Show us your worship rig

hey yall...just wondering what everyone is using in their worship setting...feel free to post photos of your guitar/amp/pedals!

Pedaltrain 2, chain is:
-Fender Telecaster FMT HH (amazing guitar, if I needed another I would get the same thing.)
-Fulldrive 2 FM/CompCut (in CompCut mode. I leave it always on, and hit the boost for overdriven tones.)
-Radial Tonebone Hot British Distortion (Marshall in a box. This thing is legit.)
-Ernie Ball VPJR w/ Tuner out to TC Polytune (amazing tuner, gonna get the EB active modded.)
-Strymon Timeline (AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!)
-Fender Blues Junior (Crazy good amp, but I smell a Morgan in my future.)
- Miked with an e906 (got this cool high contour switch.)

All wired up with George L's and powered by a Cioks DC10 (do any Danish people out there know how to pronounce it? I believe it's "chucks"???). Planning on filling the open space with a Disaster Area DMC-6 for the Timeline. Also working with JHS to replace the full drive with an EP/808 2-in-1.

I'm in!

Took about six months off and almost completely changed my setup, going from a Vox Tonelab LE to this:

...and the gang in da Rack (depending on the set):

Pretty simple right now.

This is my current rig, we use an SM57 on it...very versatile rig. -Gotta be with P&W!

Signal chain is (currently):

Tele- TU-2, Barber Tone press, Timmy, ODR-1, MI Audio Tube Zone (V4), Tube Zone (V2) (or Mercury Box), EBVPjr, Keeley TR-2, AMDD-5, DD-20, RV-5, RV-7 - Morgan AC20 Deluxe.

I switch pedals on and off depending on the set but there's also a mojovibe, a micropog and an analogman chorus that frequent the neighborhood...

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/medium/rig.JPG

Pretty simple right now.

My rig too although I switch between a LP, a tele and a strat depending on my mood.

My rig too although I switch between a LP, a tele and a strat depending on my mood.We use Avioms, and it has taken over a year to get things settled with the sound guys so I have something in my monitor that approximates what is going to the house. I finally figured out that switching guitars was just one more variable that made it unlikely I'd be able to play without gritting my teeth :), so stopped doing it. It also required either a separate set of patches (single coil vs. humbucker) just for *approximate* tone/level consistency - too much fiddling around.

That, and the fact that I never melded with the Classic 60s Tele I had, and my "one-in, one-out" rule got applied when I decided I "needed" a bass, and sent the Strat packing (well, technically, just to the garage, but de-fretted waiting for a weekend not packed with honey-dos, so I can get it back together for the buyer).

Anyway, I like simple these days, and the POD makes it easier with one guitar to cover a very wide range of sounds.

We use Avioms, and it has taken over a year to get things settled with the sound guys so I have something in my monitor that approximates what is going to the house

We've had them about the same time frame and I still want to rip one ear out every time I play...(which I know is not good for you)

Any tips on getting an acceptable mix?

We've had them about the same time frame and I still want to rip one ear out every time I play...(which I know is not good for you)

Any tips on getting an acceptable mix?Not sure what the problem is you are having, but we have multiple problems, and, honestly, I'm convinced it's the sound guys who don't know how to use the equipment, but there's no good online documentation on the systems (that I could find), and there's just a lot of different mixers and components that enter in between your analog source and what comes back over the Ethernet cable. So, the best is to try and work your way back from your personal mixer (assuming there's no way to get a balance and save it at that point that works), and determine where things go south. My main problem was that no matter what the one guy did, it was always distorted in my mix. He said he did everything he could (for months and months), but then another guy came in and said, oh, yeah, it's probably this, and it got a lot better. However, I've come in some weeks and it's all back to bad sound, because they pull up some saved setting (big, Yamaha, digital console), and there's no time to adjust (i.e., find the guy who knows what he's doing).

