JOHN BROWNE | GUITAR HISTORY AND CURRENT COLLECTION
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GUITARS IN THIS VIDEO:
Westfield Strat -Blue
Squier Strat - white
Charvette Super Strat
Yamaha RGX420S
Ibanez RG7420 in Magenta Crush
Schecter C1 Classic
Ibanez RG7620 in black
Schecter C7 Blackjack
Ibanez RG2077XL
Ibanez RG2127X
Ibanez RGA427Z
Ibanez RG2228A
Ibanez RG7680 LTD-1
Ibanez Premium RG920 QMZ
PRS SE Custom Soapbar
Mayones Duvell Elite 7
Mayones Regius 7
Mayones Regius 8
Aristides 070 in Dutch Orange
FGN ELAN Dark Evolution 6 & 7 string
Mayones Duvell Elite 6 string with Flame Top
Mayones Qatsi Purple & Green
Mayones Duvell Q Purple and Natural
Mayones 'The Hulk' Patriot Bass
Mayones Duvell Elite 6 string
Partsocaster
Squier Strat from 2000
MICROPHONE TALK BACK:
RODE NTG-2 SHOTGUN MICRPHONE
KLOTZ TITANIUM XLR CABLE
STAM AUDIO SA-73 MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIER
ZOOM UAC-8 INTERFACE
STEINBERG CUBASE 7
VIDEO EQUIPMENT:
Panasonic GH4 with 25mm f1.7 ASPH lens
Canon EOS600D with 50mm f1.8 lens (ML installed)
Sony Vegas editing software
DESK AND RACK MADE BY ZAOR FURNITURE
ISOSTANDS BY ZAOR FURNITURE
I have never heard anyone who can speak Ibanez guitar names as fluidly and naturally as said here.
Rohan Leach thank you!
Truly a guitar master!
This comment section is so wholesome.
Everyone sharing their own stories kinda like Guitar AA.
RG7620 crew, ASSEMBLE!
Hell yeah, I own 2 rg7620's and a rg7621. A 98, 99, and 00. Just awesome guitars. Best part is I bought all of them in the early 2000's when no one wanted a 7 string, and if they did they were looking at the K7 haha
But I still GAS for one of the 27" scale length 7's like the 2077xl that John used to have, or better yet a 7421xl.
Thanks to everyone for sharing their guitar history. It's been really great read what you had, what you've kept and what you have now!
EDIT: Thank you for the positive comments section, something very rarely seen on any video. So thank you to you guys for keeping it positive!
John Browne Hey John, this was an awesome video. I can say that you has a nice taste in guitars. And I guess you forgot to add into your list The Stephen's Carpenter guitar that is used On The uncollective video. Tell us about that guitar 😝. Greetings!
kbleskate that belongs to Olly!
You should approach Fishman to develop a P90 as it is currently a gaping hole in their Fluence range? I agree, P90s are the king of pickups.
I have a little question for you:
Why did you prefer Duvell over Regius to be your signature model?
To be honest i've prefered Duvell since you did so, and I had no clue about differences except of shape (which I liked more on a Duvell btw :))
So I am really curious, why did I prefer Duvell? haha
I prefer the Duvell body shape because it's smaller. Also the Duvell range was really new and lots of options are currently still not available on a custom one (such as Ash Body) and with a custom guitar company no one would buy your signature model if they can already add all those options to a custom themselves..
Incredible that you managed to get that PRS for 50 quid...
John Browne! We met a few years ago in Denver, Colorado when you played at the Gothic Theater with Animals as Leaders. We hung out for a while and talked guitars over a few drinks at the bar, and I really enjoyed our conversation. I've always wanted another chance to talk guitar with you, so perhaps this is it. I also realize that I'm a little late to the game, seeing as this video was posted quite some time ago, but nonetheless, I'm a big fan and we also learned, that night, that we've been playing guitar almost the exact same amount of time and since the turn of the millenium. Anyway, I thought I'd list my collection from start til now and see if I get a response from you and what your thoughts are. I'm a gear freak too, when it comes to guitar playing. I live, eat, breathe, dream, and possibly even secrete guitar, seeing as it's also my favorite thing in life. Anyway, here they are:
Epiphone Les Paul Plus 6 string - black, HH... I still own it, and it's the guitar I learned how to guitar tech with, how to play on, and has played every tour show I have ever played, but because I was using it as a guinea pig, unfortunately (and you can totally tell!) I have retired her and she sits safely at home, due to the sentimental value. Currently, everything on it, except the wood, is something that I either added or switched out, which is a Schaller humbucker in the neck and a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge, with a push-pull pot on the neck tone pot with added coil tap.
Squire Stagemaster SSH 6 string - black, sold it to pay the rent. Had it for many years, but never was a big fan of the SSH setup, and definitely not at the time.
PRS Tremonti SE - - Stupid good deal ($200) from a guy walking out of a Guitar Center that was disappointed in what they were offering him for it, because he had tried to do some modifications and messed up, but couldn't fix it and decided to get rid of it (he had also put acoustic strings on it.....i dunno...) which is where I ran into him, realized I could fix all that was wrong with it myself, and then gave him the $200 he had wanted. Best deal ever. Still have the guitar, made some aesthetic modifications (black pickup covers, gold pickup pole screws, gold wrap-around wilkinson bridge with saddles, black knobs with gold numbers, and black locking hipshot tuners. Still one of the best sounding guitars I've ever played, but makes you work for her a little bit. She's a classy, but fickle, shrew.
Ibanez Iron Label RGAIX6FM-WFF 6 string -- Fast forward like 15 years, and this is the first guitar I ever bought for myself, finally. This absolutely wonderful piece of work was, I feel, totally crafted just for me.... Nitro wizard neck, 3 way slider, coil tap toggle switch, dimarzio fusion edge humbuckers, gotoh locking tuners, single volume pot, etc.... but the finest Ibanez neck I've ever played. I do love this guitar. I would love to afford one in a seven string. I named her, " Blanca Ibanez, " like a beautiful latina woman. (Pronounced: Blanca - EEE-Behn-'es, like spanish).
Gibson Les Paul BFG P90 -- I've always wanted a real les paul. This is my real les paul. However, I did switch out the bridge pickup with a dimarzio dlx plus humbucker p90 because the gibson ones are not quiet coil and buzz like crazy. They sound great, but I need the silence. Still has the original Gibson p90 in the neck, though. Sounds too awesome to change. I also switched out the ivory nut with a brass one because the sustain is amazing, and added some locking tuners that have tulip buttons and are basically the same exact thing as the Gibson Deluxe machine heads, but are the locking version and black (sinister, now.)
Sterling by Ernie Ball Musicman StingRay Sub-series, flat blackout -- I love this guitar, and it was cheap brand new, but plays too awesome not to admire. Best guitar for the $300 price tag, I think. Only guitar that I own equipped with a floating Tremelo, but I did add locking hipshot tuners with the exposed gold gears.
Jackson Dinky JS22 7 string, with upgraded Fishman Fluence Keith Merrow 7 string pickups. --- this guitar was too rad to pass up, but I hated the pickups. I found these Fishman Fluence pickups second-hand for a pretty good deal, and traded an AKAI MPD226 for them (I was fortunate to be given a Native Instruments MkII Maschine from a friend of mine, also). So I installed these into this $200 Jackson, and replaced the cheap Chinese blade switch with a Fender 3 way. This fucker screams like a bloody Banshee now. First seven string I've ever owned, but I really like it....dare I say....maybe.....better than 6? (Im not gonna be too bold, though). I've been learning some of your stuff and using that as my main navigator for the additional string, but I'm adapting quickly and I love it quite a lot. I'll be, eventually, trying to find that 7 string version of my Ibanez RGAIX6FM Iron Label....
