Post a Picture of Your #1 Instrument
 

Now I do realize you might have a favorite to look at and a favorite to play. My question though can be answered simply by telling us which you typically pick up play most, talk about, or bring with you on a gig or jam.

This goes for any instrument you may play. You may even play multiple instruments, but surely there is one that you gravitate towards above all others!
Please post pictures as well. Preferably of your actually instrument.

My 12 string guitar is always great to play. I wish I could incorporate it into my recordings more often, but the sound is too "chorusy" many times and fills up my songs too easily.

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Here's me playing my number 1 instrument.

Recently I have three favourites, that I play equally as much...my strat copy, my 7 string, and my 6 string acoustic all get equal love bros. Pictures incoming later.

my first instrument broke and was thrown away same with my second instrument and my fourth (third is still kicking)

Thats a pretty lookin tele. Deluxe?

Yet you MUST chose one!!


@Hkz: Putting new strings on is such a bitch with those.

The synth on top. Access Indigo 2. She's dreamy.
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God damn, that is a sexy piece of equipment.

She purrs like a lion. :D

Although I don't think lions purr. But still.

Well, if they did....I imagine it would sound like that.

My god freebase, what a nice corded telephone!!! Probably a real pleasure to dial up some friends.

:laughing:

But seriously what is the gear under it? Thats a mean looking rack.

Underneath is a Mackie 16 channel mixer. Kind of overkill at the moment because my drums are in storage and I rarely need to record through more than one channel simultaneously while the drum mics are out of the equation, so I pretty much just used (at the time of the picture) it as a hub to give everything a dedicated channel that needed one, and those channels each go into its own input on my audio interface. Eliminated the need for plugging and unplugging all the time.

Then there's a simple passive direct box, some headphones that I'm going to miss if they ever break because I don't think they make them anymore. JVC HAM1000. Been having them for years and they're solid and sound good. I know them so well, I can do entire mixes on them with good results... so if they ever bite it, I'll be sad.

Under that are 4 Behringer rackmount processors. Enhancer, MultiFX, EQ, and Compressor. Being Behringer, they're nothing special but they're good for sculpting what comes out of the guitar pedal below or the synth above. Even then, I usually end up doing EQ and compression and all that in my music program, so they're mostly unused unless I'm trying to experiment and get a certain sound before using it. They also come in handy on the halfstack, but I barely used it at the time of that photo, and now that I live in an apartment, it's in storage indefinitely.

Below that is a Digitech RP500 modeling pedal. Has some really good distortions based on a lot of popular cabs, heads and microphones. It's a lot more useful for my current situation where I can't blast away on the halfstack.

Below that is some really gross carpet. I'm so glad I don't live there anymore, but it sucks to not be able to make noise now. Most of my gear is currently in storage and I'm itching to play with it all again. Especially my drums. :(

Im really only familiar with that RP500. Those are great multi fx units. Personally I think hey sound 10x better than those blasted POD's. (I even own a pod, and still hate it. Sounds generic and lame)

Ill bet you can get some good tweak-age out of that EQ/Compressor though. And im just curious, when recording are you going into the units then computer or just putting mic up to your amp?

I also have the same problem. A pretty nice kit that iv put alot of money and time into but can not play since I live downtown where neighbors are everywhere. I hate people who want to live in peace :(

Yea, I've heard mixed reviews about the pods and when researching which modeling pedal to get I ultimately went with the RP500 because the reviews were pretty good.

Regarding recording, for guitar it really depended on the situation. The RP500 sounds good enough to record straight in to the audio interface and onto a track in the music program, so for that I didn't need any additional processing that couldn't be achieved in the program itself. But the rack processors were good for sculpting the sound between the RP500 and the head. (which is a Line-6 Spider...ughhh...)
The cool thing about the RP500 is it has an amp bypass that lets you output straight into a head and use the head on clean channel as the amplifier for the cab. Simply routing the output of the pedal into the rack processors keeping everything at line level and then you run that through a the direct box in reverse to match impedance and plug into the guitar input on the head. In that scenario, I would obviously be recording with a mic and that mic would lead to the mixer, which led to the audio interface and into the music program. That created a far more flexible way to get a custom sound rather than just editing the patches on the pedal only.

