips EQ
Electro Harmonix Worm (soon to come)
Unnamed pedal soon to come...


Rack unit
Sound Sculpture Switchblade8
DMC GCX Audio Switcher


Switcher
Roland FC-300 MIDI foot-controller


Amp
Mesa/Boogie MarkIV short amp head w/Svetlana E.D. EL34s & Mesa/Boogie STR440 6L6s

Speaker cab
Mesa/Boogie 4x12 Stiletto Cab w/V30s





Gear I don't use anymore but keep
TC Electronic Stereo Chorus/Flanger (almost inclined to sell this)
SR&D Rockman Stereo Chorus/Delay (will always keep this)
Alto Q 5-band parametric equaliser (handy tool but not usually necessary)
Roland Jazz Chorus 120 combo amp (still use occasionally)
Mesa/Boogie 50/50 Stereo poweramp w/JJ 6L6s (will keep for backup)
Marshall MS2 Mini-Stack microamp (sounds fantastic, great backup amp)
Modified Marshall 1960A 4x12 speaker cabinet (keep for backup)
ESP ltd ec-100qm w/Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader & SH-2 Jazz humbucking pickups (backup/spare guitar)
Laney LX35D practice combo amp
Engl Fireball 60 watt amp head
THD Hotplate
Niche ACM Audio Control Module

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