And also....I"ve never owned one, but I've played so many of them and always wanted to add one to my collection: Schecter mid-2000s C-1 Elite in black with the pearl binding and Seymour Duncan pickups, silver pickup covers, but the model before the "diamond series" was printed on the headstock.....that's my great white buffalo, for the moment, and we agree, the C-1 series (classic or elite) were beautiful guitars and so much fun to play. I don't think the newer Schecters have it quite like these ones did.... and they are somewhat hard to come by, now.
Anyway. I hope you enjoyed my list! Would love to hear back from ya. Cheers.
Love my 2000 Japanese made RG7421XL. One of the only 27in scale guitars from Ibanez with a fixed bridge. Not as rare as some of yours but what a great guitar.
Well, i bought my Cort Z40 in 2012, for a scholarship money, but was dreaming about duvell ever since I saw you playing it on Mayones chanel. And finally, half a year ago I could afford it, so now I am playing on that duvell :)
How she sound bruh?!
That Bass!!!
Love it....
Thanks for sharing John!
So entertaining to hear you talk about guitars, you are such an inspiration.
Thank you for putting effort into your video quality and frequency! Not very many high level guitarists such as yourself put much care into videos and it's so cool to see things like this.
so many incredible bands linked through these instruments!!
I'd love to see you review some of the extended range Fishman Fluence pickups, especially the seven string ones!
Love seeing videos like this, John.
Awesome guitar collection! I really love those Mayones guitars!
Great vid, Browne! Cheers. Can't wait to hear M3.
Late to the party, but here's my guitar history (long-post incoming!):
1. First guitar I ever had was a black Peavey Tracer that was lent to me by a family friend. I had it for a couple years, in which I would just pretend to play Foo Fighters songs in my room with headphones on, before I finally got lessons for my 14th birthday.
2. After about 6 months of lessons, I bought a sunburst Squire Strat online for like $150 and gave the Peavey back. So just like you John, my second guitar was also rather unluckly haha. I eventually gave it to a neighbor of ours who had a son about 9 that was just starting to learn how to play.
3. Finally got my first proper guitar after about a year of playing. I worked all summer in Houston, Texas (a little warm...) mowing lawns for neighbors and family friends and saved up enough to buy a used Gibson Les Paul Studio Fireburst from Guitar Center. Over time, I've made many modifications to it as far as the pickups and electronics go, and have had to replace a few parts as well. But it's seen many rehearsals, recording sessions, and shows, and I still use it a lot even now almost 15 years later.
4. In high school I bought a black Epiphone SG Special for like $100 from my at-the-time gf's dad. We broke up and it got sold in a garage sale haha.
5. For my 18th birthday, my mom bought me a custom Carvin DC727 greenburst guitar (w/ a Floyd Rose which I too have grown to quite dislike). I was getting really into Dream Theater as well and wanted a 7-string to play around with. I still have this guitar and will write/play it occasionally, but I definitely prefer 6-strings.
6. After graduating HS, I joined a hard rock / metal band called Born From Ruins and wanted a second 6-string guitar to take to shows for alternate tunings. I really wanted an all white Les Paul style guitar, so I bought a used ESP Eclipse-II in snow white. Awesome guitar.
7. I bought a Schecter Hellraiser C-1 (a.k.a. Big Sexy) for $2 at Guitar Center after trading in a bunch of pedals and other gear. Sweet deal.
8. I won a Sterling by Music Man JP60 guitar from John Petrucci's Match the Master contest in 2016. It's sort of become my riff writing and practice guitar. Using it to play along with your Master of Puppets cover is a regular picking hand exercise for me.
9. Finally, I got a Squire Jaguar Bass for Christmas in 2016 from my family. I've started doing a lot more songwriting and recording at home, and didn't like programming the bass lines. This bass sounds awesome and definitely gets the job done.
Thanks for reading! Sorry for the long post...
Thank you for all your videos though John! Are you going to be at NAMM btw?
Hi five for the schecter Hellraiser c-1. I have had my hellraiser c-1 fr for ...12 years... shit. It was one of the white ones but its now sorta off white /olympic white from age 🤣🤣
love you john!! keep em coming !
I played guitars all my live, my last two are a seven string guitars: Ibanez RG series and a Harley Benton fan fred, but my next guitar without doubt it's gonna be one of your Duvell signatures, probably the 6 strings model, completly in love of all of this series.
Wow!! Amazing history!! I’d love to have one of ur qatsi models
this is awesome. wish more musicians did this
My first guitar was a Flame (a cheap guitar made by the guys at Mayones, something like Charvette of Charvel) Signum. It was a great guitar that I sold to fund my first 7 string - Flame EXG7, that I keep untill now. My main guitar (and first "real") is now a Ibanez RG927QMZ which I really love! Great video!
What an awesome comments section! I started off when my parents bought me a Squire strat when I was 11. I got into metal the following summer, and I ended up getting an Ibanez RG370DXL. When I was 15 I saved up for an ESP EX-401, which I still have. However, one day a couple of years ago I discovered Monuments and TesseracT which inspired me to get a 7 string. Got a Schecter Hellraiser C7 shortly after and haven't looked back! :)
My first guitar was a Washburn Lyon Series (my mother gave it to me for my Christmas present in 2008), came with a little Laney amplifier, I still keep it, sounds and feel great. Years later, when I was able to buy something better, I bought a Jackson JS32 Flying V, and oh boy... I really enjoyed that guitar! Was really important in my formation as a musician and style of guitar playing.
I always wanted a seven string, especially when I started listen to Monuments in 2014, so in my trip to Canada I bought what it is my baby in this moment: a Legator Ninja 300-Pro Fanned Fret. I'm just in love with her.
Just want to thank you for this video and for all the amazing music that you make, John! I hope this year will be amazing for you and your projects. Cheers from Medellín, Colombia.
Did I see quite a few Schaller Hannes bridges, including the piezo model? I'm building up a Vigier Surfretter neck with one, and since its their old brass/gold version it'll be all gold hardware, and may drop for the piezo Hannes. Body will be sandblasted swamp ash with a gold ceruse rub on black dye.
Hello John, I love your channel and your music of course. 💚
My guitar history:
I got a $50 Johnson acoustic guitar for my 10th birthday, and I babied that one for about two years. My parents didn’t think I would keep with it because I am half blind and they thought learning music would be hard for me.
I then bought a BC Rich Warlock (which I still have and play from time to time.)
Then I had a huge Pantera phase where I bought numerous Dean and Washburn ML’s. (I regret those years a lot, but I learned from it definitely.
I then bought a sick Ibanez Xiphos (which I really do miss)
Flash forward to 2018 and I now have a Kiesel DC700, a couple of strats, an Agile Intrepid 828 (which I’m selling to fund a new Kiesel Vader Multiscale 8 string soon), and a Multiscale 6 string Ibanez bass, and I run a small studio. I couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out!