I spent a fair amount of time taking the XLR output (studio - both channels to a Y for single channel "mono" output) into a little mixer I had at home, and just recording the patches I use, switching the FX1 (OD/dist) on off, and checking recorded levels, to make sure they were very similar, and the OD wouldn't make the sound guys go moving my level around during performance, i.e., just a tiny bit of boost, and keep some room on the guitar volume if you need to work it up.

Keep the ear - you don't want people saying about you, "He has Van Gogh's ear for music" :). And, good luck.

I'm using mostly a hardtail Squier Strat with a custom SSH ultra-low-output pickups from VintageVibe with custom switching from our own Deaf-Eddie into a Roland Cube 30. Most of the time the Roland is on the Brit Combo (AC 30, I think), volume about half and drive about two-thirds, with a fair amount of reverb. I use a Danelectro OD pedal (the plastic-box one) and it's usually on, fairly low but enough to fatten and add sustain. I've been working an Epi LP Standard LE into the mix and my Hamer Archtop in, and that's been good. If I had druthers, I'd get a modified Nashville Power Tele-type arrangement, so I could get versatility with the addition of the more or less acoustic sound in there. I mostly go for a big Santana/early EC type of tone from the single-coil direction. I guess Trower-ish but of course not as big. I almost never try to replicate the recordings. I can't play it, so I might as well abandon pretense!

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/worship-service-players/179325-my-church-rig-6.html

Here are a couple of pics. Sorry not all in 1 pic. My newest toy is the Vox AC15HW1. It KILLS!

My Teles- Hwy1 and Am Std.

My board has changed and the Rat is off and a Joyo Ultimate Drive is on. Great pedal that adds a little more low end.

Nice rig! Those HW Ac15's are amazing, great tones to be had in them.


Still Fiddlin - Thanks for the insight on the Avioms!

Going to play this through the system in Tuesday to see how the music guy likes it.

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Here is mine. I play at a cowboy church in southeast Texas.
Pedaltrain PT Pro:
Guitar to board via cable or Line 6 g50,
TU2...keeley blues driver...mxr cae booster...Monte allum sparkle drive...barber SS...fultone 2...ch1...phase 90...voodoo lab term...ernie ball volume...carbon copy...dd5.

Powered by a pedal power 2+, and mks power pad 2.

Blue tap tempo in bottom left corner for dd5, and custom footswitch for drri above volume.

(Dyna comp instead of bd2 temporarily)

I've really been working on on getting my board 100% usable. In the past there have been a lot of unused effects. All this is used almost every week.

I use a Pedaltrain board. Everything is powered by my Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus. Here's the chain order:

-Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
-Paul Cochran Tim Overdrive
-MXR Carbon Copy
-TC Electronic ND-1 Nova Delay
-Melekko Omnicron Trem
-Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Reverb
-Vox Classic Wah
I also have a Korg Pitchblack Tuner coming out of the volume pedal.

Also this is played with either a '52 Fender reissue tele or a Tim Armstrong sig model Gretsch hollowbody, and is projected through a Fender Blues Jr. NOS Hot Rod III.

I've really been working on on getting my board 100% usable. In the past there have been a lot of unused effects. All this is used almost every week.

I use a Pedaltrain board. Everything is powered by my Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus. Here's the chain order:

-Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
-Paul Cochran Tim Overdrive
-MXR Carbon Copy
-TC Electronic ND-1 Nova Delay
-Melekko Omnicron Trem
-Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Reverb
-Vox Classic Wah
I also have a Korg Pitchblack Tuner coming out of the volume pedal.

Also this is played with either a '52 Fender reissue tele or a Tim Armstrong sig model Gretsch hollowbody, and is projected through a Fender Blues Jr. NOS Hot Rod III.

Nice set up!

Nice set up!

Thanks. I think it's finally getting to be a very functional board for how I play.

I already posted my board. Here is an asat shot.

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Added a CryBaby. Believe it or not, the lid actually fits.

I was about ready to get rid of my wah wah pedal all together, but then found a couple of things that I could use it for in the worship music setting. Love it and use it almost weekly now.

