Post Your Rig: Doom Edition

[t-rey]

New grill on the Mesa looks snazzy.

Turbocharged AOR is all sorts of awesome, as is that Les Paul.

[HeavyXIII]

What's funny is how much I hate that logo Probably from an old car, some jackass attached with superglue, and I don't need a glue stain that reads "Turbocharged"

[t-rey]

Fuck that. Embrace the unabashed display of white trash. Revel in it. Infuse your riffs with its essence.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Heavy. diggin the LP and them AOR's but yea I hate the turbocharged.

[AxAxSxS]

Fuck that. Embrace the unabashed display of white trash. Revel in it. Infuse your riffs with its essence.

QFT

[misterstomach]

Some of this got lost in old posts and whatnot, but it can't hurt to show them off again, can it?



Picked it up off a buddy for $120. Well loved, needs some work. Finally got my GFS parts in and installed new tuners and bridge; tuners were a pain because the original holes were too small. The poly finish didn't like being raped by my power drill either:



Disappointed, but at least it's not out of place. There's lots of finish missing elsewhere and few spots someone tried to cover with sharpie Switching need to be rewired as both pickups are always on and I need to file the nut some more so I have playable action, but it's getting there.

I'm wanting to get a new bridge pickup for now, and am thinking Seymour Duncan. I think Pelliot or Mr. Stomach (sorry dudes, it's the dog avatars! ) suggested the Distortion for an LP bridge. After a few demos I'm kind of thinking a JB. My Agile has a Super 2 in the bridge, but it could use a tad more bass. Every demo of the JB has the pick attack I'm accustomed to hearing on older Pelican records. Which is a good thing.



And there's this! Amps aren't exactly new, but the setup for the room is, and I get an earful of AOR! Makes it easier to hear looping on it's dedicated amp. I also adjusted the overall sound to be darker, which helped greatly with feedback and didn't kill my cleans like I thought they would.

Diamond plate just wasn't doing it for me.

Much better!

I want the knobs on that Concert Lead to climb up and situate themselves on the Mesa. That grill cloth was a solid choice

i probably was the one that suggested a duncan distortion for the bridge of an LP. i know conky likes it too. for the record, i don't think my actual real life dog looks that much like the cartoon dog in pelliot's avatar, but whatever. i actually have a jb laying around that i've never put in anything. let me know if you love it. that guitar looks like it has a hb sized p90 or something in the bridge. it's not a regular humbucker. is it a set neck or a bolt on? i love old japanese guitars.

also, that grill cloth looks good on that mesa. i used to have an old two channel racktifier. i love those things. great fucking amps. the clean channel isn't that great but it's usable and everything else rules. highly underrated these days. '95 is a great year. does it happen to be one of the coveted "first 500"? even if not, they sound great. if i could possibly afford to actually have an amp collection, i would really want one of those in it.

[AxAxSxS]

I had a guitar that had a JB and a duncan distortion in it, I thought it was the shit at the time.

[Iommic Pope]

I have a duncan distortion in my Iceman paired up with a Sh-1 59 in the neck. They work really well together and the Sh-1 sounds pretty good fuzzed out on its own, but my favourite sound is the middle position, with the distortion all the way up and open, while the Sh-1 is rolled back to 6-7, with tone at about the same, darkens it up and gives a nice character to the cut.
Probably gonna switch the Sh-1 out for an Invader though, as I find them to have an even warmer clean tone, plus I wanna pair the Sh-1 back up with the Dimbucker in my Floydie Iceman for maximum sale potential to metalheads.

Evetually I wanna trade out for the Dirty Heshers, but for now, DDistortion does kick some arse, as others have said.

Yay! 6 knob AOR sighting!

