Favorite electric guitars/amps

[Zuni]

my favorites are a Les Paul Standard (tobacco sunburst finish) with a Fender Tube Amp.
I also like Teles and Gibson 335s Hollowbodies.

[FlashHarry]

1. Ooh. Desert Island guitars/amps?

Guitars:

Gibson Les Paul Goldtop
Gibson Les Paul Standard
Gibson SG
Fender Jaguar
Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Strat
Fender Tele
Rickenbacker 330
Rickenbacker 360/12
Danelectro
Epiphone Casino

Amps:

Marshall JTM45 plexi
Marshall Blues Breaker
Marshall SuperBass 100
Vox AC30/50
Boogie 1x12 combo
Fender 75
Fender Deluxe
Fender Twin
Orange
WEM
Selmer Zodiac

[vi5]

2. I like Marshall amps....

As for guitars my favorite sounds come from the Gibson SG, with a Les Paul close behind.

Personally I play a Telecaster and also a Custom made Guild guitar with EMG pick ups. through a Marshall amp.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Oh Boy! Oh Boy! A Music STUFF Thread

I play thru a Boogie, and have never had anything even close, so it has to be my fave.

My guitars are a Tele, for clean and slide, an Ibanez Artist Series for floating bridge and heavier tones, and a Jazzmaster for a jangly but biting tone. (Kind of early 80's power pop tone.)

My other guitars are a Dan Armstrong lucite model, and a customized Strat with a birdseye maple neck. Finally, i've got a 5 string Fender Jazz Bass, a Takamine acoustic, and a Giannini acoustic that i keep open tuned to a G for acoustic slide.

The only pedals i use are echo, chorus and sometimes a wah, but not very often. I more use it as a volume pedal.
The Professor

[Zuni]

13. I do not like Ibanez guitars

but the Tele is great for blues and slide guitar.
I have a Fender P-Bass. I also have a Hohner acoustic.

One of my good friends has a Takamine, and they are SWEET guitars.
It sounds like you play a lot of blues.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Actually, No Hardly Any

Not a fan of playing blues. On guitar, a little (i play slide to the Best of the Allmans CD). A little acoustic delta blues, but that mostly Kottke-esque stuff.

On bass or piano i avoid the blues. It's just so harmonically limiting. I did a favor to some friends and sat in on bass at a gig of theirs. By the middle of the second set, i wanted to put a bullet in my head! All that wanking on the guitar (by guys who i don't think are any better than me, and i wouldn't play 5 minute solos), while the rhythm never changes and i couldn't deviate from the tonic, because it would confuse the guitar players. OMG! Boring to the extreme!

I like the Ibanez, because when doing aggressive guitar stuff, the wider neck, the flat radius, and more rounded frets makes the hammer-ons and tapping much easier to do efficiently. That and the pickups are very high output, but still quiet.

My guitar player uses one too! Same deal. Ass kicking tone, but really quiet. His is a higher line model than mine. Both Artist series, but he's got the A-list model. (Similar to the one Joe Satriani uses.) Mine's a couple notches down.

For fixed bridge stuff, though, i prefer the more C radius and narrower neck of the Tele.

But, to each his own.
The Professor

[bill]

4. let's see

Teles sound great but I like the Gibson neck (fatter) better. I'll stick with the Ibanez Artist with a Marshall stack (if you can;t be good, be loud)

-bill :smoke:

[Whitacre D_WI]

5. Gretsch White Falcon

especially the '50s models, before they put that cushiony access-panel thing on the back. For a solidbody, I'd go with a Mosrite Ventures model.

As far as amps, I'd have to say any late '60s-early '70s vintage Orange 30-watt head. Yummy.

[RetroLounge]

6. Anybody who likes 50's Gretsch Guitars gets my vote!

I have a 1979 Les Paul Custom black beauty and have always played thru a Marshall Stack, but do not have an amp right now.

A fender tweed would do it for me.

If I bought another guitar, it would be a big fat 50's Gretsch like Brian Setzer or Chris Isaak plays...

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. Not that I can afford them!

I do have a late-model Gretsch that I bought for half price at Warpdrive's closing-up-shop sale.

I collect old Harmony U.S.A. guitars (though I primarily play my Gretsch and an '82 Gibson Sonex) and play through a Silvertone Twin Twelve. Budget Rock Showcase!!!

