Post your rig! Curiosity

[ragtime8922]

I am curious what type of rigs everyone has. We all our at least somewhat builders and/or designers. Some for "need" and some for "want". Sometimes we want to beleive we "need" when we really just want...MORE. I searched and searched for my amp head and am completely happy with it. I love that tube tone with clarity and articulation. I generally like hard, heavy, deep tones but wanted versatility also. Anyway, to me my amp head is the ultimate heavy, deep, unique, articulate METAL tone as it's "Major" but it has an AWESOME crunch tone ranging from plexi to JCM800+. The cleans are awesome and with 4 channels I have all the versatility I need...yet I build fuzz, OD and distortion pedals out of pure love for variety and, well, building stuff and hearing the changes in mods. I don't know. Anyway, here is my rig:

*ENGL powerball 4 channel, 120 watt head.
*Charvel model 6 (neck-thru) w/EMG 81 and 2 single coils. (soon to replace the EMG with a Duncan JB.
*FX change daily with DIY stuff but use a Digitech RP100 for reverb only. (I gotta build a damn reverb tank!)
*Also have a Boss EQ double pedal thing and Boss Acoustic Sim that I use on some clean tones.

Post your rigs, my curiousity has been asking me to ask you guys.

[AL]

1967 Fender Bassman - Blackface
2 x 8" custom speaker cab w/ handmade speakers - nice and light and sounds huge.

Tube Screamer
Nobels ODR-S
AMZ Mosfet Boost (DIY)
Dan Echo

Most of the time I'm just straight amp - the pedals are mainly for texture.

In the process of fixing up a '72 Fender Quad Reverb and Traynor YSR-1 and also DIY Fuzz Face (again), Tone Bender and (coming soon) Blue Magic. So I may have a new rig in a few months. But for now I am very happy with the Bassman.

AL

[smashinator]

Crate P.O.S. 20 watt practice amp, with reverb and chorus.  I don't ever use the chorus, but the reverb is decent.

Epiphone Explorer - black with gold hardware.  So pretty.

Silicon Fuzz Face I built.  I only use this with my Crate.  At rehearsals I use my buddy's Valvestate, which does NOT like the fuzz face.

EA Trem I built, specially tweaked for MEGA DEPTH.  

Crybaby Wah

Boss Digital Delay

(my dream rig is the above except through an Orange AD30R instead of the Crate)

[filterazonatie]

Since I'm new into fx building, my rig is all stock as of now (except my guitar which I've modded). That will soon change! For now, it's

Fender Strat with Kinman pups and LR Baggs XBridge

Acoustic/Electric lines split, acoustic into Fishman EQ/DI Box, Electric into pedalboard-

Analogman SunFace
Barber Direct Drive
MoogerFooger MuRF
Red Witch Medusa Chorus (on it's way!)
homemade a/b loop, one footswitch to select a or b loop with-
    Maxon AD900 delay or
    EH DMM delay and EH Holy Grail

Amp: Budda SD18

My current project is an all-inclusive OD pedal with a high z buffer running into one or the other of my two favorite drives (Barber DD and Crowther HotCake) followed by a clean boost.  Basically, it's a 2-switch drive and boost pedal, with a toggle to choose between the two overdrives. Should cover a huge range of tones. That along with my fuzz face should cover everything I need in the way of distortion. FWIW, the boost channel will be wired in series and independantly of the drive channel, so you can use it as just a clean boost as well. I've also been thinking of including a side-chain between the two channels a la FoxRox Zim, so that I could insert effect post drive and pre boost! We'll see how ambitious I feel after building the circuits for the boost and the buffer!

[Marcos - Munky]

Amps: Staner Kute25 (brazilian), Little Gem (not boxed), Ruby (not boxed, with Bassman mod), Anderton 8w amp (not boxed).

Guitar: Ibanez GRX720 7 string

Effects: BSIAB2, LPB, TSA, Fuzz Face (not DIY), Boss DS-2, Ibanez FZ-7, a brazilian overdrive with the TS-808 circuit, Sound Wah (brazilian vintage wah fuzz), Brownsville Wah, Robovox, Tremulus Lune (not boxed), Pushme Pullyou.

[Paul Marossy]

Here's my favorite setup.

