What's your stage set up?

[Blazer]

Guitars:
1. My striped Squier Tele
2. My TeleSg
3. My Cort Jim Triggs signature thinline

Effects:
1. Dunlop Jimi Hendrix wah (sound much better than the crybabies)
2. Ibanez Metal charger
3. Boss turbo overdrive
4. Boss Chorus esemble
5. Boss Digital delay

Amp:
Yamaha VS 3000 solid state tube emulated 50 watt combo (designed by Soldano) with single 12 inch eminence speaker.

This is what I use onstage with The Worst and I'm sastisfied with the tones I get. Evert Jan, our singer rithem guitarist has a Gibson SG and a Marshall valvestate, which in theory should sound great but he screws up his sound by using a Zoom multy effects unit, my much cheaper set up outdoes his rig.

[Ben Harmless]

Current rig is my MIM Tele Special straight into a Marshall JCM-800. Simple, effective, no-nonsense.



Actually, I'm not playing guitar for anyone right now, so my currect stage setup with the current project "The Paper Cuts," actually consists of a $100 Ibanez bass plugged into whatever I can beg, borrow, or steal.

[Chrismeyer]

Flamecaster
Am.Deluxe 3-pup Tux-Both with vintage noiseless pup's
'53 Gibson acoustic(yes,I take it on the road)
Marshall JCM 800 (1-12)
Marshall JCM 900 (dual reverb)(2-12)
Boss tuner
Boss compressor/sustainer(the best thing I EVER bought)
Ampeg 4-12
All speakers are celestion vintage 30's
The two Marshalls are running on-board spk's,plus running the 4-12 cab in stereo,2-2
The 800 is clean mostly,just a little break-up for thickness and bite.
The 900 is either completely distorted for rock/or any solo's,or TOTALLY clean for country rythem stuff.both run simultaniously all the time.
It's a HUGE tone,fat and sassy.
Twang or smooth classic warm distortion.

[Brad Miller]

A 52 RI with duncan 5/2 pups>
Carl Martin comp>
Boss chorus>
Rat>
Tubescreamer>
Boss DD-5>
Deluxe Reverb RI

[halouis]

Les Paul or Tele
TU-2 tuner
'69 fuzz (for 2 songs)
crowther hot cake (for crunchier rhythms)
Keeley Rat (for leads)
Marshall JMP MV 50watter -> Marshall silver Jub 4x12 slant (v-30s)

i just added the fuzz and hot cake in the chain in the last few weeks. had them lying around and not knowing how to incorporate them with this rig. but now I think I got it figured out nicely.

I set the Amp up for a classic medium AC/DC crunch. not too gainy. preamp on about 6. pick lightly or roll the vol down and its get a nice clean tone. engage the Hot Cake, and it pushes the amp very nicely into a thick rock modern crunch.

the LP and the Tele are interchangeable live. I love them both. depends on my moods which one will be the #1 that night. lately it's been the LP, but The Tele is still my favorite guitar and will always be.

[Tim Armstrong]

I'm the bass player in my present band, with this rig:

Tokai '57 P-bass modified with a glorious Voodoo pickup and a sweet Warmoth Tele Bass neck, no effects, into a Genz Benz ML-200 combo with a tweeter and a 12" speaker (upgraded to an Eminence Kappa 400-watter), with a line out to the P.A. system. I'm in the process of buying a Traynor Bassmaster 50-watt head and 2x12 cab (Celestion G12H-80s) that'll probably replace the GB (I really like tubes!) and I'll use a direct box to send a signal to the P.A.

When I DO play a gig as a guitarist, it's this:

1966 Fender Telecaster (Fiesta Red, rosewood board) with a Van Zandt flatpole bridge pickup and a G&L ASAT MFD (the soapbar-sized one) in the neck, no effects, into a mid-70s Traynor YGM-3 Guitarmate (2xEL-84 into a Celestion G12H-80). The afforementioned Bassmaster will likely get some work too, as it's like a Plexi in Canadian camoflage! I also just bought a DeArmond M-75T, kinda Les Paul meets Gretsch, that'll be working its way in...

Cheers, Tim

[ye olde fretmonkey]

Squier Affinity Tele
Boss Metal Zone pedal
Go-rilla 35 watt amp

About all I do is play the intro to 'Crazy Train' over and over.


No...seriously.

[ye olde fretmonkey]

Got ya!


For 40 Miles of Bad Road, my honky tonk band, it's:

Cheapo Harmony acoustic, or
50s Classic Tele
Danelectro compressor
Ibanez digital delay
Stage tuner
Peavey Classic 30 (with a Celestion V30 in it) or Fender Blues Jr.

For Gravy Boat, my roots/Southern rock band, it's:

50s Classic or MIM Standard hotrodded with 1 EMG active single coil and no neck pup
Danelectro compressor
Ibanez Super Tube
delay
tuner
amp

[0le FUZZY]

Black hat.

