GEAR - December 14, 2011
THE GUITARS: --The main guitar I play is a candy apple red FENDER ROAD WORN PLAYERS TELE--The ROAD WORN has a Seymour Duncan 59 Humbucker in the neck, and a Seymour Duncan Little '59 Tele bridge pickup; other features are a 9.5" radiused maple fretboard, 21 medium jumbo frets, and a 'reliced' nitrocellulose finished body--
I do, on occasion, play an ESP H1001 LTD DELUXE, a very modern sounding and looking 24 fret mahogany double cutaway with an arched flame maple top; with EMG pickups, a Tonepros bridge,an Earvana compensated nut, and ESP locking tuning gears--
I also play a YAMAHA SLGN100,a nylon-string electric for solo and duo gigs--
THE AMP: By any measure,the BUDDA SUPERDRIVE 30 is the finest amp I've played in years--It is a 1x12 combo with a proprietary BUDDA PHAT 12 speaker--It is a 'hand-wired' circuit that uses 4 EL84 power tubes, 3 12AX7 preamp tubes, and a 5AR4 rectifier tube--It has a rhythm(clean) and a drive channel that operate in a 'cascading' fashion, very similar to a Mesa Boogie Mark 1--The cabinet is made of pine, which creates a resonance that is truly breathable and alive--It also has a pull-brite on the clean channel, and a very transparent FX loop and a slave out--The SD30 covers a range of tone from clean to overdrive and does it seamlessly at every point--
THE PEDALBOARD: Is powered by a Visual Sound One-Spot--Starting with a Korg Pitch Black Tuner, the signal goes to a Fulltone Deluxe Clyde Wah; from there,to an XOTIC FX BB+ pre-amp, out to a Boss Volume Pedal--On the board also is an MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay and a Voodoo Labs Tremelo that is routed to the FX Loop of the amp--The board is wired exclusively with George L's cable--
A special thank you to Karen Barr, Bill Loughman, Tony JanFlone, Bob, Jason, and Justin Sarra, and everyone at Pianos n Stuff Music--
I do, on occasion, play an ESP H1001 LTD DELUXE, a very modern sounding and looking 24 fret mahogany double cutaway with an arched flame maple top; with EMG pickups, a Tonepros bridge,an Earvana compensated nut, and ESP locking tuning gears--
I also play a YAMAHA SLGN100,a nylon-string electric for solo and duo gigs--
THE AMP: By any measure,the BUDDA SUPERDRIVE 30 is the finest amp I've played in years--It is a 1x12 combo with a proprietary BUDDA PHAT 12 speaker--It is a 'hand-wired' circuit that uses 4 EL84 power tubes, 3 12AX7 preamp tubes, and a 5AR4 rectifier tube--It has a rhythm(clean) and a drive channel that operate in a 'cascading' fashion, very similar to a Mesa Boogie Mark 1--The cabinet is made of pine, which creates a resonance that is truly breathable and alive--It also has a pull-brite on the clean channel, and a very transparent FX loop and a slave out--The SD30 covers a range of tone from clean to overdrive and does it seamlessly at every point--
THE PEDALBOARD: Is powered by a Visual Sound One-Spot--Starting with a Korg Pitch Black Tuner, the signal goes to a Fulltone Deluxe Clyde Wah; from there,to an XOTIC FX BB+ pre-amp, out to a Boss Volume Pedal--On the board also is an MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay and a Voodoo Labs Tremelo that is routed to the FX Loop of the amp--The board is wired exclusively with George L's cable--
A special thank you to Karen Barr, Bill Loughman, Tony JanFlone, Bob, Jason, and Justin Sarra, and everyone at Pianos n Stuff Music--