your dream rig

josh · 2010-04-03T13:10:40+00:00

please can you post picz of your dream rigz(please be realistic) here is my dream rig :the guitar is a custom strat that i designed it has Mahogany body Colour(706) Flat Black Black 6-Saddle Strings-Through-Body Hardtail Bridge EMG 81 pickup 1 Volume Control Black Fender® Deluxe Cast/Sealed Locking Tuning Machines 3-Ply Black Pickguard 22 Dunlop 6100 Frets Maple Neck Modern C Shape Large 70's Headstock Fender®/Schaller® Straplock Strap Buttons String Gauges .11 .15 .20p .36 .42 .56 Tuning: C# Dropped 2 B so thatz the specs. The cabs are 2 Orange 4x12's with Celestion Vintage 30 Speakers & the heads are 2 Orange 100 Watt Rockerverb heads. I heard about ORANGE when i checked out JIM ROOT'S GEAR (guitarist 4 Slipknot & Stone Sour & i just loved the tone of the dirty & clean channels) They have extremely warm mids!!!The NS-2 is there just 2 get rid of any unwanted noise , the MXR GT-OD is there just to give me a boost in solos etc. & the SMALL STONE is there to give me a little bit of colour in solos. Pretty simple rig but very expensive.As you can see my main influence is JIM ROOT!!! I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ANY OTHER JIM ROOT FANS!!! THANX [img [/img]

singemonkey

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Boss RV1 '63 Spring Reverb (in my dream rig I'd have a vintage '63 Fender reverb tank)
Those RV-1s are probably the next best thing if you like tank tone. Roland nailed the tone very well IMO. Did you know Bothners are selling the RV-1 for under a grand at the mo?

And Alan gets his Thanks century ?

Picked it up from Bothners this morning for R995. Not bad considering that these are too new to get second hand. Weirdly enough, despite this being the Boss/Fender series pedal with the most undiluted rave reviews, they had two of these left while the Bassman and Deluxe Reverb pedals were all gone by the looks of it. I guess there's just not that much demand for reverb pedals.

Now I'm basically one tremolo pedal from my dream rig... and poorer.

Bob-Dubery

Donovan Banks wrote
MIKA the better one wrote Might as well put a rubber band on a stick and kick it.
:roflmao:

Isn't that the thing that Tony Levin plays?

Malkav

Tony Levin plays a chapman stick, he also has a stingray 4 string bass that got burnt in a fire - so badly that the machineheads melted to the strings, so now it's only strung with 1 string or something silly like that.

@ MIka - F*** you, Ibanez Rule! (I mean this in a funny way, everyone is entitled to their own opinion) ?

I rate my dream rig is pretty much just a copy paste of John Petrucci's rig or Guthrie Govan's ?

But seriously a Mesa-Boogie Roadking with 4 x 12 clsed back mesa cabs, an Ibanez tube screamer (TS909 - or which ever one it was that had the 4 different modes), Dunlop Crybaby from hell or the rackmount crybaby, Boss DD-20 or DD-7 (I like the idea of having an expression pedal on the delay to control feedback), MXR EVH Phaser with the script function, MXR Double-Shot Distortion, Furman Power Conditioner, some sort of Midi dump module to create lots o patches ?, Korg Rackmount tuner or a peterson one, and maybe a Cornford Harlequin for clean sounds - and a THD hot plate ?

Guitar wise I'd go with Ibanez J-customs with AAA flamed maple tops in dark red bursting out to black, with reversed headstocks, Dimarzio Air-Norton + D-Sonic configuration on a Mega-switch P-model 5-way (made by I Schaller I think) Dimarzio pots and .022 microfarad caps, Lo-pro Edge bridge, satin finish neck in a wide D, 6100 fretwire. I'd imagine the bodies would be some combination of Mahogany/alder with the maple top but to be honest I think basswood does me quite fine as well and I'm not really sure yet which I'd prefer.

Of course I'd need a matching Seven-String in another cool finish and a matching Eight-string with a trem that works. ?

and just for good measure I'd like a Guthrie Govan Suhr Signature ?, and a Richie Kotzen Japanese Signature Telecaster and for an acoustic I'd like a Kaki King Signature Ovation Adamas and whatever the hell Nylon string Mattias Eklundh used in "The Woman In Seat 27A" or whatever the hell Nylon string Al Di Meola uses ?

