You "Guitar Rig"?

[telekafunkle]

Not the recording software/wardware, like your set-up, (I think almost everyone knows what I mean...). Here is mine: Not I am not going to list all of my guitars and amps right now, as I have 6 guitars and 1 bass, just how I set things up/how I have it right now and use the most...:

Yorkville 50KW Multi-Purpose Amp/Monitor for guitar, vocals, bass, and keyboard...Its got an effects loop...(It is of segnificance I will show in a minute)...

A Boss GT-8 with effects send/return...(Of significance in a minute).

Any of my guitars...(Tele )...

So, I use something called the "4 Cable Method"...You basically hook up cables to the effects loop of the Boss GT-8 to the Yorkville...It bypasses the yorkville, putting the bott gt-8 as a pre-amp, and the yorkville as a power amp...Basically, the only tone the amp generates is from the speaker in it...

Its 50W, I don't use it live, as I have not played live for quite some time (twice in total in the last 3 years)...

So, the Boss GT-8 does EVERYTHING I need...Good for recording, EVERY single pedal ever made (basically...But ALL from boss, but a few other from other brands, i.e. Digitech, Ibanez)...Someone said, and quote "Its everything you need and them some"...I would suggest for anyone to check it out...$250 off the internet...Discontinued because of the GT-10 (which I don't care much for), but because the GT-10 came out and the GT-8 was discontinued, the price droped a mere $400...I am a big fan of multi-effects, and this has it all, but it does SOOO much more. You can even change the order of the effects as if you had indevidual effects in an effects chain!!!

Pretty simple, but is quite the set-up...


Also, I put a down-payment on the "ART SGX2000" with the "ART Ultrafoot midi-foot controller" for the main ART SGX rack mount...Yep, it is an all-tube pre-amp, rack-unit...$300, from the 1980's, and a good example of old discontinued items being great...The good thing is it has got the classic "80's" sound, anywhere from Van Halen to Journey...But even better? IT IS THE REAL THING!!! This was a $1500 unit in the 1980's and not only creates the sounds, but is the ORIGINAL, used by many famous artists in the 80's...All effects units now just re-create the sound, but this actually is the original sound.

Also, a good note: Any GT series BEFORE the Boss GT-10 are EXTREMELY CHEAP!!! Everytime a new GT series pedal comes out, the one just before it (example: The GT-8 down from the GT-10) gets discontinued and forces retailers and internet-sellers to drop the price.


So, I will be using the ART, and with the Boss and the ART, I will literally have a professional set-up (for a home player atleast), I am actually VERY pleased about all of this, maybe I shouldn't be, but meh, I am...


So, what is YOUR rig?

[Lerb21]

I don't do anything complicated.

I've got some 1/4" jacks that go straight into my computer. I plug my Behringer PA board into that.

I then either use my Tele + PODxt Live combination directly in or the Tele + PODxt Live + Twin Reverb + Peavey Mic Combo.

[telekafunkle]

Originally Posted by Lerb21

I don't do anything complicated.

I've got some 1/4" jacks that go straight into my computer. I plug my Behringer PA board into that.

I then either use my Tele + PODxt Live combination directly in or the Tele + PODxt Live + Twin Reverb + Peavey Mic Combo.

Nice...See, pretty good set-up my friend, . Doesn't have to be complicated...My thing: "Get more band for your buck"!

[PaisleyIsGod]

A few months ago it went something like...

'72 style thinline

Boss TU-2
Boss NS-2
Digitech Bad Monkey OD
Behringer Reverb
Digi-Delay

Peavey Triumph 60 all-tube head
Randall Jaguar 412 cab

Had to sell off a lot of gear to pay for school, but I recently got a Classic 50s Esquire. I only have a small practice amp but it's fine for now, as I'm not gigging right now and most of the recording I do goes through Guitar Rig. I kind of want to stay away from pedals if I can (effects at least), which is why I'm on the hunt for a nice amp.

[Jerolin]

Pretty impressive!

I have a rather diverse live set up, mainly because I play in two VERY different bands.

For my blues-rock band I usually use my Italia Rimini, 60s Silvertone Bobkat (for slide), Electro-Harmonix Double Muff, ModTone Analog Delay, and a mic'd Blues Jr. for the amp. Very, very simplistic.

