Equipment cont'd....

The amp on top is a Fender X-15 solid state practice amp. Believe it or not, at bedroom volumes I can get some pretty damn usable clean tones from it. It was originally purchased as part of a starter pack which included my MIJ "Wayne's World" Strat. There are some truly heinous Sacalait recordings in existence with me playing this amp with the gain and volume set to 10. Icepick in ear. What the hell did I know, I was just learning how to play.

Below we have my beloved Silvertone 1482 built by Sears and Roebuck in the mid 60's. It's got two 6v6s and two 12ax7s. Not worth a damn for clean tones but you should hear it growl when the volume nob goes past 5.

Here are my effects pedals. My signal goes from right to left. First in line is my Ibanez TS7 Tubescreamer. It's got a handy little mode switch with a "hot" setting that's pretty useful. I mostly use it as a clean boost by leaving the drive setting around 1 or 2 and cranking the level. Next is my Dunlop Cry-baby wah pedal. Essential for funk licks. This is followed by a DOD Stereo Phaser and Arion Stereo Delay. Sometimes I'll set the phaser for a slow swoosh which I'll kick on when I want it. Other times I'll set it and forget it on a shallow shimmer. I picked up the delay pedal at a second hand music store for $15 and have been very pleased with it. Eats batteries like nobody's beezniss though.




On the left we have my Samik Corsair bass. I have used this instrument strictly for studio work. It's cheap and gives me some ass-end. What more do you want?

On the right is my MIJ "Waynes' World" Strat. After years and years of using the stock pups I recently dropped in a new pickguard loaded with Fender Fat-50s. Now positions 1 thru 5 all offer different, usable Strat tones which the cheap stock pups lacked. My next upgrade will be a solid maple neck with a larger radius.




Several of our recordings have been done on my Tascam 414 mkII 4-tracker. I like mixing down our master tapes to cassette but have also experimented with mixing down to the hard drive of my computer. Our multi-instrumentalist Bizzy B (aka Bert) has a 424, Tascam's next model up, which features sweepable mids. Several of our shows have been recorded on that device as well.