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What guitar is he using there? This looks a lot like Cole Clark Fat Lady 2, but some of the things just don't match with the guitar.

https://flic.kr/p/L4iNS

Takamines have always been to me a bitch to identify, so, which model is that?

Which books, though?

But Firebird III has dotted inlays, isn't this the Firebird V?

Well, the anniversary model is definitely not the one, if you're referring to the G6196-T, they look way different. I think that this is the vintage one.

This might just be a silly question, but here it goes. Basically, the whole community here knows much more about this than I do. Anyway, I've been listening to a lot of Bloc Party, and I've stumbled across this guy, which does fantastic job covering them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Enal6Ieh8

My question: how does he do it? His setup is basically Fender Telecaster, Boss GT-10 (and some external pedals), and "direct in". Now, the issue is that I don't know what "direct in" means. The clarity of the sound surprises me a lot. And how does he edit the video? Does anyone know what's the secret (except playing well) for such quality covers? With which software can I do that? He's been pretty secretive, and he only answered that he uses effects such as whammy and reverse delay, but that's normal when covering Bloc Party.

This looks to me like a rare 1957 Gretsch Country Club. A guy here has a photo of the guitar which is nearly identic to this one. http://www.garysguitars.com/catalog/1957-gretsch-country-club-cadillac-green-gre0317

There is also another Country Club which looks like this one, but this one is from 1955. http://www.classicrockguitars.nl/1955-gretsch-6193g-country-club.html

EDIT: Were you looking for this guitar or?

Not just Jack White, but yes, that was mainly he. Dan Auerbach also used fair share of Silvertones and Krafts and all that, right?

Oh goodie, oh goodie, oh goodie! Thanks for that! Now I feel like a pro, even though there are 10-watt beginner amps linked to my name!

Effectsbay do have sources for the pedalboard analysis most of the time...

Here are my possible ideas on Equipboard. (No need to take me serious, here goes nothing.)

• sort out artist's gear on their Equipboard by some kind of periods they have used it. It seems very confusing at the moment. Let's say that I want to see all of Jack White's guitars he used on "Icky Thump". But when I come to his EB, there are guitars everywhere, and some of those were used on "Lazaretto", some on "Consolers Of The Lonely" etc.

• try to make every living item on here with transparent background. Isn't there like an app for that? Or even a website. Anyway, it would look nice to see that.

• fully categorize all the items on the manufacturer's EB

• add more manufacturers to EB. Why is there Boss, but there aren't companies such as Death By Audio or Joyo?

• fix those sourceless submissions

Isn't that the Danelectro '56 Baritone though? Fretboard looks way too long to be the usual guitar.

Although these times are gobshite for teenagers, I'll so miss 00's and 10's. Yet this sounds so weird, it's like I'm from the beginning of the 20th century. If you find a proper vocal, this will go big. There is still commendable amount of people who listen to such music.

Pure Smashing Pumpkins vibes (Mellon Collie ones) in that one! Love it, absolute stunner! It heavily reminds me of "1979" though, it has this synth interplay, weird bridgey type of thing... In 90's, if you would find a vocal for this, you could've made an absolute hit with that. Did you drown your guitar in chorus for some parts?

I think that enabling editing submissions without any source should be an option, because people who are checking for the artist's gear might find us not serious because of those sourceless submissions.

I actually forgot to add that years can make a huge difference, but I think that most of the items that have years sorted out here don't have any big difference. I suggest that we should perhaps keep the years, but only for the models which differ a lot. Example - 1971 Fender Strat and 1972 one don't really have huge differences. But if there would be any guitar with the same model, but different in things such as pickups, headstock, even body shape - I would definitely leave the year on if guitar doesn't have any different markings...

Another suggestion - we should add the "Person commented to your submission" and remove the "person replied to your submission". Comment could be anything, from another source for the gear or Jim's nostalgia for the gear I submitted (no offence, love it!). This system, where it only shows that a person has replied is confusing. I really don't want to see my correct submissions, I'm glad that they are correct. I only want to check them if there are some additional sources on it, if possible. But when I get to the EB, I want to see the notifications and see "Person marked your submission as correct" or "Person marked your submission as incorrect", or the needs improvement one. Or "person commented". Otherwise, it just wastes my time when I have like, 15 notifications and you have to go through all of those individually and check what kind of reply did the person leave on your submission.

"What the hell was Jack White using?" Then I found out the beautiful concept of it... Much better than "SURE MY BROTHER WAS JIMI HENDRIXX RODAIE AND I KNOW TAHT HE USAD EARTHQUAEKRZ!!!!!!!!!!111"

That is a wonderful idea, but some basses/guitars really differ in year. But still, the year doesn't really matter. One thing that bothers me is that we actually have a lot of Customs and Deluxes under "Fender Telecaster", not the respective models. I suggest removing the years and colours and I suggest adding all of the various models of the particular basses and guitars, like anniversary models or all of the signatures. 1959 Gibson Les Paul could be Gibson Les Paul Standard, right?