I'm also in a noisy alternative band, similar to Brand New from The Devil and God are raging inside me era. The set up I use live is a bit more complicated for it, but still not too overblown. 1968 Hagstrom II, MIM Telecaster with a GFS mini-humbucker in the neck position, 60s Fender Duo-Sonic, and a Squier thinline Telecaster that's been modded to hell and back. The pedals I use are EHX double muff, Behringer vintage distortion, boss AW-2 auto wah, cheapo danelectro Chorus (sounds ok in spite of the price), and Modtone analog delay. I mic the good old blues jr. again for this one.

I use so many guitars for that band because we use several different tunings. The Hagstrom II is particularly cool for doing some good old noise-rock effects, like screaming through the pickups because they're a bit microphonic.

[Telarkaster]

I plug my guitar into a Boss TU-2 tuner (which powers the other pedals in my chain), then into a Marshall "Edward the Compressor", then a Bad Monkey and then a MXR Phase 90. These plug into a Silverface Twin Reverb (at home or on stage), or one of a couple amps at the practice studio (Marshall half stacks or Fender Hot Rod Deville).

I recently retired the Boss DM3 delay pedal. Been a while since I used my wah, it's too heavy and not really appropriate for the music I play now. The phase 90 covers what I need now, probably my favourite pedal.

I don't need more than 3 effects and a tuner and it's rare that more than one is on at a time. If I play my Les Paul I don't even use the compressor. If I play my Casino all I need is my tuner.

[tazzboy]

This is pretty much Just my guitar and amp. I going to be getting some effects really soon.

[smsuryan]

Esquire....carvin nomad amp...thats pretty much it

[Lerb21]

Originally Posted by Telarkaster

..."Edward the Compressor"...

Dude.

Seriously.

That is awesome.

I can't come up with any Medieval titles that are similar to guitar pedals... "William the Choruser" just sounds stupid.

[outbreak]

my mim telecaster into my vox ad50vt no pedals anymore. Back when i gigged it was just my guitar into my danelectro fab tone into whichever band we were playing withs amp.

[ADK Teleman]

2009 HWY 1 Tele into a Digitech RP 355 amp: Fender Super Champ XD or Peavey Bandit 65.

[Tdub]

Guitar, wah, distortion pedal, tube amp.

[guitarman823]

Keep mine pretty simple, too. Tele into a Boss ME-50 to a Peavey ValveKing 112. All in all, best tone I've had in 35 years of playing.

[Telarkaster]

Originally Posted by Lerb21

Dude.

Seriously.

That is awesome.

I can't come up with any Medieval titles that are similar to guitar pedals... "William the Choruser" just sounds stupid.

I wish I could say I made it up! I laughed when I saw it, the salesman had no grasp of history and didn't get it...



Not a bad comp, helps the p90s on my Goldtop Epi Les Paul twang, adds guts and oomph to my Strat, and countrifies my Tele even more if that's possible...

[Nash]

Logan Custom Tele -> Peavey Classic 30

It's all I need.

[Zillinois]

Modded MIA strat with hot noiseless (or a tele Deluxe)-> Seymour Duncan Boost-> Boss EQ pedal -> Crybaby Wah-> Mesa Boogie Tremoverb + Alesis Quadraverb in the loop.

[rob2]

Edward the Compressor-great!I was tempted to phone JMI when these came out to comgratulate them on the most subtle bit of humor in rock history!
I wonder who on the Marshall team came up with that-pure genius!
Oh,rig...
'72 Thinline plus a backup(Squier 51 very often now).Always use the backup for the last hour at practice too.
Maxon OD9/ Dano-Daddy O....then Jen Crybaby for 2 songs
'90's Blues Deluxe
Weirdly our bassist has mission control blinking in front of him,real role reversal!

[Westerly Sunn]

I generally go guitar > amp but I still have an SGX2000... They made it as a Bass optimized unit also; The Nightbass...

[HappyTelecaster]

Tele or Strat - ca. 1991 Marshall 9000 Series tube rack preamp - goes directly into the PA. This setup simply rocks and I don`t need to drag around heavy stuff like in the years before.

[Strat God]

My rig is this side of the drums. It gets me through.

[Parma_TeleMon]

Originally Posted by Strat God

My rig is this side of the drums. It gets me through.

I wanted a setup like that for my church rig, but our worship leader thought it was a little excessive.

'05 USA FSR '69 Thinline RI > Vox ToneLab LE (with Blackstar HT-DIST in the insert loop) > Egnater Rebel 30 as live monitor and I use its XLR direct out to the board.

