The Stuff I Use

I have played guitar since I was 13 years old.  A bit late to start, I know, but I still love it.  I knew I was hooked as soon as a friend of mine showed me power chords.  You know, the two fingered root and fifth chords prevalent in metal songs.  Gratefully, I progressed from there.

Over the years, I have accumulated a small truckload of equipment.  I have collected a few guitars and an awesome bass along the way.

Guitars I  have:

• 1986 Kramer ZX-10
• 2010 HSS Fender Stratocaster
• 2010 Fender Telecaster
• 2010 Fender electric-acoustic

My Bass:

• 1990 Fender Jazz Bass '62 reissue

Amplifiers:

• Fender Reverb 25 guitar amp
• Fender Rumble 350 bass amp
• Marshall HD100FX/w 4x10 half-stack

Effects:

• Dunlop Cry Baby Wah pedal.
• The rest, delay, chorus, flanger, compressor, etc., are onboard on the Marshall HD100FX Head and are controlled with a foot pedal.

My Fender guitars are both equipped with Seymour Duncan humbucker pickups, tapped for single coil play, and I changed out the pots for 500k pots.  In the Stratocaster the neck and middle positions are fitted with Seymour Duncan's Single-Coil-Spaced Little '59 Strat humbuckers and in the bridge position is a Seymour Duncan '59 Trembucker.  I love them!  What a great sound!  The volume pot is push/pull to

tap the pickups to single coil.




On the Telecaster, I replaced volume and tone pots with 500k pots and the Fender Pickups with a Seymour Duncan Hot-Rails Tele Set with an additional Seymour Duncan Hot-Rails Tele Neck pickup for the middle.Another home run by Seymour Duncan!! The volume pot is push/pull to tap the picku

My Telecaster is a 2010 Blackout model (not to be confused with the block-top
model, which was mainly distinguished by its flat-top knobs).

It is an otherwise standard Telecaster except that it has a middle Telecaster pickup in a Stratocaster style configuration, complete with a five-way switch.

It is not to be confused with a Nashville model or a B-bender model - two other Telecaster models that have a three pickup configuration, but whose middle pickups are actual Stratocaster neck position pickups.