08 FSR Western Tele, (MIM) 4 way switch, plugged into AC30HW2. Signal from guitar to amp starts with the Boss TU2, Morley Little Alligator, MXR m-66, Visual Sound Jekyll and Hyde (V2), Boss Rv-5, Line 6 DL4, and the BBE Sonic Stomp, Sonic Maximizer.
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I plan on getting rid of Little Alligator, and getting what everybody else gets for a volume pedal. I also will be swap the TU2, and get the new Mini Poly tuner, (That thing is sweet!). Maybe adding a trem and another overdrive and or distortion. I am trying to keep my pedal board somewhat minimal, to preserve tone. I will put whatever I can fit on that board, that's my limit. :grin: Somehow I don't think that will happen though....

Those amps are just as beautiful as they sound, and I don't use the word beautiful for inanimate objects to often... I suggest them to anyone who asks about the vox lines.

Fun fact, "Vox" is latin for voice, and is actually more pronounced like "Wox", with a long O sound, but nobody pronounces it that way when referring to the company.

I was about ready to get rid of my wah wah pedal all together, but then found a couple of things that I could use it for in the worship music setting. Love it and use it almost weekly now.

Crybaby makes a killer treble boost in the full-up position, too!

I plan on getting rid of Little Alligator, and getting what everybody else gets for a volume pedal.

I really like the Visual Sound volume pedal - it has a row of LEDs that shows you how far the pedal is on. It also has an active or passive option, with the active option offering clean boost after unity gain.

Love the amp, Tim!

This is it at the moment.

Pretty simple really. literally does everything and sounds absolutely amazing.

http://www.goughanddavy.co.uk/admin1/image/3357_c877169_image_0.jpg

actually not using the Marshall at the moment, or the Orange Tiny terror (awesome amp) im plugged usually straight into PA

I'll bite...

"Area 51:"

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/100_3569c.jpg

All going into this, which is set up on a custom model to sound like stereo Twin Reverbs going into a 4X12 cab with V30's:

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/amp.jpg

(I know, some of you are probably thinking, "Why go through that crazy large pedalboard when the Line6 has all that stuff built in?" I tried it - and the pedals sound better.)

Here's my Tele:

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/100_9233b.jpg

and my other guitars (yeah, ok, I'm more of a strat guy:)

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/group.jpg

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/epiwr.jpg

[QUOTE=TheToneRanger;3960104]I'll bite...

"Area 51:"

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/100_3569c.jpg

:shock: Wow! I'm assuming that board stays in the church all of the time?

:shock: Wow! I'm assuming that board stays in the church all of the time?

Oh yeah - I'd be in a back brace otherwise...

Here's a studio pic of me and my rig. My board is a little different now. (Since ya can't see the board good, here's the CURRENT roster)

Visual Volume, Boss Tuner, Dunlop Jimi Hendrix wah, MXR Dyna-Comp, Boss OC-2 Octave, Keeley modded TS-9, Tonebone Classic, EH Stereo Electric Mistress, Boss Super Chorus, Diamond Memory Lane (with Roland Expression pedal for feedback control), Boss DD-5 (with remote Boss tap), Line6 Verbzilla, and a custom built "Zach Smith (that's me) Brass Knuckles" Drive/Boost. (I think that's all! Haha!)

All running thru a Goodsell Custom 33, with my '78 Tele w/ Seymour Duncan's (Vintage Stack-bridge; Hot Stack-middle; Vintage Mini-neck), Dimarzio jumbo frets, and a 3 way toggle switch, with an "off-on" mini toggle for the Strat pickup (Hot Stack).

