Fender Jag - Jap. reissue
Blackface Fender Reverb Tank
Arion Stage Tuner
Danelctro Reel Echo
Clean signal goes into a Blackface Fender Showman with a custom built-open back cabinet with EV Force 15 speaker.
Echo signal goes into an Ampeg Gemini II

Rotosound Flatwounds .12 - .52 (although I think I may experiment with a heavier guage on the low end if I can find 'em)

Jim Dunlop Nylon .88 pick

Spetraflex cable

Trace recently bought a Gretch I use for back up on stage w/ flat wounds.

I Also have:
'86 Rickenbacker 360 - D'Adario roundwond .10's with a Jim Dunlop .60 nylon pick - This guitar is my love.
Encore 12 string - Hollow Body - Fiddle shaped -like McCartney's bass
A no-name Franken-tele custom
broken Mexi-strat
Takamine acoustic

is that enough info?

Spanky

that which i use the most :

AVRI jaguar in white
fender deluxe reverb
RI fender reverb unit
bullet cable
dunlop .88 picks

that which i also own:

american standard strat sunburst
PRS custom 22 10 top in teal
fender jazz bass in transparent orange/black pick guard
fender 'ventures' jazzmaster made in japan-1996 (one of 500)
RI twin reverb
small fender bass amp
ibanez tube screamer
boss delay

that which i should own:

stock in the fender corporation

all of this could be grounds for divorce if i was a guy

www.surfintheeye.com

Fender AV Jazzmaster with D'adarrio 15-65 flat wounds. Tuned D-G-C-F-A-D. Oh - sunburst with tortoise shell pick-guard.
Dunlop Tortex 1.0-Blue
Boss overdrive (od-1? the yellow one)
Danelectro Reel Echo
Fender RI reverb unit with NOS rca tubes, and cap mod.
Boss EQ (set flat with just a volume boost to compensate for what the reverb unit takes).
MXR Micro Amp for solo boost

69 Twin Reverb in a crappy head cabinet. Blackfaced. NOS Philips 7881A power tubes. Telefunken, Mullard and RCA pre-amp tubes (as far as I remember). Reverb doesn't work.
Speaker output goes to top half of a Pine+MDF 2X15 cab similar in size to Dual Showman cab (but heavier). The cab is loaded with JBL d-130 speakers. Unfortunately, I needed to have them reconed back in Israel, so they have the E-130 kits in them. That might change in the future.
Ext-Speaker output goes to left half of Marshall 4x12 1960bv straight cabinet loaded with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. That cabinet is on the other side of the stage under the other guitarist's amp. His guitar comes through the bottom part of the 2X15 cabinet, and the right side of the Marshall cab.
All the speakers in those cabs have Weber VST Beam Blocker treble diffusers (all of them the 4" dome, I would have switched to the 5" dome on the JBL speakers).

I also have a Weber VST MASS, but found that it's very useful for recoding, but not for live work.

I also have a 2X15 cab loaded with 2 JBL E-140 bass speakers. It's even bigger than the guitar cab. And heavier. And doesn't have wheels.

My back-up guitars:
Jap Charvel 475sp. 13-56 round wound. Black.
Danelectro Hodad with tremolo (bigsby copy). 12-54 round wound. Burgundy or whatever the color is called.

I would have loved to:
Have a blond dual showman with red oxblood grill cloth (brownface, not a blackface).
Have 2 blond dual showman cabs (red oxblood grill cloth).
Have a blond + red oxblood grill cloth reverb unit.
Get a FuzzBrite
Have a quality Jag barritone with a Jag/JM tremolo.
Have an American Jag with a JM scale neck.

Ran

The Scimitars

Last edited: Apr 14, 2006 11:37:13

It used to be that surf players would only use heavy picks but I think there is a change in that mindset. The majority use heavier picks I believe but some people are changing. I used to use .46 Dunlop Nylons. I would still use them but I cut my thumb one gig because they are too thin. Blood all over the Jag.

...i forgot the Mandobird VIII electric-mandolin...

... I modified it...now has 2 pickups...one an Arstrong lipstick tube, and the other the stock Epiphone single coil...

sounds wicked cool through the reverberator!

-dp

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-silverface Fender Princeton
-63 Reissue Fender Reverb
-Vox Valvetronix
-Fender Rumble bass amp
-Yamaha Magicstomp (mainly for the delays and comp)
-Digitech Bad Monkey
-Digitech Digiverb and Line6 Verbzilla for some stuff
-PodXT
-Behringer Bass V-Amp
-Fender Standard Strat
-G&L Tribute ASAT (swampash w/maple fretboard)
-Fernandes Decade Jazzocaster
-Gretsch 5120 Electromatic hollowbody (w/Bigsby and Chet Atkins arm)
-Epiphone G400 limited Ed. SG with Maestro trem
-Eastwood High-Flyer
-Samick Corsair mini P-Bass
-Dunlop Big Stubby Triangles (1.5mm)
-Herco heavy thumbpicks

For PC recording:
-Tascam US-122
-Yamaha MG10/2 mixer
-Adobe Audition (or previous version of Cool Edit Pro)
-all the stuff above

Shawn Martin
http://www.drummerman.net
http://www.youtube.com/GKacedrummerman
http://www.facebook.com/drumuitar

Last edited: Apr 29, 2006 17:06:32

For surf I use:

Guitars: Sunburst Eric Johnson Signature Strat,
Reverend Spy (3 lipstick single coils) with Bigsby.

Amps: '63 Blackface Fender Deluxe,
Reverend Hellhound 40/60 Head through Reverend
4x10 Cabinet,
Fender 75 w/ 15" speaker.

Misc: Fender Reissue '63 Reverb Tank,
Reverend Drivetrain II,
Keeley Compressor,
Keeley modified Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer,
1970's MXR Flanger.

I'm obviously not a real hard core trad-surf guy.

Bob S.

Bob

MikeG
Amp: Early Musicman "sixty-five" 112 combo amp with an 80W Celestion.

That musicman amp sounds cool...I bet it's a screamer!

-dp

I've got 2 of everything. Lucky for me I got into this surf thing before the gear became popular.

'63 Olympic White Jaguar
'64 Lake Placid Blue Jaguar
'63 Blonde Showman w/ 1x15 cab
'64 Blackface Showman w/ 2x12 cab
'64 Blackface Reverb
'63 Blonde RI Reverb

Rick
Halibuts/Deoras