DADFAD (D minor?) is currently one of my favourites. I also discovered the CGCGCE and DGDGBE, and DDDADD seems very good!

How could I forget that? Silly me...

There's a feel to it. I use the tuning for arpeggios, not for playing chords.

Open G can also sound sad...that's the main weapon for songwriting.

From what I've tried, I would definitely recommend the TC Hall Of Fame. This TonePrint thingy is amazing, and I think that HOF isn't really pricey after all... I also like DigiTech Polara, and I would choose that, but still, HOF has this TonePrint thingy and it is pretty good at it!

Yes, I reintonate my guitars every time when I'm in alternate tunings. This is a bitch to do, but the outputs you get from - it is mesmerizing. I have a new VGS Roadcaster now, and the big plus about the guitar is that it doesn't really get out of intonation that much when I'm switching tunings... I used to have a Squier Affinity Strat (bottom of the line, though), and it would terribly go out of intonation when I would switch to tunings like DADFAD or DGGGGD (you know, that chimey tuning I told you about). VGS still has the problem, but it takes me about 5-15 minutes (depending on the tuning) to fix it.

Oh, and if I continue to grow up in this shithole, that would be it...no more added parts...

Part 2 (because I was tired AF yesterday): I always find that part of my life cringe-worthy, and a few next years of it as well. My parents divorced at that time, actually. When I went to elementary school, I was heavily listening to Green Day. This year, I will mark my 10th anniversary of since I've first heard "American Idiot". I got mad for them, I still have like 6 of their albums, as well as a shirt and an unfulfilled wish to go on their concert. However, they actually were in Belgrade, which is about 600 kilometers from me...nearest place they have ever been to. As you may know, Green Day has a lot of power chords in their songs. I think there are only a few songs that have only open chords. I think "Good Riddance" is one of them. Anyway, I got my first guitar in 2013. I had to keep a promise that I would learn guitar myself, because nearest instructor is probably like 15-20 kilometers from here. And that was January 2013, so I will mark my fourth year of my guitar journey soon!

Anyway, that's where my musical evolution starts. All this jibber-jabber before was just an introduction to it. I turned away from Green Day and I started to discover "garage rock", with bands such as The White Stripes, The Hives, The Futureheads, anything that has "the" before their name, basically. And in my society, it was very hard to convince people that I am actually listening to those bands, because PSY, Michel Telo and other freaks ruled the mainstream pop scene at the time. Listening to rock, garage rock in particular was really hard here. In my county, there were certainly people who liked rock music, but garage rock wasn't really suitable to anyone. "Dad Rock" was really popular here, bands like Deep Purple, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Creedence Clearwater Revival ruled the "rock scene", and you could find the cover bands of those any time. Actually, a long long time ago in elementary school bands used to play those. It was regardless if they had a shitty, grungy distortion tone on, the purpose of those performances was...well, there were a lot of them. Some teachers enjoyed the "dad rock", so that was mainly for them, students were obsessed with N-SYNC and Backstreet Boys.

