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Boss OD - 3 Overdrive Pedal
Purchased in 2014, this pedal is a solid rocker to get dirty tones over the top. Sold in 2016.
Vox AC1
Great little bedroom amp. Easy to write and jam on, and sounds pretty good with pedals. Has a decent dirty channel to play on.
Fender Champ 25 SE
Purchased used in Pittsburgh in 2013, this amplifier has wonderful cleans. The amp has built in reverb and some grit from the dirty channel. Fully tube.
Got very lucky to find it when I did. Happened to come across it not even shopping for myself and it sounded great. It's easy to sound good on.
Mexican Made Fender Dimension Bass
Owned by Phased Out singer Tom Frank, played for early shows. Plays very well and triple bucker in bridge is an excellent diversity of sounds. Maple neck is a charm. Used for Phased Out recording of You Earn What You Get (2017). Auctioned in 2017.
See the bass in action here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGLmrXhvdsQ ~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbyAOC24FY ~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEBKO5IoNs See the bass used during the Can't Win session here -> https://twitter.com/nickpoprocky/status/511329046048014336
SIlvertone P Bass copy
A solid starter bass, which is what it was for me in 2012. Used in shows with Phased Out for some covers and covered in stickers. Used to record the Phased Out demo Nowhere to Go.
See the bass in action with Phased Out here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHk7FvZSYg&index=3&list=PL2vw3CZNoNCFVe2_9kn8SJ6o1wpbZCURs
Solid Parlor Guitar
This is an impressively good guitar. The solid top rings out and it has only improved in sound over the last few years. Stays in tune like a charm and is much louder than many smaller body acoustics. Feels great on the hand very slim neck profile
2015 Les Paul Jr
In Heritage Cherry, this guitar is gorgeous. Simply put, it is a dream to play. The nitro lacquer makes it so comfortable on the hand to play, and the one bridge p-90 is so versatile. G-Force tuners were removed for Gold Grovers. Lovely guitar. Used to record on You Earn What You Get (2017).
Hofner Ignition Beatle Bass
Purchased second hand in early 2015 and used for Phased Out live shows and recordings of You Earn What You Get (2017). Sold in June 2018.
See the bass in use for Phased Out here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csBQq04MpQg ~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhO1PCrAIS4 ~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tvzlNOG3wY
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I had a MIJ violin body bass that was a gift from a studio owner I worked for. Like a boob I sold it. I miss that bass terribly. Cheers to your Hofner branded Chinese copy!
Fender Squier Vista Series Musicmaster
In black with a matching headstock. Found it used lightly at a guitar shop, and works great. Single hum bucker in the bridge, but splits coils. One volume knob and no control, so it can be a bit of a one trick pony without adjusting the effects on your board. But in the same way, goes great in e flat. Sold in 2016.
Fender JA-90 Thinline Telecaster
Plays fantastic, Seymour Duncans are much hotter than my Les Paul. Purchased in 2014.
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What do you think of fender's P90 copies? This is the set-neck MIK model, right?
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1) this is not a review, please elaborate... 2) By its very definition Sunburst has no brown in it. A brown burst is Tobacco Burst. A reddish burst is Sunburst. There are variations and inbetweeners (mostly due to UV aging on old guitars), but that's the general rule. My 1 year old son knows this.... and he's still a little mixed up about the difference between blue and green, but little dude knows his basic fender and Gibson bursts at a glance.
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For instance, what Gibson now calls Iced Tea Burst is actually mimicking a faded 50s Tobacco... their Honey Burst is meant to look like a faded Sunburst. At the end of 59 Gibson changed their lacquer formulation a bit and their colors became much less UV reactive, hence why a 1960 LP or 335 will hold its color in spite of checking, yellowing and smoke hazing. Fender went thru a similar thing. A butterscotch 'blackguard' early 50s tele was meant to be transparent blonde mimicking a popular furniture varnish of the era. The lacquer formulation caused the color to yellow heavily. In the mid 50s Fender rectified this by changing the paint formulation and 'white-guard' 50s teles are 99% blonde to this day. Strats originally came in white blonde with 'mary kaye' cosmetics (look it up) over swamp ash (like a mid-50s telecaster) OR tobacco burst over alder. The 50s tobacco burst tends to yellow a bit and wash out from exposure to UV light. Fender did not get into true red-hued Sunburst until the 60s with the Tele Custom (also alder... there are regular teles starting in 58 that are alder and they are all tobacco burst... these are some great instruments with a distinct tone from the earlier swamp ash teles). That finish had issues at first so fender changed the lacquer formulation to Dupont's Duco lacquer and started priming the guitars with this awful grey goop to get the colors to pop but along the way obscured the grain. 3 color sunburst became a standard strat color around this time too. Maybe in 1962 or 63. Iam no expert, I just know the basics. There were saddle and pickup refinements throughout this entire period at Fender too. With the primer on the guitars you can see distinct spray rings for all the colors versus the more gradual and wood-grain heavy appearance of 50s Fender bursts.