My Church Rig.

[WKGTRS]

Here's mine. I usually play the Fly Mojo into the Axe-Fx and straight to the board. Lately I really been digging the CV Custom (with a new set of nocasters...woohoo!!) and the Agile AL3100, excellent guitars BTW. I don't bring the FBT 12ma to church, don't need it we are all IEM, just the rack, pedal board (Rocktron All Access and 2 Mission Engineering Control pedals) and guitars and it all goes on the floor. I have been primarily using the Orange, Soldano and Fender Brownface amp models in the axe, they are all killer sounding.

[Faraldi]

Originally Posted by KlugeTone

Hello all!
New to this whole Telecaster forum but am also a regular member of a CC Praise band.(In A Lutheran Church!) Have been for about 7 years. Been through several CC music directors in that time. Our current and longest lasting one loves guitars and solos and has brought many newer, edgier rock tunes to our worship service. She encourages me to kick it up and rock! I just love it.

Anyway using a blonde MIM Nashville Tele most of the time which is just a sweetheart to play anything on except shred metal. I occasionally use a late 80s Strat or even my Jackson Dinky when we cut loose with some shred that needs 24 frets. (gasp! you should have seen the looks I got from a few people when that pointy headstock guitar came out of the case on one Sunday morning. And then we opened with Lincoln Brewster's "Today Is The Day")

My other gear consists of a Boss GT-8 feeding a DI going to the FOH and my stage monitor which is a Fender Frontman 65 (The church bought the amp so I wouldnt have to lug my own around.) I thought that was pretty awesome of the director to do that. A decent little amp for the money too. The GT-8processor gets a real workout with the huge variety of music I play both at church and in my regular bar bands. It has never let me down. Just like my Tele!

Been a challenge playing some of our more hard-edged worship tunes but the vast majority of the congregation really loves it. 8 good to great vocalists and an awesome keyboard player, drummer, bassist and 2nd guitarist round out the group. People leave the service dancing, singing and feeling uplifted. Unheard of at our church just a few years ago. Happy to be a servant in such a worthwhile manner.

Peace

Dave

Hey brother, welcome aboard! Awesome description of how you use His gift.

I sometimes do a similar thing with monitoring. I'm in a very small church (we meet in a school) so stage volume is something that they never had to even consider before I showed up. Depending upon the set, I'll either bring an amp to mic or I'll run my Line 6 M13 into a Tech21 Blonde into a DI. The XLR goes to the board and the 1/4" goes to my little Champion 600 that I place on this little amp stand I thought up:



Nice being able to hear yourself!

Blessings bro!

Joe

[ravindave_3600]

Greetings, Zoros, from the great Northwest. I looked into a job in Newburg once and really enjoy that area. So what are the pedals with the Chinese characters?

[KlugeTone]

Originally Posted by Faraldi

Hey brother, welcome aboard! Awesome description of how you use His gift.

I sometimes do a similar thing with monitoring. I'm in a very small church (we meet in a school) so stage volume is something that they never had to even consider before I showed up. Depending upon the set, I'll either bring an amp to mic or I'll run my Line 6 M13 into a Tech21 Blonde into a DI. The XLR goes to the board and the 1/4" goes to my little Champion 600 that I place on this little amp stand I thought up:

Nice being able to hear yourself!

Blessings bro!

Joe

Thanks Joe! Thats a great looking idea for your Champ 600 stand. I used to use a modified, folding bar stool with a flat 15X20 inch piece of wood bolted to the top as a stand for my small PA head. By the way, is that an original 600 or re-issue? It looks terrific!. Bet it sounds great too.

Peace,
Dave

[00JETT]

Rig (for my home church & travel churches)
Guitars
- Gibson Les Paul
- Epiphone Riviera
- Fender Tele (sorta a partscaster)

Amps
- Marshall dsl50 Halfstack
- Fender Blues Deville 2x12

Rack
- Furman power conditioner
- Korg Tuner
- TC Electronics G-Major 2

Board
- Mister Crybaby
- Modded maxon 808
- Super Comp
- Rocktron Midi Mate
- 4 channel PedalSnake

I think thats it...

[still_fiddlin]

I'm going with the Tele and tweed this weekend.

[justin.ray]

I play in a mid-sized (300 ppl) hall (with a low ceiling) for worship with an '07 Koa Special Tele, through a CS-3 comp/sus, a SD-3 overdrive, a phase 90, a carbon copy delay, and an 18 watt Crate tube amp (don't knock it til you've tried it). I'm intending to add the following (in this order) over a period of time, so my wife doesn't kill me:
1. volume pedal
2. eq pedal (hate that I don't have one, indespensible)
3. Fulltone OCD
4. Fulltone SupaTrem
5. and to top it off... some Rio Grande Dirty Harry pups

[ravindave_3600]

Originally Posted by justin.ray

I'm intending to add the following (in this order) over a period of time, so my wife doesn't kill me:
1. volume pedal
2. eq pedal (hate that I don't have one, indespensible)
3. Fulltone OCD
4. Fulltone SupaTrem
5. and to top it off... some Rio Grande Dirty Harry pups

As it says in Ecclesiastes, "Of the buying of pedals there is no end."

[Ash Telecaster]

Gibson Night Hawk. The one with the 5 way selector switch and push pull knob. Into a Digitech RP55. This pedal sounds great if you take the time to program it. The factory presets are all sizzle and no steak. It is reasonably inexpensive. I bought it so I can just leave it at the church without needing to haul stuff back and forth. That goes into the board.

