My collection

[fps_dean]

Hey all, I'm new here so I thought I'd share my collection.

www.yumb.com/gear/ for pics.  The red strat in some of the first photos is not mine, it's a friends and check out around Picture29 for everything in one.

Anyway what they are and where they all came from...

Guitars:
-Carvin DC127: eEverything appears to be default options and stock.  No idea of the year - it's beat up which suggests it's older but it appears to have a 12" radius or maybe 14" and standard these days is 12" (used to be 10" I believe).  Bought it for $425 (sold my first electric, a G&L S-500 strat for it) and at that price, it was one hell of a steal.  Has the lowest action of any guitar I ever played.  I raised it a tad because it was so rediculously low that if my finger slipped and hit a string, I'd in effect be doing a hammer on on a string I did not want to be playing.

-1995 Gibson Les Paul Classic: Bought it in 1996.  Someone bought it and realized they did not have the money for it and returned it but had the store hold it for 6 months in case they were to buy it back.  Never did buy it back needless to say and I got a brand new guitar at a used price.  I replaced the stock ceramic magnet pickups with some Gibson BurstbuckerTs which get me a great Gary Moore clean tone but when I turn up the gain, there is an uncontrollable feedback making it unusable with a decent amount of gain.   I'm going to put some of the Steve Stevens Rebel Yell humbuckers in it - I bet that's going to sound sick!

=2003 Ibanez Jem7vwh: Bought new in 2003.  Only modification has been the locking stud mod.

Amps:
-1992 Vox AC30TBR L.E. - Bought this in 1997 or around then.  It was hidden between 4x12 cabinets and they marked the price way down and I thought it was a no-brainer.

-1969 Marshall Major:  bought this in Buffalo, NY at a musicians flea market when I was in the area visiting relatives.  Had a master volume which I had removed.  I had a little too much fun with my treble booster, a Keeley Java Boost and melted a tube and toasted some wires and a tube socket.  Got them replaced and got the amp retubed and recapped and it sounds better than ever.  Simply speaking it's the best sounding amp I have ever heard.

There's a kind of funny story behind this one.  When I was trying it out, the guy who sold it to me was selling some amps from his personal collection, and had no guitars or cables with him.  He tracked down some cables, and I had the task of finding a guitar.  Right then a guy walks in with a Les Paul and I ask him if I could borrow his guitar to try out an old Marshall stack.  He said "only if you turn it up all the way!"  So the guy who sold it to me had already turned the volume to 10 and had it ready to go.  When I turned it on it was pretty damn loud already and I kind of hit the pickup selector switch and learned that it had a short when it got ten times louder.  I return the guitar to the guy, he said "I didn't think you'd actually do it! That was the coolest thing ever!"

-Marshall Studio 15: These were made between 1986 and 1992.  All tube, and have a built in attenuator so I can plug the speaker into the headphone jack to play quietly, or just use its line out to record with.  When I first decided I had to get a Les Paul, I was playing a Les Paul through one of these and really liked it.  When I decided to buy a good sounding practice amp, I bought this over a Fender Blues Jr. and Peavey Classic 30 because they are old and fairly hard to find.  I bought this on ebay for $500 and thought that I overpaid a little at the time but they now sell for near twice that.  It is dead mint too, only piece of expensive equipment I own that I can say that about now that some of the gold on the Jems tremolo is coming off.

-Marshall JCM 900 SL-X:  Bought this one on ebay as a high gain option.  I'm going to put a '68-'80 replica Marstran transformer in it and get it modded to sound like a modded late 60s Marshall (my perfect high gain amp) soon.

Cabinets:
-Both cabinets are JCM 800 1960 cabinets, one is angled and one is straight.  The straight one had a bad speaker or two in it, so I put the G12M75s (which I dislike very much) from the angled cabinet into the straight one, and put Classic Leads into the angled cabinet (the one that I actually use).

Pedals:
-Vox wah
-Keeley Java Boost (treble booster... can also serve as a midrange or full boost... pretty cool toy!).

I don't really have a favorite guitar among the three.  They all do what they do, the Jem high gain, the Les Paul and Carvin are more clean friendly.  The Les Paul sounds better, but the Carvin plays better.

[badgermark]

Nice gear, also...

[fps_dean]

Nice gear, also...

Thanks... reminded me I need an avatar ;)

[Tricalibur]

wow, nice collection. Is the Major the 200 watt mv head that Marshall made for a very short period of time?

[Bainzy]

Nope - it's a 200w that functions just like a 100w, but the output tubes and transformers were rated for higher wattage. I think they used KT-88's in them? From the front, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a 100w 1959 and a 200w major.

