Hi Guys

aon said:
I'll be sure to post some pics once I'm back home. Our restrictions got lifted a bit so that we from the south (the capital and around it) can now visit the rest of the country again... and on the day that happened my mother-in-law broke her arm. So as unfortunate as that is, at least we could come and help her out.

Always wanted a Telecaster, never had one before but I actually have a Squier coming in the mail, should probably have it next week.

Guitars I have currently. Generally everything is lefty (except those that aren't):
  • 2018 Ibanez RG550L (Desert Yellow).
    • Made in Japan. Team J.Craft so it's not Prestige or J Custom but still the nicest thing I've ever had. This is what I mainly play. It's tuned down a whole step to D standard. The Edge tremolo is a bit of a handful - actually what got me back into playing more is that I had time to learn how to live with it.
  • 20(08 or 09) Ibanez Soundgear SR500BML bass.
    • A bit over ten years ago I wanted to play bass so i got this. It's quite nice but I don't like the active EQ: I forget to take the cable out and the battery is always flat when I pick it up.
  • 20?? Epiphone Les Paul Special II.
    • I bought this for ~50€ maybe 2010-2011ish from an exchange student who was leaving home and didn't want to take it back with him. Never really liked it that much but it might be because the setup has always been so crap. It's been in open G tuning for a while with ridiculously heavy strings (for me at least) and high action so the awful nut and non-level frets don't matter that much. Sometimes I noodle around on it a bit, but very rarely.
  • 2016 Ibanez Artwood AW65LECE-LG steel-string acoustic
    • Wanted to have something I could just pick up and play without worrying about anything else so I got this. It's not 100% the case since I always forget to turn off the tuner/preamp and the battery goes flat, which is a bit inconvenient since it doesn't hold tune that well. It has quite thin flatwounds on it. I'm not much of an acoustic player and it feels like the more electric I play, the worse I get at it relatively. My wife's an amazing singer so sometimes for fun I accompany her with this.
  • 1970's Ibanez Concord steel-string acoustic
    • This isn't a lefty or actually even mine but it's been at my house for a decade or so. It's been strung up as a lefty, but I'd like to put it back the way it was so that the better players that sometimes visit us could maybe have a go with it. Some of the original bridge pins are broken and it'd need a new nut and tailpiece. I actually have the parts for everything except the nut to start working on this, but my garage is a mess so there's no space to work on it...
  • 1980's Yamaha 3/4 classical acoustic
    • Also not really a lefty, and this isn't even at my house. My mum got this brand new but never really learned to play it. When i was maybe six years old my dad swapped the strings around on it and taught me to play "three blind mice" on one string :D. Didn't play much or go to lessons or anything like that as a small kid, but around 12 - 13 years old I started learning more stuff on this, before I got my first electric. Over the years I've had various pieces of tape as the fret markings, since the actual ones are on the wrong side of the neck..
The only amp I have at the moment is a Laney Ironheart Studio 15-watt head. It's pretty nice but there are a bit too many knobs and the clean channel doesn't have a lot of headroom... No cab, I've been using the DI out with speaker simulation into my Lexicon Omega USB sound card / mixer. Works well enough. Been playing around with cab IR's on the computer a bit and those sound nicer, but I don't really want to have to deal with software for casual playing. Might get a stand-alone cab sim (maybe the two notes captor or something) eventually. And possibly even some sort of a 1x12 or 2x12 cab...

Don't have any pedals at the moment except a Sonic Research Turbo Tuner, which is pretty great, but perhaps even a bit too accurate for daily tuning. Also probably have a Behringer V-Amp 2 with faulty pots stashed away somewhere.

Some of the stuff I've had in the past:
  • ~2000 "Reno" stratocaster copy
    • These seem to be a quite local thing, maybe it was a brand used by some European wholesaler or something. It was cut from the finest piece of plywood you could find in a rainy Guangzhou back alley, and the hardware was probably made out of the steel they made during the great leap forward. So not the greatest guitar... We had two music stores in town and it was either this and a Marshall MG15CDR or a Squier Affinity strat and a Fender Frontman 15R. So the Squier strat might've been slightly better in hindsight, but I chose the kit with what I thought was the better amp (I still think that Frontman was awful). After I got the Mexican strat this got modified into a Frankenstrat-esque thing, then a lot of the parts went to other projects, until essentially only the plywood body was left and I threw that out.
  • 2002 MIM Standard Stratocaster
    • So when I was around 15 years old I had some money saved and got this. Played it intensively for a few years, got into music school, got very disillusioned with everything for various reasons and pretty much stopped playing for quite a while around 2005 or so. This one kicked around until 2018 when I got the RG550 and put a lot of stuff up for sale to offset some of the cost of it. It stayed pretty stock except for Schaller strap locks and TUSQ bridge saddles which reduced string breakage a lot.
  • 198? Fender Super 60 amp
    • This wasn't really the right thing for me at the time, but the 15W Marshall wasn't loud enough and this certainly was a lot louder... the original tubes were quite worn out so I replaced them with non-matched Sovteks but didn't know enough at the time to bias them. So maybe it would've sounded better with proper biasing. Kind of miss the screaming loud cleans though.
So that's pretty much it up to now... damn that took a long time to write :)
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Welcome to TTR
I believe you will enjoy the festivities.
Cheers
Mitch
 
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