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Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Transcend on July 13, 2007, 05:41:06 PM

Hows this???

me and Adam M were discussing this earlier and we decided because he has so much incredible gear he will have a shitety tone.... something like blink182 or korn

cos he obviously has more money than sense.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/living2win/gear/071207/2.jpg)

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Oli on July 13, 2007, 06:05:58 PM

Hey! He posts on the ADA forums (fellow MP-1 user here :))... still no rack yet though ;) rubbish!

I love the rackmount rectifier, looks great each time i see it. Too much stuff to drool over there :)

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Transcend on July 13, 2007, 06:52:08 PM

yeah hes monty jay


thing is hes got all this gear but ive never heard a single clip in the 3 years ive been talking to him....

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: JamesHealey on July 13, 2007, 06:56:18 PM

I use a guitar, a lead, a 20watt PTP EL84 amp.. end of.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Ratrod on July 14, 2007, 11:12:01 AM

I've seen more impressive racks.  :wink:

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: noodleplugerine on July 14, 2007, 12:15:01 PM

Quote from: Ratrod

I've seen more impressive racks.  :wink:

+100 :>

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: plastercaster on July 14, 2007, 02:40:01 PM

Quote from: Ratrod

I've seen more impressive racks.  :wink:

no doubt afghan dave will show us an example of one of these "better racks" shortly.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Simon D on July 14, 2007, 06:44:50 PM

Sweet jesus, that's a rack and a half!

My concern with using that many different bits of stuff is: When something starts crackling, or buzzing or popping or cutting out, how the hell do you figure out which one it is??? I wouldn't even know how to turn half that stuff on, let alone work it. :)

Title: Re: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Antag on July 14, 2007, 07:41:35 PM

Quote from: hate_growth

cos he obviously has more money than sense

Jealousy will get you nowhere :-)

While it's an impressive pile of gear to have lying around, I'm not sure I'd want much of it.  A rack wah always seemed like a great idea to me (but I'm happy with my Morley), perhaps the rack Recto (though I like my standard size head)

Not sure he's doing the gear any good having it in a pile like that rather than bolted properly into a rack case though...

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: indysmith on July 14, 2007, 09:37:45 PM

no one person needs that much gear, surely, unless they run a studio or practice establishment or the like. I think anyone who does is actually quite sad - i actually think i'm pretty sad for playing too much with the knobs and not enough with the strings sometimes, and my setup is guitar->combo amp.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Tellboy on July 15, 2007, 12:31:40 PM

Quote from: indysmith

no one person needs that much gear, surely, unless they run a studio or practice establishment or the like. I think anyone who does is actually quite sad - i actually think i'm pretty sad for playing too much with the knobs and not enough with the strings sometimes, and my setup is guitar->combo amp.

Got to agree with you there indy. I am by nature a technoholic but I have found all the guitarists I have liked over the years have used relatively simple setups. It seems to me that with adding that amount of processing to the guitar signal usually changes the 'character' so much that you have to add even more processing to bring it back to somewhere near it was to begin with.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Crazy_Joe on July 15, 2007, 01:14:47 PM

I have one of those mesa racks haha!

but that is pretty intense, i would love to hear a clip of him playing

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: maliciousteve on July 15, 2007, 06:23:23 PM

You guys ever seen what Vernon Reid used to use? It makes that picture look like a childs rig.

(http://www.adadepot.com/cool_things/rigpics/pictures/vernon-reid.jpg)

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Tellboy on July 15, 2007, 07:16:12 PM

Quote from: maliciousteve

You guys ever seen what Vernon Reid used to use? It makes that picture look like a childs rig.

Very impressive - but how does the song go ?? - "It's only rock n roll"... not a NASA space launch  :roll:

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: JamesHealey on July 16, 2007, 08:24:18 AM

(http://www.johnpetrucci.com/images/equipment/stagesetup.jpg)

Petrucci's rig from Scenes from a memory tour, now this is a rack setup!

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Afghan Dave on July 16, 2007, 08:48:26 AM

Quote from: plastercaster

Quote from: Ratrod

I've seen more impressive racks.  :wink:

no doubt afghan dave will show us an example of one of these "better racks" shortly.

