| On your right, you can see a picture
of our guitars and effects.
On the left is a Yamaha RGX312. This is Nanne's guitar. It's a real animal, with it's 24 frets, locking tremolo and humbucker bridge pickup. The sound is very fat, somewhat Jackson-like. It plays very fast and comfortable. Next to it is my Ibanez RG 570. I've been told that this a limited model. It has a tight sound, with many harmonics. I believe this one of the fastest guitars you'll ever play on. It has a very sleek 'Wizard II' neck with 24 frets. The tremolo is the Ibanez Lo-Pro Edge, which practically can't go out of tune. The pickups are all from Ibanez too : a V7 at the neck, an S1 in the middle and a V8 at the bridge. They give a very wide variety of sounds, from twangy to very, very heavy. If you're a player, you really have to check out an RG from the top range, such as this one. It has a killer sound with it's Alder body, and the neck is really incredibly fast. Then we come to my Gibson Les Paul Standard. From the inventor of the solid body electric guitar, this is the purest, fullest and most emotional sounding electric guitar in the world. I love this one. And finally we come to another Ibanez, This is my brother's Roadstar II. Well, it was actually. It's a great guitar, but lately none of us really used it anymore, so he decided to sell it. I still regret he did that. I also have an Ovation Celebrity Deluxe. For those of you that don't know, it's an acoustic guitar with a round back, and a great sound. You can see that we use a Marshall combo. It's a cliché, but Marshalls really are great amps. This is the ValveState VS230R. It has so much punch, and 'the x-factor'. I love that. The blue pedal is not a wah-pedal, but a very old Ibanez phaser. The speed can be adjusted with the pedal, and you can turn it on and off with your foot. This gives you much more expressive possibilities than a normal phaser can.
Then we have a Zoom
505 compact digital multi-effect processor. It's very cheap, but it sounds
like a million bucks! Try this one out yourself!. Finally we come to the yellow stomp-box. This is the Boss Overdrive/Distortion pedal. The combination of overdrive and distortion give some interestingly coloured tones. Nanne has a Morley Wah pedal, too. It's got a huge sweep. The greatest thing of these pedals is that they don't use pots, but have an optic system. No more cleaning!
I also bought a Zoom 8080 Super
Player. The top of the Zoom line, and it shows (and sounds)! Not everyone may
like digital effects processors, but I'm hooked. And I think Zoom does a great
job on making the tone sound pure and vintage. Hear our guitar tone on the new
tracks, and get hooked too!
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But enough about guitars....
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- A Casio
CTK-530 keyboard.
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- A Yamaha
YS100 Digital Synthesizer.
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| - A Kawai
R-50 Digital Drum machine.
(This one is a classic!). |
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| - A Yamaha
MT50 4 track recorder.
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| - A Gravis
UltraSound Max PC soundcard.
This card is one of the best. We use it for its great MIDI Instruments and to record the mix-down of our multitrack recordings. The A/D-converter sounds a great deal better than that of other cards in the same price range. The quality is about as high as CDs recorded without 20-bit oversampling (introduced around 1993). |
- An Atari 1040 STe computer.
We use it for MIDI arranging. |