My friend has your ibanez, I also love this guitar, it plays great on it
I enjoyed watching this video! My first guitar back in 2002 was an acoustic Fender Sierra Vista. Had a pickup in it, and I did a few recordings, but I think they've been lost in time. Luckily. Then at christmas that year, I believe, I got a Hohner Stratocaster, that my parents bought from a set of friends. In 2003, when I was 14 I got a Yamaha AES800. This guitar was A DREAM to play, though the price was sort of lower midrange, I suppose. The action was fantastic and it was probably the first guitar I got that made me feel I could play faster stuff (for better or worse). In 2005 at some point I wanted to play Dream Theater's A Change of Season, and I got myself a demo model of the Schecter C7 diamond series that came out in 1999, but this was apparently made before that. That's the information I've been able to get at least. It came with a Floyd Rose, which none of the other models at the time did. Then a few years of no new guitars, as far as I remember, untill I bought a "Wolf"/HK guitar on Ebay for very little money. It played alright, but it was what it was, nothing special. At the time I also got a 6 string bass from the same company. That was actually surprisingly good. In 2009 I bought an American Stratocaster in olympic white. Played and sounded like one. Sold it to afford an 8 string Iron Label. Sold that to venture into the land of Prestige Ibanez' with a lazer blue RG3570. That was my first sort of expensive or higher end guitar, and I don't think I'll ever sell it unless absolutely necesary. I think in the meanwhile I owned a few different VERY cheap guitars that I got for almost free. Samick, korean Hamer, you name it. Those have been sold again. Basically all my guitars to this point, except for the Schecter and RG3570Z had been sold again. Eventually bought myself a really nice Ibanez 7 string. The RG752MFS-VFD. Beauty. 39 made world wide as far as I know. Limited run. Lovely to play, my favorite guitar. Then just a week ago or so I sold my Schecter C7, which had actually been listed for almost 3 years. I had changed the pickups for a D-sonic and Air Norton (Petrucci style), and changed the licensed under FR bridge for an original. Basically that alone must have been around $500, plus the guitar of course, and I ended up getting about $250 for the whole thing. Bit disappointing, but I was getting sick of the sight of the guitar, given that it had been for sale for so long. I put the money towards an RGA8, which arrived yesterday.
If you don't know it, check out the RG752MFS-VFD on pictures at least. Killer guitar!
If you've read this whole thing, it's much appreciated :)
Nice video! I started off with a cheap Washburn X-series, then Epi LP Standard, Schecter Avenger FR white (limited edition, 150 made or so). Then came my baby, an Ibanez S5570 TKS Prestige, and I also got an Ibanez SR300 CA recording bass recently! I still own all of them.
Just covering the guitar side of things:
Epiphone Les Paul Special - First guitar, sold to a friend.
Agile 6 string - Sold
Schecter Hellraiser C1-FR - Sold
Agile 7 string baritone - still have it, not a bad guitar but doesn't get much play time.
Squire Strat - Inherited from a friend. It had the razor-sharp fret edges, but the body was incredibly resonant. I eventually threw a Warmoth neck on it and now it plays great.
Ernie Ball MM JP6 BFR - Sold it just a few months later to pay bills. Definitely one of the best guitars I've played.
Ernie Ball MM JP6 Mystic Dream
Carvin mystery 7 string - 80s or 90s model, but amazing.
Mayones Qatsi Ajnia 7 string
Strandberg Boden OS7
Great video John, loving the new content. Let’s see if my memory is working today...
First guitar I bought off a friend for £90 when I was 16. A gloss pink Yamaha SE250. Complete piece of trash. Loved it. Lost to the mists of time, I think I sold it to a college friend, tried to track it down to no avail. Next was a squirt telecaster in red, that I restrung as a 3 string guitar and tried to play Presidents of the USA songs on. There was a Vintage Les Paul copy I stripped and repainted but ended up hating how it felt to play and binned it. Next was a Mexican Fender Tele which I still have, which has been my consistent guitar for about 14 years. It has a Seymour Duncan little 59 pickup. This got lent out, ‘borrowed’, not returned, tracked down, stolen back, multiple times. Then a Martin D15 acoustic I got a great deal on in 2014, one of the older model before they altered the wood type. Still have this. A Schecter Omen 8. I liked it but didn’t like the Low string, I found myself playing it like a 7 string with an added obstacle. Traded this for an Ibanez RGIT20FE in dark grey. Still have this, but I put bare knuckles in it instead of it’s original EMGs, this is my main 6 string. My main guitar now is my Mayones Duvell Elite 7, which I love and will never part with. I guess the only thing left to do is get a nice bass....
My story is rather short. Started out on a Ibanez GRG7221 (i know, started on a 7, I've always been backwards like that), got a RG1570 MRR after about 1,5 year with its original hardshell case, a really nice strap and the Team J Craft toolkit for about 350 EUR from a pawn shop. Lastly, about 5 months ago, I got a brand new Ibanez RGAIX7U, and I'm just in love with the thing. The Bare Knuckle Pickups in it are just the cherry on top.
This video is nice and personal , very well done!
Nice vid man.
My first guitar was an Ashton in a starter pack when i was 13. Still have it.
Then i got my first real guitar for my 16th birthday which was an LTD V300 Flying V.
Still have it, shes my baby, need to replace EMGs but the neck on her is the best to me ive ever played.
I then got a LTD M300FM, floyd rose shred guitar super thin neck, always had issues. Played another one, that had issues. Never again.
I then got a LTD M-1000 Deluxe second hand cheap and it was amazing. Upgraded version of the previous guitar basically.
I sold it in the future to buy a second hand Ibanez RGAIX6FM which is my main gat now. Amazing to play, looks good and coil tap is sweet.
I also have an old beat up 1982 Squire Strat i am putting new hardware and PuPs into at some stage. White and Maple guitar, wide (not thick) neck, plays like a dream.
Great channel. Keep up the good work
Hey John, great video! This is the first time i'm hearing about the SD p90's, and would love to see you do a review on them.
Great video concept, loved it!
My guitar list:
-Godin Freeway Classic
-Gibson Les Paul Menace
-Ibanez PF60 Acoustic
-LTD EC-1000
-LTD Viper Baritone 300 (the only guitar I've owned that I ended up selling)
-Ibanez RGA121H CDO
-PRS SE 7-String
-Ibanez SR405 Bass
My first guitar was a red squier strat. i learned how to dress frets from that guitar. I got a beater japanese clone V at a guitar show. Learned how to solder and wired a SD full shred in teh bridge of that. Epi Les Paul Custom which I sold to to fund an ESP LTD Viper-400. Then bought an EC-1000 and H-1001 from ESP LTD. Somewhere along the line I picked up Fender Mexican Strat with H-S-S and I've modded that thing with a wilkinson, locking tuners, and Full Shred in the bridge.
awesome brother thanks
Hey john. Its great to see you uploading again. U seem very upbeat. New year, new you. Whatever man....you do you. I started with a crappy unbranded acoustic, then moved to a mexi strat that i played blues on for 2 years then after trying (and failing) to play metal on it......i through myself in at the deep end and got myself a jackson juggernaut ht7 in laguna burst. I love it and never want another 7 string....its that good. Haha. It was originally a toss up between that jugg and a mayones duvell 7 string baritone.....but the slightly brighter pick ups in the juggernaut pipped it to the post. Plus the juggernauts neck somehow felt closer in profile to how the strat felt....so it had a homely easy to pick up and play quality to it. But still love mayones guitars.
My first electric guitar was Mayones in 1994 and it was all right as for the beginning. It was like 100 quid RRP. I wish I had it still as it would be quite sentimental now.
I was soo lucky that my friend had a RG2077XL Which he was going to sell. I Had only played 6 stringed guitars at that time, so i was a little spooked by the extra string. Then around the same month my other friend intruduced me to Periphery, i called the friend with the 2077XL a week later and he sold it to me for nearly nothing. Instant love! Still have it, and to this day, still my favorite guitar. Went all fanboy when i saw that you had one in the "The Indulger" playthrough!!
