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Joel-E

GearIQ 200 Joined May 2016 Contributed to 1 artist

This is what I use for everything, with varying amounts of success...

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Gear 15

It's one of the cheapest, most common and most popular capo's I know. How convenient.
This medium thickness Plectrum has a great feel and stays in your hand thanks to the patterned surface. It's a good choice if you find the 75 Nylon Flex too heavy.
This was my first "expensive" guitar which I spent a few years researching. Tone wise, it's very versatile and tends to lean towards the more modern sounding end of the spectrum. The humbucker is great and has a built in "Death Switch" which bypasses all other controls and pickups to give you a high gain, high volume lead boost which is perfect for solos. The neck is perfect and the tremolo is smooth, it even contains a coil-tap for you Stratocaster purists. Overall I think this is one of the finest modern instruments i have ever played. Nice one Fender...
I was fortunate enough to have this guitar passed down onto me by a friend who no longer needed it. It arrived in a rough condition with a broken whammy bar (thread was shredded), scarred body (along with dings, nicks and cracks) and a paper staple in bedded permanently into the back. Having said all this though, it still played brilliantly and with a few modifications (new pickups) it began to be a real blast of vintage strat bliss.
This (again) belonged to my Dad before I claimed it as my own and ran away. It's not a very sought after instrument and the one I have has had the bridge and tailpiece replaced. It does however produce those sweet, resonant and defined notes you'd expect from a vintage hollow body and it still bests a lot of your £4,000 brand new Gibsons. Not bad for an old axe...
My father told me stories of his Custom Masquerader and how he regretted ever selling it. To see if the legends were true, i bought one for myself. When i received it, it had missing knobs and all the moisture had been sucked out of it, I was beginning to lose hope... But I pursued its restoration and eventually I had a mostly working and mostly stock guitar, and it appears the legends were no mere myth. The neck felt great and the action was amazingly low for an old, unloved British guitar. it's a shame that it has never gained much of a following but this is definitely a guitar I shall keep treasured.
This is not a serious guitar. It feedbacks constantly, the body dents easily and the necks a bit sticky. Having said all that though, it is a fun and quirky Oil Can Guitar. It may have some issues but it's not bad for a project founded by a kick-starter!
This is a lil' amp I found in my Dad's attic that was waiting patiently to be played. I'll be honest, the tubes need fixing, the veneer needs replacing and the speaker is clogged with dust. But. with a little work, it could be a nice sounding British amp. But for now, it will have to work as a PA speaker.
This is a very cheap, rather good delay pedal from Biyang. It claims to be an analog pedal but it is in fact digital (but for the price you won't feel cheated out of your money). The sound is nice and it excels in producing slap-back delay for more vintage sounding tones.
This pedal used to belong to my dad and has been passed down onto me. The turbo setting is never turned off and it produces a great rich distortion. The only problem however is that it has a %70 chance of working (that's why they released the OD-2R) so I can never really rely on it as my main pedal. Never the less, it is still my favourite (though not the best) and I shall continue using it, maybe I'll even fix it...
I was lucky enough to be given this for free! (A friend of mine replaced it with a Fulltone OCD for some reason) so that's a plus. It has two useful distortion settings, one of which I use for semi-transparent overdrive and the other is to blow my band mate's ear drums when they least expect it. It's a very high quality pedal and produces warm tubey goodness, it does require a 18v power supply so that shook my board up a bit...
For the price alone, this is an amazing chorus. It has the warm, analog, jangly chorus sound you'd expect it to have and it has served me well over the years.
This pedal is a clone of the original MXR 'Dyna Comp'. It is an all analog compressor pedal with upgraded true bypass parts. The sound is identical to a vintage dyna comp and produces very little noise, for the price, i'm wondering why MXR is still in business?..
This is a great wah pedal that has a slightly more agressive and sharper sound compared to the Dunlop 'Crybaby'. And why not slap some British Patriotism across it, after all, that's where it came from.
This peddle is small, quiet, easy to use and accurate. Just what I need in a Tuner.

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