I've done this before, but lets do it again, eh?



What are you using to make music??

That's insane....I was thinking of making this exact thread today while I was at work!

this is an awesome thread. Never thought of it.

-Dean Cadillac Select Tiger Eye
-Ibanez PF5ECENT
-Samick Strat wannabe (my first guitar)
-Should be getting some classical guitar real soon

-Some cheap amp but I gave that to my little sister for her bass
-Crate VTX30 amplifier. Suprisingly nice little amp, but I should probably start saving up for a new one

-whammy bar
-Ebow (I love this thing)
-Slide
-capo

-Audacity
-extremely cheap microphone
-Getting a Line 6 TonePort GX USB Recording Interface for Christmas

Epiphone G400 SG
Cort acoustic (my first guitar)

Fender GDeck amp w/thousands of built in effects and 40 presets.

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
Ebow
Slide
Capo

I've been using Garage Band to record

Ibanez Joe Satriani Model
Zoom 707 II pedal
Big Muff Pi
Fender Amp
Capo
and an unknown brand Acoustic Guitar (made in mexico)

I use, Adobe Audition, is fast and easy to use.

fun!

Epiphone G400
Alvarez Folk Electric/Acoustic
Squier Strat (not used much anymore)
Lyon Acoustic guitar (MIA)
Peavy Envoy 110
Boss DS-2 Distortion
Boss CH-1 Chorus
Boss FZ-5 Fuzz
Boss DD-3 Delay
Boss TU-2 tuner
yeah, i'm a Boss whore...all those pedals are powered with "1 spot power supply"

Basic Sonor Drum kit
16" sabian crash
14" Sabain crash
13" high hats
10" (i think) Sabian splash

Shure sm57 x 2
Shure sm58

Acoustica/Adobe Audition as software

Currently borrowed from user Rivers Cuomo:
Yamaha Keyboard
Squier Bass
Two unknown brand microphones
Behringer Mixer

Where do you buy an ebow and how much do they cost?

Fender HSS Highway One Stratocaster
Washburn N-1
some old 50 watt 80's peavey amp
Line 6 Spider II 2-12 amp
Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi
Digitech RP250
M-Audio Black Box
a little 10-watt Marshall practice amp i got with my first guitar
a squire mini strat.. my first guitar
squire acoustic guitar (some $100 one for beginners)
yamaha acoustic (from costco, but still is pretty good)
yamaha dgx-505 keyboard
sony acid music studio
a small 10 watt ibanez practice amp i got with my second guitar
ibanez starter package thing guitar... my second guitar

woohoo

Guitars:
Fender '57 Reissue Stratocaster
Gibson Les Paul Deluxe
Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Custom w/'57 classics
Fender American Double Fat Strat Hard Tail

Amps:
Peavey 6505+ Head
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

Cabinets:
Marshall 1960A

Pedals:
Active:
Digitech Whammy
RMC Wizard Wah
Zvex Fuzz Factory
Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (USA Vintage)
Rocktron Tsunami Chorus
A/DA Flanger
Mu-Tron Biphase (Like in Veiuphoria)
ADA MPC
Inactive:
Voodoo Labs Tremelo
Danelectro Reverse Delay
MXR Phase 90
Marshall Shredmaster (broken)


Racks:
TC Electronic G Major
ADA MP-1
Alesis Quadraverb Plus

Picks:
Dunlop Jazz III XL

Cables:
Mogami but for my pedals I used Planet Waves

Straps:
Ernie Ball

i just picked up a brand new marshall JCM 2000 head and 4x12 cab yesterday. it cost a lot, but it's was worth it! you'll hear it on some of rivers' and my demos to be finished within a few days in the flying kards thread.

edit - here's a picture:

for Christmas I got a whole buch of pedals

I got 6 Danelectro Fab pedals

-Metal
-Flange
-Overdrive
-Echo
-Chorus
-Distortion

They're really cheap but nice!


I also got a Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal
It's pretty cool.

Now I just have to buy a whole bunch of 9 volt batteries cause all my ouletts are used so i cant use adapters.

just get a daisy chain so it only takes up one outlet...you'll save on batteries that way

and make sure you unplug your pedals when you're not playing them, otherwise the batteries will die very quickly.

Guitars

Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty
Fender Squire- my first guitar
Seagull acoustic guitar- C6 i think

Amp
Some crappy thing that came with my first guitar, its good enough for now, though i am saving up for a good one

I dont have any effects pedals, what would you suggest i get, i am asking for them for my birthday, and my dad is going to the NAMM show, some music advertising type convention, and he wants to know who he should look at.

Rivers Cuomo wrote:
just get a daisy chain so it only takes up one outlet...you'll save on batteries that way

and make sure you unplug your pedals when you're not playing them, otherwise the batteries will die very quickly.

Thanks for the advice.

Isn't a daisy chain just an extension cord?
Cause I already got a bunch of those.
I use one of those white things that plugs into an outlet and it has about 6 of it's own oulets. But that's all used up.

I'm worried that I'm going to blow a fuse or that my room is going to explode.

I dont have any effects pedals, what would you suggest i get, i am asking for them for my birthday, and my dad is going to the NAMM show, some music advertising type convention, and he wants to know who he should look at.


well, for a distortion pedal, I suggest the Line 6 Uber metal.
It's kind of alot of money, but it's really nice.

As for an echo pedal, the Line 6 Echo park looks really nice, and is one of the top selling pedals. I don't have so I can't tell you my personal epxerience but you can read alot of reviews of it and other pedals on guitarcenter.com

For a wah pedal, I would get any of the dunlop crybabys. They're really nice and range from a variety of prices.

Anyway, when I got my pedals I did alot of research, like deciding how much I was willing to spend for what kind of pedal I was using. For example, I like the distorted electric guitar, so I got an expensive distorion pedal. But flanger, for me, isn't really nessaceryy, so I got a cheap one.

Question.

I bought some cheap cables about a year ago from a local guitar store and now I'm getting tons of static/feedback. I've looked past it for several months now, but it's starting to get really annoying. I'm looking to buy some better cables, but is there a correlation between price and sound quality? If I spend more, will I still have the feedback? What do you guys use?