I don't have a picture of them all together, but here goes

Guitars: 2007 Gibson Custom Shop LP Slash VOS, 2003 Fender '52 RI Telecaster. I almost always use the Les Paul in church, I've had it longer and am more comfortable playing it live.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg306/mrjordan55/teleslash.jpg
Amp: Marshall AFD Slash signature head. I run it through either a Marshall 1960AV 4x12, or an Orange 1x12. This is the only picture I have of it, but it's pretty cool IMHO.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg306/mrjordan55/_DSC1749.jpg
Effects board: Last November I seriously started putting my pedal board together. I ended up selling every pedal I had, though that wasn't the plan. Very happy with the result. Signal chain is:
Guitar>TU3>POG>Clyde Deluxe Wah>Ego Compressor>Paisley OD>EVH Phase 90>Amp
The Empress Superdelay>Tremolo>Reverb run through the effects loop.
I only use the wireless setup at youth group...we tend to be a little crazier during worship there than in church on Sunday mornings.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg306/mrjordan55/IMG_1833.jpg

http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz53/riptopaz/af876f8e.jpg

This, wearing a new set of Chromes, run DI with an Aviom for monitoring. Also trying out my new set of UE Triplefi 10's this week. The church's IEMs don't handle bass at all, so I made the investment in a good set for myself.

Still debating on bringing an amp. The PA could use a little help with the bass.

I don't have a picture of them all together, but here goes

Guitars: 2007 Gibson Custom Shop LP Slash VOS, 2003 Fender '52 RI Telecaster. I almost always use the Les Paul in church, I've had it longer and am more comfortable playing it live.

Amp: Marshall AFD Slash signature head. I run it through either a Marshall 1960AV 4x12, or an Orange 1x12. This is the only picture I have of it, but it's pretty cool IMHO.

Effects board: Last November I seriously started putting my pedal board together. I ended up selling every pedal I had, though that wasn't the plan. Very happy with the result. Signal chain is:
Guitar>TU3>POG>Clyde Deluxe Wah>Ego Compressor>Paisley OD>EVH Phase 90>Amp
The Empress Superdelay>Tremolo>Reverb run through the effects loop.
I only use the wireless setup at youth group...we tend to be a little crazier during worship there than in church on Sunday mornings.


How much use do you get from the POG?

I'll bite...

"Area 51:"

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/100_3569c.jpg


and my other guitars (yeah, ok, I'm more of a strat guy:)

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/group.jpg

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/tomandlainey/epiwr.jpg

Ha ha, nice "Easy Button". Also, what kind of strats are those??

Ha ha, nice "Easy Button". Also, what kind of strats are those??

This silver is a frankenstein partscaster with DAllen "Big Cats" pickups.
The 2TSB is a Jimmie Vaughan sig with Klein S-7's p'ups and a Callaham trem.
The blue is a '93 Plus Deluxe body with '62 RI neck, S-7 p'ups and refinished in a 1967 Pontiac GTO color called "Mariner Turquoise."
The white/yellow in a MIJ Squier with DAllen "VoodooBlues" p'ups.
The bare wood one is a '89 Am std body (the original neck is on the silver,) Warmoth "boat" neck and DAllen "Dover" p'ups.

How much use do you get from the POG?

I've only had it for a few weeks, but our song of response after the sermon is chosen by the pastor and is usually an old-school hymn. I use it as an organ, sounds awesome. Other than that, I just fool around with it as a twelve string when I'm playing my tele, or as an organ if I'm playing my Les Paul.

Here's what I'm working with.
Dashboard pedalboard. I'll switch between my tele and the Les paul depending on what sound I'm feeling. All that is run through to a radial sgi box to the Orange Tiny Terror and a Orange 112 cab with a celestion vintage 30 which is micd by a sm57 and a e609.

I use either my tele or my strat at church. I actualy have my Gibson SG Special for sale/trade at the moment. I need a good acoustic, and I'm not loving the SG so much anyway. As for my amp, I use a modded Fender Blues Junior. The sound guy is super picky, and he said I have to have an amp with a line out. I asked him if I could just mic it, but he said a lineout is better. While installing the lineout, I decided to improve the tone of the amp aswell.

