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I haven't got any of my instruments on their own, but here's a picture of me drumming with my old band in a club in Middlesbrough about 5 years ago...



The kit's a Tama RockStar.

I play guitar. I'm also an engineer, so I can't help but rewire them all...

Some of my instruments:



From left to right:
Acoustic 6 and 12 string

Serpent Les Paul knock-off, wired with Seymour Duncan '59s, coil tapping on both pickups, phase reversal, and series-parallel pickup blending.

Vine Hollow Body. If you look closely, you'll see more switches than on anything else you're likely to find anywhere. I rigged this up with an internal segmented pickup for use with a Roland guitar synth (see below), as well as the pickup switching tricks from above.

Fender Strat with external segmented pickup, Lace pickups. I won this in a giveaway back in 1991.




On the left here is a Roland guitar synth. With the right pickups, this lets me use the guitar in place of a keyboard and drives either external tone modules or some decent ones inside that box. On the right is the controller for my purple box.



Yes, the music stuff is in my modelling room. The purple box is a Digitech 2120 multi-effects thingie. Above it is a line mixer, that blends the synth output with the guitar output (yes, you can mix it, so, for instance, you can have the synth running on the low strings, doubling what you're playing there with a bass patch, leaving the top three as just the guitar tone.) It all runs through the power amp.

On top of the rack, in the wooden box, is a theramin that I made from some schematics on the web. Neat thing about this is that it has outputs that allows it to interface with the purple box, allowing the theramin to serve as an extra expression pedal for pitch shifting or volume controls.


Of course, sometimes you don't want all the gadgetry...



This is a little 10-watt tube amp that I got super cheap because it didn't work. I refurnished it, added a mid-range control (You'll notice that the facing doesn't say Mid under the right-most knob - none of the knobs are originals), and added an extra overdrive stage. Best thing about low power tube amps is that you can drive the power tubes hard without going deaf or pissing off the neighbors, and get that hot power tube sound at lower volumes.

Finally:


Ha ha ha. I found this at a small-town guitar shop for just under $100 - not a bad price for a Squire, and my wife likes Hello Kitty. I ripped it apart too, and it now features a super-hot DiMarzio Evolution pickup with some fancy electrical tricks. It's quite the shredder guitar these days.

That Hello Kitty guitar is metal.

It has the combination for an 80s shredder that was made popular by EVH:

Single Humbucker in the bridge as only pickup
No tone control, only one volume control
Trem bridge

Although the things lacking are: 24 frets, Floyd Rose.

Since I last posted in this thread I took up violin which is coming along well, if slowly. Also added to my collection of axes with a mesa boogie express amp, a fender jazzmaster (now my favourite guitar by far - lots of crunchy sonic youth style sound off that), and a billy corgan signature strat which is the only strat I've ever played that has a decent range of different sounds.

Albatross... did you say Middlesbrough ?

I'm, guessing you've moved away from this dump anyhow.

Back on topic, my harmonica:

Albatross wrote:I haven't got any of my instruments on their own, but here's a picture of me drumming with my old band in a club in Middlesbrough about 5 years ago...



The kit's a Tama RockStar.

Is that an Orange Tiny Terror I see there?

Ask...

Daba wrote:Anyone got any more pictures of their instruments?

... and ye shall recieve!


Peavey VB-2 and Avatar B410 Neo. I've gone throuh a few different rigs these past few years, and this one is going to be with me for a while. Tube tone, real reliability, and the Avatar is nearly as loud as the Carvin8x10 I used to play through, and over 30 pounds lighter!

Already showed my two main players, Here's most of the rest.

Jazz bass (now refined/renecked into the red bass previously shown), Precision, Bullet bass (now sold), Carvin LB75f, Lakland 55-01, 1960's Crown Viola bass (japanese copy of an EKO bass).


Ibanez Artcore with Epiphone Jack Casady pickup and electronics. This one gets alot of play at "acoustic" gigs.


My rig for small shows Ampeg Portabass 250 Head and 210 cab. 1979 Peavey T-40. I dearly love this bass, but it doesn't get out much because it's in great condition and the value is actually rising. Never thought the value of anthing Peavey would go up!

Last but not least...

This isn't my current upright, it's a 1980's Englehard EM-1 that I salvaged, fixed up and sold. My personal bass is the same model, but from the 90's.

Loads of bass players... I was trained by a classically trained bassist and played in the school's jazz band. We went to nationals and the song we played was judged by the guy who wrote it.

I can still throw down on my Peavey Foundation 4-string I began my bass playing career on, although the many rigs I've bought and sold over the years have no room in my current apartment and hence have been sold. My favorite was a Peavey 1810 cabinet with a 500wt powered head, built in chorus and distort on a foot pedal. Mmmmmm-mmmmmm!

I still get the odd invite to play in a band, but between the job, the family, and my current hobbies, there's almost no time.

Daba wrote:

Albatross wrote:I haven't got any of my instruments on their own, but here's a picture of me drumming with my old band in a club in Middlesbrough about 5 years ago...



The kit's a Tama RockStar.

Is that an Orange Tiny Terror I see there?

Don't...think so. Not sure. Aren't they all-white? Anyhow, I think that belonged to another band.

@Wolf - Yeah I moved to Manchester like, 10 years ago. Boro is actually NICER now than it was when I lived there. There certainly seems to be more to do. When I lived there, there was only 2-3 places to go out if you liked alternative music.

Damn, all those guitars and amps make me feel very not rock and roll...
I'm taking my Grade 4 flute soon, really should go practice *MUST PAINT HAMMERHEAD* (gets up and lurches off to the gaming table)

I play alto and temor saxophone, claranet and the flute. I can play basic drums and keyboard.

Piano to a high level, all saxophones to a pretty good level, guitar to a low level, and after the legal case I'm no longer allowed to sing.

Guitar, Drums, Bass, Singing and I used to play the Viola.

How many of us are musicians?

Easy, maximum of one per unit.

lol

I am somewhere between pretty bad and down right terrible at bass but I try. I could probably do for some private lessons since I am pretty much trying to teach myself and getting nowhere. The only problem though is most teachers only operate when I am asleep or at work. here it is...