The ENWorld Electric Bard Gear (Etc) Thread

[Dannyalcatraz]

I don’t own a Breedlove, but they’re near the top of my list of acoustics I’d want.

 

[R_J_K75]

I don’t own a Breedlove, but they’re near the top of my list of acoustics I’d want.

Do it, they are really good guitars. I have a $700 model and a $500 model. I honestly couldn't tell them apart aside from aesthetics. They both have a nice bright crisp sound. No bridge pins so re-stringing is easy. Only mods I did was to put locking machine heads on them. I usually only have to do a half turn to get a string back in tune,

 

[R_J_K75]

Christmas came and went. My father gave me some money, so I bought a Harley Benton. Been intrigued by them since my cousin told me about them. Dropped it off at my buddies for a setup, needed it bad, but man this thing is nice for the price. The appointments are great, locking tuners, control knobs with set screws, roasted maple neck, jumbo stn stl frets, Wilkinson tremolo bridge, belly cut and nice neck joint. From what I have heard, their cheap $100-$200 models are junk, but for $455.66 it's a hell of a guitar. I was quite impressed with it for the price.Is it perfect, hell no but well worth the price of admission.

https://reverb.com/item/76724102-harley-benton-fusion-t-hh-roasted-fnt-natural

So, screw the Harley Benton, on to the real deal. I live alone, have few bills and my house is paid for so...I bought an EVH Iconic series amp. The 15-Watt, 10" version, because I want a guitar and amp in most rooms. IDK when this was released but I will say Eddie knew what he wanted and got it. These amps are really clean in the sense that you can hear every note regardless of if you're rocking a clean or dirt channel. I drank a bunch of icepicks, grabbed my PRS and plugged in at 3AM last night, pissed off the neighbor's. If you are not pissing off the neighbor's, you aren't doing it right. So, I play Beat It on my phone to get psyched up, props to Steve Lukather, often overlooked on Thriller. I'm not an Eddie clone, can't play like him, and don't try, but he's great. I think that amp brought out the Eddie in me. Trills, artificial harmonics, tremolo bar dives... Side bar your Honor

Eddie blocked his Floyd Rose so he could only go down on pitch, not up

He had a vision and saw it through, if you can't be Edward, let me bring him to you, which he did. Fantastic and now my go to amp.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You don’t have the pedal JHS cloned; you might want the JHS clone.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

MÖÂR FŮZZ!

 

[R_J_K75]

Ironically, Im thinking of taking a dive

https://www.zzounds.com/item--JHSFD?siid=363819

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Someone I know on another board hipped me to the Fender Shields Blender. I finally tracked down a demo for it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVf4w7iY14

Andy always does a good demo, and sometimes you’ll see when a pedal pleasantly surprises him as a smile creeps across his face. I think there’s a couple of those moments in this one.

 

[R_J_K75]

Someone I know on another board hipped me to the Fender Shields Blender. I finally tracked down a demo for it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVf4w7iY14

Andy always does a good demo, and sometimes you’ll see when a pedal pleasantly surprises him as a smile creeps across his face. I think there’s a couple of those moments in this one.

I'm not a huge fan of fuzz pedals, I have an EHX Satisfaction Plus which I do like. Some I have seem to muddy or cut the signal. Though I have heard from a few people that Fender is making good pedals these days. My experience wasn't as good, I bought a Fender Pinwheel rotary speaker emulator and I returned it. Didn't sound as good as the EHX Lester K. The Lester K is out of production last I looked and I might have to find a second one sooner than later because I gave my second one to my brother.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My rotary pedal of choice for YEARS has been the Boss RT-20. It’s out of production, too, but Boss made the RT-2 to replace it in the product lineup.

The RT-2 is simplified a bit, but it still seems to deliver the same core functionality.

Here’s a guy demonstrating his RT-20:

 

[R_J_K75]

My rotary pedal of choice for YEARS has been the Boss RT-20. It’s out of production, too, but Boss made the RT-2 to replace it in the product lineup.

The RT-2 is simplified a bit, but it still seems to deliver the same core functionality.

I stopped playing for a while and I think it was probably around the time the RT-20 was available, but out of production by the time I started playing again. I read a funny article years ago that Soundgarden lugged a few Leslie speakers into the studio during the Superunknown sessions, after 10 or so takes of Blackhole Sun, they realized they forgot to turn on the spinning horn in the speakers.