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and you're given enough money to buy any four guitars and any two amps. Here is the catch -- you can only have four guitars and two amps. You need to get as many sounds as you possibly can. You may not buy modelling amps or modelling guitars (sorry Aleclee, I know you hate these kinds of threads).

Please tell me why you chose a particular guitar or amp -- e.g Tele for country sessions and an Es335 for Jazz sessions. Have fun!

Telecaster, Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson 335 lt;-- pretty much the four basic guitars (assuming I'm not gonna need an acoustic).

Then Bad Cat Hot, and Fender Twin

Loads of pedals.

Guitars:
Fender Eric Johnson Strat
PRS Singlecut
Gibson ES335
Ibanez JS1000

Amps:
Bogner Ecstacy 101B w/ matching 2x12 cab
Fender '65 Twin reverb

Hmmm...

I could get by with 4 Paulas

LP deluxe with minis
R6 with P90s or a LP Junior...either/or
R8/R9/R0 with Some kind of PAFs
R8/R9/RO with something higher output..Custom/59..Bareknuckles crawlers, etc

Amps:
A Fender of some sort...prolly a Twin
Bogner or similar 3 channel boutique amp that will do anything the Twin won't.

Gripweed, you've left a loophole open: there are a wide range of Amp Modellers out there that are not quot;Modelling Amps.quot;

Man, that's difficult. OK, here's my vote:

Gretsch for the real cool stuff and Jazz
Strat Elite for Strat-Sounds everything else (unfortunately no Tele-style-sound possible)
Any good E/A
National Style quot;Oquot;

Fender Twin
Marshall 20th Anniversary

Damn! No more room for Tele and Banjo

Hmmm....

Guitars:
Hamer stuido
Ernie Ball Music man Shillouette special w/ trem
Carvin 7 string w/ original floyd rose (I HATE the licensed version on mine)
Taylor 510CE

Amps:
Bogner ecstasy
and...my Krank


Originally Posted by proxyTelecaster, Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson 335 lt;-- pretty much the four basic guitars (assuming I'm not gonna need an acoustic).

Then Bad Cat Hot, and Fender Twin

Loads of pedals. 1 (although for amps, it could have been Marshall Twin or Mesa Twin)

Fender Strat
Ibanez JEM
PRS 513 - VERSATILITY!
Fender Tele

As for amps, I really dunno. Probably a Vox AC30 and some Marshall, I'm not sure which.

PRS Custom 22 (hardtail)
Fender Strat
Gibson 335
Taylor 510 CE
(Some kind of a Floyd Super Strat [Hum Sing Sing] if I could leave off the Taylor)

Fender Pro Reverb
Marshall JCM 800 (the single input channel switching model)

I would get a Nashville B-Bender Tele and load with a Vintage Stack in the bridge. Noise from a guitar will get you kicked from the studio. I would keep the Texas Special in the middle and put a New Classic Stack in the neck. Tat's the only guitar I would have. I would use the Flextone amp I have. There, I have only spent money on one thing and with that rig, I can play any situation - believe me, I have done it. That way I can use the rest of the gear money on the groceries I'm going to need when I don't get the calls I thought I would....

Fender American Deluxe Strat
Fender American Standard Tele
Gretsch Tenessee Rose
PRS McCarty

Mesa Mark IV half stack
Fender Deluxe Reverb


Originally Posted by proxyTelecaster, Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson 335 lt;-- pretty much the four basic guitars (assuming I'm not gonna need an acoustic).

Loads of pedals.

Pretty hard to top that...

I'd probably go with a blonde Showman head and a 50w MV JMP series Marshall and a good Marshall 4x12.


Originally Posted by proxyTelecaster, Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson 335 lt;-- pretty much the four basic guitars (assuming I'm not gonna need an acoustic).

Then Bad Cat Hot, and Fender Twin

Loads of pedals.Yeah I pretty much would go the same way with guitars, The Amps make it harder to get everything with just 2. I would probably go with a BF Deluxe Reverb equipped with a Vintage 30 and NOS tubes, And a Marshall Bluesbraker.

Hey....... Whers Carmine D'Amico when you need him. I'm sure he coud tell us what a Grammy winning studio guitarist would use.

honestly, every single studio i have done sessions for in the past 2 years have used a plug-in like amplitude for guitar sounds. i generally don't get calls to use the ol standby strat/tele/LP sounds- although I think there are many that do, i am in the other half- I think people call me because it is a little different than that...so chances are, a normal date for me would be to show up with my guitar- usually an Ernie Ball Silo SPecial, and a notebook with all my notes for the song.

I'd go with:

Strat
tele
Les Paul (with phat cat in the neck)
335-style guitar
THD Univalve
THD Flexi

-why the THDs? -because you can swap out pretty much any tube type. 84s, 6v6, 34s, 6l6, KTs...

A strat loaded with antiquity II surfers, and a switchable dummy coil for noiseless operation if the studio gets all anal about the hum.

An ES-335 loaded with Seth lovers

A telecaster with antiquity I pickups and a dummy coil

One of those semi-hollow Strat shaped guitars with 1 F hole by Hamer, forgot the model. Loaded with Seth Lovers of course.

I'd then choose a Deluxe Reverb Reissue,

And a Marshall Bluesbreaker combo.

With tone that good, you don't need pedals...

Based on the kind of music I could imagine recording, I'd go with 2 Teles -- one loaded with Antiquities, and the other most likely with a neck mini-HB and Antiquity bridge. Then I'd add a Strat -- probably my American Deluxe V-neck with SCN pickups and S1 switch. Then I'd add either a LP or ES-137 with PAF-style pickups.

For amps, I would go with my '54 tweed Deluxe with replacement 12quot; speaker and my Bad Cat Cub IIR 1x12. I'd bring along my Fulldrive 2 and Bad Bob Booster, a tuner, and perhaps my JX-2 Switchbone to connect everything for easy switching at a moment's notice.

Of course, this leaves out BF/SF Fender and Marshall amp tones, and an acoustic guitar.

strat. ibanez RG. paul. big ol' jazzbox

JCM 2000
old fender amp of some sort