El Toro's Official Guitarded Thread...

[VinnieVincentsVag]

What about amplifiers/cabs, pedal boards etc.? What floats everyone's boat here? I'm basically a sick gear-head & love all this stuff. I got this Hughes & Kettner head last week that just slays. What'cha got?

A little 'pimpy' perhaps, but man.....

Boss Gt1000
Headrush MX5
Boss GT100
Fender Bassbreaker
Marshall Code 50
Boss Katana
Peavey VIP3
4 Headrush FRFR 8s

[Demons Eye]

just picked up the above "triple crown 50", a few weeks back... and in no specific order:

orange rockerverb 50 MK I
orange micro terror
marshall tsl602
ampeg svt (all tube bass head from early 70’s)
ampeg ba-115
yamaha thr10x
fender gtx-100

[sirthx2]

Sweet & sweet!!

[timstar78]

Any suggestions?

Yes, burn your cheap "collection" of guitars and take up a career in the custodial arts. It's never too late to shoot for the stars. #loser

[VinnieVincentsVag]

Any suggestions?

Yes, burn your cheap "collection" of guitars and take up a career in the custodial arts. It's never too late to shoot for the stars. #loser

This is true

[exitflagger]

Any suggestions?

Yes, burn your cheap "collection" of guitars and take up a career in the custodial arts. It's never too late to shoot for the stars. #loser

How far behind are you? April?

Get the dick out of your mouth and try to keep up.

[timstar78]

Any suggestions?

Yes, burn your cheap "collection" of guitars and take up a career in the custodial arts. It's never too late to shoot for the stars. #loser

How far behind are you? April?

Happy to oblige, albeit retroactively. Try this line of pedals on for size. It's certainly befitting of your skill level and craptastic guitars, though could be too pricey. Maybe if you sweep up at a second Taco Bell, you can afford one. And remember: the red light means its on.

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-FDS ... r=8-7&th=1

[Sleek]

Hah. I just picked up a mini Klon clone off of amazon and it sounds great.

...after watching this video:

https://youtu.be/aK5H0e9Ejmc?list=PL_cg ... beXne8FGzk

[exitflagger]

Doofster: Master of the retard-solidarity laffy face.

TimmyClownShoe, what nym were you before I hurted your little feelings and you got flushed?

[CrusherVerdu]

Gibson Les Paul Trad Pro V and a MIM Fender Stratocaster. My pedalboard is small. I have a Electro-Harmonix Soul Preacher compressor, Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret overdrive pedal, MXR Univibe chorus and vibrato, and an Oceans 11 reverb. All fed into an Orange TH 30.

[exitflagger]

What brand of strings are you all using these days? I've been having issues with Ernie Ball strings and now I'm hearing around the guitarguy water cooler that Ernie's are slipping in quality like Gibson guitars. The Guitar Center here basically only has them and D'addarios. I guess I'll start using D'addarios for now but I need to try some others.

Suggestions/recommendations?

[VinnieVincentsVag]

What brand of strings are you all using these days? I've been having issues with Ernie Ball strings and now I'm hearing around the guitarguy water cooler that Ernie's are slipping in quality like Gibson guitars. The Guitar Center here basically only has them and D'addarios. I guess I'll start using D'addarios for now but I need to try some others.

Suggestions/recommendations?

I recently went to 38-8 on a couple guitars.
I use Ernie Ball.
I’m not experiencing any issues (yet?)

[Mojo]

I'm a basic bitch, so it's D'addario 10-46's all the way. I've tried 9's lightening up because Brian May plays super light strings, and they were too loose (like your mom) and I've tried 11's and they were too heavy (like your mom). The 10's play well in standard tuning and they don't feel too loose on my half-step down guitar.

[Sleek]

I'll use any strings. Couldn't give a fuck. They all break or go dead after a while.

I usually go Ernie Ball because that Eagle graphic is dope. I had a guy tell me I should use D'Addarios because they last longer. They did not.

