marcos_orozco

My most recent acquisition. Picked it up at my local guitar store. I had been obsessing over owning one for quite some time and when I learned that it had just come in the day before, I just knew I had to take it home with me. I'm so glad I did. It rules so hard. Semi-hollow body + single-cut + P90's = perfect guitar tone for me. Prior to this, I had tried out a blueburst 137 Classic and it doesn't even compare to the 135. Mine is in black finish.

Shoe Pedals is a one man company based in Brooklyn. He makes all sorts of great fuzz pedals. This one is great. It's got a nice psychedelic vibe to it. You can get a really wild octave up sound when you play past the twelfth fret. I like having a fuzz just to add a different flavor to my tone. Sustains nicely in a way that my overdrive pedal can't. It can get pretty loud too. Definitely not a necessity, but a fun pedal to have.

This is what I use to power all of my pedals. Voodoo Labs can't hang with the Strymon stuff and doesn't run nearly as clean as this. If you have a lot of pedals, get this.

This amp is pretty cool. I use this one in stereo with my HRD. I like the contrast between the warmer, more bassy HRD and the brightness of the Vox. I get a really wide range of sound when using them together. Only 15 watts, though. Not enough headroom for me to use on its own, but it still sounds great!

The guys over at Strymon are truly leading the pack in terms of sound design and pedal making. With this pedal, you have the ability to shape and design your reverbs. Make them sound as big (or small) as you want to, whether you're going for a subtle natural room sound, or a big spacey reverb sound with presets like the bloom or cloud setting. Again, it's a hefty price tag in order to purchase one of these, but it's money very well spent.

I've played through a lot of digital delay pedals. None of them even hold a candle to the Timeline. The delay tones sound perfect. Just the right amount of clarity and warmth. Having presets like filtered and tremolo delays are just flat out genius. The looper on it is incredibly fun, as well. I love being able to set the exact tempo. It really helps in situations when you're playing to a click live and have little time to get ready for the next song. Of course, any digital delay needs to have a tap tempo feature, so that's included as well. All in all, this is the best delay pedal on the market. It works for any application. Anybody who says otherwise is in denial.

This thing is hella rare and takes up hella space, but it's worth it. To me, at least. It's got the MN3005 delay chips, which are considered to be the holy grail of delay chips. Warm analog delay with lush modulation. Great for making some heavenly volume swells.

It turns me up and down. I got this because I didn't wanna deal the annoying string issue that Ernie Ball's VPs have. I've had this for over a couple of months and it hasn't let me down yet!

Where do I even begin? I don't know if you can even write a review for this thing. It does so many things, and it does them extremely well. All I can say is, pick one of these up and see for yourself. Once you get past the hefty price tag, you have the work of a mad scientist in your hands.

This pedal is a tone monster. Even while being a tubescreamer clone, it's the most versatile overdrive pedal I've ever used. I'm never getting rid of this thing. Ever. It's too good. Gone are the days of stacking pedals with the multiple gain stages you have. It works for so many situations. Highly recommend this pedal.

This is next in the chain after my comp. I love octave pedals. They add a whole new dimension to your playing when they're used right. A basic setting that I use with this pedal is I usually have the dry signal all the way up and the octave up at around 2 o'clock and the sub octave at around 10 o'clock. I keep my original signal prominent while having enough octave up to add sparkle to the tone and just enough sub octave to beef it up. I recently had a mod done on this by Matthews effects, so now I essentially have two presets on this thing. Sometimes I want to be able to pull of a Whammy octave up kind of thing, so on the second preset, I have the octave up dimed and the dry and sub knobs completely off. Highly recommend this and the mod by Matthews Effects (you can get one pre-modded of Matthews' website) if you wanna explore different flavors to your tone.

Had to go through a couple of compressors to get to this one. Had a Dyna Comp for the longest time. Tried having the Deep Six replace it, but it was too noisy for me. I decided to try a Pulp 'n' Peel after having a friend talk me into getting one and I don't see this coming off the board in a long time. It gives me the sustain that I need and the blend knob is great to have as well. I can choose how much compression I want at any given moment. I never turn it off.

I use this to tune my guitar. It's a fantastic little guy. It's very precise and doesn't take up a whole lot of real estate.

This is the first thing my guitar signal goes into. I bought this buffer to use as a splitter. One output goes into my tuner, which rests on top of the buffer, and the other goes to the rest of board. This way, I can simply lower my volume pedal all the way down to tune silently. No more having to go tuner out. In my opinion, you can tune more accurately when you're just tuning the pure guitar signal itself, rather than having to tune your guitar signal effected by a bunch of dirt pedals.

I bought this amp because it has pretty good headroom in the clean channel, and it takes pedals really well. I essentially wanted an amp that is a clean sonic palette for my pedals and this amp does the job really well. It sounds super full and warm. This amp can get pretty loud though, so watch your volume when playing in smaller venues.

A friend of mine bought the Starcaster from this line of Fender guitars so I thought I'd get one of them myself. When I saw that this guitar had filtertron-style of pickups, I immediately thought about how I could make this guitar sound more like a Gretsch simply by swapping the pickups out for more "Gretsch" sounding filtertrons. I threw some Portertrons (made by Porter, obviously) in there and I haven't looked back since. This has become one of my favorite guitars to play. It's essentially a budget Gretsch guitar!

I bought this Jazzmaster after a friend of mine bought his 60's lacquer Jaguar in Fiesta Red. I've always wanted to own a Jazzmaster because of their unique and chimey sound. Needless to say, I was plenty satisfied when I got it. It plays like a dream and the American Vintage pickups sound incredible. I highly recommend changing out the bridge, however, if you've got a strong picking hand like me. The bridge will not keep the strings in place. Look up Mastery or Staytrem bridges.

I had a Strat a long time ago but I traded it in along with two other guitars to get my Tele. I had really missed it. So I bought a new one. Just recently, I had upgraded all of the electronics. I bought a "loaded pickguard" that has Emerson custom wiring and Porter Vintage Classic Strat pickups. I've never played a guitar more responsive than my Strat now. It's pretty much the perfect Strat for me. It plays really well and sounds fantastic.

This has been my main guitar for several years. The Twisted Tele/Broadcaster pickup combo is simply amazing, and covers so much ground. Easily the most versatile guitar that I own.