[HeavyXIII]

i probably was the one that suggested a duncan distortion for the bridge of an LP. i know conky likes it too. for the record, i don't think my actual real life dog looks that much like the cartoon dog in pelliot's avatar, but whatever. i actually have a jb laying around that i've never put in anything. let me know if you love it. that guitar looks like it has a hb sized p90 or something in the bridge. it's not a regular humbucker. is it a set neck or a bolt on? i love old japanese guitars.

also, that grill cloth looks good on that mesa. i used to have an old two channel racktifier. i love those things. great fucking amps. the clean channel isn't that great but it's usable and everything else rules. highly underrated these days. '95 is a great year. does it happen to be one of the coveted "first 500"? even if not, they sound great. if i could possibly afford to actually have an amp collection, i would really want one of those in it.

Ya, I don't know what's up with that either, sorry about that! Ya, my buddy loaded it with a GFS Mean 90. Doesn't sound bad, but it doesn't have quite the midrange I'm used to, which for some reason makes distortion a little unclear on chords. The cleans sound pretty sweet though. Before my buddy loaded it with 90, he found the cleans really crisp and clear and didn't like the distortion. I joked they were probably single coils... and they were! Got these square things around the pickup where the windings go (no bobbin?) I can get a picture later if you like, they're very strange!

I'm going to keep the pickup covers over whatever finds its way in there, as I love the aged gold look over the "gold" gold of the new parts.

The guitar is a bolt on, which is why I wanted it as a backup guitar. If the gods wish ill fortune on me and the neck breaks/warps/whatever, I can put on a new on myself with few issues (I hope).

Heavy. diggin the LP and them AOR's but yea I hate the turbocharged.

I want to peel it off SO much. I just don;t want to risk fucking the tolex if I don't have to. Wouldn't be quite so bad if it was white like the Marshall logo. I don't want to put a chemical on it either, again for the sake of the tolex

Fuck that. Embrace the unabashed display of white trash. Revel in it. Infuse your riffs with its essence.

QFT

....I also just remembered that I too, have a dog avatar.

[Jäke]

also, that grill cloth looks good on that mesa. i used to have an old two channel racktifier. i love those things. great fucking amps. the clean channel isn't that great but it's usable and everything else rules. highly underrated these days. '95 is a great year. does it happen to be one of the coveted "first 500"? even if not, they sound great. if i could possibly afford to actually have an amp collection, i would really want one of those in it.

Hey thanks. No, it's not one of those first 500 (aka Rev C). It's a very early Rev G (shipped on 12/15/94), still with what are apparently the desirable Mark IV transformers. From what I can tell, the first 500 were pretty much just the least "fizzy" of the early Rectums. But most of the info floating around the innerwebs is from people looking do straight "metal" with them — when in fact, I just use the orange/vintage channel exclusively. So I really have nothing dialed in that is fizzy or buzzy at all.

The amplifier is really an engineering marvel in a lot of ways. I'm super impressed with all of it's capabilities, even though I might never use much of them. Maybe in a studio or something.

[Kacey Y]

The Dual Rec I had is pretty much identical to the era yours is Jake. I did the same, always used the orange channel and it was never fizzy sounding, always sounded great. I ran it in a dual rig with a JCM800 on the other side and they sounded great together. I really wish I hadn't sold it actually, I got it for a great price because I sniped an ebay auction that closed at 2am on a Tuesday and there were a lot of Mesas selling at the time. In the end I traded down (after 2 or 3 trades and sales) and lost a little money when I got rid of it. Though it was a lot more knobs and switches than I ever need on an amp.

[pelliott]

i don't think my actual real life dog looks that much like the cartoon dog in pelliot's avatar, but whatever.

idk it's like looking into a mirror


also I think we both recommended the Duncan Distortion as I have also one in the bridge of my LP. It's a fucking fantastic pickup.

[t-rey]

Updated rig pics because new mancave:



First attempt at being fancy and taking a panoramic pic of the whole shebang.

[pelliott]

It's so cleeeean

[t-rey]

I do what I can. Lived with enough filth and villainy in college to develop a need for tidiness as an adult