My Setup
I run my guitar through a
Dod
Overdrive Pedal, a Zoom 505 with a Roland
expression pedal and an old
Ibanez analog effects rack into a c. 1960 Fender Twin Amp
which was recently refurbished by the renowned amplifier designer and manufacturer
John
McIntyre. Thanks a million John! For
strings I have been using GHS GBXL
Boomers for more than twenty years.
I have an Alesis SR16 drum machine, a
Yamaha DX7 synth and a Yamaha TX81Z tone module. Multi-track recording is done
on the PC with CoolEdit by Syntrillium.
The workhorse. A 1961 Fender Esquire. 
When I bought it
(used - in '69) it had had a fake P90 neck pickup installed which sounded horrible. I
replaced it with one of the mini humbuckers from a Firebird III I used to own which I
bought in 1964 from The Kingsmen's lead guitarist, Darrel Partlow. Somewhere along the line I installed a
Tele pickup in the middle and a micro-switch so that I could get all 7 combinations. At
MusicWest '93 I stopped at the
Seymour Duncan
booth and talked to a tech about what I was looking for to replace the back stock Esquire
pickup. I was looking for some extra mids in the high end. A year later I got a call
telling me it was ready!! I hadn't realized I had actually ordered it but I'm glad I did.
In coil tap position it sounds like the stock unit and has a bit more punch in full coil
setting. I was told it was similar to the one they had built for Jeff Beck.
I moved the Esquire pickup to the middle. It also has a
Badass bridge.
This guitar sings. A 1958 Les Paul Special. Originally with a cherry red finish I had
chopped off the 'horns' to give it a
Vox
teardrop-like shape. Guitar collecters please forgive me for my transgressions! I got this
one around '67. A few years later I had Glen MacDougal
from Fury Guitars in Saskatoon to re-attach the pieces and refinish it
with black lacquer. He added a nice personal touch in the red fret markers on the new
binding. I replaced one of the P90's with a
similar Gibson pickup that had a separate ground wire which enabled me to utilize an
in/out phase switch.
Almost totally modified early 50's Les Paul Standard Gold Top!
Agai
n, forgive me
collectors! However it is much more functional this way although I
expect it would be worth a mint if it were stock . I bought it for $150 plus a Mosrite Ventures model
guitar. The front and back pickups are Yamaha dual-sound and the middle is the other
mini-humbucker from the Firebird III I used to own. The Firebird got the P90's installed
on it. A very versatile axe. Once while playing with Crowcuss at The Savoy in Vancouver, a
fellow approached me after a set and told me he couldn't believe my setup. The previous
night he had heard a live FM broadcast from the club and thought I was playing a
Stratocaster through a Marshall. I was in fact playing this Les Paul through a
Roland JC120!
Gibson B-25 acoustic. A lovely sounding little unit.
Gibson Epiphone FT79N Texan. Very similar to the J50.
It has Barcus-Berry Hot Dots in the bridge.
1968 Fender Precision bass with stock finish replaced by Swedish
oil. Back pickup is a DiMarzio. I designed the pick guard. I have the strings
tuned as if it were a five or six string bass - without the 1st or 2nd strings
ie: (low to high) B-E-A-D
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