Guitar-->
Tuner-->
Vintage CryBabyWah-->
BSIAB I-->
Shaka Tube-->
BOSS Metal Zone-->
DOD FX-17 Volume Pedal-->
BOSS Super Chorus-->
Phase 45 Clone-->
BOSS DD-5 Digital Delay w/ DIY tempo box-->
'74 Fender Twin Reverb

I can get some awesome tones with this setup!

Amps and dist/od/fuzz pedals may vary, but my favorite line up is listed above. I like my Octal Fatness and Matchless Spitfire clone a lot as well.

Of course, all of my pedals are carried in my DIY pedalboard. http://www.diyguitarist.com/DIYStompboxes/NewPedalBoard.htm

My Octal Fatness:
http://www.diyguitarist.com/GuitarAmps/OctalFatness.htm

My Matchless Spitfire clone:
http://www.diyguitarist.com/GuitarAmps/Spitfire.htm

***EDIT: Guitar could be:

My MIJ Strat - http://www.diyguitarist.com/Guitars/MIJ-Strat.htm
My Self-Built Strat - http://www.diyguitarist.com/Guitars/SuperStrat.htm
My Ibanez S470FM - S series, flame maple, British Racing Green color
or My Ibanez EX370FM - http://www.diyguitarist.com/Images/EX370FM.jpg ***

[vanhansen]

My rig is on my site:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ehansen3/diy/gear.htm

[lightningfingers]

homemade guitar -> LPB1(DIY) -> UniVibe(DIY) -> Fuzzface(DIY) -> Marshall Valvestate. Occasionally i change the ff for a (diy) BMP. I also own a dano tuna melt which has a cool chop function.

[StephenGiles]

Gibson Les Paul Junior
Stripboard ADA Flanger
Carvin X60 amp

[waldo041]

a not so good pic but it is explained also. very interesting to see what others are using. i built the rack case myself and the quadrixers reverb is awesome. the onboard effects loop allows me to have total control of the effects PRE-guitar volume.ie. Effect On/Effects Off and tone controls and pickup selections. the unity gain buffer is inside the guitar and i have a stereo jack that goes to the effects then back into the guitar and finally out via another stereo jack (2nd contact decouples buffer when unplugged) to the the reverb then the amp. oh yeah, the unity gain buffer also allows me to use almost a eighty feet of cord with NO signal loss.enjoy. peace, waldo

http://www.geocities.com/waldo041/equipment.htm

[Torchy]

crp

[Mojah63]

1957 reissue USA Strat with an HS-3 in the bridge the other pickups stock but wax dipped. The clearest + warmest sounding strat I could find at the time.
1973 Marshall 50 watt w master volume added.
Mesa Boogie Dual Recto Cab w vintage 30's.

FX's  ok I'm a Junkie but I'm trying to reform  :lol:

Vox wha, boss master switch, boss ce-3,  block MXR Phase 100 (I Really love this thing), Jap boss ds-1, boss ds-2, Danelectro Fab tone, Boss Flanger, Dan Echo.

Fx's that don't usually make it to gigs
MXR Dist II, Ross brown Distortion, DOD Flanger 370, Boss Dimension C, MXR Stereo Chourus (soon to be on E-Bay), DOD 280 compressor, Nobles Tremelo And some more junk.....

Boy Now I get to MAKE more FX's.......

[ragtime8922]

This thread is 10 times cooler then I thought it would be. The rigs from the forumites are EXTREMELY interesting. I love the dream/future rig twist that was added by a few people.

Keep them comming!

[doug deeper]

for my current band (spf alot)
kent "strat"(70's lawsuite) with single pickup in neck...no controls...(there was a sampler in there...but it got too noisey)
diy misbyassed fuzzzzy thing...sounds like a detuned gocart...
digitech synth wah
arion octave
boss ps-3
boss ps-2
boss rv-3
digitech pds-1002
and coming soon a dod fx30b noise gate...
i will put the whole board in the loop so i can get everything self oscillating only when i play...
weird im not using any mid-fi stuff in this band...