My very first guitar was an acoustic garbage that a friend of mine gave to me just to get rid of it. I was over the moon since I couldn't afford anything else.
The second was Jackson Performer PS 3, that I bought from some guy for three hundred bucks. It turned out later that it has some huge problem with it's neck which resulted in a HUGE string height, which also couldn't be fixed with an anker. Also most of the time I was playing it unplugged, since I could only afford an audio interface (an delay wasn't good).
After that guitar I actually abandoned playing, but recently I've been given some classical Cort, which I loved the shit of! My love for playing returned anew and my passion for music have never been stronger, so I decided to play it big and purchased Mayones Regius 6, neck-through with a fantastic lower range.
I've first seen Mayones guitars in your hands, and I'm really glad for that introduction since I could've been happier with my Regius!
Much respect, John!
Hi, really good content here, congrats john. Also id like to see maybe a recording process video? from setting up daw/plugins/signal chain, to basic mixing/mastering? i play guitar too but i kinda suck at recording anything that can sounds close to a demo :/ i hope you read this and love from mexico!
Love to see the progression from first picking up the guitar to being endorsed. First guitar was an Acoustic Solutions “strat” from Argos. Acoustic Solutions also make DVD players... so just imagine how their guitars sounded... yeah. Went to an Epiphone SG which for the money actually sounded nice. Then to a cheap ESP Les Paul, Jackson SL2 pro, Gibson V, Schecter demon 6, Ibanez RG and finally I saved up and bought a Mayones Regius 7. Never looked back!
My main guitar at the moment is an Ibanez RGD 7 string with Bareknuckle aftermaths. I also have a sliverburst Gibson SG that I use every once in a while.
Those mayones guitars are so pretty!
I'm just starting to move towards more higher end guitars, and my collection is only starting to grow. My first two were Jackson warrior (the cheap version) where I swapped out pick-up to zakk wyldes signature emgs 81-85 before I knew anything about pickups. Although it still plays really well, and I practice the most on that one.
Shortly after I got a Dean razorback with the explosion paint because as a teen I thought edgy and sharp guitars looked cool. Once I started playing in bands I realised how much of a pain it was to carry it around.
Bought a PRS SE 7 string off a friend for 200, swapped pickups to fishman fluence and put on some locking tuners and now it's a proper beast to play.
And just recently got an ltd ec1000 Andromeda which is probably my most expensive guitar up to date. I specifically wanted a guitar without a floyd bridge as well.
I'm a total ibanez fanboy.
Back in 2012 I bought my first one, an xg300, which looked like the Mick Thomson sig of the time. I still own this guitar today, but I the last 3 years I lent it to a friend, who wanted to start but couldn't afford a guitar.
After that, maybe in 2014, I bought my Iron Label (first gen) RGIR20FE, the six string with fixed bridge an emg 81 & 60.
The 60 got immediately swapped for an 85 but recently I swiched back to the 60 because I like the slight single coil type of sound it delivers.
You and Olly actually signed the cavity plate of this guitar back when you played in Berlin Magnet/Komet club in 2014.
Early 2015 I bought my first 7 String, the RG1527, which still is my profile picture here at UA-cam. I blocked the Edge pro and owned it for 1 1/2 or 2 years before I sold it. I didn't get used to seven strings, so I sold it to a friend.
In '15 or '16 I got a LAG acoustic as a present for my A levels, but half a year ago, I lent it to another friend, who wanted to start but couldn't afford a proper guitar either.
During the last years I shied away a bit from Metal and gear nerd-dism and focused more on producing rap beats with my two best friends but I never forgot my musical roots and now I'm quite into metal again as well as a lot of different genres.
I particularly loved Black Metal back in the day and I'm back into that again.
Now I have a dream of an evil Jim Root stratocaster with the headstock carved down to the smaller fender design (early 60's?) And Seymour Duncan black winter pickups for a classical looking, yet modern black metal machine.
Cheers mate. Keep up the work.
Such a great idea and video. Love this!
Here's my humble collection:
-A local, philippine brand MII superstrat that started it all.
-An Ibanez RT150 with a Tone Zone + PAF Pro. First decent guitar and I thank this thing for making me the guitarist I am today with all that practicing.
-A BC Rich Exotic series Mockingbird. Looks very pretty, but the feel and tone are both pretty bad. Either gonna turn this to a project or sell it.
-An LTD H72015 Horizon 7 string and by far the nicest guitar I own and my first real "metal" guitar. I literally can't stop playing this thing at times. It's just so inspiring and easy to play.
My dream is to have a real MIJ ESP by next year or something crafted in the the USA like a Balaguer or a Kiesel once they sort out their QC issues (Been lusting over the Jason Becker model ever since I was a teenager).
Loved the video. Thanks for sharing.
My guitar history:
First guitar was a crummy brown fender and an acoustic that I got for xmas.
Then I bought myself a B.C. Rich Warlock that I had custom painted with red lightning bolts.
Next, I made one that looks like a Jackson Warrior in woodshop class in high school back in the day.
Then I got a 6 string gunmetal LTD.
I had a Ibanez 7 string RG7421 that I had to sell (regret it to this day.)
I have a Ibanez RG8
My wife got me the Ibanez TAM10
I got one of the new Ibanez Premium RG1027PBF
Then I got a sweet deal on a Ibanez Prestige RGD that was mismarked. It's my main guitar that I threw in some Bareknuckle Aftermaths.
I'm currently saving up for the Mayones Duvell 7 Qatsi, Juice Burst. I'm currently obsessed with it and it's a must have for me.
You and Your band are phenomenal..!! Im speechless, shit. Thanks for upping the ante! Youre an inspiration.
Really nice collection you got there.
I started off with a blue Cort X2 for about 200 EUR when I was 16 or almost 17. My second guitar was a white Ltd Alexi-600 as I was a huge COB fanboy at that time and only a year later I bought the exact same guitar but black with pink stripes and inlays. This was a limited run at that time with only 6 guitars in Europe but later ESP decided to make it a standard model. I sold the white one but the black/pink one is still in my collection. I added a pink strap and I swapped the EMG HZ for a Dimarzio Crunch Lab with a pink and a black bobbin (looks awesome). The next guitar I bought was a Ltd MH-1000FR and this was the guitar I guess I played the most shows with by now. Absolute beast and awesome guitar for the money but I guess I will get rid of the EMGs and go for some passives. My main axe right now is - again - a Ltd. It is the Alex Wade AW-7 signature model and my first 7-string guitar. Swapped the Dimarzio D-Activators for Bare Knuckle Juggernauts and added a push-pull volume for coil splitting, sounds amazing. My Bass is a Ibanez BTB 1405 I initially bought only for recording the bass parts for my band’s EP, but I started really digging playing bass and so I ended up as a bassplayer in another band.
Right now I‘m waiting for my very first custom guitar from Mayones and if all goes well I will receive it right before my 30th birthday in May.
Totally loving the Mayones! I currently own an Ibanez rg370dxl (my first electric guitar) and a Schecter Omen 6, which is a total beast. I'm a lefty and hadn't had the chance on playing a lot of guitars unfortunately. Could you do a video about your playing style? I mean, what is your approach on writing those fast downpicked parts and also the note choice / favourite tuning? Cheers!
I've also traded my first guitar for a Squier strat.
Mine was an Aria Pro 2 Cardinal Series.
Great video!