Black shirt.

Black pants.

Black boots.

Black TELECASTER strap.

Black wrist bands.

Black pick.

Black Twin.

Black bass.

Black Peavey cabs and head.

Black pickguard onna blonde or butterscotch TELECASTER.

Life is good!! TELECASTERs are wunnerful an it don't git no better niss!!
---0.F.---

[GilmourD]

• Guitars
• 2003 MIM Sunburst Standard Tele, maple board, 52RI Bridge with Broadcaster and Duncan SSL-1 in the neck in a one layer black guard
• 1996 Sonic Blue Tex Mex Tele Special, maple board, 52RI Bridge, Van Zandt Vintage Plus, stock bucker in the neck, AllParts TMO-FAT neck
• 1994 MIM Black Standard Strat, maple board, (bridge to neck) Duncan APS-1/FLS Gold/Vintage Noiseless, String Saver Saddles, Torres Engineering Super Midrange Control, Pearl guard
• Partscaster Strat, Warmoth hardtail (Stew Mac bridge with string saver saddles) ash body in walnut brown stain, AllParts big headstock maple board neck, pearl guard and black covers/knobs, Duncan Custom Custom zebra in the bridge, two unidentified "Fender" single coils (one with a grey baseplate)
• Epiphone Honeyburst Les Paul Standard Flametop, Duncan '59 zebras, coil cuts on two push-pulls, string saver saddles
  
  Amp
• 1974 Bassman head
• Peavey 412MS cabinet loaded with Sheffield 1290s
  
  Effects
• DOD FX7 floor processor

[aln413]

check it!!!

00 amer stan tele(natural finish)
white pearloid pickguard,maple neck
fender lace sensors(red bridge,blue neck)

les paul studio lmtd ed pewter (#10)only 120 made just got it.(might sell) tele man at heart!!!

line 6 flextone II hd W/line 6 4/12 slant cab(any sound i need,and talk about ballz)!!!

short sweet and to the point!!!

lookin for an amer stan tele in butterscotch if anyone knows whos got one for sale!!!

[JoeyV]

60's Strat or 68 Tele , Dunlop 1.4MM or 2MM Tortex picks, GHS 10's on the strat, Thomastic Infield roundwound 12's on the Tele, Monster 10ft. cable and a Tweed 4x10 Bassman.....I dont like to take alot of stuff to the gig because I also lug my PA to every gig too, so the less I have to worry about the better...I love the clean punch of a tweed amp and I dont use any verb anymore live, I just plug in and go and what I like about it is that alot of the fast picking stuff just jumps out of the amp and you can hear every note really well without the verb on it..I never thought I could play guitar or even sing without a bunch of verb on everything however I now love the natural sound of just a tweed amp and the PA dry with no effects on the vocals..it simplifies alot of stuff and you get a nice clear sound and mix too... My PA is a Carvin Stage Mate or I use two 400 Watt Mackie powered speakers, I use a Shure SM57A Beta Mic and thats it.
:D

[Zven]

I use my affinity tele and v-amp thru Marlboro amp

That's it!

[Lightnin]

I don't gig as much as I used to but a buddy called me up and wanted me to come and help out at a gig and told me to bring all my crap. So here goes:

Danelectro Hodad RI
Epiphone Thunderbird bass
Yamaha Compass Art Deco electric/acoustic
my one week old 2003 black/white American Telecaster

Shure 55SHII (Elvis mic) and stand
Ampeg BA115 bass amp
Vox Pathfinder 15R (not much but works) [to be eventually replaced by a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe]
Kustom Acoustic Amp

Boss TU-2 Tuner
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (seldomly used)
Boss DD-5 Digital Delay
Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
Danelectro Surf & Turf (Compression)
Boss GE-7 Equalizer

nothing really fancy

[Nick Fanis]

I have way to many guitars and amps but this is what I use most of the time:



Guitars:

-FENDER CIJ J.Jorgenson "Hellecaster" Ltd Ed (when I need a trem.)

but 99% of the time:

-Rob Di Stefano made thinline tele from WD parts and Bill Lawerence TL290 bridge+Ken Amstrong mini HB
-Rob Di Stefano made thinline tele from warmoth parts swamp ash body,rw fb fatback maple neck w/ 6105 frets,BL 290T bridge and 280TN pups

AMPS:

-RIVERA QUIANA 212 (big stages)
-FENDER HOT ROD DELUXE (small stages)
-FENDER 65 RI TWIN REVERB (very big stages and open venues together w/ the QUIANA)



EFFECTS:

large pedalboard :