[ragtime8922]

Since I'm new into fx building, my rig is all stock as of now (except my guitar which I've modded). That will soon change! For now, it's

Fender Strat with Kinman pups and LR Baggs XBridge

Acoustic/Electric lines split, acoustic into Fishman EQ/DI Box, Electric into pedalboard-

Analogman SunFace
Barber Direct Drive
MoogerFooger MuRF
Red Witch Medusa Chorus (on it's way!)
homemade a/b loop, one footswitch to select a or b loop with-
    Maxon AD900 delay or
    EH DMM delay and EH Holy Grail

Amp: Budda SD18

My current project is an all-inclusive OD pedal with a high z buffer running into one or the other of my two favorite drives (Barber DD and Crowther HotCake) followed by a clean boost.  Basically, it's a 2-switch drive and boost pedal, with a toggle to choose between the two overdrives. Should cover a huge range of tones. That along with my fuzz face should cover everything I need in the way of distortion. FWIW, the boost channel will be wired in series and independantly of the drive channel, so you can use it as just a clean boost as well. I've also been thinking of including a side-chain between the two channels a la FoxRox Zim, so that I could insert effect post drive and pre boost! We'll see how ambitious I feel after building the circuits for the boost and the buffer!

I love the sound/thought of that OD pedal of yours. Just last night while laying in bed I decided to build a "Boost Factory" pedal which will include a rangemaster, mosfet booster, minibooster and LPB-1 on a rotary switch. I love the tone of an OC44 rangemaster driving a TS-808. Since I also plan to build a Blue Magic the all-inclusive OD thing is raising my brow....

[MartyMart]

Recording rig :
1984 Tele/'62 reissue Strat/Epiphone 335dot, then
Maxon compressor, followed by variations of :
George Dennis Wah
BSIAB II
Tube Reamer
Mr Ed distortion
Modded Boss DS-1
Modded Boss BD-2
Pearl OD5 overdrive
Modded Ibanez TS-9
Modded Boss MT-2
Boss DC-2
Script Phase 90
Ibanez BC 9
EA Tremolo
DOD 490 phaser
Boss PN-2 . . . . . . Into either :
Marshall JMP-1------Desk
Matamp C7 ------- SM57
Peavey Ckassic 30 ------ SM57
Modded Park G10R ------SM57

Marty.

[smashinator]

Paul - your DIY tempo setting box for the digital delay is something I need that I hadn't realized I could just MAKE.  Sweet!

[Paul Marossy]

Paul - your DIY tempo setting box for the digital delay is something I need that I hadn't realized I could just MAKE. Sweet!

Yeah. It's so simple it almost hurts! It's very easy to make one, and if you do make one, enjoy!  

[kusi]

Guitars:
- Jackson SL2-b black USA Series
- ESP/LTD KH-603
- Aria Cobra CR-60
- Yamaha C 55-1

Amp`s:
- Marshall 30`th Anniversary 6100
- Marshall JCM 800 Lead-Box 4x12"
- Peavel XXL 2x12" Combo
- Peavey Audition 110 1x10"

Rack:
- Nobels MS-8
- Looper DIY
- Peavey Rockmaster 19" Pre-amp
- Custom Rectifier Pre-Amp DIY

- Behringer FCB1010

Stompboxes:
- Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-Wah (modded)
- Digitech DigiDelay
- Jaques Meistersinger Chorus
- MXR Dime Distortion
- Boss HR-2 Harmonizer
- ProCo Rat 2
- Ibanez Thrash Metal
- Boss HM-3
- V-AMP II
- DIY: TS808, SD-1, DS-1, GT-2,HMP, Obsidian, BigMuffPI, MXR Dist.+, GE-Fuzz, Scrambler, Thunderchief

[mlabbee]

filterazonatie - try using your murf with the filters defeated and just cranking the input section.  A guy at a music store showed me this and it makes for a beautiful overdrive sound!  Also, if you felt like opening it up to figure out what kind of input preamp design it uses . . .  

My rig, in no particular order, since I move everything around constantly:

Various guitars, but my favorite is an Epiphone SG with SD pups - a JB on the bridge and a Jazz on the neck, with the Jazz split to a single coil with a bleed cap to let some treble through into the second coil - don't know why, but it sounds really good . . . (I need to transfer the set-up to a better guitar - I bought the SG for $90 to use as a testbed.  Go figure)

Fender Blues Jr. plugged into a 2x12 ported cab with Weber ceramic blue dogs

Brian May Treble Boost DIY
Dynacomp/Ross Compressor (switchable) DIY
The Blue Green Scream (my own take on TS-808)
Boss Super Shifter
Ibanez DM1100 digital delay
Multivox analog delay
Line6 PodXT

In production:
BMTB with switchable input caps
AMZ boost
The Pencil Pusher - subminiature tube based pre-amp