I whish Ibanez will bring back the XL series
Great video, Browne! Any chance of a quick run through of the tunings you use for Monuments, Flux Conduct, and the few stray songs you’ve released (particularly One Last Gasp for Air)? My guitar history isn’t anything special but I thought I’d still share:
Had a .strandberg* Boden OS 8L as my first 8 string after playing a few odd sixes and sevens my dad had around the house, which was the first guitar I bought myself, then found I didn’t get on with it so I sold it and picked up a used JP 7 with a piezo to emulate some of the tasty clean tones you get in Monuments. Great guitar, still my go to!
Ibanez 540R Roadstar (still have it, it's a 30 years old instrument); Ibanez K7 FB, the Korn signature (sold, didn't really dig the 7 strings at that time); Ibanez RG 2550Z Prestige (sold, I'll regret it for the rest of my life); Ibanez Jem UV70P, the green dots re-edition (still have it and I love it); Schecter KM6-II (returned TWICE to the factory, I won't go into details); Kiesel Aries 8 strings multi-scale and Kiesel Aries 6 strings (both still with me and much loved). And a Les Paul that I built from a DYI kit I got from Amazon and it sounds surprisingly great: it holds the drop-B tuning like crazy!
Nice collection man! Starting from first to current : 80's B.C. Rich warlock platinum series (sold) White glossy finish , 2007 Gen 1 B.C. Rich Warlock Bronze Black gloss with a Duncan distortion in the bridge, Ibanez RG 6 string gloss black(sold), Ibanez geo 7 string black with white pick guard(sold p.o.s.), Ibanez Rg Ex-1 6 string loaded ( sadly sold ), Ltd M-17 matte black (sold to a bandmate), Jackson JS 22-7 Gloss black, Agile Septor 727 Natural finish (sold to bandmate) , Peavey EXP-Vortex, Ibanez RG 7321
Great vid, John, really enjoyed it. It was actually pretty fun thinking back and remembering some guitars I've had that I haven't even thought about in 10+ years!
My history, in order of acquiring :
Kent SG
Aria Pro II STG
BC Rich Warlock - NJ Series (Traded in)
Schecter Omen 6 (Traded in)
Schecter Gryphon (Traded in)
Dean Razorback (Traded in)
ESP MH-400NT (Traded in)
ESP EC-1000 (Sold)
ESP EC-407 (Sold)
Balaguer Archetype 7
Balaguer Thicket
Fender Jagstang
Balaguer Growler
Thanks for the videos John. How about some: "How to play...." some of your songs or riffs that are special to you? Cheers.
Penis.
my first guitar was my father's old Mayones superstrat and Defils copy of Gibson acustic guitar. Later i got gibson lp robot studio and i keep with it. I also bought another old mayones superstrat for around 50$ ( 200zl as i am from poland) and use it for practice. Its pretty hard to play but also very light so i can practice for very long time .
Great Video, keep them coming. I am embarassed by how many guitars i have owned.
My first guitar was an Ibanez Gio GART30 that I learned my first few songs on in 2009, then traded it for an Ltd AX-50 in 2011 because I wanted to play Lamb of God and be like Willie. From there I bought my first 7 string in 2014 after progressing and starting to tune down my 6 to G so I could play Whitechapel stuff. After I got my 7 I started getting into Periphery, Monuments ;) and Reflections. I still have my 7 and it's one of my main guitars. In the same year I bought an Ibanez RG8 which is also still in my collection. From there I sold the AX-50 so that I could fund my next six string which was an Ibanez S420LVB which I sold shortly after I bought it and regret that decision every day as it was a great guitar for the money. From there I bought a Fender tele which was stolen from me and I have not found it since. After it was stolen I bought an Ltd EC-1000 to replace it, which remained my main guitar up until I traded it back in for a Strat which I still own. My current repertoire consists of the RG8, RG7421 and the strat.
"No concept of what rythm was" it shows how a good musician you are!
Review on a Solar guitar? (just got mine, and I love it!)
And go through your writingprocess? Thanx for your videos and great music!
My first guitar was a Westfield strat too! all black and covered in stickers because i used to be in to punk rock lol
I have two C-1 classics one has the original electronic config with push-pull in each pot, and I have the exact one that you have in blue, with the five-way switch for coil tapping. although my deal of the century wasn't on a guitar, but it was similar to your PRS story, I got a B stock ENGL Fireball for $300.
my second electric was as westfield SG copy. That became my main guitar for over 12 years! eek! My main boi these days is a Schecter Jeff Loomis 7 FR mkii and it's the best feeling/sounding guitar I've ever played! I would love to try a mayones though!
I got an Epiphone Studio, which was my first electric. I quickly wanted something with a little bit more balls and more pointy bits, so I picked up an LTD V401FM cause it had everything I was looking for at the time.
My next pickup was an Ibanez RG7421PB for the lower tunings that I was getting into at the time. After that I wanted another sort of midrange instrument kinda like the LTD, but with passive pickups instead. I ended up getting the Holcomb SE model by PRS and it just rips. The last guitar I've picked up is a regular SE Custom 24 in a nice summer'ish green that I found used for 50% off and I just had to have it cause I had been looking at the Custom 24's since before I purchased the Holcomb model even.
Currently planning on trading out the Epiphone and the Ibanez for something else - I'm just waiting for something interesting to pop up in the shops near me :) I think I'd want either a better 7 string than the Ibanez I have now or possibly a baritone guitar just so I got all my bases covered in terms of tunings and vibes.
Anyway, thanks for the video Browne
- My first guitar was a terrible strat copy from a brand I can't remember the brand of (may very well have been the Argos home brand at the time).
- I then got my mum's acoustic Burswood guitar (that my dad got her for christmas even though it was a thinly veiled attempt to buy himself a guitar).
- Sold the shitty strat in a car boot sale, used the money and some birthday cash to get myself a Peavey Cirrus 4 string bass from my guitar teacher Pablo. That thing took me into my love of Rush. I remember it had an incredibly stable neck.
- Next up was a Stagg PRS copy that my granddad gave me when he got himself a chibson LP. Loved that thing, used and abused it in some secondary school blues gigs and took it to uni with me.
- Went on a stupid buying spree when student loans came in (of course) and got a Stagg 4 string fretless and a Cort Curbow 5 string. Both fun instruments for my first year uni band but sold the both down the line as I was broke.
- Got into a mad craze about Chapman Stick and Warr guitar players like Tony Levin and Trey Gunn and stupidly bought some touchstyle instruments. One was a Sonorous tapper (Craig of Sonorous is a legend) and one was a Krappy guitar (now of Davie504's weird custom instruments fame). Sold the Sonorous to a really good touchstyle player that I forget the name of.
- Bought a 6 string Gear4Music bass which I proceeded to defret at some point because it had the absolute worst fretjob known to man. Sold this to a guitar player I knew because he needed a bass for recording.
- Bought and almost instantly sold a terrible red acoustic guitar that I then saw for sale around town maybe 6 times after me.
- Bought a J&B brothers 5 string bass that is still my recording bass as it just has a naturally good tone to it. Used this for years in a blues and cover band in uni. Think it's basically a copy of a neck through Ibanez Soundgear.
- Bought a Lindo 7 string that I got because I stupidly thought I could learn Karnivool songs in B standard. Sold it to my good friend/who still has it. This was his introduction to 7s.
- Bought a 5 string Harley Benton fretless for gigs too.
- Bought an Ibanez RG8 which has served me well in learning quite a lot of great stuff about guitar. In the process of selling it as of posting this unfortunately as I've fallen out of love with 8 strings.
