Godin Flat Five
A solid carved AAA curly maple top, solid maple center and hollow poplar sides, mahogany neck, rosewood board.

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Godin Artisan TC (Handmade)
Quilted carved maple tobacco sunburst top on a limewood (basswood) body.
Thanks to Steve Blutcher and Eric Corpus at Dimarzio for the custom designed pickups (based on the Multibucker) These are 2 double rail style humbuckers side by side. 1 low output for strat tones and the other more of a PAF voicing for a warmer tone LOVE 'EM!

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The insane wiring diagram


Peavey Generation 3 Tele (chambered)
A very light weight chambered alder body with flame maple top.
This guitar is superb!

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Godin Artisan ST (Strat)
A solid maple guitar that is surprisingly warm sounding, tons of sustain

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Godin SD XT
A flame maple top, maple center and poplar wings (snap of maple and warmth of poplar) Love this guitar

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Washburn HB30
A sycamore top with maple back and sides. This will hold it's own against a 335... dare I say that it sounds as good to me as my '58 dotmarker from years past

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Blueburst light weight resonant ash strat with hollowed chambers, Birds eye neck, rosewood fingerboard. Dimarzio Pro Track (neck pickup) Fender middle, Dimarzio Pro Track (Bridge) After 4 years of experimenting... I built it! Totally awsome tone!

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Gibson '61 Melody Maker
PAF's  (was my main guitar in mid 70's) Very resonant mahogany... sustain for years!

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Gibson L6 Deluxe, Bartolini Pick Ups, preamped bridge pickup
Some guy just gave this to me after a performance in Miami back in '77  Thanks :-)

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Casio PG380 Midi Guitar
This guitar has a very sweet tone with a pronounced attack (ebony fingerboard)
I still use it for MIDI (when I want to travel light) as well as good ol' guitar

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Fender HM Strat  
with 2 humbuckers custom designed for me by Dimarzio ...Thanks Steve!!!

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Fender USA Roland Ready Strat  
with Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Alnico II's DP410 neck, DP 401 middle and a higher output pickup in the bridge (still in beta test apparently Steve sent one to me and the other to Eric Johnson)

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Yamaha Pacifica 312
Alder Strat with Dimarzio VV's and Air Norton in bridge. Great strat tone

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Yamaha Pacifica 312
Tele with VV tele set and middle VV pickups, upgraded to Gotoh bridge

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Peavey Firenza
The best kept secret (shhh) these guitars are amazing. Feather weight basswood body, string through body hard tail bridge, 25" PRS scale maple neck. One of the most resonant guitars I have. Had to have 2

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Washburn Bantam  
(Basswood Steinberger clone) picked this up at a flea market. Still experimenting with the pickups. I bought this mostly for air travel

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New Project  
Swamp ash with Warmoth neck and steel frets I suspect this will be a killer tone machine

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          Gibson '58 335 (not reissue) dotmarker < used to be my main guitar in the late 70's..
          Gibson '52 LesPaul Special <Flat top, P90's, Main axe in early seventies>
          Gibson '61 SG / LP with  P90's
          Fender Tele <gotta have one!>
          Gibson Firebird
          Gibson '60's ES345
          Kramer aluminum neck Koa/ Maple body
          Gibson '70's Les Paul Custom
          Martin HD28 <sweet acoustic>
          Fender California Strat ,Fiesta Red (John Suhr humbucker and 2 Dimarzio

 

 



          Axon AX-100 midi guitar converter (for bigger gigs)
          Roland GR-30 (for med gigs)
          Casio PG-380 (when I travel light)
          Roland JV-1010, Yamaha VL-70, Alesis S4+
          Roland VG-8

          Preamp (to convert to line level)
          Modded '80's Dynacomp compressor
          Tech 21 Sans Amp (original version)
          Boss SE70 digital effects processor     
          George L cable

   

 

Gear used for the Really and
Truly CD

 

Snow Drift All MIDI was recorded using the Casio PG380 MIDI guitar.
Guitar tracks were recorded with the PG380 into my '56 tweed Fender "Super Amp" set to clean
all distortion was generated with the Sans Amp(classic)
R.J.'s Blues All MIDI PG380
Slide guitar was '61 Gibson Melody Maker (G tuning) into '56 Fender Super
Slide solo was Melody Maker into Musicman RD110 50 watt amp
Guitar solo was PG380 into the same Musicman amp (12AT7 preamp tube replaced 12AX7)
Rock It All MIDI PG380
All guitar tracks were PG380 into Musicman amp with Sans Amp
Off The Block All MIDI PG380
All Guitar PG380 into '70's Marshall 50
Tristar Jordan plays keys on this track
Melody line and chords are Kubiki Strat with Roland GM-70 Midi interface into Peavey SP-130 (Scott Hendersons old amp of choice) with a Rat distortion
Melody line is Midi guitar
Da' Funk All Midi Kubiki Strat with Roland GM-70
All guitar Kubiki Strat (EMG's) into Marshall 50
Mr. H.'s Blues All Midi PG-380
All guitar PG-380 into Marshall 50 with Sans Amp
Really and Truly All MIDI Kubiki Strat with Roland GM-70
Guitar Kubiki Strat (EMG's) into Marshall 50
Revival Jordan plays keys on this track
Melody line and chords are Kubiki Strat with Roland GM-70 Midi interface into Peavey SP-130 (Scott Hendersons old amp of choice) with a Rat distortion
Holiday The only track with out MIDI guitar
Jordan plays all MIDI
Guitar Kubiki Strat (EMG's) Peavey Special 130 with Rat
Coconut Grove The only track without any natural guitar
All MIDI Kubiki Strat with GM-70

 

 

 

 

 

 

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