Fender Blues Junior

Billm Recap Kit (had a bad hum, turned out to be leaking caps)

Billm Standard Kit AKA Tonestack Mod

Billm Twinstack Mod

Billm Standby Switch Mod

and of course- Billm Lineout Mod

I believe my tele is a MIM Standard. I got it from a college kid who needed money for school. I got it for $350. It has quite a few mods.

MIM Standard Tele

Upgraded CTS Pots (push pull tone pot for coil splitting)

Seymour Duncan Hot Rails bridge pickup

Upgraded bridge (not sure what it is, but it isn't strung through the body anymore)

It has been refinished and the pickguard has been changed

The strat-

Fender MIM Standard Sunburst Strat

Upgraded CTS pots

Fender Custom Shop 69 Pickups

Pearloid Pickguard

And last but not least, the pedalboard-

Guitar_Dunlop GCB95_Boss TU-3_Boss DF-2 MIJ_ Keeley Boss SD-1_Boss Ce-2 MIJ green label_Amp

I still plan to get an MXR Carbon Copy, Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, and a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus. I have a Dunlop DC Brick for the moment. It can't power my vintage Boss pedals, so I have to swich the VLPP2+. I'm using batteries for the MIJ Boss pedals for now.

Wow........just WOW to all the posts. Man I NEVER would have imagined effects and boards like that in Church 30 years ago. Nice stuff. Ky

Here's mine from Easter.

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http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachments/worship-service-players/114386d1329496558-show-us-your-worship-rig-forumrunner_20120217_103548-jpg

Digging the Cathedral reverb - very appropriate!

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My current rig. MIM Tele all stock with a Vox AC 15C1-BL. pedal board is pedal train pro powered by voodoo labs pedal power 2. Signal path is Boss SD-1, cry baby wah, ds-1' tube screamer, Fulltone fat boost, mxr phase 90, Seymour Duncan volume pedal, (tu-2 tuner is not in the chain), mxr dyna comp, mxr carbon copy and dd-7 with tap tempo.

Set up at home on an off week but here it is.
AmDlx strat, EJ Rosewood strat, U.S. HrDlx with Torres Eng. tubes
and pedal board.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/jazzrat/DSC01304.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/jazzrat/DSC01307.jpg

Jazzrat - what's the switch between the the Fulldrive2 and the Zendrive?

what's the switch between the the Fulldrive2 and the Zendrive?

That's a "favorite" switch for the Strymon delay. The Strymon allows you to have a complete second set of settings saved as a preset which is accessed via the favorite switch. The knobs are set for my "always on" delay setting while the favorite switch accesses a preset with bumped time/mix/repeats for more ambient stuff.

I don't have a picture of them all together, but here goes

Guitars: 2007 Gibson Custom Shop LP Slash VOS, 2003 Fender '52 RI Telecaster. I almost always use the Les Paul in church, I've had it longer and am more comfortable playing it live.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg306/mrjordan55/teleslash.jpg
Amp: Marshall AFD Slash signature head. I run it through either a Marshall 1960AV 4x12, or an Orange 1x12. This is the only picture I have of it, but it's pretty cool IMHO.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg306/mrjordan55/_DSC1749.jpg

LP and Tele (for me clones) do get most tones I 'm work with/toward.

I'm Diggin' the AFD Slash pic! Mines a Teenager and wouldn't quite fit the Lil Night Train head.

I've really been working on on getting my board 100% usable. In the past there have been a lot of unused effects. All this is used almost every week.

I use a Pedaltrain board. Everything is powered by my Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 Plus. Here's the chain order:

-Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
-Paul Cochran Tim Overdrive
-MXR Carbon Copy
-TC Electronic ND-1 Nova Delay
-Melekko Omnicron Trem
-Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Reverb
-Vox Classic Wah
I also have a Korg Pitchblack Tuner coming out of the volume pedal.

Also this is played with either a '52 Fender reissue tele or a Tim Armstrong sig model Gretsch hollowbody, and is projected through a Fender Blues Jr. NOS Hot Rod III.

How do you like the Tim? A friend is going to loan me the timmy, but I would never get the timmy soley because of its name. (My name is Tim, and I can't stand it when people call me Timmy, so if I had a pedal named that...) Is the boost worth it?