- Sold the Peavey bass and PRS copy to some friends before moving to Manchester where I subsequently bought my first good 7 string; an Ibanez RG7421PB which I still own.
- Sold the fretless harley benton to pay rent.
- Bought an Ibanez RG320DXFM from a guy in Liverpool on a day trip out whilst browsing Facebook marketplace. Still have it as it's my only proper 6 string.
-Bought a really cheap but super vibey Rockburn strat from a charity shop that honestly sounds and feels great.
So all in all I currently own:
A Rockburn strat.
An Ibanez RG320DXFM
An Ibanez RG7421PB
An Ibanez RG8 (in the process of being packed for posting)
A Burswood Acoustic
A J&B Brothers 5 string.
A Krappy warr guitar copy that I honestly just need to burn or throw away because it's terrible.
I started out on bass first. when I was 10 I got my dad's vox clubman bass. It's red with a white pick guard, and it's not in great condition. one of the tuner's screw snapped and there's a fragment of the screw still in the wood. That and the pick guard won't stay on. My second bass is dean Z metalman bass. It's still in good condition just because I never really play it anymore. My third bass is an Ibanez SRFF806BKS. It's my favorite to play out of the other bass guitars that I own. I think that my only gripe with that bass is the fact that I can't swap the pickups out with any other pickups. They sound great for cleans though. Then I have a schecter omen 8 string. I eventually filed the B string and the E string down on my bass to F# an octave lower to compliment the 8 string. I ended up swapping the tuners and the pickups out on my guitar. It's now got sperzel locking tuners, and Tosin Abasi fishmans in them. That's pretty much it for now. I'd like a kiesel and a strandberg one day.
My first guitar was a no-name local brand strat which actually felt pretty good for its price (around the equivalent of 150 USD) but it sounded awful.
Next up was an Ibanez RT150 which was cool and rare as well. Pretty thankful I got it for like 120 bucks from a friend. I practiced on that guitar like crazy and I attribute all my chops to that thing.
Then cut to 8 years after that, around 2016 where I finally bought my first "real" guitar with my own money as a young professional: an LTD 2015-H7. It was a special anniversary model they only made in 2015 and came in satin see-thru black with an EMG 57 set and it was (and still is) AMAZING. I played it for like 6 hours straight the day I got it and my chops went through the roof after that. I finally got better at sweeping and string skipping and eventually learned my first Nevermore solos on this guitar.
Cut to this year where I finally bought my very first MIJ guitar, an RGA121 in violin brown. I'm not super used to wizard necks but this guitar sounds and looks AMAZING. By far the fastest guitar I own, and it's a very nice counterpart to the heavy, thick, and indestructible-feeling LTD. The Ibby is lighter, smoother, and makes me note my playing tension and finger stress more.
All in all I think my guitar collection journey has just started but I'm glad I got to end up with two guitars I could only dream of getting back when I was 13 years old.
A bit late to the party, but here goes: first guitar was a blue Ibanez 6 string Gio bought for my 15th birthday from my parents, so a similar introduction to guitar for me JB 😎 Then, several years later, being a fan of nu-metal I managed to save up enough from my first job to purchase a Schecter Hellraiser C-7 in black cherry with EMG active pick ups. I loved the quick action and thin neck profile, played it for years before sadly, like you once had to, I sold it to cover rent. Fast forward I found my way into prog metal and fell in love with those low 8 string tones so picked up my first 8 string axe, the Ibanez Iron Label series (I forget the exact model) but has yet again EMG 808 active pickups, rosewood fretboard, typical middle of the road Ibanez I'd say. I can get some awesome tones out of it, both clean and distorted but I'm about ready to head back down to a 7 string. I'm currently saving up for a Mayones, for obvious reasons 🤘 Thanks for sharing your guitar collection history
Those Iron Lable guitars look a lot of guitar for the money. I almost bought one from the Axion series a while ago.
Which Mayones are you going for?
@@hibernative unsure at the moment, I've liked what Acle has on his Regius 7, but I've eyeballed the Duvell 7 as well 🤘
As an avid player of PRS, I've never played P90s. That little rant he did made me want to play them so bad. I've seen him play that guitar and the tone was awesome. It cuts through but somehow it's still smooth.
Started with a 70s "Flender", Black Squire Strat with a mirror pick guard, Epiphone Les Paul Special, Epiphone Elitest Les Paul Custom (still own), Modified Mexican Fender Tele (still own), Silverburst LTD EC-1000 (sold), PRS S2 Custom 24 with 58/15 LT core pickup's (still own).
Guitar collection🤔
I started playing on my dad's old classical nylon string guitar and about a year later I bought myself my own first guitar, a 2017 Chapman ml1 standard modern (which I think about modding). About a year later my parents surprised me and bought me my first 7 string, a chapman ml1-7 pro which is mahogany body, maple through neck locking tuners etc. About a year and half later (march 2021) I finally got my money off the injury I suffered, put most of it in a savings account and with the best bought myself a Strandberg boden standard 6 with trem (my first trem guitar) thats meant to stay in e standard forever and a really great one
Regular uploads? Christmas came again.
My guitars:
My first guitar was a no-name stratocaster in black but it had humbuckers which sounded nice, noisy though. The guitar was part of a beginner-set including a marshall 20Watt amp.
Second guitar is Epiphine Les Paul Custom Chrome(rare but nothing special IMO), still have it!
My current guitar and favourite atm is the Ibanez RG1527z 7 String with a BareKnuckle Coldsweat in the bridge, I used it to record prototypus, above the sky, eternity and infinity.
Cant wait to get my hands on a new guitar soon , still dont know what brand to go for since there are so many great 7 strings on the market right now.
thinling about going multiscale or at least regular 27 scale.
My first guitar was a cheap Peavey Strat that came with a cheap peavey practice amp lol. But hey I still play that thing today! Now my prize piece is the Kiesel DCM8 in my avatar. Love it so much I sold my Gibson Les Paul to fund another Kiesel.
In all I’ve had or have a peavey raptor+ Strat, Ibby SGR 4 string bass, fender squier bass with a cheesy skull & crossbone on the front. Gibson Les Paul Studio, ESP LTD 700FM (I think it’s called) with Floyd Rose. Ibby TAM-10 8 string, Jackson Dinky JS22-7 with Bareknuckle Juggernauts, Warwick Rockbass Corvette 5 string, Warwick German Pro 6-string Bubinga, Dingwall NG-2 5 string combustion, and Kiesel DCM8. Plus 2 fender acoustics, one steel & one nylon. I think that’s it lol.
Well I only ever had one electric guitar : my first one, which is a Squier Strat, Vintage modified I believe. Initially it was quite bad, but since I learned how to to set it up correctly, and then swapped the pickups, it plays and sounds awesome. I have a Seymour Duncan SSL-5 in the bridge and 2 custom shop 69's middle and neck, which is basically the Gilmour set from the black strat, but is surprisingly good at other styles of music, including metal.
I also have an awesome classical guitar from a spanish brand, which I love to bits, and Squier bass 6, which is quite fun, for bass as well as some downtuned metal chugging. And a guita-lele for traveling. Literally costs nothing and is very fun, everyone should buy one.
My next guitar will be a 7 string electric guitar. I ideally want one with fan frets and nice pickups (like BKP's or Seymour Duncan''s for example), but it is hard to find and not cheap, as pickups have to be tilted or slanted. Does anyone have any advice for what I should buy ?
Wow; you guys have all owned some serious gear! Super cool to see and hear your guitar story too.
