Hi, as I’ve just exceeded 8000 hits I thought the musos amongst you might just like to know a bit about the gear we use as we do get asked from time to time. On stage its mainly acoustic but we do tinker around occasionally with electric guitars especially for certain sounds when recording.
Recording now well underway for the first ‘fAITH’ album ‘Captain Grez and the Professor’, we had some great sessions with Pete Jezukiewicz twiddlin’ the knobs, engineering, producing and keeping us well in check, hopefully finished by the end of the summer!
Anyway here you go, none muso’s look away now lol.
Graeme Harvey
1993 American ‘Fender’ Stratocaster Sunburst
Ibanez – EW2012ASE-NT1203 – 12 String Electro Acoustic
Washburn EA 18TS MKI tobacco sunburst 2007 Electro Acoustic
Yamaha ‘Pacifica’ 303-12 string old violin sunburst 2001
Peavey VYPYR VIP2 Modelling Amp
All cases by Flightcase Warehouse
Custom hand built ‘GrooveTube’ 100w Amp Head
Marshall 8222 2 x 100W Cabinet
Boss BR600 Digital Recorder
On stage sub-mix Behringer Euro-rack UB802
Shure SM58 microphone
Keith Jones
LAG Tramontane T300AE electro-acoustic guitar made in the south of France, fitted with StudioPlus Shadow and Fishman Neo-D pickups. Newtone handmade ‘Masterclass’ 12-54 gauge strings.
Anselmo Solar Gonzalez handmade classical guitar made in Madrid Spain 1971 fitted with a ‘Shadow’ under saddle pickup. Labella 820 red ‘Flamenco’ strings.
Fended limited edition ’52 Telecaster natural ash with treble bleed ‘Monstertone’ pickups. Fender ‘Bullet’ strings 11-49 gauge.
Vintage German ’67 Framus ‘Texan’ 6 string acoustic fitted with Newtone handmade ‘Masterclass’ 12-54 gauge strings.
Antonio Stradivari (copy) 1713 acoustic violin fitted with a ‘Zeta’ bridge pickup, Thomastik ‘Dominant’ strings.
Yamaha F-300 mandolin, flamed maple, two point asymmetric cutaways, fitted with ‘Shadow’ SH060 bridge pickup with ‘Martin’ M400 80-20 strings. (I have never come across another one like this, although ‘Ibanez’ and ‘Antoria’ made similar around 1973).
Yamaha GL-1 ‘Guitalele’ fitted with a SoundChecker ‘Accu_stic’ internal condenser microphone, Adagio strings.
‘Eastcoast’ 6 string Banjo with Newtone hand wound strings.
Effects pedals: Various pedals including DL-9 ‘Hardwire’ looper/delay Marshall ‘Echohead’ delay Daphone E20DL Delay and a Behringer PB100 Pre-amp booster.
Pre-amp/D.I Boxes: Guitar: ‘Boss’ KM2 pre-amp mixer Classical: BSS AR116 D.I Box Guitalele & Mandolin: Behringer Ultra-D.I 120 D.I. Boxes Violin: Zeta pre-am – Shure SM58 microphone Shubb capo’s + Shubb C8b partial capo. American heavy gauge V-picks.
I use a separate effects pedals board for the electric guitar.
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Keith Jones Music 