I was self-thought, and I'm totally aware that I have learned myself wrong. I started out with G Major, C Major and D Major. And "Hotel Yorba" by White Stripes was the first song I have learned to play. I remember that "Sweet Home Chicago" was also one of the earliest songs, because it had B7, not B major, which was a bitch to play when I started to learn guitar. There were a lot of songs played, and chords were gradually added, but barre chords like F Major took me a lot of time to learn properly. I think I spent 5 or 6 months to learn how to play barre chords. And I went to sleep, and I woke up the other day, and I knew how to play barre chords. I have no idea how that happened... I never tuned to Drop D to play chords easier, unlike my friends. I was listening to a lot of RHCP then, and "Californication" was the first solo I actually learn. Unison bends were very hard to do on an acoustic guitar, and access to fourteenth fret was a bitch. I replaced the tuners, and did some minor changes on it. It still sounds like shit, but I will gladly keep it, even though I am likely to get an Ovation this year. And then, there was a phase when I listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin. I found "The Song Reminds The Same" and basically the show there was a pure perfection to me. Led Zeppelin heavily influenced my playing, not because of the usual, bluesy stuff they used to have in "Whole Lotta Love" and "Black Dog", as well as "Rock And Roll", but the alternate tuning stuff. That happened way after I learned to play guitar solos and stuff... Well, the first alternate tuning I used was the Open G, because something like that was used on "Death Letter" by White Stripes. I discovered many open tunings, but the Open B is and will be my favorite to fiddle around with. Anyway, "The Rain Song" had the DGCGCD tuning, and "When The Levee Breaks" also has some kind of weird tuning to it (Open E?). And don't forget the Kashmir... Today, I use about 15 to 20 alternate tunings to play songs, as well as compose them. Some people just don't understand the importance of them, because on most of them you can't really solo the shit out of it. They give the song a different meaning, different feel, and everything sounds so stellar! Anyway, I bought myself a Dunlop Trigger capo, which is the capo I use to this day. It is brilliant! Then, I got into Oasis. I think they have pretty simple stuff for a beginner, although I wasn't that much of a beginner when I started listening to them. Of course, the "Wonderwall" is the first piece I have ever learned from them, because it is simple and it attracts all the ladies. Well, not in my case. I got into the pentatonics trap thanks to "Live Forever" and "Slide Away", which are filled with them. I still have the issue when I sound boring to myself because I really can't get out of all those boxes. I have added the natural minor scales, but still, those pentatonics still haunt me. I actually started to listen to Smiths, which got me into all those weird muffled chords like 244300 or x24400 or 799800, which is just exactly what Coldplay did to me. They also have the weird chords in "Yellow". My Morning Jacket learned me how fucking cool can pentatonics sound - "One Big Holiday". There is also blink-182 in all this mess, and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds haven't been a shitty project of Noel Gallagher. I love both self-titled album and the "Chasing Yesterday". Regardless of how uninnovative he can be I still love Noely G. I also listened to The Who, but Metronomy and Bloc Party are basically ones that got me into electronics. Now, this is a new phase for my musical evolution, I want to drown in effects pedals and get as many as I can. I definitely don't want to be like AC/DC, who have the same consisted "SG/Gretsch-Marshall" guitar tone for some 35 years. I want to experiment. Effects pedals are very, very expensive here (Boss PS-6 costing around 250 bucks!), and shipping, as well as duty things to pay... Bloc Party really got me into effects, and I have tried some out, and I really wish I could have one of the many... So far I have built-in reverb, which can act as a delay if you crank it up to 10... I know it might be silly after all, but I'm just an unexperienced kid who wants to experiment with effects pedals and modular syths. Anyway, that's it. Yeah.

So, here goes nothing. My story. (part 1)

As some of you may know, I was born in 2000. I think that the year 2000 was hideous year in the music world. Smashing Pumpkins were gone until 2005, Britney Spears was at all time high, Ted Nugent started with the racist slurs and so on... Croatia was still recovering of the war, considering the war ended in 1997. I got surrounded with music since I was a little kid. My father used to play keyboards in a band, but those were just local events, and songs that were played there were basically some kind of folk-ish crap.

My father was into Gary Moore, Dire Straits, Joe Cocker, Joe Satriani and some more artists, I can't quite remember them at the moment. When I was 3, I used to listen to those (not by my will) and I was thinking "what kind of crap was that?". After some 13 years, I realized how I fucked up when I was thinking of that. Back when I was something like 3 or 4, I used to listen hideous songs, mostly from Croatian artists like Leo, Najbolji Hrvatski Tamburaši and Oliver Dragojevi?. Today, I don't listen to them. And when I was 4, I started to go to church as well, but the church music itself didn't really influence me. I just liked listening to it.

Does this evolution thingy also apply to people who are just playing for fun, by that I mean that they don't have much gigs or get paid for it?

Sid Vicious - how did that idiot even got popular? Noely G - but I love that arsehole <3

VGS Road Cruiser and Peavey Backstage Plus, now I'm happy with it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej4wQlbfTQ Around 3:40 minute mark, there are many guitars exhibited on the wall. Someone who is an expert in archtops should know something about those. Many of them seem to be East German and former Eastern Bloc-ish... I found a Gretsch and the Isana which is identical to the one Elvis Presley had when he was in army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHBLPW2m_Tc What is this guitar? Seems like a mashup of Vox Virage, Gibson Les Paul Custom and something from the L5 series.

If you zoom at the headstock, it says "Fox". Actually, there is a guy called Simon Fox, who is a luthier, but this doesn't look high-end at all...

Not being facetious, just appreciating your presence... Anyway, the guitar isn't really Hagstrom, and not Teisco. This is Univox Badazz, I found it almost minutes after I posted the query.

The guitar Dave Keuning is holding is Traveler Guitar EG-1, note the weird things on the body. Still, I can't find those Ibanez pedals. You are the only info I have about it...

The groovebox is definitely EA-1, mark 1 because mark 2 grooveboxes are green...ish?

Here, Jim, you're the expert about it. I'm just the texpert. https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/2144294/251178445/stock-photo-zagreb-croatia-june-hank-sullivant-of-kuroma-performing-at-inmusic-festival-251178445.jpg - what's this for a guitar? Looks like a Guild Thunderbird, but then the shape and everthing doesn't match to the model...

