the bor gear collection

guitars

'6? "ANNE"

('99) '77 ibanez les paul black beauty copy

('94) '94 guild D-4 ("gabrielle")

'93 hamer USA FM special ("emily")

('98) '96 hamer USA T-51

('97) '97 ibanez TR BASS

guitars i've owned--

'87 the "three-stringed wonder"

'89 yamaha RGX-211

'93 epiphone "coronet" thing

'95 yamaha classical thing

i used to love anne. she cost me under $50, i remember that. when her cheesy plastic hummingbirds-and-flowers tortoiseshell pickguard broke (i stepped on the cord connected to her and SHATTER), i had my friend BJ make a new one out of a stolen road sign, which was really pretty cool. i hadn't touched her in a while. i recently rescued her from the trunk of my girlfriend's car, where she's been for about nine months, upside down. you can use her pickup as a microphone. literally. from a *distance.* she's also somewhat dangerous to play because the tailpiece features two rather sharp screws that stick out about 3/4" from the body. her proudest moment in the last five years has been as a guest star in the IWU premiere of david vayo's "molly and the opposite elf."

until i got my cheap-and-effective guild, i used to borrow just about everyone's acoustics, mostly alvarezes and ovations, but notably a gibson hummingbird copy of unknown (probably japanese) origin that was really really nice. i wrote a lot of songs on the latter between 7th and 9th grade, just because it was so phat that interesting ideas just dropped out of it every time i picked it up. neat, huh? tried to buy it several times, but my aunt wasn't interested.

i love my hamers and am convinced there is nothing better in the world. nuff said. the ibanez was a cheap backup for the fm special in case i broke a string or something. the fm special has now surpassed my RGX211 as my "longest owned guitar" and will hold that record forever, as far as i'm concerned. the RGX was pretty nice for a cheap 80's japanese axe, though, i have to admit. gotta love those floyd rose whammies!

amps/cabs

(’99) early-mid 50’s knight all-tube PA head

(’99) mid-late 50’s newcomb all-tube PA head

('96) '59? gibson GA-5T Skylark

('99) '64 fender princeton

('95) '69 fender bandmaster reverb head

('99) 80's laney AOR pro tube lead 50 head

('95) 90's peavey rockmaster preamp/ADA microcab

('99) '98 VHT 50/ST head

('99) 80's/90's? marshall 1922 2x12 cabinet

('99) early 80's music man custom 2x12 cabinet (loaded w/Weber Thames 12")

('98) 80's crate 1x12 cabinet (eminence speaker?)

('98) 50's oahu "cabinet" (used to be an amp; houses a Weber P12R)

amps i've owned--

'92 crate 2x12 solid state thing

fernandez practice amp

'93 peavey vtm60

hughes & kettner 4x12 (celestions; ROCKED)

'94 sans amp "classic"

yamaha solid state thing (for about a week)

'97 to present peavey 4x12 w/sheffields

modded '62 fender bandmaster head

silvertone 1481

'73 fender deluxe reverb

'64 ampeg reverberocket

marshall JMP-1 preamp

rocktron piranha preamp

soldano super lead series II head

peavey classic 60/60

hafler/bogner triple giant preamp

mesa stereo 50/50

kittyhawk M1 (which promptly blew up and went back to the seller)

traynor YGM-4 studio mate combo

um... am i forgetting anything?

i don't have much to say about this. except that a) my present amps are pretty damned good, and b) it's very, very sick.

effects

('96) (2) ProCo "classic" Rats

('98) MXR distortion ii

('98) MXR blue box (reissue)

('92?) DOD eq pedal

('92?) DOD FX59 THRASH MASTER

('89/'99) Ibanez LM7 LA METAL

('99) ibanez soundtank powerlead

('98) boss CE-3 chorus pedal

('98) ernie ball volume pedal

('93/'98) dunlop crybaby

('96) morley a/b/y box

(’99) boss PH-2 super phaser

(’99) DOD DFX94 sampler/delay

(’99) korg SDD-3000 rackmount delay ("gonkulatron")

effects i've owned (that i haven't bought another of)--

'96 morley PVO volume

'98 mxr block-logo distortion+

’99 boss metal zone

the blue box and the SDD-3000 is what i use to amuse people at parties. i could use the THRASH MASTER, but the guests would likely be blinded by its gorgeous hot pink color.

keyboards/midi

('83?) early 80's kawai upright piano

('98) '77 fender rhodes stage 73

('85?) casio SK1

('95) fatar studio 610 (shite)

('92/'98) yamaha TX81Z synth module

('99) alesis DM5 drum module

('99) zimbabwean mbira (thumb piano)i've owned--

(’99) wurlitzer P200A electric piano

the past dirt:

'84 casio VL-1 (never shoulda ditched that one)

'87 casio HT-700

'88 yamaha DX100

akai S612

alesis HR-16

'89 alesis MMT-8

'91 yamaha TX16W

'92 ensoniq ESQ-1

'95 a nicer, circa '72 rhodes stage 73 than i have now (again, shoulda kept the damn thing)

roland juno-106

'97 alesis D4

what can i say? i used to be a keyboard guy, and then i realized that keyboards are pretty lame. what i have now i have for necessity and utility (and in the case of the rhodes and the wurli, the FUNK).

i learned piano on the kawai. now it's helping me compose and grade counterpoint exercises. it's a good thing it has sentimental value, because it sure doesn't sound very good.

studio gear and sundry other

('99) mackie 1402VLZ

('96) turtle beach tahiti w/yamaha DB50XG daughterboard

('99) gadget labs wave/4

('96-) "homemade" windoze box (now with celeron 400!)

('97) roland octapad II

('97) roland KD-7

('92/'98) (2) shure SM57 mics

('98) electro-voice RE-20 mic (thanks, rick)

('96) radio shack "classic" PZM mic

('97) sony ic recorder ICD-30 ('scratch pad')

('99) sharp MD-MS702 minidisc recorder

('98) westinghouse "portable" 1/4" reel-to-reel

studio stuff i've owned

'88 radio shack mixing board and (2) radio shack $60 tape decks

radio shack microphones

'90 yamaha MT100II (sold to pat cramer, formerly of sarge :) )

'91 boss se-50 processor

'94 dbx 163

'95 dbx 166 (now belongs to dan solovitz of bloomington, IL)

yamaha MT4X (this and the se-50 are now in the hands of heir to the throne of pop THE BASS TURD)

my recording "process" between 6th and 9th grade (the latter being when i got the MT100II) was to record a track on one tape deck, put it in the other one, and run the output of that one through the board along with my mic/keyboards etc. needless to say this process was good for about three overdubs before the hiss was louder than the music. i spent a lot of money on high-quality tapes in those days.

i have since forsaken pretty much all that is analog in the recording process. even my little lo-fi scratchpad is digital. (i use the sub-lo-fi, avocado-green westinghouse when i want to botch things up huge, which is not very often.) i'm in the process of converting all my four-tracks to track-by-track wavs to be archived on CDR. i probably have as many four-track tapes as the smithsonian has recordings of folk music.

all the speakers i own are presently small and canadian: trusty mirage M-290s in the studio and a pair of paradigm phantoms out in the living room. i love cheap old tanks-- 70's-era solid-state receivers and integrateds-- for just about any musical purpose from listening to monitoring, and own three of them. (the 100-wpc quadrophonic kenwood that's in my studio now was used as half of my guitar rig, in conjunction with the rockmaster, driving my 4x12 on the carwax kings tour with one of its mighty four channels. it sounded better than the all-tube peavey 60/60 i purchased a few months later.)

software

('96-) all of it.

waReZ!@#