Musicians of AF, show us your gear!

[Rev. Rye]

After seeing the response to my photo of my gear on the “what’s everyone up to right now” thread, I figured why not create a thread for all us musicians to show off our gear? And to start off, here’s a revised version of my gear portrait from that thread:



The Vox VT20x has reverb built in, so I no longer need to use a reverb pedal, and after discovering stacking distortion pedals, I tried running my TC Electronics Cinders and Joyo Sweet Baby overdrives and they sound better together than separate. Also, I figured I may as well show off the Joyo AC-tone for those occasions where the venue insists on using their amps and not your Vox.

Instruments:

• Catoctin Mountain Music cigar box guitar from a kit on eBay. Name: El Presidente. It's tuned to DGBD (like a banjo), but it still sounds like a good guitar with the two lowest strings removed. It's my main instrument.
  
• Diddley Bow, self-built from a plank of Padouk with parts that were mostly from C.B. Gitty. Name: Celestial Freddie, after the Celestial Monochord from the Harry Smith Anthology, Eddie "One-String" Jones, and the note F, to which it's tuned. You can play it with a slide, and if you use your fingers, it sounds like an upright bass. Best used for songs that don't really lend themselves to chords. 
  
• Mountain Melodies Kalimba, tuned to a pentatonic scale. It has a limited range, but it works well for that range; it can hold its own on "Smokestack Lightning" and "The Twa Sisters."
  

Effects: 

• Preamp, self-built out of a cheap preamp that's supposed to be built into an acoustic guitar and a rare "Low Birth Weight" cigar box.
  
• Joyo Vintage Phaser, a Phase 90 clone that I use for Leslie tones. It works except when it doesn't.
  
• Joyo Sweet Baby, clone of the Mad Professor Sweet Honey, a boutique pedal I can easily get for about $30. Not a lot of drive on its own, but sounds pretty good and works well with acoustic guitars.
  
• TC Electronic Cinders Overdrive. A bit higher gain and fuzzier on higher gain, but still usable with acoustics. You can get it cheap at most Guitar Centers. Current list price is $60, but I got mine for $35 at a sale.
  
• Joyo AC-Tone, a pedal that I use when I can't use my Vox amp to do much the same thing.
  

Amp: Vox Valvetronix VT20X, a cheap amp that models a bunch of different amps

Others:

• Cheap clip-on pickup from CBGitty.
  
• Slides: John Pearse The Edge and a small bit of copper pipe.