-VS ROUTE 66 COMP/OD
-BOSS TU2
-DIGITECH SYNTH WAH
-DANELECTRO GRILLED CHEESE FUZZ
-FULLTONE DIST PRO
-STAMPS DRIVE O MATIC
-MARSHALL ED1 COMP (USED AS CLEAN BOOST)
-BOSS TREMOLO PAN PN2
-T REX TREMSTER
-BOSS PHASER PH1R
-BOSS TR2 TREM
-VOODOO LABS MICROVIBE
-IBANEZ AD9 ANALOG DELAY
-VISUAL SOUND H2O CH+DL
-DIGITECH DIGIDELAY


small pedalboard (when I am in a hurry or when space is an issue)

-VS ROUTE66
-T REX TREMSTER
-VS H2O
-FENDER CALIFORNIA TUNER

or simply a YAMAHA DG STOMP
(very handy when playing in tv shows or when no amp is available)


CABLES: GEORGE L

PICKS:

-Dunlop nylons 0,80

STRINGS:

-PYRAMID PURE NICKEL Roundwounds (011-048) (ELECTRIC)
-Pyramid western strings BRONZE 012'S (ACC.)

[pbradt]

Fretted guitar

CIJ Tele-->A/B-->Fender pedal tuner-->Fulldrive2-->Hullett Deluxe

Slide Guitar
CIJ Strat-->A/B--Fender pedal tuner-->Fulltone Fat Boost-->Fulldrive2-->Hullett Deluxe.

For outdoor gigs, replace the Deluxe with a RI Bassman with Hullett-built 5F6A circuit. Deluxe is usually there as a backup.

[Steven]

1965 Strat
1977 Les Paul Deluxe
2003 CIJ Tele 71-58 (soon, it´s on it´s way from Japan right now...)

into
CryBaby with Fulltone parts
TRex CompNova
Line6 MM4
Ts-9 with Keeley Plus Mod
BJFE Pink Purple Fuzz
BJFE Dyna Red Dist
Ernie Ball volume pedal

into
Fender 63´Vibroverb RI amp (with some mods) with Weber 10A125 speakers and home made ext cab with Celestion Vintage 10 speakers

For rehersals or small gigs I have a Yamaha DG60Fx amp

[Baard]

I play my MIM 50´s classic tele. Either into a compressor and a volume pedal, into my sf twin,miked up. or through a V-amp pro/active monitor/PA.
The twin is the best, but the v-amp is handy, and sound decent enough, clean. The sound through the PA is just as good with the v.amp. It takes a while to get used to hearing the guitar from the monitor only.


Baard

[hippietim]

I've got a ton of guitars but in the last band I was in I cycled between these the most: Paisley Tele RI, Gibson Blueshawk, and PRS Santana III.

More recently I've been playing with some new folks and I've been using my mahogany/rosewood Strat as well.

From there it's into a Boss tuner pedal, Morley Bad Horsie II, Fulltone Ultimate Octave, Radial ToneBone Classic, Analogman modded TS9DX, Boss CE20 chorus, Digitech Digidelay pedal.

The amp is either my Dr. Z KT45 w/Line 6 2x12 cab or a Fender Blues Junior.

[T Prior]

1989/52RI stock
new HWY1 Strat
Ibanez CE5 Compressor
Ibanez DE7 Delay

Carter D10 Steel 9+8

Fender HR Deville 2x12
Peavey Nashville 1000
2 bottles water

If I use only 1 amp it would be the HR Deville

T

[VampiressX]

Originally Posted by Blazer

Guitars:
1. My striped Squier Tele
2. My TeleSg
3. My Cort Jim Triggs signature thinline

Effects:
1. Dunlop Jimi Hendrix wah (sound much better than the crybabies)
2. Ibanez Metal charger
3. Boss turbo overdrive
4. Boss Chorus esemble
5. Boss Digital delay

Amp:
Yamaha VS 3000 solid state tube emulated 50 watt combo (designed by Soldano) with single 12 inch eminence speaker.

This is what I use onstage with The Worst and I'm sastisfied with the tones I get. Evert Jan, our singer rithem guitarist has a Gibson SG and a Marshall valvestate, which in theory should sound great but he screws up his sound by using a Zoom multy effects unit, my much cheaper set up outdoes his rig.

Here's a tip. Dump the effects and then take on the ones you *actually* need. Its a radical thing I know but well worth the effort. The most I would ever use, despite being guilty of owning an ME-50, is Chorus over the clean channel. Effects tend to detract from what you are actually trying to achieve - good music.

My fiddy cent worth.

[Nick Fanis]

Effects tend to detract from what you are actually trying to achieve - good music.

not if your music REALLY needs them..

I would never go on stage without my pedalboard.People (and bandmates) expect to hear the sound of my bands cd's (which are based on effects...)

[hippietim]

Originally Posted by VampiressX

Here's a tip. Dump the effects and then take on the ones you *actually* need. Its a radical thing I know but well worth the effort. The most I would ever use, despite being guilty of owning an ME-50, is Chorus over the clean channel. Effects tend to detract from what you are actually trying to achieve - good music.

My fiddy cent worth.

Oh, please...

[TELE52]