[octatonic]

I have different rigs for different gigs.

The Rockabilly band is an ES295 and a pair of Kinman Teles into a Fulltone boost, Ibanez analog delay into a 1962 Fender Bassman.

The Roots/Blues/Country stuff are the 2 teles into a small pedalboard with a Wah, Telenorida Treble Booster, Overdrive and compressor, a couple of delays into a 65 Amps Soho.

The modern rock/prog band I use a PRS Custom 24, a pair of Ibanez shredders, pair of strats into a Wah, Dynacomp, Octaver, Whammy, OCD, Stinkbug, Volume and Eventide Modfactor and Timefactor into a Mesa Dual Rectifier head & a Fender Prosonic head.
For smaller gigs I use just a Fender Prosonic combo.

Then I have a looping rig which is a Line 6 POD Pro XT, Echo Pro, Lexicon MPXG2, MPX1 and an Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro looper- direct to the PA.

[A.B.Negative]

Guitar (Tele, Gretsch or Strat usually)
Digitech Bad Monkey
Distortion (usually Tech 21 British, occasionally Boss DS1 with Keeley-style mods)
Boss TU2 tuner (after the other pedals so I can use it as a kill switch)
Amp (Marshall AVT100, Sessionette 75 or ZT Lunchbox depending on venue and transport).

[Jakedog]

Here's the current rig for whatever I happen to be doing, be it country, alt. country, blues, or rock, or whatever else I get called for. Live or studio-

Carvin Bolt plus hardtail with SD '59's ==> Boss TU-2 Tuner ==> Boss BD2 ==> MXR Classic Distortion ==> Amp.

Amps vary. If I need a ton of clean headroom, I'll use one of my Peavey Bandits, or my Carvin SX200. If I want more whomp, and slightly less headroom, which is what I am starting to lean toward more lately, I use a modded '86 Marshall Artist 3203 head and my Carvin V212 open back cab.

[jazztele]

guitar: my old modded tele or godin 5th avenue kingpin

...into an alesis nanoverb (set very minimal, sometimes not used, depending on the room...

...into a polytone minibrute III (15 inch speaker) or, for small gigs with a bass player, i've been using the zt lunchbox.

that's about it.

[Saxguitar]

My rig cost me less than $200:
SX STL50>>>Boss Ds-1>>>Line 6 15w Spider III.

Nothing special but it keeps me going for now.

[xjazzy]

My live rig is:
Strat or Squier CV Esquire-zed -> Boss GT-6 -> soundboard
Godin Multiac ACS -> volume pedal -> Digiverb -> soundboard

At home I usually play my tele -> SD Twin Tube -> DRRI or the tele -> Torres 5E3

[JimmyJam]

Originally Posted by telekafunkle

Also, I put a down-payment on the "ART SGX2000" with the "ART Ultrafoot midi-foot controller" for the main ART SGX rack mount...Yep, it is an all-tube pre-amp, rack-unit...$300, from the 1980's, and a good example of old discontinued items being great...The good thing is it has got the classic "80's" sound, anywhere from Van Halen to Journey...But even better? IT IS THE REAL THING!!! This was a $1500 unit in the 1980's and not only creates the sounds, but is the ORIGINAL, used by many famous artists in the 80's...All effects units now just re-create the sound, but this actually is the original sound.

So, I will be using the ART, and with the Boss and the ART, I will literally have a professional set-up (for a home player atleast), I am actually VERY pleased about all of this, maybe I shouldn't be, but meh, I am...

I used to have the ART SGX2000 with the ultra foot controller. Ran it into a mosvalve power amp (8 space rack) into an Acoustic 4x12. It was nice, but I never got used to how synthetic it sounded. Plus it took so much time to dial in good tones.

Nowdays I run the guitar into a Bad Monkey, Tube Screamer (1st gen) then straight to a Blues JR.
I still have a bunch of other stomp boxes, but just like things to be simple.

[Fendrcaster]

My rig is pretty simple. Guitar > Boss ME-50 > sometimes an Eventide PitchFactor > Mesa Boogie Lone Star. I only use the ME-50 for the tuner, compressor, some slap back delay and occasional chorus or phase shifter.

[Apok]

Guitars:

Fender MIM Telecaster (Fender Custom Shop 52' pups, Gotoh Tuners)
Eastwood Rocket 6 Bigsby (Guitar Fetish Tuxedo Bridge/Tube Humbucker Neck)

Amps:

Traynor YCV-40WR
Johnson Millenium JM-150 w/J-12 Midi Controller


I haven't needed any effects since I picked up the Johnson for $300.