Depending on the guitar, I'll go .009's, 10s, even 11s on one of my strats. Different guages feel different on different guitars. I use hybrid guages a lot, too...my 9s and 11s are hybrid, but usually I use normal sets of 10s.

[exitflagger]

I had a pack of Ernies that were ate up with rust straight out of the pack. Not cool.

When I got work done on my newest guitar the tech used a set of strings that came with the guitar. I had told him there was a set in the case. They were some off brand set from either China or Japan. I actually wasn't sure if he had put them on the guitar and I figured if they were no good he wouldn't use them. So I had to check back with him and he says "Oh yeah those strings are crap". I'm thinking why the fuck did you put them on the guitar then? I thought the action was off or something. He took it like I specifically wanted to use those strings.

[exitflagger]

I recently went to 38-8 on a couple guitars.

Holy shit. I tried a hybrid set 9s on the high end and 10s lower. On the tele. Hated it. Guitar didn't sound or play the way I like it till I put straight 10s on. I'm thinking I would probably break 8s if I looked at them wrong. No fucking way.

I have to do 10s or 11s.

[HueyRamone]

My new Fernandes Nikki Sixx Bass. reversed reverse thunderbird! Fellow Sludger Martin Sleekerson helped me with giving the boring black body some pizzaz.

[Sleek]

Terrible skull.

[Mojo]

What’s the F on the headstock for? Fake? Feigned? Faux? Fabricated? Fictitious? Those are the F words that make me think of Nikki Sixx.

[Sleek]

Duh. It obviously stands for Frank Feranna.

[sirthx2]

I will once again caution Huey to avert thine eyes:

Ultra Strat. Best feel of any strat I've picked up and I own a mod-shop master built. (which is also perfect but this thing for me, and my hands is unreal)

[HueyRamone]

I dont hate that one. It's not that awful quilted maple. If it couldnt be white, that's a good second option. I think it actually looks better than Strat's standard burst.

[sirthx2]

I dont hate that one. It's not that awful quilted maple. If it couldnt be white, that's a good second option. I think it actually looks better than Strat's standard burst.

So there's a white (Artic Pearl) option with rosewood neck that is easily my favorite Ultra available right now. I've got the white Strat covered already or I would have definitely chosen that one. I'm a strat nerd so just about any color gives me a boner but White is my favorite.

[Mojo]

Strats should be white or cream/antique white. That should be single-coil, Fender-branded. Fuck all other Strats except EVH's. The end.

[exitflagger]

What is meant by "Ultra" Strat?

Looks pricey. Although that's not surprising. All your guitars look pricey.

[sirthx2]

What is meant by "Ultra" Strat?

Looks pricey. Although that's not surprising. All your guitars look pricey.

It's a 'modern' take on Strats. (yeah kinda 'pricey') Ultra have very contoured body's including a carved neck-heel. The main reason I wanted one. It's so different. Also a rounded-edge, compound radius neck. A switch to combine bridge & neck P/Us, a tone control bypass. Basically a hot-rod American Standard with some additional attention to detail.

[Sleek]

Looks to me like you are mainly paying for all of those little stickers on the neck plate. Those add up.

[sirthx2]

Looks to me like you are mainly paying for all of those little stickers on the neck plate. Those add up.

Unfortunately they'll be gone when I replace it with a 'trucker mudflap naked girl leaning back' neck plate.

[cowpins]

Looks to me like you are mainly paying for all of those little stickers on the neck plate. Those add up.

Unfortunately they'll be gone when I replace it with a 'trucker mudflap naked girl leaning back' neck plate.

i know that you're kidding, however I have one of those stickers on the back of my 78' Les Paul Deluxe. And Mojo, there's your Strat.

[Mojo]

And Mojo, there's your Strat.

Forgot to add that it has to be a maple neck, too. I do love that 70's headstock, though.