So my history would be:
Yamaha Pacifica 012 in Black, eventually switched the bridge humbucker for a Seymour Duncan Invader
Cort Single Cut (can't remember the model)
Ibanez RG350
Michael Kelly Patriot Custom
Wilkinson/Vintage Rock Series (PRS Style)
Dean Soltero Standard - switched the p'ups for BKP Miracle Man set
PRS Mikael Akerfeldt (loved this thing)
Mayones Regius 7
PRS 513
PRS Custom 24 (Still Own)
Mayones Duvell Elite Master Built - I miss this guitar so much. I'm a colossal twat for selling it.
PRS Mark Holcomb SE (Still Own)
Ibanez RG.... something or other
Jackson Juggernaut 7
PRS CE24 (Still Own)
That's over 13 years... silly amount of guitars haha.
John - This was awesome to watch, thank you. Can you promise me something though? PLEASE don't sell anymore guitars!
I had a similar experience with my first 2 guitars, I went from an encore to a WESTFIELD for the exact same reason haha
Very interesting video John, I've always been curious as to what happened to a lot of your Ibanez guitars.
The first guitar I got, like you (sort of) was a black 3/4 Squier Strat when I was maybe 8 or 9? I got it because it was the smaller version of my Dad's MiK Squier Strat from 1998, which is a rather nice guitar to play.
Next when I started to get a bit more serious my parents got me an MiJ Tokai Les Paul that sounds GREAT, but it's kinda hard to play firstly beacuse of the scale length, and secondly because of how bloody heavy it is. My strap's slipped off multiple times.
The next guitar I had (which imho was a huge mistake) was a Gibson Explorer in the cream colour (which is kinda hard to come by now I believe). I think I was going through a metallica/guitar hero phase at the time and I wanted to be James Hetfield or some shit like that. I picked it up the other day and it really is a fuckin horrid guitar that needs to be sold.
By ~2012 I was obsessed with David Maxim's BILO and Destiny Potato and naturally wanted to be him, so I wanted to start getting into Ibanez. I got a an Ibanez670QM in Sapphire blue. It's a really nice guitar, but unfortunately like most Indo made Ibanez guitars, the fretwork was terrible and I needed to get the 13th fret completely re-seated.
When I started to get into 7 strings, my friend let me borrow his beautiful RGD7 for a while until he sold it. It had a set of BKPs in it and sounded absolutely huge. It really enjoyed playing it but my hands are too small for >= 26.5" scale lengths, so it was a bit uncomfortable to play at times.
Finally the last guitar I currently own is the 7 string version of the premium Ibanez you used to own except in Desert Red (we only got those in Australia, at least the music store near me) which is a really nice guitar to play. I might get some DiMarzio's or BKPs for it I'm not sure yet.
I'm mostly into Ibanez from watching a lot of your old playthrough videos (I don't have enough $$$ for Mayones hahaha).
Hey John, I've been pretty lucky with rare guitars over the years, not necessarily like super valuable but my history is this, I've never sold any of them I just save up for a very long time to get a new one.
1.-Squier Bullet Strat
2.-Yamaha RGX320FZ(was only in production in 2005 as far as I know put a sentient+pegasus on it)
3.-BC Rich Ironbird Spaceface (Don't play the thing and its made out of plywood but I played my first live shows and recorded my first songs with it)
4.-Dean Razorback V 255 Blades (was discontinued and only in production that year as far as I know)
5.- LTD SC208 8 string like the one kmac has, the pickup placement annoys me.
6.- Sterling JP150 swapping the pickups for dimarzio d-activators
Also have a no brand name classical acoustic that sounds really well but it was built poorly needs fret levelling all the time and a Cort P Bass style bass.
Thanks for Sharing with us.
Epiphone sg, Tanglewood Les Paul, after that a Jackson rr3, schecter demon 6 but I upgraded the pickups to EMG 81/85 and now I've just got my first seven which is a schecter Banshee.
Current Guitars: ALL LEFT HANDED (C# Standard & Drop B)
ESP/LTD EX-400BD Black Treadplate with EMG 81 & 60 (No1 Live and Recording)
ESP/LTD EX-400BD Sliver Treadplate with EMG 81 & 60 (No2 Live)
ESP/LTD EC-1000QM Cherry with EMG 81 & 60 (New)
ESP/LTD KH-202 Black with EMG 81 & 85 (Recording Lead Guitar E Flat Standard)
Harley Benton Flying V Copy Black with EMG/ESP Passive Pickups
Tanglewood Electro Acoustic
Dean MLX Black with Dimebucker and Stock Neck Pickup
Old Guitars:
ESP/LTD SC-207 Black Seven String
ESP/LTD Viper-100 Trans Purple (Wish I’d never sold it)
Tokai/Gibbo Les Paul Custom Copy Black with PAF Pickups
Cort X6 Black
Westfield Dreadnought Acoustic Black
Dean VX Black
Strat Copy Black (David Gilmour Copy)
My no1 is a Black ltd Explorer I got in 2009. I’ve toured the whole UK many times with that guitar. 3 Bloodstock festivals and countless
gigs and festivals. It’s my 3rd arm, my wife calls it the mistress. I could lose all my guitars and everything I own but I’d keep that one guitar
Really cool to see your history man!
My history:
BC Rich Warlock Bloodbound (now sold)
Schecter Omen 7 with bareknuckle painkillers
Schecter Hellraiser C1 special with bareknuckle holy divers.
Schecter Blackjack C7
Carvin (pre kiesel) DC800 with Lundgren M8's
First guitar was a fender strat, my brother had given itnto me, I didnt appreciate it at the time but it was a sick guitar, my second guitar was a black dean ml which was awesome, ,my third and last guitar is my dean mini dimebolt ml I've had it since I was 15,and it never let me down,I put dimes signature dimebuckers in it, but I'm looking into getting an sg next.
Nice, remember the time when you were playing a borrowed agile and olly a borrowed ibanez in this small clinic in cologne after playing at the underground. Good times!
Still owning:
- first guitar: cheap sunburst strat from jack&danny, actually sounds pretty solid for like 130€ - and birthday present from my parants to my 14th birthday!
- Gibson SG Standard where I put EMGs in it when it was my taste....the 85 in the neck sounds pretty nice but I think I should change back to the originals...
- 70s Höfner Classical guitar from my dad
- ESP Ltd MH-417 (gonna sale, EMGs and 25.5" are just not what I want)
- Agile Septor Pro 727 with Aftermaths (for recording and live my main guitar for about 9 years....crazy ...)
- Agile Intrepid Pro 828
- Fender Professional Strat
- Jackson HT7
- Ibanez SR900 Bass
- and dreaming about an Aristides 070 for years...
Sold:
- Ibanez RG2550 ltd gfk
- Jackson SLSMG in white
- Ibanez AW something
- Schecter KM-7 (just not my taste in the end)
- Mayones Setius 6 GTM Baritone (had no need for 6 string baritones anymore but was pretty hard to sell after 8 years)
Love this comment section, cheers!