[black_doug]

Well today I tried out my new Pathfinder 15R for worship. We had a drummer, who is also the leader, keys, electric violin, an acoustic, and me. Last night the leader asked me to bring my acoustic along with my Tele, which I usually have by itself. So I'm thinkin' that the 15R is so sweet it could sound great with either guitar. Just to be safe I put a DI from Ultrasound in the chain before the Morley A/B switch. My acoustic has a LR Baggs Element. Then the Tele, Boss tuner, TS808 Tubescreamer, and T-Rex Replica went into the Morley. The Morley went into the 15R and it was all mic'd with a Sennheiser e609. Even standing beside the drummer I had plenty of clean headroom. I just left the tubescreamer on for the Tele, and left the boost on the 15R off. A little reverb (8:00) and that was it. I stood the amp on the window sill behind me so it was up around chest level. Beautiful! This amp's gonna get a lot of use.

[Faraldi]

Originally Posted by black_doug

Well today I tried out my new Pathfinder 15R for worship. We had a drummer, who is also the leader, keys, electric violin, an acoustic, and me. Last night the leader asked me to bring my acoustic along with my Tele, which I usually have by itself. So I'm thinkin' that the 15R is so sweet it could sound great with either guitar. Just to be safe I put a DI from Ultrasound in the chain before the Morley A/B switch. My acoustic has a LR Baggs Element. Then the Tele, Boss tuner, TS808 Tubescreamer, and T-Rex Replica went into the Morley. The Morley went into the 15R and it was all mic'd with a Sennheiser e609. Even standing beside the drummer I had plenty of clean headroom. I just left the tubescreamer on for the Tele, and left the boost on the 15R off. A little reverb (8:00) and that was it. I stood the amp on the window sill behind me so it was up around chest level. Beautiful! This amp's gonna get a lot of use.

Awesome BD!!! That amp is amazing.

[Jayson]

Originally Posted by Parma_TeleMon

Hehehhehheh....JayDee plays with his Sex Drive in church. Hehhehheh

Sorry, couldn't help myself. I'm gonna go repent now.

Funny stories about equipment in church.

One, I have an Alesis Micron that my band up in Dallas graffitied with multi-colored permanent markers. Paul (my might-as-well-be brother and musical soul mate, who breaks me because he doesn't have Christ) swapped out the P in pitch wheel for a B, and...well, you can put two and two together. That pitch wheel is now, of course, legend, but it attracted some funny looks at church the first time I used it.

Also, a guy in another praise band I knew used a Malekko B:Assmaster fuzz.

His quote? "The messed up thing is that I don't really use it that often, so it's a waste of a naughty word."

[bikeracr]

Originally Posted by still_fiddlin

I'm going with the Tele and tweed this weekend.

'fiddlin, What's your tweed? Not a Blues Jr. is it?

[hotraman]

Originally Posted by MKeditor

Here is my church rig:





You can read more about it at The Praise and Worship forum:

http://praiseandworshipforum.com/for...19071#msg19071

I've heard this rig and its cool!

[twangplank]

Curtis Novac Tele custom or a PRS cu 24 through a 74 twin reverb with a boss effects unit.

[Road King]

Guitars:
Anderson Hollow Drop Top T
The perfect partscaster (as soon as it's finished)
Taylor 710ce

Amps:
Omega modded Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Genz Benz Shenandoah

Pedals in chain order:
Boss TU2
Keeley 2 knob Compressor
Boss SD1 (Wampler Eternity Mod)
Barber LTD silver
MIJ Boss CE2
Diaz Tremodillo
Xotic EP Booster
EB Jr Volume pedal
EH Holy Grail Plus
CMATsmods Deeelay

[Road King]

Originally Posted by Jayson

Funny stories about equipment in church.

One, I have an Alesis Micron that my band up in Dallas graffitied with multi-colored permanent markers. Paul (my might-as-well-be brother and musical soul mate, who breaks me because he doesn't have Christ) swapped out the P in pitch wheel for a B, and...well, you can put two and two together. That pitch wheel is now, of course, legend, but it attracted some funny looks at church the first time I used it.

Also, a guy in another praise band I knew used a Malekko B:Assmaster fuzz.

His quote? "The messed up thing is that I don't really use it that often, so it's a waste of a naughty word."

Mine was a giant Trailer Trash board. The one that has Trailer Trash written in big white letters across the front. I used it during a some outreach services in a very low rent trailer park. Didn't think about it till someone mentioned that it could be a little offensive.

[still_fiddlin]

Originally Posted by bikeracr

'fiddlin, What's your tweed? Not a Blues Jr. is it?

It's a clone of a tweed Princeton (5F2A), by Marsh Amplification.

[Hollmanp90]

Get to use this one I just finished this Sunday.

[lostinphase]

You guys with the Axe-FX would be cult (yeah I know it's the wrong word to use here) heroes to most churches worship leaders around here. I'm hoping to check out a friend's Ultra today because I'm tired of all the hassle with no-stage volume. If it responds like I hope, I will be selling some gear to buy one.

For now, I'm going with my BF Pro Reverb, Eventide Time Factor, Zen Drive, and Strat w/ Suhr pickups and SSC system. I'm hoping to try, for the first time, the Suhr line mixer to also send a direct signal to the board.