Post your set up!!

Originally posted by goto_l
I know the feeling, being a lefty is a real bitch. You can walk in a big store with 800 guitars & only find 2 lefties in there.

and they usually suck too. i had to order half of mine.

Originally posted by goto_l
I got lucky with the LP, got it for $1900 when Mars was closing here. It was like they pulled all the lefties out when they were closing.

awesome. the red ones are so rare too.

Acoustic: Fender DG 20 CE, into my soundcard (nforce 2 soundstorm) or...into a traynor 15r 1982 bass amp.

Soon to be Electric Setup: American Telecaster HS---True bypass Big MUFF pi---Mesa Boogie f-50.

Guitar: Fender Lone star strat

Effects:RMC Picture Wah-
MXR Dynacomp(Analog Man Mod)-
TS-9 Tubescreamer(808 mod by Analog Man)-
Boss DS-1/Pro(A..... M...)

Amp: Fender Pro junior 15W

I'll just list my favorite
bass lefty, rickenbacker,
line6 bass pod pro,
all swr rack
4x10T,
sm-900amp,
overdrive preamp,
and the foot controller for limited single effects which I switch out constantly.

Originally posted by mccreadyisgod
That's a pretty good arrangement...

Do you use the Rick-O-Sound, or the normal?

And is that the Interstellar Overdrive pre?

I have the adapter to split the signal, the only thing is that with the 900 I get a "full" stero sound without the split so I use normal. Yes its the interstellar pre.

Originally posted by mccreadyisgod
The Interstellar definitely lives up to it's name...

Very nice!

thank you.

Originally posted by puremagic
I'll just list my favorite
bass lefty, rickenbacker,
line6 bass pod pro,
all swr rack
4x10T,
sm-900amp,
overdrive preamp,
and the foot controller for limited single effects which I switch out constantly.

Whoa! Now there's a foot tappin' , window rattlin' , Fist pumpin' , innards shakin' set up:D Very cool!

After talking to paco and exhausted, today's setup:

"68 SG to
a handmade by exhausted A/B box, A side to AKAI Headrush, to Fender Deluxe RI
The B side to all the other stuff I've had laying around.
Rick Gram Womantone,
Vaughn modded Ts-9,
Prescription Experience Box,
Crybaby Wah,
Rotovibe to
Ibanez AD-9 analog delay,
Modded Marshall Artiste 50 combo

Almost NO signal gets from my guitar through all those pedals to the amp!:D

Originally posted by Pacomc79
Bob, You need this, best input buffer there is. Ben Harper uses one I know

http://www.musictoyz.com/vht.htm

If that thing does what it says... I'm in.

I need to solve this problem... I run my guitar through the following....

Ernie Ball Volume (passive)
MXR Dyna-Comp
MXR Phase 90
Danelectro Daddy-O
Ibanez DM1100 Digi Delay

Then into the Vibro-Champ. I'd love to run the Delay through an FX loop, but not an option on a 1965 amp. And the Delay is a pro-audio-style rack unit that operates at line-level, not signal-level... so I am really driving the preamp side of that Vibro-Champ hard with the delay. I need something to match the impedance and level of the signals and give the amp a more acceptable level. I have the same problem on my Bassman, but it's a beefier amp, so I'm less worried there. Maybe I need to just dump the delay and get a Boss... but I love the sound of my Ibanez... it's very analog for a digi delay.

Guitar Player Magazine
February 2001 Issue

Gizmo Alert: VHT Valvulator I
I have plenty of clean gear—hum-canceling pickups, high-end amps, and rack effects connected with state-of the-art cable. But for some reason, my favorite rig is still my tired, noisy pedalboard. Consisting of six ratty old pedals with nary a true bypass in sight, it’s heavy on vibe, but also heavy on tone sucking and noise. This is where the VHT Valvulator ($189) comes to the rescue. Designed to eliminate noise, drive lots of cable, and improve your sound in the process, the Valvulator is a tube-driven, buffered preamp that can also supply power to up to eight effects.
When I plugged into the rugged, stainless-steel box, and then into my pedalboard, the ever-present hum was gone. Gone. And I was still using the old power supplies! When I used the Valvulator’s isolated DC outputs to power my pedals, the sound got even cleaner. This was particularly helpful to my Korg ToneWorks delay, which had obviously never gotten enough juice from the pedalboard’s built-in power supply.
But the tone wasn’t just quieter with the Valvulator in line—my effects sounded fuller and punchier, with better highs and more coherent lows. How does VHT accomplish these feats? Well, the device’s 12AX7 is slammed with high voltage, so plugging into the Valvulator is like plugging into the front end of a good tube amp—before you ever hit a pedal. The signal is then converted to low impedence, which eliminates the loading that occurs when multiple pedals are chained together.
To see how effective the Valvulator was at driving long cable lengths, I strung together eight stompboxes with 80 feet of cable. Without the Valvulator, the tone had an indistinct top end accompanied by a faint squealing noise. I also noticed that my tone suffered horribly when I rolled my volume down—I lost even more treble and wildly increased audible hum. However, when I plugged into the Valvulator, the top end came back, the squeal went away, and my tone sounded glorious throughout the entire range of the volume pot.
VHT recommends using the Valvulator’s second output to feed a tuner, but I couldn’t bear to waste a signal this cool on a tuner. I ran the output to another amp for a stereo rig with none of the signal loss that typically occurs when using a Y cable. I also found that plugging into the Valvulator before recording into a Roland VS-880 gave the 880’s internal amp simulations more body and warmth. It also improved the sound of direct-recorded bass and keyboards, and I even liked what it did to an old drum machine. The Valvulator is definitely the closest thing to a "magic box" that I’ve heard in a long time. —Matt Blackett