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The Gear Page

The is another page that could easily be very boring, but I know that some people are interested is such things, so here goes:-

Live Gear

When playing live with The Fabulous Swampsnakes, my "secular" band, I use my "guitar of the moment", which, since late 2006, has been a Fender USA Strat, with custom Alnico pick-ups.

This goes through a small pedal board containing a tuner, Marshall Bluesbreaker, Daphon Chorus and Daphon Compressor/ Sustain pedal for solo-ing.

All this now goes into an Ashton 30 watt 1 X 12 all-valve combo, since my Laney LC15 decided to melt towards the end of a gig.

For slide work ,I use a custom strat, which I call the Snake-o-caster, which is covered in "snake-skin" and fitted with Mighty Mite pick-ups.

For vocals, we usually use our own rig, with Phonic 600 watt mixer-amp, Peavey speakers and Fender monitors, with an AKG mike.

Recording

I am still very much experimenting on the recording front at the moment, trying to get a good guitar sound which approximates what I sound like Live - without cranking things up to the max and getting the Neighbours vexed!

The recorder is a Roland VS-840GX Digital Work Station, which is an eight track, based around Zip disk technology. I am slowly getting familiar with this technology!

I have a Korg Super Drums DDM-110 Drum Machine, which is very "old Skool" these days, but I can understand it and it does the job I want. I also have a simple Stagg Bass guitar, which is again adequate for my simple needs

I have been trying various signal processors for the guitar, including those built into the recorder and the jury is still out on what I will use for future work.

I have a couple of other guitars, which I am using, including a Gibson Melody Maker and an electro-acoustic and do not rule out the limited use of keyboards in future.

My first two efforts have been made with the use of backing tapes, but as I get used to the "studio", I will be recording all the parts - probably!

There - that was interesting, wasn't it?

"Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise." (Psalm 33:3 KJV)

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