Gear

The Guitars

The newest addition to my arsenal. A PRS SE Custom Semihollow. I've been in need of a thicker sounding guitar for the jazzier styles of music I sometimes play, and this fit the bill nicely. I have had some modifications done such as Dimarzio 36th Anniversary PAFs, Grover locking tuners, a graph tech nut, and new electronics (switches, pots, etc.) It has become my new favorite guitar!

The Sherwood Green Strat made from Warmoth Guitars, fashioned after a '62 strat with my favorite Kinman Blues pickups. This guitar is just starting to get sweet, as it's only about four or five years old. My main workhorse and the most visible of my three strats.

This is a 1997 USA Fender California Strat with rosewood fingerboard and Kinman Blues pickups. This was my main workhorse from '97 to about '07. It needs a refret which I haven't gotten to yet, so I don't use it much right now.

This is my 1988 USA Fender American Standard strat with maple fretboard. Bought at age 14,it was my first good guitar and I don't like to bring it out much for sentimental reasons. I have had just about every pickup and configuration you can imagine, but it currently has Dimarzio Area series noiseless pickups.

Amps

These are my V30 Class A 30 watt tube amps. Based on a Vox circuit, they are single channel amps that run on EL84 power tubes. I changed the stock Celestion speakers to Eminence Red White and Blues speakers, which have become my favorite speakers to date. I have two of these amps and I use one as a backup. The most underrated amps I have ever come across.

Effects

My pedal board is constantly in flux, as I add or remove pedals to compliment the music of whatever band I am playing with. The board itself is a Pedaltrain Jr. Pedal board. I have a larger model Pedaltrain as well if I need more room. Pedals in rotation are as follows: A Fulltone Clyde Wah, A Korg Pitchblack Tuner Pedal or Hardwire Tuner, a Whirlwind phaser or, a Boss Blues Driver modified by Robert Keeley, several Ibanez Tubescreamers modified by Robert Keeley, an Analogman/ Boss SD-1 with 808 Silver Mod, a Keeley Modified Boss Tremolo pedal, Boss Delay pedal, and a Digitech Digiverb pedal. It's all powered by a BBE Supacharger and wired with Monster Cable. I like Fender Tortex 1.14 picks, Dunlop glass slides, and Darco strings.

A lot of folks like to know the order of my pedals. I will go with the picture above as a guide. The signal goes TUNER> WHIRLWIND PHASER> TUBESCREAMER> TREMOLO> DELAY> REVERB. If I add something like a WAH, it goes after the tuner. A CLEAN BOOST PEDAL IS COMING SOON. SOMETIMES I USE THE TREMOLO FOR THAT, JUST BY TURNING DOWN THE DEPTH KNOB.

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