Here is my board I use for bass and for my tele. I play guitar for youth worship and bass for the Sunday service.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/303385_345934242110748_159191534118354_865823_1858 278778_n.jpg

Currently an Gibby ES-135 trough an Engl Classic 50 head and Engl Classic Custom 4x10 cabinet, internal reverb as only fx and a foot to switch between clean and crunch. The pic is from my studio, but live as in the studio I run the righ trough a Sontronics Halo microphone, the best little amp mic I've found.

I only have one guitar now, a G.E. Smith Tele, LOVE IT!!! I was using a 1971 vintage all tube, (4-EL-34's), 1-12" 130 watt Music Man, great amp! Love it in general! But entirely too big and too heavy for me to lug around too and from church all the time, only sounds good if it's too loud, and tonally limited without many pedals that I can't invest in, yet. Then I got a solid state Line 6 spider 2, 2-10" 130 watt. (CHEAP!). Very versatile, but again, more amp than I need, and big and heavy. I recently did something I never thought I would, got a Line 6 POD XT LIVE. I love my tubes, but I have to say I'm liking this thing! Small, versatile as it gets, any tone/effects you can imagine, has a built-in volume or wah pedal, runs through the PA, great! Of course the success or failure of using a POD greatly depends on a cooperative guitar-loving sound man, which thank God we have! Haha. The setup is thus: Guitar into POD into one line out to a direct box (for mono), or two lines out into two direct boxes (for stereo, this depends on how the PA is settup), direct box(es) into mic cord(s) into PA. I set the EQ's on my channel on the sound board "flat", turned my monitor volume almost all the way up and everyone else lower, then got my own personal monitor with a volume knob. So I have complete control over how I hear myself. I also had the sound man set my house volume as loud as it needs to be with my volume pedal about a third of the way up, so I can open it up for playing leads then bring it back down on rhythm. So all I have to do is show up, plug in three cords to the POD, and play! Sorry this got lengthy, but I love talking gear and tech! Haha

How do you like the Tim? A friend is going to loan me the timmy, but I would never get the timmy soley because of its name. (My name is Tim, and I can't stand it when people call me Timmy, so if I had a pedal named that...) Is the boost worth it?

I love the Tim. Never shut it off, and it had the extra boost switch if I need to stand out. Great piece to my sound.

I only have one guitar now, a G.E. Smith Tele, LOVE IT!!! I was using a 1971 vintage all tube, (4-EL-34's), 1-12" 130 watt Music Man, great amp! Love it in general! But entirely too big and too heavy for me to lug around too and from church all the time, only sounds good if it's too loud, and tonally limited without many pedals that I can't invest in, yet. Then I got a solid state Line 6 spider 2, 2-10" 130 watt. (CHEAP!). Very versatile, but again, more amp than I need, and big and heavy. I recently did something I never thought I would, got a Line 6 POD XT LIVE. I love my tubes, but I have to say I'm liking this thing! Small, versatile as it gets, any tone/effects you can imagine, has a built-in volume or wah pedal, runs through the PA, great! Of course the success or failure of using a POD greatly depends on a cooperative guitar-loving sound man, which thank God we have! Haha. The setup is thus: Guitar into POD into one line out to a direct box (for mono), or two lines out into two direct boxes (for stereo, this depends on how the PA is settup), direct box(es) into mic cord(s) into PA. I set the EQ's on my channel on the sound board "flat", turned my monitor volume almost all the way up and everyone else lower, then got my own personal monitor with a volume knob. So I have complete control over how I hear myself. I also had the sound man set my house volume as loud as it needs to be with my volume pedal about a third of the way up, so I can open it up for playing leads then bring it back down on rhythm. So all I have to do is show up, plug in three cords to the POD, and play! Sorry this got lengthy, but I love talking gear and tech! Haha

Tell me about the patches and settings you use on the POD? Do you have just a few or several?