[DocG]

Tokai Strat or Partscaster -> Boss Blues Driver -> Boss Chorus -> Fender Hot Rod Deville.
You should see all the "retired" gear that's lying around here...

[Clutch442]

Tele, Strat, or Ibanez, Mesa Triple Rec, and a cord.

[eggman]

Howdy,

USACG Flamed Mahogany Tele, guitar cable and Dr. Z Carmen Ghia. For open G "Keef" applications, I set aside my Tele and go to my Rickenbacker 360. I know, nuts. Works for me.

Eggman

[neocaster]

Originally Posted by outbreak

my mim telecaster into my vox ad50vt no pedals anymore. Back when i gigged it was just my guitar into my danelectro fab tone into whichever band we were playing withs amp.

Been in my room again, eh? Scary. I have a pedal board I like but it comes and goes. I'm pushing fundamentals now, so I moved the distractions aside so I can hear what I'm playing. When it's on it goes:

MIM Tele
MXR Dynacomp
MXR Phase 90
MXR Distortion+
SPF Ego Boost
Morley Bad Horsie Wah
Pharoah Echo Jr
Boss Digital Reverb
Boss Loop Station 2
Vox AD50VT

[hannigan]

Originally Posted by tazzboy

This is pretty much Just my guitar and amp. I going to be getting some effects really soon.

Is that amp head the lunch vox?
I kind of want to get one .

[SatelliteOrders]

Telecaster. I have an 80s MIJ top-loader and a newer SX STL50 that I have tuned down to C# right now.

Boss CS3, often set up as a boost pedal because I've been having some monitor problems lately. I have the Danelectro tremolo pedal and a Dunlop wah, but I plug in the compression most often.

Korg ToneWorks AX1500G multi-effects pedal.

DI box.

That's it.

[jimbach]

I plug a guitar into an amp, turn it up until it feels good, and play.

Sometimes I pick up my acoustic and pretend I'm Pete Townshend.

[RomanS]

Two "rigs:
rig #1 (for my country rock/rockabilly cover band (currently on a break, because our bass player moved away, looking for a replacement)):
solidbody Tele-partscaster w/ Bigsby B5, Fender Nocaster bridge PU & VVG CC-Rider neck PU
homemade 8-string lap steel (tuned C6)
Korg Pitchblack tuner
Zoom PowerDrive (used as clean solo boost)
Barber LTD overdrive
homemade EA tremolo (we do a lot of CCR songs...)
Artec SE-ADL delay (for 50s slapback echo)
EHx Holy Grail reverb (mostly used with lap steel)
George Dennis vol.pedal
PCL Vintage Amp VA1956 (1980s German-made amp head based on the Boogie Mk I and Mk II models; 50W from 2x 6L6)
ancient Hohner speaker cab loaded with 1x10" and 1x12" Eminence Legend speakers

rig #2 (for my alt.country/Americana/singer-songwriter band):
Thinline Tele-partscaster w/ Bigsby B16, DiMarzio PreB1 bridge PU and Artec neck PU
12-string Tele-partscaster
Danelectro 56Pro turned into a baritone guitar (tuned B-B)
homemade 8-string lap steel (tuned C6)
homemade 6-string lap steel (tuned E7) with a Duesenberg Multibender, for PSG-like stuff (currently thinking about replacing those two LS by building a double-neck console-style lap steel)
Korg Pitchblack tuner
homemade combination of heavily modded AMZ mini-booste and Nobels-ODR1 clone
George Dennis vol.pedal
homemade Rebote 2.5 delay
currently building a Janglebox clone (for the 12-string)
homemade Princeton Reverb clone, with lots of tweaks and mods, 15" Jensen Neo speaker

[Sea Level]

Tele or Jazzmaster in to either Princeton Reverb or to a Virbroverb RI w/ FD-2 and Fulltone wah.

[mr natural]

Nuthin' fancy:
2003 American series Tele> Digitech Digidelay> old MXR Distortion+> Rotovibe> Legend Super Lead 50.

I sometimes add a DOD compressor 280 before the digidelay.

My Crybaby needs a new pot, but when it worked it came first in the chain.

If this money I'm waitin' on ever gets here, I will be adding a Moogerfooger Ring mod somewhere in the chain, possibly in the Legend's fx loop.
-Mr. Natural