I do [did] that same thing with the synth, even running it through the cab to capture a particular tone or go further with FX by running it through the multiFX rack unit along the way.

Like I said, it really depended on what I was trying to do. Now I'm with far less options so pretty much everything happens direct in.
Aside from that, for acoustic guitar or vocals, it's pretty standard I guess, as I just record with a condenser and run it through the mixer (for phantom power and the preamps on the Mackie are nice) and into the audio interface. I don't use any of the rack processors in that path because there's no undoing that and I get better results with plugins.

Thumbs up for Theremin.

Jesus thats one ****ing huge picture. At least its awsome, I might kill a man for one. Only a Mini Moog pedal could be better!

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Well this is all 3 of them, but I'm still a piano guy, for better or worse.

What model Yamaha is that? My friend has an old one that looks just like that form the 70's that plays great.

Piano is more fun to play, for me. Maybe it's because I don't know how to play it correctly which makes it so? I'm afraid that if I learn chords I'll have to think about what I'm doing instead of simply putting my fingers on the keys and being pleasantly surprised a minority of the time.

I enjoy playing it, but I would be the last person on earth to perform on it.

**** if I know, I got it at GuitarCenter for like $100. Like gin, I prefer my instruments beat up and ****ty.

I feel like its a more working-man sound. I hate polish.

This is my favorite guitar, my 2010 Danelectro 59. Apparently it's a limited edition or something (the white with gold hardware) and they're only making them this year? I dunno, but it plays, looks, feels, and sounds awesome.
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That sir is a baddass axe.

dan electro god I love the name of that brand

A 2006 ash deluxe tele

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Since the chrome is worn off the bridge, you can just imagine the finish on the back of the neck.

My amp of choice is my ChampXD, because I play it the most.

But live I use this

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A yamaha T-50c/ It's a 50w all tube and is Michael Soldano's design, so it rawks.

Someone palm mutes alot, right?

Yes, but it's pretty much where your hand rests. and then the top of the neck in back is worn down to the wood from my thumb.

You should definitely put a 3 saddle bridge in that sucka.

Do I even need to say it?

EWWWWWWW

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Listening to: Michael Jackson - [Invincible #12] Don't Walk Away [foobar2000 v1.0.3]

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EWWWWWWW


compensated brass saddles ftw!

I know your into performance guitars (from what Iv seen) but I figure for myself at least, if Danny Gatton/Jimmy Page/Pete Townsend can handle then so can I.

The 3 saddle bridge just feels at home and gives a slightly different sound when running through the same setup and turning up volume. I guess you could say twangier. Not to mention I like tele's because of there simplicity. If there was ever a tele genocide I could somewhat easily construct a new one.

One of the benefits of living with parents who make money:
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I play guitar and trumpet but I still find myself returning to my old-fashioned upright the most. I particularly like the Kawai brand too, maybe it's just because I grew up playing on them. Unless I'm playing classical, I also prefer uprights to grands.

My trumpet is pretty decent, just haven't been playing as much I'd like since the jazz band I used to play with folded a couple months ago.

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I can only recommend you use properly compensated saddles, instead of the awful un-intonatable stock ones.

I know we've not met, but if you're into taken advice from strangers, go for the trumpet my friend. That thing has the power to summon Zeus.

I personally hate the 3 saddle bridges. They dig into your hand. I liked this type of bridge, plus it doesn't have the ridge to hold the ash tray. So the right hand feels like a strat, but with the knobs in the wrong spot. Some didn't like this model because it's wired hotter, but it can still do a decent tele sound if you roll the volume off a bit.

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I own a guitar

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It's not like I can play it

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But it's a-musing to look at (jeez that's bad...)

I should be able to play it though, I have the capabilities, both musical and physical, to be able to play a guitar. I should.

What is the point of having a guitar lying around if you aren't going to play it?!

Pick it up, and learn some chords at least man!!

I tune it now and then ;).
Really should learn some cords, yeah. So I can at least sing along while playing. I can sing quite allright. So that would make a nice combination.

I feel you though, I have one and I wish I could play, but learning the thing is a ****ing bore. I hate the F chord, I hate tuning it, I think bar chords are ridiculous, everything seems disjointed.

Grab a base. At least there isn't a B string.