[RetroLounge]

14. Harmony U.S.A. guitars ???

Wow, do you collect Teisco's, Del Rays, Normas?

I used to have a bunch of old mother-of-toilet-seat cheapos. Fun to plug them into a marshall and talk thru the old microphonic pickups! Nothing like cheap DIY instruments!

p.s. I met you wife Wed. night. Sorry I can't make the picnic.

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. Now, now...

Teiscos were built in the Pacific Rim with cheap labor and cheap materials. Before Harmony closed up shop in 1974 (and sold the name to some crappy manufacturer), they made outstanding "the best you'll get for the money you'll spend" instruments with union labor in Chicago, IL.

Their better instruments had Bigsby tremolos and ALL of their electrics had top-of-the-line DeArmond pickups. Harmony U.S.A. made everything from cheap solidbodies (the Silhouette/BobCat, which was not much better -- other than those pickups! -- than a Teisco) to high-end archtops.

If you want to lump old Harmonies in a category, they should be ranked alongside Kay, not Teisco.

And I heard you were at the MeetUp on Wednesday. Too bad you can't make it tomorrow, but I hope to see you at a future event.

[Zuni]

15. Gretsch are good

although i have never owned one, I play the old hollowbodies in the stores all the time.

[FlashHarry]

10. Damn! Forgot the Gretch!

White Falcon
Duo Jet
Sparkle Jet
Chet Atkins

[Quahog]

7. Well now

I guess my favorite electric guitar I ever actually owned was an Epiphone Emperor thin-line with a solid center block and two Gibson humbuckers. Great, thick, warm tone, lovely fast neck, glorious dark tobacco sunburst finish, and triple binding on the body, neck and headstock. Tree of life inlay on the headstock, gold hardware. Stolen. Had a 30w Fender Vibro-something reissue that I played it through that sounded nice for jazz or country, but really couldn't rip for heavy stuff except at extreme volumes.

If someon gave me a fat wad of cash and told me to go buy whatever I wanted, I'd get the Gibson custom shop CS-336 (semi-hollow carved from a single hunk of wood) in tangerine burst (yow!!):



I'd run it into a Rivera or Budda amp. Probably the Rivera Fandango combo. That'd be about all I'd need in life.

[Zuni]

11. 336?

Is that like the 335?

[Quahog]

20. Sorta

The body is smaller overall. And as I mentioned, it is carved from a single block of wood. They hollow out the chambers on the sides of the center block, then attache the figured top. They were trying to go for the perfect balance between a LP and a 335. It's an odd guitar, but I had a chance to play one for a while and it suited me perfectly. I love hollow bodies, but I also love to play loud. This one can do it all, really. And it is gorgeous. That tangerine finish gives me a boner.

Gibson's custom shop has just come out with a CS-356, which is this guitar with "upscale appointments" (multiple binding, block fingerboard inlays, gold hardware). Can't imagine what these might cost! The 336 will set you back around $2600 (at Musican's Friend!), which is pretty reasonable for a hand-carved, totally hand finished custom instrument. Lots of info (and photos) at gibson.com.

[ronzo]

9. Les Paul / Boogie mkII (wood and wicker)

Oh yeah.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. My Guy!

Another Boogie guy! Most excellent.
The Professor

[BeHereNow]

12. Epiphone 57 di sorrento!

Double humbuckers...
also an epi jumbo body acoustic blonde...
My favorite guitar ever.

[nedlogg]

16. I'm a devoted Fender guy

Always have been. (Although my Gibson ES-135 sounds and plays really nice.)

For playing out, I usually use a Strat or Tele through a Deluxe Reverb with a 1X12 extension cab daisy chained with a Blues Jr.

IMHO, there are only three guitar makes worth a hoot: Fender, Gibson and Martin. But then again, I'm an old fart!

[Quahog]

23. I think...

... if you played a Paul Reed Smith guitar, you might change your mind. The top-of-the-line models are stunning. Carlos loves his.

[Character Assassin]

17. My Frankenstrat and my Matchless Superchief head.

120 watts of pristine power.

I've never actually taken the damn thing past 5.

It'd probably shatter windows a few blocks away.

[DS1]

18. a frankenstein I built in HS

B.C. Rich original NJ Series Warlock with EMG 91 and 9x (forgot) pickups, digitech double pedal, the thing fucking rocked.

Hell, my guitar teacher wanted to buy it off me :evilgrin: