Your Instruments, Let me see them

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Show and Tell about your instruments.

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

the one on the left has pickups and has just been acquired (also has a harder bridge and much lower action). I will probably be selling the non-pickup one. Both are a joy to really rich tone. I'd like to think they went well with my singing voice, but unfortunately I am not a great singer.

The Big Marshall is Kate's I'm borrowing it whilst I work out what to do about amplification.

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― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Bocken Social Scene, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

should put an image link in shouldn't i..
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― Bocken Social Scene, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

My two main guitars :

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

Danny Lectro:

The J-Master:

(I don't know why all my guitars are surf green.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

WTF @ flickr's own linking code. it's not as wide as that IRL. I finished sanding and staining the upper cabinet, I'll try and take another pic tonight. Grant @ Wiard synthesizer is re-introducing the bigger sized modules, so I'll be able to fill the empty spaces up, cheers cheers etc.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

Here's my Washburn:

― libcrypt, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

Pash, I showed our Synthesist a picture of that, and she totally wants to twiddle yer knobs. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

gross

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

Here is a photo of me not actually shoving a drumstick up my nose (the shadow proves it!) behind my current kit - a 60s Rogers with a 60s Gretsch snare. Beat-to-hell, very little original hardware, but sounds great.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Don't have many good photos of my actual stuff, but here are some stock pictures:

Korg MS2000

Sequential Circuits Pro-One

Roland JV2080 rack thingy

We use the CS1X as a control keyboard

The rockenspiel.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

That is so much less twee than kneeling on the floor to play.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Awsome, it's like a glocktar.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

I don't play any instruments but I found that great "band".
Animated but nice.. :)

Music by balls

― dthemora, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

i'm pretty into this whole chicks with instruments thing

― horrid bluegrass clicktrack, Friday, 23 March 2007 03:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

Jazzmaster, Fender Pro Reverb (I count amps as instruments), pedals:

Telecaster, Ampeg Reverb-O-Rocket II, Farfisa, Roland JC-120, Moog Opus III, more pedals

Mostly the same as the previous picture except this one has the Vox Super Continental

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 March 2007 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Annoyingly I don't have a picture of the Vox Cheetah, but it's identical to this one:

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 March 2007 06:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

Most of 'em bent / in the process of bending.
plus pedals, radios and tape machines.

― S-, Monday, 26 March 2007 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

ooooooh, i've got a alesis mmt8, is the hr16 a drum machine? they look almost identical.

― zappi, Monday, 26 March 2007 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, they're all designed to be used together. I have the MMT-8 and a HR16B (same drum machine with slightly trendier 1980's samples), but I need to find a couple of 9V 1A AC power adaptors.

― S-, Monday, 26 March 2007 07:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Huh, I also own an HR-16.

― n/a, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

They're great. I think I would also like an SR-16

― S-, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 04:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

― walterkranz, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

ha, is that grey thing in the middle a WWII oscillator?

― zappi, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

It's some kind of frequency analyzer. Unfortunately I've never been able to get it to do anything useful so I just keep it there because I think it looks nice. But I have some other ancient test equipment like several really nice sounding tube bandpass filters. My wife is not quite as fond of these things as I am though.

― walterkranz, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm jealous of how your stuff has lots of knobs and wires and mine doesn't.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

I can't compete with Pash! He does need to fill some of those empty slots though :)

― walterkranz, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 03:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

thee electra phoenix, 20+ years old and still droning on and on and on

http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/?action=view&current=phoenix.jpg

― Edward III, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

dur

― Edward III, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

duh

― Edward III, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wait, is that leaning against a paper shredder?

And if so, are you trying to improve your metal solos via osmosis?

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

that's right I'm like fawn hall jr.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Dr.C, Sunday, 22 April 2007 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

That red Marshall is HOTT.

― John Justen, Monday, 23 April 2007 00:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

And LOUD!

― Dr.C, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

roland rs-09 - i love the string sound that doesn't quite sound "real"; the organ sound is wonderful, and the chorus is effective, too

― outdoor_miner, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

That ARP needs an astrocat.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

Daisy 1 (w/bonus Kawai and mess):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/472848497/
Daisy 2:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/472848519/in/photostream/

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

I've missed having a 12-string around so in lieu of spending $$$ on a Mosrite 12, I purchased one of these:

Quite like it so far.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

That ARP needs an astrocat

hey Masonic, what means that? did a google search and came up sort of empty.

― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wow, it's years since I last saw a strat 12

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

Pashmina, can you explain what is going on in your pic up top? Are you a hi-tech god? i'm feeling fascination

― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

Good lord, that's a strange looking thing. Is it any good, Chris?

I played a vintage Fender 12 at VAG Guitars on Denmark Street last week while helping Ed try out phaser pedals and OMG the loveliness.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

VAR Guitars, not VAG Guitars, ha ha ha. Oh dear.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

Good lord, that's a strange looking thing. Is it any good, Chris?

Once you get past the initial "what the hell is THAT?" reaction, it's actually pretty nice - towards the upper end of Fender build quality (for the gearspotters out there it's labelled "Crafted in Japan" instead of "Made in Japan"). It's a couple years old, but apparently it had never been played - the tags were still on the headstock.

I've been wanting a solid-body 12 string for awhile and since I can't afford a Mosrite or one of the original Fender XIIs it was a fair compromise. Basically I wanted something that would stay reasonably in tune ("reasonably" because after all it's a 12-string), sound decent through my amps, and wouldn't have to fuss with much. So far, I've been very happy. I'll have a full report after band practise on Sunday.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2007 03:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

outdoor miner:

― Dan I., Friday, 27 April 2007 04:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

ah....much better, thanks! those are actually more akin to how the keys look on mine, anycare

― outdoor_miner, Friday, 27 April 2007 04:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

One of these days I want to take a picture of everything in the style of the Ummagumma back cover

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

New guitar:

― n/a, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

World's most minute guitar question: As you can see, the pickup switch on my new guitar is on the top, instead of on the bottom. However, I keep hitting it and accidentally switching pickups while playing. Can anyone recommend a simple way of securing the pickup switch without actually disabling it? Like something I can wrap around it, preferably without damaging the body of the guitar, to keep the switch in the middle position?

― n/a, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

unscrew the plastic cap and the switch should be short enough that you won't be hitting it, and if you do it'll need more leverage to actually switch it. That works on my SG, although the switch is in the usual place on that, but I tend to hit it on the downstroke.

Or the old favourite - gaffer tape.

― Bocken Social Scene, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Hey, n/a, what kind of guitar is that?

― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 17 May 2007 02:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 17 May 2007 02:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's a fender toronado.

― horrid bluegrass clicktrack, Thursday, 17 May 2007 03:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's a fender toronado

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

it's a fuckin' tornado.

― horrid bluegrass clicktrack, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

But Nick, what about rich, spacious, F4ke F!ctions SEMI-HOLLOW sound? Won't this change everything?

― nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Or well I feel like I've seen something where you were playing a standard electric before, but I always figured that unruly semihollow-with-p90s sound was like YR THING and whatnot.

― nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

I know. But that guitar is fucked up now.

;_;

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

Aww: next time you've saved up a bit, get one of those Ibanez Artcore semi-hollows and have p90s put in! That might get a little over the top with the "unruly," but it wouldn't cost you that much.

― nabisco, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

hey, I have a Roland RS-09 as well, the earlier version:

a bit dark but what yr seeing is a Roland RS09, Sequential Prophet 600, K2000 on top an Arp 2600. Next to it is a Hohner Pianet and a sequential drum tracks. Currently leant out: Oberheim DMX w/ MIDI and Arp String Ensemble. Off screen to the right, Farfisa Combo and Elka Combo. To the left there is a scanner, inkjet printer and laser printer.

Then there's the other side:

which has the computer and MPC1000. And a Paul Haig record.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

Jesus. Summer and static must be a nightmare!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

(obviously I'm just jealous and trying to pick holes out of spite!)

― kv_nol, Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Summer's even worse when I put the AC unit in the window. And NYC is not the cleanest place, so I'm constantly fighting dust. I opened up my computer to do some upgrades a few months ago and it was amazing the whole thing still worked, it was totally caked in dust.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

You can kinda see my jazz kit here. I stopped using it for awhile, but after a new head on the bass drum I feel like I could pretty much use it for anything.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

these are the instruments i play in this "band" i'm in. main influence : bonzo dog band.

― zappi, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

Waht kind of kit is that Jordan, a Premier?

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yah, got it on eBay.

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

i wish :-/

― river wolf, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

not pictured: saxophone what i broek ;_;

― river wolf, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

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