Identifying the gear

Looks to be! The standard neck meets the top horn at 15th fret. The OP meets at 17th.

I love some RCA or AEA 44s.... wish I could afford to keep one lying around my house :-(

mine would just get locked in the cupboard of solitude with everything else...

I just can't afford to be that invested in fancy microphones anymore... you can do a lot with anything better than a 57, get 2 or 3 flavors and you're fine unless you need to record a live kit.... but I can't really do drum recordings in my house, so who cares about that imaginary scenario

Indeed, tho while rebuilding my studio I set 1 goal-1 exemplary mic from each family. It's taken ages! It ain't cheap! The rewards now that I'm slowly arriving? I'm so glad I've gone this way. I can never have all I want, but 1 great representation from all the families & then populate around them. I have found even 1 exceptional mic can do the job of 4 "lesser" mics. *i don't fundamentally believe in "lesser" mics, just proper application

That said? Some of my favorite recordings I've done are with just a stereo mic (of no particular prestige)...AKG 4040? Can't remember. Or even a 10+ year old Zoom.

your studio is far better equipped than my 'music corner' over here LOL, y'know, if you were talking about the audiotechnica 40 series, I am a huge fan of those mics, they definitely do a stereo version, so maybe that's what you liked so much? those AT mics are way underrated, I actually prefer them to a lot of more famous LDCs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKVDSFDKDw8

Is that a J-50 or a J-45? Or something else?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRYwO6XAkB_/?taken-by=dylanleblanc_official

Can somebody tell what amp this is?

Hey hey, me again.

Is somebody familiar with old Kay guitars?

http://www.offbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-by-kim-welsch.jpg

the amp? the tweed isn't lacquered so its not a vintage tweed and the control layout looks wrong for any old fenders I know of so its not a reissue or kit of anything or a small builder's clone.... it looks too big to be a blues jr... Fender blues deluxe? either that or a peavey classic of some sort... I am not so good at at IDing those modern working man's amps, I just plain don't like any of them though a lot of their users make them sound okay on stage with a lot of pedals....

anyway, I am going with blues deluxe, looks like an offset 1x12 with ratty enough tweed to have been made in the 90s.... but I really don't know what the peavey classics look like, so maybe there's one that fits the bill.... can you just ask him in the isntagram post?

Jep, I asked him. He answered me once about his gear, so he might will again.

Hey hey, me again.

Is somebody familiar with old Kay guitars?

I used to know a little and I will check in one of my books to try to find this guitar, but Kay is not well covered and I doubt ANYONE knows everything about Kay's acoustics.... they made tons of them and distributed them through catalog stores as well as traditional music retailers, not unlike Harmony... both companies had so many models it can be hard to figure out and even if you have an old Kay catalog for a specific year there will be exclusive sears and montgomemery wards models not shown that were shipped to those stores that year and there won't be pictures for every model that IS listed, just some very general specs

Kay is a tough one, short of asking Kim Welsh (yes, I got her name from the jpeg) I would be surprised if you can figure it out... and even then, she would have to know what she ahs and she might not. Might be some junk guitar she found at a pawn store and fixed up...

Kim Welsh made the picture. The artist is Alynda Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff). I dig her shit – as you crazy kids would say.

damn, I couldn't guess that Kay model nor could I guess who the goofy girl wielding it is.... you lose Jim, you lose

where do you find all these folkies? every so foten you psot someone I've heard of, but for the most part I am scrathing my head. Are you just heavily tied into some kinda post-coffee-house acoustic music scene that I, as an electric player and synthesizer fanatic, am totally cut out of? its weird because I feel like I'm tied into so many little underground music scenes fom jazz to lofi pop to alt country and even dance music just through personal associations with people participating in them, performing, recording the artists, promoting their little shows and tours... but this is news to me, you know about some circle of strummers and pickers that's a mysterious blackhole.

Is that a J-50 or a J-45? Or something else?

I think its a J50... I lived in Langhorne Pennsylvania for a little as a kid, I didn't know it was still used as a name for humans though, its pretty archaic... does this guy know how uncool it is to name your song changes? One of a handful of the most iconic Bowie tunes? Its kidna like naming your song "a day in the life" or writing your own tune and calling it "teen spirit."

In his age he should probably be aware of that. True story: When I was sixteen I wrote a song and named it "Dirty Diane". I swear I didn't knew better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvcFxKJvXw

Mine gets often overlooked for some reason. Those were deep lyrics. Check that hair!

I don't think I've ever heard of either version of "Dirty Diane".... not really the same thing as "Changes"... I mean everyone knows this song whether they like it or not, its just that famous:

https://youtu.be/pl3vxEudif8?t=53s

or do you not have Bowie in Germany? I mean, recorder there quite a bit.... but maybe you guys are all minimal techno and folk music?

https://goo.gl/images/6rzYXN

what on earth is that red jag bass?

get a better photo and I'll ID it for you, dude

https://goo.gl/images/Ey0vdO

i'm listening to a Descendents performance from 1987 and wow.

Edit: Here's another one.

https://goo.gl/images/5ySPp4