Guitar's...what do the audionuts play?

Tostada, Traded a Gibson A5L and Weber mandola for the Collings mando. IMO the Collings mandos are fantastic.

Rja, those sound like three fine instruments. Olson does impeccable work and Collings has amazingly high consistency throughout its range of instruments.

I did not mention my Passernig Deluxe A mando earlier. He's a Collings "ex" and another fine tSouth Austin builder.

In the current rotation, 1930 Gibson L4, a couple of sweet Kim Walker guitars, and a blackface twin that is fed by a burst that is a few years younger than me. Nice to see that there are some audionuts out there both listening and playing, brilliant!

Cheers!

Last two guitars, Collings D2H and Olson SJ. Have a Collings Mando MT2-O on order, should be ready in August.
BTW: Personal pet peeve, I really hate the sound of piezo pickups on acoustic guitars.

this is interesting. you guys really have some great stuff. playing a custom shop strat myself. i really appreciate the link between playing an instrument and listening to music. really enjoy the little things like when someone catches a nail on a string. always heard a odd picking related sounds on a couple of sheryl crow tracks and finally saw a concert online in HD and would you know it the rhythm guitar player was picking with a quarter. really interesting sound. If I didn't play I'd never ever have noticed that.

Larrivee 30 years old autographed by Chet Atkins

Santa Cruz 000. Dreads: Ed Claxton, Matt Needham. Classicals: Richard Fletcher 1973, Francisco Navarro Garcia 2005. Epiphone Olympic (batwing head) solid body electric 1964. Tokai strat, 1979 or '80. Steels: Sho-Bud 10 3X1 one-off, Remington Steel 8, Dynalap 8.

Plus assorted cheapo stuff too uninteresting to list...

A Santa Cruz, several Martins, a Gibson, a Breedlove, a Taylor, and a couple others. I have a nice hifi but all of my guitars produce acoustic guitar better than my hifi reproduces acoustic guitar.

One lowly Martin D28

Amplifiers:
Tweed Fender Champ
Fender Blackface Super Reverb (hot-rodded)
Sunn 1200S w/ matching Cerwin Vega cab (18")
Allen Old Flame combo in orig. flame maple Vintone cab
Vintone Crystal in Mahogany with matching cab
Marshall Studio 15

mine has changed comepletely since last time.

Electrics: 3 Fender Strats (1 MiA, 1 MiM, 1 highly mod'd MiM), 2 Fender Telecasters, 1 Gibson Les Paul, 3 Brian Moore's (i2, i9f, i8), Gretsch Synchromatic, Cort Triggs 2, PRS Tremonti. Amps: too many to list all, but 72 Fender Pro Reverb, 73 Fender Super Reverb, ~80 Musicman 112RP100, Traynor YGM-4, Fender Excelsior, Fender Concert Reverb Pro Tube, Fender Super 112, Sound Electronics X-305r, a bunch of home made tube amps.

Acoustics: Takamine, Guild, Cort

1928 Gibson L-5. Steve Andersen M16 Archtop. Fender American Standard Stratocaster. Epiphone Emperor Joe Pass with Gibson 57 pickups. Jorge Raphael Classical Guitar. Clarus headamp and Buscarino Chameleon speaker. SeQuel Tribute tube amp.

I'm picking up my fourth PRS in about a month and also have a Turner Compass Rose.

I usually play a boring ol' 90's American Standard Telecaster. I have some nicer, more collector-type stuff, but for live nothing beats a Tele.

The only effect I use on a regular basis is a vintage reissue RAT pedal just set to goose the amp a little. I run this into a Dr. Z Carmen Ghia (about as minimalist a tube as you can get) head feeding a Carvin open backed 4x10. Not the best cabinet, but good enough.

Boogie MK2C. Haven't used it since '95 as I can't be bothered to turn it on(the acoustics are taken up my time).

http://www.caguitars.com/

there are alot of luthiers out there that can make a guitar
any way you like for about 1.5X the price of a martin or a taylor (blanchard, applegate, ryan's). as for electrics, a mcnaught is as nice (or nicer) than a PRS for about the same money. or go to e-bay and look at the two melancon electrics for sale... AND, IMHO, you need a really good tube amp to play through or you're wasting your time, and there are a bunch of "boutique" amps out there as well, hand-made point to point wiring, the whole nine yards. if you like to spend $$$ there's plenty of choices available. the only area i see lacking is wire (i.e.- guitar cords, interconnects between stomp boxes or rack gear, etc.) but no doubt they'll get there soon enough. as of right now it's usually Monster cable that is sold as "premium".

I run my guitars thru a Fender Blues Deluxe with a Helatone 30 speaker. Gives it loads of bottom end and a great mid. Looking to invest in a Tophat or possibly a 65 amp Soho 20 watt head.

What type of amps does audiophiles use that play guitar?

I just picked up a asat special(g and l)tribuite series.....it a pretty cool little axe,a lot of tonal variation.Looked at alot of fenders....but i think that this blows the 500.00 tele out of the water?