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwd5796bTR1qazwxao1_500.jpg - what even is this? It looks like a Dean Playmate, but there are so many things about it that don't match.

https://flic.kr/p/5xT4LL - those Ibanez pedals are looking like something I haven't ever see before. They look ancient, for sure.

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Andrew+VanWyngarden+United+Bamboo+Front+Row+wt6Tk3BEz8Wl.jpg - what are the things here?

http://clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/rsz_kele_1.jpg?itok=WMFBAJ68 - what kind of Akai Sampler is he holding here?

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3604/3290819137_3a39b3e7de_b.jpg - this Gibson acoustic doesn't look to me like anything...maybe some kind of Hummingbird Pro?

The logo has been scraped off it...you can see it clearly if you zoom in the photo. The guitar was originally in blonde colour, someone repainted it to this "flowery powery" style.

My questions: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/406027722627063063/ - what is this? Cort Earth series for sure, but I'm not sure whether this is a 70 or the 200 one.

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/505669864380743581/ - what kind of Martin is this?

https://flic.kr/p/adtn3j - some of the pedals aren't familliar to me. I see Analogman modded Ibanez TS9DX, but there is another Tube Screamer there...TS-9? The pedal next to EHX Holy Grail nano? Looks like some sort of micro Malekko pedal, I'm clueless...

Oh, the Earthquaker...awesome pedals, weird shit. I have had an opportunity of trying the Rainbow Machine. Although it has some uses, it reminds me of a DigiTech Space Station - it has a lot of things to it, as well as a lot of different effects, but hardly any of them are usable, as far as I've come to a conclusion.

Oh, perhaps I'm not aware of it, though. How many of you are in this chat?

But please, make that search bar actually work! I mean, there are way too much forums which have pretty much the same "search bar" option, but when I actually try to search a thing, it gives me a gazillion of options I don't want, it shows me irrelevant content.

Actually, would chat even be worth it? Not to be offensive, but aren't there too few of use to run a chat? ICQ group or anything like that would work!

So I became an avid listener of the Bloc Party, and I got some photos of their pedalboards. Basically, one guitarist has the complete pedalboard, while the other one is being pretty secretive about his gear. But, someone took the photo of his pedalboard. There is pretty much a Boss-fest there.

http://c3rhdgljlnn0zxjlb2d1bs5jb200.g00.stereogum.com/g00/2_d3d3LnN0ZXJlb2d1bS5jb20%3D_/TU9SRVBIRVVTMiRodHRwOi8vc3RhdGljLnN0ZXJlb2d1bS5jb20vYmxvZ3MuZGlyLzIvZmlsZXMvMjAxMi8wOC9ibG9jX3BhcnR5LWFwb2dlZXNfYmVya2xleV9zdHJlZXRfc3R1ZGlvX0FDWTAyOTAtY29tcHJlc3NlZC5qcGc%2FaTEwYy5tYXJrLmltYWdlLnR5cGU%3D_$/$/$/$/$/$/$

If it loads right, the pedals are Boss TU-2, Boss LS-2, Boss OC-3, some distortion (help needed), Boss SYB-3, another unknown Boss, some unknown pedal, Boss DD (unknown) and also another Boss LS-2. Upper row has the Line 6 DL4 and FM4 pedals, Boss looper, and on the far right there is one Boss pedal, but I have no idea whether that is a Boss Combo Drive or a looper - I might be wrong though...

Any help would be much appreciated!

I figured it out if there is really no way to find out the gear, you just gotta take stuff into your hands and ask the artists themselves which gear do they use. Yes, this is an extremely tough thing to do, especially when they are popular, but some artists do actually respond and talk about their gear, even when the media covers so little about them, it turns out like they don't want to talk about the gear.

Thanks to the Equipboard, I talked with Peter Holstrom, Adam Aymor, Scott Shriner, Jonathan Segel (I'm yet to update his rig!) and I am currently talking to one of my most favourite artists, Olugbenga Adelekan of Metronomy.

This is just a tip - if you have no idea how to find out the gear, just ask them...

Plugged Crown ones. They work ingeniously.

few things about pedals though : they are extremely hard to get here, they are expensive (Boss DD-7 here costs about 400-450 dollars and I'm dead serious) and most of those who are easy to get are Behringers. And ew, I've heard those in action. Only fuzzes work good.

I never tried out a guitar pedal.

it is 0:22 here in the evening and i have no idea and instead of doing my homework I'm searching on Getty Images to find photo of Bloc Party's gear

Btw, thanks to Giulio, I have some incredible headphones now. Appreciate it!