My Rig - Then & Now:

[Inspector #20]

How has your guitar rig evolved over the years???

Back in 2005:

Running a Marshall VS265 (Dirty) and a Marshall MG50 (clean)

The 1987 MIK Squire - Now Owned by @Sp8ctre



2006: Switch the squire to HSS



2010 - Same old song and dance



2011 - The song remains the same..



2015 - Started using pedals again & bought first Marshall DSL-40C



2016 - Put a Gibson 500T/498R in the 1987 Squire



2016 - Painted my new Gibson 50's Tribute Gold




2017 - Bought another Gibson Les Paul



And in 2020:





Geez!!!!! LOL!!!!

 

[Jethro Rocker]

I use so many different amps it is hard to show.
Old rig would have been one amp that I still use today except now I have more choices. Rig is venue dependent. And what I feel like using.

I guess I can find pics of different rigs in different places. Always like pics!

 

[Inspector #20]

I use so many different amps it is hard to show.
Old rig would have been one amp that I still use today except now I have more choices. Rig is venue dependent. And what I feel like using.

I guess I can find pics of different rigs in different places. Always like pics!

I only ever use one rig live. It's the 50 watt Origin and custom 2x12 cabinet. If it's a big, outdoor event, I will use my 1987 Jackson/Charvel 4x12 cabinet, but everything pretty much stays the same...

 

[iblive]

The current board when I plug into.......


One of these two guys.......
But since I’m pretty much a bedroom player now, I’m plugging into this and running thru headphones.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Guitars vary as well.
2004 the Jubilee.
Nice mullet perm.

2006 ish
TSL. Little Peavey is backup for singer to use.

2014 TSL in bar

2015 6101 mini stack

6101 again in a bar

2016 J VM half stack

2017 JCM800 4010. No mic wasn't placed yet.

2018 JVM again

2019 Jubilee again.

2019 Traynor YCS100 on 2x12

Guitars come later.... no real gigs in 2020

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Guitars. They all get some love. Some I no longer own. Sorry for cluttering this up.

 

[Kerry Brown]

My rig these days is a computer. Before COVID it was a pedal board. I was playing acoustic guitar in a trio or as a single or in jams.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

My rig these days is a computer. Before COVID it was a pedal board. I was playing acoustic guitar in a trio or as a single or in jams.
View attachment 57391

Fun simple set up for acoustic.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

My rig in 1983 was a full stack of cabs early 70’s B cab late 70’s A cab. All being pushed with a 78-79 Marshall 2104

 

[Clockworkmike]

Mine never really changed over the years. Sometimes id use a processor, other times it was straight in. Basically what i use now is the same as back in the late 90s, just a different style and settings lol

 

[Clockworkmike]

My rig in 1983 was a full stack of cabs early 70’s B cab late 70’s A cabView attachment 57392. All being pushed with a 78-79 Marshall 2104

Mitch with the Explorer!!

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Fast forward to 2016 the Dsl40c’s
And the 3210’s
Then in 2018 I added the Origin 50’s

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

As you can tell I am addicted to the tones of a Marshall, in 77 my rig was a Sunn Concert lead (sorry I have no pics) the guitar then was a Hondo ll LP copy in cherry burst, and an explorer copy, and of course a SG copy.
The guitars in the early 80’s where a Fender Strat, 76 Gibson Explorer, fast forward to now and I have a number of nice guitars to hack my sloppy playing...
Thanks
Mitch

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Guitars. They all get some love. Some I no longer own. Sorry for cluttering this up.

Jethro my friend, you have a very diverse arsenal, and chops, stage presence, and the correct tools for any application.
Rock on Brother.
Cheers
Mitch

 

[Ebidis]

I've had so many guitars and amps over the years that I can't begin to count them all. It's only been within about the last 3 years that I have settled down and stuck with my current gear.

GAS is a terrible thing.

 

[Inspector #20]

@Jethro Rocker has the best pics!!!!!

 

[Beagle]

I'm pretty boring I suppose. From 1983 until 2007 I gigged with a 1966 Fender Princeton Reverb and a Strat, from 1996 My Fender ST54 replaced my stolen Tokai Springy Sound. An acoustic and a mandolin of usually dubious parentage did the othe 75% of the job.

 

[gball]

Y'know, this made me realize I have never really had the presence of mind to take photos of this stuff unless I was responding to a thread on the forum in the moment. There are pictures from shows in an album that I think my sister has but I don't possess a single one from my gigging days. Which is weird.

My arc has been pretty simple though. When I first started playing in a band in high school it was my '77 Les Paul Custom and a Peavey Bandit. The amp soon got replaced by a JCM-800 (2204) and I used that guitar and that amp for about the next decade. Had some dalliances with Strats, Fender amps, Rivera amps, etc, but they never lasted long before I went back to a Les Paul and (usually) a Marshall, until around the mid-90's I discovered Mesa/Boogie and that was pretty much that. Gibsons and Boogies since then as my main squeezes. I've owned some other guitars and amps along with way along with the Gibsons and Boogies, but they are all gone now and not feeling a need to change that.

 

[jtcnj]

Nice posts here guys - I respect and envy you who have lived the dream to whatever extent playing live in front of *gasp* people.

The on board emojies are not working!!

CHEERS!!

 

[67plexi]

I never took the time to take photos of our band been together for eight years now.
It's set up the gear sound check go eat dinner play the show tear down go home unload equipment try to sleep.
Half the places we played at are closed down now but we still practice three times per week use it or loose it.