I have a Fender Standard Strat (red wine finish) with vintage noiseless P/U's, a Schecter C1+ with Duncan 59 at neck and Pearly Gates at the bridge that screams ZZ Lynyrd sounds all night. And a Dean acoustic yeah a Dean. I bought it for camping more. Never bought a nice acoustic yet. One day.

seagull s-6 acoustic and fender '72 thinline tele reissue with tweed blues jr. amp

I had an '89 Ovation Elite I bought new. I got tired of it sliding off my leg while not sounding anything like an acoustic through my amp.

32 year old Ovation Adamas One - the 30th production unit made, and a 1999 Parker Fly Deluxe.

I have a 1976 Ovation Custom Ballader Elec/Acoustic, and a 1977 Epiphone Les Paul in Sunburst dual Humbuckers, both excellent. I like to play stuff from the 70's 80's rock, country and pop.

I just aquired an ornate, hand-made Kronbauer Mini Jumbo(traded the Larrivee)two weeks ago and it's still not what I want. My fickle nature concerning audio seems to have migrated to guitar(never used to be that way).

Air guitar, badly.

Larrivee and Taylor - and yes, badly as well.

Stock Fender Strat with Chours/Delay and fuzz box straight into Marshall JCM900 and 4x4 cab with Celstion 30s. (hope everything is spell correctly

Fender, and badly.

1964 fender strat and a 1965 telecaster. I bought them both new.

I am a fan of the older Tokai LP knockoffs. Play wonderfully. Modern I like used McInturff for humbuckers. Well built.

And I will try to get a Senn tele and/or strat. The Senns feel terrific.

I want to hear the guitar, so I prefer no negative feedback amps. XITS are my current fav now.

'67 Guild F212, '69 Guild D40, '60 Fender Esquire, '57 Les Paul Junior, '82 ES335 Dot, New Taylor 714ce LTD/Koa - '65 Deluxe Revern and a '67 Voc AC10 Twin.

Gibson Custom Shop (bought new 1/06) reissued 1957 Les Paul Custom Historic Black Beauty (Ebony with gold trim & hardware & 3 burstbuster pickups). My guitar amp is a Fender reissue 65' Super Reverb- (all tube). Sweet sound! The guitar was a gift from my wife about 4 years ago. Great wife!!

I have a 1965 Epiphone Olympic Double that I have had since I was ten. I also have a 1965 Gibson ES335 which I purchased as an investment guitar. I have a Carr Mercury amp and a Martin 00028EC acoustic.

1976 Alhambra, cedar top, solid rosewood back and sides.

I play a '99 Parker Fly Deluxe and a '78 Adamas 1 6-string (32nd production unit of that guitar). Both through an SWR Strawberry or California Bonde. For the Fly I use a Boss GT-10 pedal for effects, amp and speaker simulation.

I used a friend's SG Standard for a while back in high school (Eric Clapton had used one with Cream, so it was a hot guitar for a while), I thought it was pretty nice. Of course, at the time I was using a Harmony solid body guitar which wasn't all that great.

On the day my Mother bought the Strat, I originally wanted a Telecaster Deluxe because I didn't like double-cutaway guitars. When it wasn't available, I tried an SG...which felt like a 2x4.

Rhyno, Frank Zappa used to play an SG often as well. I heard they're a b*tch to keep in tune...

Gibson SG Classic w/ dual P-90s, just like Pete played when the Who ruled the world.

At one point I had a Les Paul Custom, black with the gold hardware, a 335, a Les Paul Standard Tobacco Sunburst Finish, an HM Strat, a Washburn N4, and an Ovation acoustic-electric. I've downsized to just the HM Strat and the Washburn; the Les Pauls just got too heavy for me.

Wow... What a great selection of guitar players!
We are all nuts in multiple ways!!!
I have a Larrivee L-09 for fingerpicking and Suzuki Takeharu for slide.
I also play Suzuki Bluesmaster, but not that often anymore.

Original 63 Gibson Firebird 1, I bought it new.

Seagull M6. Proudly made in Canada, I also own a 1962 Gretch single anniversary, It has a small seperation in the body behind the neck joint so I don't play it. I thought about selling it but haven't made up my mind

'96 custom shop blond '57 Strat reissue, '90 Gibson ES335 (with really nice figured/translucent cherry), a couple of mid-'80's jap. tele's, '93 Taylor 710,'94 HD28, a deluxe reverb, a really cool Rivera Stereo 120 tube combo with JBL's

Pimentel Grand Concert; Fender Elite Strat, Vibroverb amp.

Guitar Hero lol!

Breedlove CM Classic SE, Breedlove King Koa with MOP Mermaid, Breedlove Northwest.

No one has a Froggy Bottom? I'd love a Parlor 14 fret, but any would be a treat. Maybe some day. I had an older Martin D 28 years ago that I sold back to the guy I originally bought it from..sorry I did that. For now, a small Yamaha acoustic does just fine.