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Who's your favourite drummer? Personally I love Danny Carey from Tool, I think he's amazing and love watching him play
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I also have a soft spot for Peavey. I still have my first amp, a peavey vypyr and I also have the vypyr VIP 3My neglected guitars. Life happens.
The ESP LTD EX-400BD is my #1. I bought it close to 20 years ago and it has some roadware. It's dinged up and dirty and been the one guitar that I could never part with. It's been played at every gig I ever played and then some. The only thing that I've modified was I did an 18v mod for the stock EMG 81/60 pickups a few years ago. What a difference!
The red one is a BC Rich Mockingbird Contour Deluxe. The stock Hot Hex pickups leave a bit to be desired in the tone department (a bit muddy and scooped), but it came with push/pull pots, so I can split coils and have sparkling clean single coil tones or use them as hot humbuckers for the most gnarly rock and metal. Very versatile. It plays exceptionally well and let's be honest, that veneer is sexy! This will be my children's guitar once they get a bit older.
The acoustic is a Sequoia of some kind. It was given to me recently by an awesome family member.
For amps, I've always been a Peavey 5150 fan. I used one for many years. I sold my 5150 to help us move after getting married and played through a Roland Cube 30 for a minute. I bought a Burgers 6162 (6505+ clone) afterwards. Phenomenal amp, but life happens. I sold it and I use my old Roland Cube to this day.
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My Schecter is great, but I hated the neck at first. The shape was comfortable but I hated the thick poly on it, my hands just wouldn't move right on it... So I took a sander to it and made it look like crap but play great.I tried to teach my wife bass. She say prefers violin. I love bass. I'm a rhythm guy. No desire to be a lead guitarist.
Schecter makes a wonderful product. Even the budget models play great. Ibanez is another I love. I grew up playing an RG470. I put DiMarzios in it and it screamed. That neck was so thin and fast.
Speaking of fast, thin necks, I miss my Jackson DK-2. That was a good looking guitar. My blonde Peavey Wolfgang was pretty sexy, too. That was more like playing a narrow baseball bat, though.
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My Schecter is great, but I hated the neck at first. The shape was comfortable but I hated the thick poly on it, my hands just wouldn't move right on it... So I took a sander to it and made it look like crap but play great.
My Ibanez is my favoured guitar for stage or just heavy rock, I think the neck is wenge and bubinga and is really nice in the had.
You're taking me back with the Jackson, one of my first guitars was a blue dinky and I wish I kept it.
I'm adding two photos, the two extremes when it comes to necks, one thin and fast and the other a fat D. I love them both.
Fat necks... I'm not even going to discuss an SG or vintage LP, but how about a nice fat V neck on a PRS? Fat, but comfortable. Or a Deam ML neck?
ESP and BC Rich have always felt the best for me. Thin, but not downright flat like Ibanez and Jackson and far from reminding you of a Louisville Slugger like an old Gibson.
Fender, although not generally suited for metal and mostly bolt on, have always felt great in my hands.
SG's have never been my thing so I've only had fleeting interactions with them. I had to borrow one once and as I remember I could barely get through a song with it, there was something about it as a package that I couldn't work with.
The same goes for PRS, I have never played one that I would call high quality. I've got an SE Soapbar and an SE 244 baritone but I've never tried an American made one to really form an opinion. The SE's are nice, but nothing special.
A neck I'm still unsure about is my les paul. It's either a 2016 or 2017 les paul standard HP and the neck is asymmetrical. After changing the pickups the thing sounds like a beast though, so I can forgive the neck gimmick.
Have you ever played a Vigier? I fell in love with a matt black GV rock some time ago, but I didn't feel like shelling out £2600 for it given the number of single cuts I already had. Beautiful neck though, very smooth.