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Hello Guitar Fans & Friends, We have had many inquiries about the guitars I have played over the years, so listed below are the instruments I've used in the studio as well as on live gigs. I hope this answers your questions and thanks so much for your interest! GUITARS Guitars used on live gigs:
AMPLIFIERS As far as amplifiers go, our gear is rented in each city that we play in, so I usually end up using whatever Fender amps are on the backline gear sheet. Not great, but it keeps it real... ROAD CASES My favorite gig bag, and the only one I use on the road, is a leather bag made by Glen Cronkhite at Glen Cronkhite Custom Cases in Berkeley, CA (tel: 510/527-4490). A BIT ABOUT RECORDING Please remember, I started out practicing, playing and recording in small city apartments with nice folks with real jobs living above, below, and on either side of me. I had to come up with a way to carry on noiselessly or risk being evicted. As you can also imagine, someone starting out trying to make records in small apartments might also be financially restricted. We didn't use anything fancy - just basic home recording gear. With this in mind, I recorded my guitar for our early CDs in one of two basic ways: The first and simplest way was to go direct into the board or into a tube pre-amp like a Demeter and then into the board. This worked OK for some very clean strat stuff and for the acoustic/electric guitar tracks. This direct scenario didn't work very well for my regular magnetic pickup electric guitar sounds. With some experimentation I ended up on late night / wee hour sessions using a PS System Power Tool which is basically a speaker emulator. When recording at "decent" hours where I could make noise and on subsequent CDs, I used my old Fender Deluxe or borrowed other vintage Fender amps from friends and stuck a mic in front of the amp and played the old fashioned way. Really, nothing fancy. Please remember that there are better solutions out there for getting guitars on tape. There are volumes of books on the subject. Everyone needs to experiment with what they've got and see what works best for them. I was restricted not only by my urban dwelling situation, but also by my dislike of fooling around with gear. I just like to plug in and play. I feel very bogged down and a bit cranky when I have to deal with complicated set ups. I am too anxious to get to the music! I hope this helps you or at least gives you a glimpse into my way of dealing with the recording process. Please don't let my restrictions limit you. Have fun exploring and good luck with getting great guitar sounds! Your Fan, Joyce Cooling
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Custom Stratocaster built by
Rich Hoeg of Hoeg Guitars (formerly Westwood Custom) in San Francisco, CA (richhoeg@aol.com)
- This is my main road/live guitar and has been so for at least a dozen years. I
have logged in so many hours on this axe that it feels like an extension of me! It
has a solid alder body with a rosewood fingerboard and Joe Barden pickups. It also
has a pieso pickup by L.R. Baggs in the bridge (that's what the extra knobs are for)
that allows me to get some semi-acoustic sounds. You can select either all magnetic
pickups or all pieso or a combination of both with the toggle switch.