BTW - Does anyone know where in Cape Town I could maybe get someone to fit a Flamed Maple Veneer to one of my guitars? I know about Foster and Rob Drake but I don't know if they do this kind of thing, also if anyone knows prices that'd be appreciated too ?

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Chad, I'll see your ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? and raise you ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Don't know if I have a dream rig...but I'll wait until I've had a fiddle on a Ratcliffe Strat and maybe heard it through Aubs's JVM before I say that.

Reinhard

Let's see

'59-'64 Gibson ES-335 into Marshall JMP 100W Plexi head running into a marshall basket weave cab wih pre-rola celestions.

For now if I could only keep one guitar and one amp:
My 335 and the blackface super.

Oh I guess I would need a guitar cable as well. ?

racman

My dream rig:

1) Guitars: Acoustic
Cornerstone Zion (Quilted Sapele/Sinker Redwood) - build start August
Bashkin Placencia or 00-12 fret - watch this space .... ?
Morgan OMR (1 out of 4 is not bad so far)
Martin HD-28 or similar (the D-35 might do as well so maybe 2 out of 4)

2) Guitars: Electric
Ratcliffe Partscaster
Gibson 335

3) Effects: Acoustic
TC G-Natural

4) Effects: Electric
TC G system

5) Amps
Acoustic - AER
Electric - Rivera Fandango 112 (and a DrZ Charman Ghia with suitable small cab as well)

6) Other
The little know but exclusive & extremely expensive "Master Guitarist" tablets - comes in various genres, styles and artist packs and is reputed to eliminate the need for endless hours of practice and talent. ? ?

Cannon

I guess just a beer holder on my stratocaster would sort me out!

MIKA-the-better-one

X-rated Bob wrote
Donovan Banks wrote
MIKA the better one wrote Might as well put a rubber band on a stick and kick it.
:roflmao:
Isn't that the thing that Tony Levin plays?

No really the only thing worse than an ibanez is an ibanez with 7 strings... really cuz then you have one more string of awful.......

Cannon

Amen to that!!! 8)

Malkav

Ah, dear sir clearly your ears have not evolved a sense for tone yet ? one day all shall be revealed ?

Seriously though - seven strings are strange ? I mean just their characteristics sonically, it's almost it's own completely unique vibe even when playing on the higher strings, and I'm not just talking Ibanez here. I played quite a few back when I first got my seven string just to see how other brands made theirs etc and they all just have this really weird sound that you recognise after spending a lot of time with them. This is probably just because of body size or something but I found it quite unusual, it's sorta like they're their own distinguishible classification of instrument. You get guitar and then you get 7 - string guitar ? and I'm excited because now I can sound crap to you over 8 - strings ? as soon as I get the R23 995 for one ?

dee

Amps I have no idea....

All I know is that I want a two tone sunburst Stratocaster. Unfinished maple neck, with locking tuners and a fixed bridge. Fitted with very hot, yet classic sounding pickups. All 3 single coil sized humbuckers of course.Pretty much like the Billy Corgan signature Strat, just in a sunburst finish.

MIKA-the-better-one

doesnt the billy corgan start us e humbuggys, dimarzio ones

dee

MIKA the better one wrote doesnt the billy corgan start us e humbuggys, dimarzio ones

Yip. Single coil sized Dimarzio Choppers I believe.

Vick

Think the middle and the bride on the corgan strat are custom wound for that guitar... ?

dee

Vick wrote Think the middle and the bride on the corgan strat are custom wound for that guitar... ?

Indeed! Appears I was mistaken. Fender lists them as:

1 Special Design Dimarzio® Billy Corgan Single-Spaced Humbucking Pickup (Neck),
1 Dimarzio® Chopper™ Pickup (Middle),
1 Special Design Dimarzio® Billy Corgan Single-Spaced Humbucking Pickup (Bridge)

josh

Hi guys i started this post.
I would prefer it if you guys would post pictures of your dream rig
Thanx

Malkav

josh wrote I would prefer it if you guys would post pictures of your dream rig

I'm gonna have a really noob moment right here and confess that I don't really know how to upload images to Guitar Forum, I'm just not sure of what command line would go between the [/IMG] things

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