My first electric guitar was a Grassroots (ESP sub-brand) Reindeer model, then an ESP JH-2 James Hetfield sig, the one with the diamond plate, was really in love with explorers at that time. However I soon got over the explorer shape, as I find it not really "secure" with no place to rest my forearm on the body, and I got into the asymmetrical V shapes, so then I got 2 ESP LTD Alexi Laiho sigs in different colors, not really a fan of the guy, but I really liked his guitars back then, as choices for asymmetrical Vs with 24 frets and a single bridge pickup were really limited. I was damaging the Vs here and there, so I figured I might as well buy a "regular shaped" guitar, so I bought an ESP LTD EC-50 as a practice guitar, which ended up being in perfect condition... after a few years I ordered a custom fanned 8 string from Aussie, called Oni Guitars, again in asymmetrical V shape, but before it was completed I bought an ESP Katana 7, which is another asymmetrical V and also a signature for my buddy Jesse of the Taiwanese metal band Chthonic. I later joined a band and I felt that Vs were a bitch to move around, so I bought a super-strat being an Ibanez RGD7UC which is still my main guitar until today, absolutely love that guitar, only gutted to find out they updated it with stainless steel frets the next year after I bought mine.
I’m currently using an Ibanez 752ah with emg x pups, but I’ve also fell into Legator guitars lately and have a 9 string ninja and a headless 7 string multi scale ghost. I seem to always try other brands but end up with an Ibanez main in the end. I’ve been thinking of taking a chance on a Mayones Hyrda 7 string, but I can’t find much about it on line. Maybe you can do a review video? Thanks for the great work and music!
The Duvell with Hum/P90/Single switching is crazy! Mind doing a full demo on that (both clean and distorted)?
My past guitars:
1. _Wave Noname_ / Korean hummingbird-inspired, acoustic guitar. Sounded great for a first guitar, but the neck was huge and hard to learn.
2. _Ibanez GRG170_ / Bought for €20 because the high E saddle was gone. Super comfortable neck and big frets. Had to sell it because those saddles were scarce.
3. _Ibanez ART-120_ / Sleek looking guitar, but the active pickups didn't work for me.
4. _Gibson Les Paul Standard 1997_ / LPs just have THAT classic sound, but I never got used to the scale, small body and sticky nitro so I didn't play it that much.
5. _Gretsch G5120_ / Wonderful guitar, but the bridge wasn't pinned (like classical archtops) so it drifted when picking hard.
6. _Schecter Omen Extreme 7_ / My first 7-string. The neck felt huge and wide, but it was an amazing guitar for the price with good split-coil sound. Happened to trade it with a friend for a couple of guitar pedals.
Current guitars:
1. _Martin DS-1_ / Just the benchmark acoustic for me. Bell like clarity.
2. _Cuenca NJ10_ / Celt-inspired acoustic. Bit darker than the Martin, which sounds good for finger-style.
3. _Mojo Relic ST Costello_ / 70's-style partscaster. 2 low output pups with a Bareknuckle Sinner in the bridge.
Oh man here we go. Started with a squier bullet strat. A few years later my parents got me a bc rich warlock. Traded that for an epi sg special and stopped playing for a while. Got the bc rich back and sold the sg for a new amp. Saved up and bought a jackson professional outright. Traded both of those guitars for a mexi tele for my dad as a surprise. He put the story online on the acoustic guitar forum and people sent money so I could have a guitar again. I got a cheap but beautiful ibanez rg. Traded that for a schecter omen 6. Traded the omen 6 to my grandpa for his little tele because he wanted the omen, used the tele as trade bait for a schecter Damien elite 6. Got sick of the Floyd so I traded it for a silver jackson with emgs. Got tired of emgs so I traded the jackson and some cash for a jackson dk2 pro. Sold the dk2 pro because of the neck being too thin for my liking and got an ibanez mtm2 that I put a Duncan nazgul in (the only guitar to this day I regret trading). Bought a Damien elite 7 outright. Traded mtm and Damien for an ibanez iron label. Got tired of emgs again. Traded it for fender showmaster. Sold showmaster and bought an ltd ec1000. Sold that and got an orange dk2 pro on sweetwaters clearance sale. Traded that for the jp100d I have now
I would love to see you review schecter c7 sls elite.
First guitar was a Keytone Blueburst LP (150€) which I saved forever as a kid as my parents didn´t like the idea of me playing electric guitar, with a crappy Harley Benton 5 Watt amp. For my first gig with my first band I bought an Ibanez RGA42 which I consider to be my first real guitar. Discovering 7 String I bought a 50€ Jack & Danny. Sold it shortly and borrowed a Jackson 7-String from my bandmate for about 2 years before I bought it off from him. Also made a really good deal in 2017 for a LTD 401FM Eclipse in Reindeer Blue and finally gone full circle getting a LP again!
Hey Browne!
Thought I'd share my electric guitar history with you in chronological order:
-Ibanez GAX-30 in blue
-Epiphone Elitist 61 SG in standard cherry (which I later modded with a bigsby because I thought that was the shit)
-Schecter Diamond Solo 6 in dark metallic blue (when I realized Metallica was great and hopped on the emg train)
- LTD EC-1000 in the standard black with the abalone binding, eventually sold it off because I preferred the Schecter
- Schecter Omen 8 active. First 8 string that I got for super cheap when I worked at a music store. Collects dust now but it served its purpose!
- Schecter JL-7. My first 7 string that I still have today
- Jackson COW 7 that I picked up used for first cheap ($200 CAD) with a bare knuckle aftermath in it and a coil tap/single volume. Guitar was modded a bunch by previous owners and refinished but plays like a dream
- Strandberg CL-7 Natural. Picked it up as a b-stock when Letchford switched to Kiesel. Guitar was in perfect condition besides one mark on the back of the body so it was worth the savings I got on it.
Cheers Browne! Keep the content coming!
Aria Pro II, PRS SE custom 22 single cut, Ibanez FR 420, Ibanez FR Iron label series 6 and 7 string, Ibanez RGIF8 - BKS, PRS SE Mark Holcomb sig. I never sold or threw away any guitar that I purchased, worked way to hard for what I have. Digging your history and evolution btw, great stuff. Really jealous of those Mayones that you have though.
Hey John! I see you have experience with the FGN guitars. I might buy one of those FGN-JMY (new models are gonna be loaded with Fishman Fluence), I have heard good things about the brand and they just look wicked. But how do they feel? Are they worth their prices? I could go for a Mayonnes, but they're so much more expansive :/
I had a 3/4 classical at about 6 or 7. Then a blue electric cruzer by crafter from about 12. When I started to gig around 14/15 I got a epiphone les paul, a few years of that we swapped out the pickups for emg81/85s until I started recording more and I realised the bastard wouldnt stay in tune well enough and was damned heavy for 2 45 minute slots.
I was then bought a schecter hellraiser c-1 fr and gigged in it for ages in drop D.Trem was alot of fun. But after a few years we left the band to be adults so I sold my epiphone and and random starter guitar stuff to go towards a PRS mark holcumb SE so I had more freedom for tunings for covers.
Played that guitar in Drop C variants for a bit and then joined up with some other musios playing in drop Ab so got it set up in Ab.
Then despite having songs recorded we couldnt find a drummer so that folded.
I also had a dean semi acoustic of some kind for a while too that i did little pub acoustic gigs with, and sold that to go towards the holcumb when someone traded a decent Tanglewood (insert model here) for my art skills aha.
So never any more than 3 at any one time aha.
I have recently joined some more proggy/metalcore musos so I want to get a 7 next. Ive always wanted to learn a bunch of Novelist /Tesseract/ Monuments stuff.
Still undecided on the model though. 7s are pretty much impossible to find in store round here.
What about that LACS Ibanez RGA that you played in those EMG videos?
For the electric guitars I have, my first one was a Jackson Kelly KE3 that belonged to my brother (which my uncle bought for him). My second is an Ibanez Premium RG821 that I got with a semi-hard case for a good deal at a store on Christmas 2016, and I had a Seymour Duncan Invader bridge pickup installed in it months back.