gear
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Instruments
I really only have guitars. I want to learn to play bass and drums as well, I just haven’t gotten around to buying that gear.
Guitars
Schecter C-1 Platinum
My third guitar. Amazing features for the price. My go-to for rhythm and leads on heavier songs.
I have the Transparent White model. I got it on sale for like 500 bucks.
Harley Benton Fusion-III
My second guitar. Large jump in quality and features. Versatile enough for pretty much any genre.
I have the HSH EB FPU model in Flamed Purple.
Squier Affinity Strat
My first guitar. Nothing special, it looks and sounds like a guitar. I don’t use it much.
Electronics
Pedals
I like to mess around with pedals in search of interesting tones. Too bad I’m not really any good at it.
Digitech Drop
By far my most used pedal. Increases the versatility of anything you plug into it by about 9 times.
BOSS DS-1 Distortion
My first pedal. Probably your first pedal too.
BOSS BD-2 Blues Driver
Light overdrive.
BOSS CS-3 Compression Sustainer
The pinch harmonic machine. Once I got one of these it all clicked.
BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone
Unironically good pick
BOSS DC-2w Dimension C Waza
Interesting pedal which I am definitely not making full use of.
Pedalboard
I didn’t want to shell out money for an expensive pedalboard. So, I did the IKEA Hejne hack. I bought the shelf only and used some velcro tape on it and my pedals to make my own board.
My setup is as follows:
Guitar 🠞 Digitech Drop 🠞BOSS CS-3 🠞BOSS BD-2 🠞BOSS MT-2 🠞BOSS DC-2w 🠞 Amp/Interface
In all honesty, this doesn’t really sound that good. I still need to play with the knobs and order to try to get a good tone.
I’m looking to upgrade the power supply I use, which is just a Truetone 1-spot.
Recording Gear
I mostly run my guitars and pedals through my PC.
Steinberg UR12
Solid audio interface that just works. I run my mic and guitar through it.
JDS Labs Atom Amp 2
Great headphone amp. I have this connected via my UR12 and use my DT 770 Pros with it.