Apologies for my tardiness in posting - normal service has now been resumed.    :wink:

(http://sittingonarock.bravepages.com/pics/amy.jpg)

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: gwEm on July 16, 2007, 11:26:51 AM

Quote from: maliciousteve

You guys ever seen what Vernon Reid used to use? It makes that picture look like a childs rig.

he even has an akai sampler! why?! is he at all experimental?

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: maliciousteve on July 16, 2007, 02:10:25 PM

Quote from: gwEm

Quote from: maliciousteve

You guys ever seen what Vernon Reid used to use? It makes that picture look like a childs rig.

he even has an akai sampler! why?! is he at all experimental?

He's a pretty unique player. His music is hard to 'get', Very odd and out there.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Philly Q on July 16, 2007, 03:28:55 PM

Vernon Reid was awesome in the early days of Living Colour.  The only band I've ever seen 3 times in a week.  I've even got their autographs.

Then I bought the album he did with Bill Frisell and didn't get it at all   :? .

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Alex on July 16, 2007, 05:50:25 PM

IMO the most incredible/laughable racks have come from Steve Lukather, but some of you probably have seen worse. Vai and Van Halen have had pretty huge "refridgerator racks" too.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Ratrod on July 17, 2007, 05:11:13 PM

The Edge's rack. I doesn't fit in one picture.

(http://u2.greensite.sk/images/group/edge_guitars/amps2.jpg)
(http://u2.greensite.sk/images/group/edge_guitars/rack.jpg)
(http://u2.greensite.sk/images/group/edge_guitars/rack_elevation.jpg)
(http://u2.greensite.sk/images/group/edge_guitars/pedals.jpg)
(http://u2.greensite.sk/images/group/edge_guitars/pedalboard.jpg)

And again. This time animated.

(http://www.akwavox.com/site/images-projets/u2-projet/compo-site/edgeamp.jpg)
(http://www.akwavox.com/site/images-projets/u2-projet/compo-site/edgepedal.jpg)
(http://www.akwavox.com/site/images-projets/u2-projet/compo-site/edgerackzom.jpg)
(http://www.akwavox.com/site/images-projets/u2-projet/compo-site/edgerackped.jpg)

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: noodleplugerine on July 17, 2007, 05:43:11 PM

All that gear, yet such boring sound and tone.

WTF is he doing in U2 with a name like "The Edge" anyway...

He should be the neck GnR guitarist!

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Ratrod on July 18, 2007, 08:00:40 PM

Quote from: noodleplugerine

All that gear, yet such boring sound and tone.

WTF is he doing in U2 with a name like "The Edge" anyway...

He should be the neck GnR guitarist!

You're jealous! Did I mention he has 800 guitars, give or take a few?  :wink:

It's OK, half the guitar playing world is jealous of him. I love that old Explorer of his and I'm still mad at him for throwing and kicking that Ric 360 on the ground. :evil:

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Will on July 18, 2007, 08:27:02 PM

oh, petrucci's rack is pretty cool, i mean, made by someone called mr rack man!

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Tellboy on July 19, 2007, 09:00:30 AM

Quote from: Will

oh, petrucci's rack is pretty cool, i mean, made by someone called mr rack man!

Yep - I know this has been on this forum (several) times already but I still find it hilarious  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs

I thought Tony Blair was going to be a peace ambassador now he is no longer PM - didn't think he would go into competition with Tim and start hand winding pickups.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: PhilKing on July 19, 2007, 11:42:32 AM

Quote from: Ratrod

I love that old Explorer of his and I'm still mad at him for throwing and kicking that Ric 360 on the ground. :evil:

I was at Radio City in the 10th row the night he broke the headstock off the explorer!   He lost it with the bouncers and threw the guitar into the air as he went forwards, perhaps he thought the guitar tech would catch it, but there was no one around and it landed on the stage.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: Johnny Mac on July 22, 2007, 02:59:07 PM

Quote from: Philly Q

Vernon Reid was awesome in the early days of Living Colour.  The only band I've ever seen 3 times in a week.  I've even got their autographs.

Then I bought the album he did with Bill Frisell and didn't get it at all   :? .

I saw them twice in a week when they supported Anthrax back in 1988 at the Hammersmith Odeon.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: nfe on July 22, 2007, 03:47:03 PM

I'm scared of too many LEDs.

If things don't look old and a bit broken  usually can't make them work.

Title: If you thought youd seen an impressive rack
Post by: MDV on July 22, 2007, 04:05:07 PM

This thread should be sued for misleading advertising!