Hello everyone, after the warm welcome here i just wanted to write some stuff. So i decided to give you a quick overview of what is taking a good part of my living room.
Lets start with the guitar. It is a mid/late 80's Charvel Model 3DR. Thats a six string e-guitar with a floyd-rose tremolo, a humbucker and a single coil at the neck. The R in the Model Type stands for reversed headplate, so instead of pointing up, the tuners point to the floor. The sound is clear and crisp, with the proper effects its predestinated for 80s Rock and Powermetal stuff. Everything on this guitar is still the original equipment, with Jackson labels on every part. Probably build in Japan, dont know exactly.
My amp is somewhat a bastard child. Its a bass/guitar amp thingie. Made by the well known (not so well known for their amps) Pearl company and name Pearl Vorg 101. 100 Watt transistor amp with two channels. A copy of the older Fender amps with an indefinite age. Got it from my father, he said it coud easily be older than me and go out to 30 or 40 years in age, again, i dont know the exact date of build. Both channels have a switch which seems to boost the heights in tone, the second channel also has a hall effect.
Right below that there sits a (for an apartment) huge Fender FM 412 box. Just a box, nothing special, was a birthday gift.
My effects are: Boss Heavy Metal HM-2 (got it with the guitar), Boss cs-3 compressor and sustainer, Behringer od 100 (cheap ass crap but somehow nice distorted sound) and a Zoom G2.1u multieffect.
The hm-2 is a realy old distortion pedal which can suck a battery dry within a few hours. It makes a dense but still warm distortion sound in standard adjustment but has a wide range of possibilities from strong high pitched sounds to almost overdrive-like notes with the two band equalizer. The distortion knob is a mystery, sometimes a small, half degree, turn changes the whole sound, in other positions you can twist it half way round without hearing a difference .
The cs-3 i dont have that long, actually i can only say, it does what a compressor should do, and it also adds nice sustain to the notes played. Give a more filled sound. I have to play with it more to get a more detailed opinion.
The Behringer pedal seems somehow misplaced next to the boss pedals, its cheap, its ugly and its plastic. But still it has a nice distortion, it has a more "new" distortion, like the electronical, clean (almost artificial) sounding distortion used by some metalcore bands. The overdrive function just feels like playing with a ton of cushions in the speakerbox, totaly damped. I am savin to replace it with a more versatile boss distortion effect.
The last one in the list is the one i promised myself the most use.The G2.1u is a multieffect with the possibility to record direct to a pc. It has tons of effects, amps and speakersimulations but in the end it sounds a bit artificial. It is nice toy to play at home and try out stuff without buying tons of other stuff you only use once. I realy like it but i like the sound of my boss effects more, so i actually use it as a drum computer to get some beats to play along.
Yep, thats my actual gear, plans for the near future are: An acoustic guitar (probably done by monday), a wahwah pedal (around next month), boss distortion (tba ), noise gate , ...
A reason to buy all that (for me) expensive stuff is to give me some more motivation like "Hey you just spent a lot of money on that effect, now use it!"