What Music Equipment to Use?

mercho Thanks for you're reply! I agree with every thing you said. When I started off 27 years ago I was given a my first guitar and it was a pile of CR*P! lol! I built my second one and I had played on those guitar for a little over 4 years on them. As for a beginner I do agree they should start off on a cheaper guitar or instrument, but yet still a decent one. Just to make sure the person or child is interested and will continue to play the instrument what ever it may be? But too cheap may make a child lose interest alone? You do not want to embarrass the child with his friends telling him its a piece of junk! That may kill his or her initiative for wanting to learn it? I have owned many guitars, and MANY amplifiers, cabinets and pedals over the years. From the best to the worst. After 27 years I have ended up with what most would call semi expensive equipment over the way over priced equipment. I have also settled for what can do more for my buck rather then one thing that costs ridiculous prices that can only do little. I had to keep in mind what I could afford as well as what would work for playing live as well. SO I think we have to get what we think will work for us the best for what we do and use it for. I will tell you what I have and why I use it? After using Marshall amps like the JCM800 I also owned or the Marshall mode 4 with cabinets I also have owned before. I have also owned Crate, Peavey, and allot of Ibanez gear as well in the past. I now use LINE 6 and I still have my cabinets for larger gigs. Rarely I need them anymore and I do not have to carry around all that heavy gear. That was one reason for switching to LINE 6 alone. But my main concerns was what can I use to do it all with? I wanted something that: 1. Was not going to blow my neighbors out of their house when practicing at home. 2. Would still perform well at a small gig 3. Could be used as well for larger gigs 4. Could record studio style for videos as a interface 5. Could be used through a mixer XLR as well. 6. Not going to break my back every time I had to set it up and tear it down for a gig. 7. Had much more that it can do the regular amps 8. Still had enough power as a head does to push 2 full cabinets! 9. Sounded GREAT, and easy to use! 10. Was not going to break the bank to buy it all. So I had to take into consideration of what a regular amp head would cost? I paid $1,200.00 for just the Marshall Mode 4 Head! What happened was it blew within 30 days! So I took it back under warranty to Guitar Center that same day it blew up. They had no replacement for me and I had a gig that night! So he asked me if I ever heard of LINE 6? I said yes but never played on them before. I tried them and I was hooked! For that same cost of one single head I walked out with a LINE 6 Flextone IIIXL 150 watt stereo combo amp, the FBV short board pedal with wah/volume pedal, and a PODxt to boot with it! After 22 years of playing on the most expensive equipment I have NEVER turned back since! Needless to say it has every amplifier, cabinet, and effects pedals you could ever want or need build right into it. And it sounds just as pro in ANY aspect of any other amplifiers or effects pedals you could buy! And I also got back that same day over $400.00 cash from the head that blew! Now my guitars are semi expensive to really expensive of the two I now own. I always wanted a really nice guitar so my Ibanez I had custom built to what I wanted. That cost me about $2,000.00. But my Gibson Ephiphone Les Paul Custom is stock that cost $675.00 with hard case I chose over a regular Gibson because it sounded and played better. And it still rocks! Knowing how to chose a decent guitar has allot to do with it as well. Not just the name and the price! You want to hear what LINE 6 and these guitars can do? Go to my channel here" http://www.youtube.com/user/DreidMusicalX2 If you have anything you would like to help people with on here. Please list what you have any why you use it? We want to know more of what is out there and what it can do as well as why you use it. If you just have questions please ask! Myself, I am always glad to help! DreidMusicalX David William Reid

I also forgot? The Flextone IIIXL 150 watt combo amp has twp Celestion speakers in it that are awesome! But the Flextone IIIXL is a mid range of LINE 6 amps now. My next amp of theirs if you want even more and become ore pro sounding is the LINE 6 VETTA II Combo or Head. These are a bit more expensive but man are they worth it! Check out some line 6 stuff or listen to what I have done with them. But I can tell you this? The Vetta II is going to be my next upgrade amp!

I'm also building a guitar, a good brand of cheap guitars is SX, for about u$s120 you can have a chinese Epiphone quality Les Paul, and you can get it even better if you take them to a luthier to polish some details. I prefer analog effects, the few experiences I had with electronic things it had turned out bad, too much noise and bad quality sound; well, they were cheap Zoom, Digitech and Korg ones.