They were made well before the MV period, the earliest incarnation ('67?) was just called the "Marshall 200" and had just 2 active tone controls, bass and treble, and a volume control. Later on they evolved to become the more standard (ie like the rest of their amps) major, and production ceased when valve bases rated for the high wattage started to cease production (due to decline of the valve market), that will have been about 1973 if memory serves me correct.

[fps_dean]

wow, nice collection. Is the Major the 200 watt mv head that Marshall made for a very short period of time?

Which one?  There was the Major, made from '67-'68 which was called the Marshall 200 (nicknamed "The Pig") and then they changed the from panels to match the 50 and 100 watt super leads from '69 until they stopped making them in '74.

There was another 200 watt Marshall in the JCM 800 series as well.  I believe Iron Maiden has used them in recent years and in the past at times as well.

I think you are thinking about the Marshall 200.   It was also available as a PA head with 8 inputs and a 4th preamp tube).

The Marshall 200s are very rare.  There is a guy on plexipalace.com who has a collection of 10 or 12 Majors and he said he's never even seen a picture of one.  I started a thread about the Major and someone replied and said they had one of the first ones, the 200 and a day later there were 40 more replies of people asking for pictures of it ;)

[fps_dean]

Nope - it's a 200w that functions just like a 100w, but the output tubes and transformers were rated for higher wattage. I think they used KT-88's in them? From the front, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a 100w 1959 and a 200w major.

They were made well before the MV period, the earliest incarnation ('67?) was just called the "Marshall 200" and had just 2 active tone controls, bass and treble, and a volume control. Later on they evolved to become the more standard (ie like the rest of their amps) major, and production ceased when valve bases rated for the high wattage started to cease production (due to decline of the valve market), that will have been about 1973 if memory serves me correct.

You know your Marshall Majors pretty well.  They made them until '74, which was the last year they made handwired amps as well.  I believe Gold Lion (GEC) still made tubes up until 1977 but the price skyrocketed in the early 70s and they made less of them.

They look nearly identical.  Without looking at the back panel, you can tell a Major apart because the chassis is just as wide and maybe a tad wider than a cabinet where a 50 watt is very noticably narrower and a 100 as still a tad narrower.  It is also higher to make room for the massive transformers that I swear are made of solid lead!

After doing plenty of research, I came across various Stevie Ray Vaughan interviews and more interviews with his bandmates and learned that his favorite amp was the Marshall Major.  In the studio he would use various Fenders and Marshalls often through multiple amps at once, but he'd use the Major the most.  He also toured with it until 1985 or 1986 when tubes became really hard to find and even more expensive for it when he made it a "studio only amp" and bought a dumble which he said he didn't like as much.  At the time, nobody was making new KT88s, but now SED does, among others, but the SEDs are pretty good.

[_tom_]

Nice gear, also...

I was the happiest person ever when I realised I could get that gif to work on msn :lol: best thing EVER.

[fps_dean]

Nice gear, also...

I was the happiest person ever when I realised I could get that gif to work on msn :lol: best thing EVER.

lol :)

My current avatar is my Counterstrike spray.  It's pretty good when I'm using the shotgun, and even better when I'm using the shotgun on a zombie mod server ;)

[_tom_]

haha nice, I like the shotgun/deagle combo the best  :D However I have annoying lag problems.. if you know how to fix em please send me a pm telling me how to get rid of the lag!

[fps_dean]

haha nice, I like the shotgun/deagle combo the best  :D However I have annoying lag problems.. if you know how to fix em please send me a pm telling me how to get rid of the lag!

Yeah I usually use the deagle unless I'm really trying and getting lots of headshots that day, then I use the five-seven because it's more accurate so I can get headshots easier.

To fix the lag you may need a better computer, or a better connection, and the dual core fix perhaps if you have an Athlon64 X2 (note: The X2 has issues with USB2.  If anyone has this issue drop me a private message and I'll hook you up).

Unless all the lag started with the latest update - I've heard from a lot of people that the latest update gave them lag, and I think my pings have gone down but I've started moving back a few steps on servers I never had any problems on in the past myself.

[badgermark]

Man source is for pussies, try playing Cs 1.6.

It's full of the old veterans who pwn like no-one else. I'm proud to say I can hold my own against the buggers.

[fps_dean]

Man source is for pussies, try playing Cs 1.6.

It's full of the old veterans who pwn like no-one else. I'm proud to say I can hold my own against the buggers.

I play that too.  You can't fire as accurately in 1.6 and pistols do much less damage so it's a little harder to get a headshot, but there is not that much of a difference.  The biggest difference is the better graphics in source.  In 1.3, or even 1.5, you could aim right at the back of someone's head at point black and not get a headshot and you have to shoot someone all day with a pistol to kill them.

However, I do have to say 1.6 is full of people too poor/cheap to buy a decent computer more so than old vets ;)