re: #518 makeitstop

Hell, I’ll talk guitars all day if you get me started. And amps… I’ve got a few pieces of Line 6 gear, which come in very handy for recording purposes. For live, I’ve been using an Atomic Reactor (that one’s an 18 watt amp, while I’ve got the 50 watt version) with a first-generation Vox Tonelab modeler. I prefer the Vox for live because it’s got an actual 12AX7 preamp tube in it, and it get a lot closer to a ‘real’ tube amp tone. (The Reactor is a tube amp, with no internal volume or tone controls, which makes the amp ‘transparent’ and all the tone control is done through the modeler.)

I love my Teles. Truly a Swiss Army Knife of guitars - way more versatile than a lot of guitars with all the bells and whistles!

I’ve tried Rics, can’t play ‘em with my big ham hands. The necks are very narrow. I run into the same problem with my Gretsch, but I love that guitar, skinny neck and all. :)

My main problem with the Rics is keeping them in tune (I had a solid-body, not the semi-hollow). I love tube amps! I’m looking at the Strat maple necks, but I’d like to expand to some humbuckers for my next axe.