I'll start: anything ENGL I've heard/played through in person. It strikes me as very Marshally with the upper mid thing but really, really mean sounding. 'S got a nice attack to it. Not gentle sounding amps by any stretch, but quite good. Can't comment on the cleans as I'm too busy hearing badass rawktones.

Also, re: guitars and basses: I like the aesthetics of the ESP F-series and the BC Rich Mockingbird. Curvypointy. I tend toward more traditional shapes but I think those look nice. The F-series is really wonky, but I like how the thing looks. I've spent some time with borrowed bass versions of each and rather liked them. I wouldn't mind one of the mahogany/black flame top/fixed bridge ESP F guitars either. I don't think they make them anymore though.

I enjoy telecasters very much.

The level of Telecaster love on this forum borders on slightly disturbing. Fender should probably just give us a Tele endorsement, send us each one and be done with it. If Mike likes them I think my brain will collapse into a black hole. Doesn't strike me as the type, but it's possible.

Hell, if we're going that route, Teles, some sort of P/J 5-string bass, AC30, 5150, Focusrite interfaces and Sennheiser headphones should mostly take care of everyone and leave us to sort out for ourselves whether our humbucker-things are more shredly or old Gibsons. But, y'know, free gear, endorsement deal for the forum and all...

I like the sounds of Mesa Boogies when they're dialled in right.

And yes Mockingbirds are awesome, despite how stupid I would look playing one.

i like to play steinbergers, believe it or not. they honestly feel amazing. same with parkers. i would never ever be caught dead playing one live though... they certainly are ugly as sin-- and i always thought it was kinda a shame that they both went the route of trying to look 'new'.. cause they both work incredibly well as tools.

i played a 6505+ and had a blast. i have no earthly use for THAT much gain, and it was pretty unrecognizably not my own sound-- but i felt 40 feet tall and capable of levelling small cities with megaCHUNNNNNnnnnnnn... pretty fun stuff.

can i get in on the endorsement deal for a focusrite octopre, please? an ac30 would be pretty cool as well..

I like those neon coloured Ibanez.

Agreed, funny how we can still be bothered by the looks of some things, I have this aversion to red guitars, some of my favorites that I've owned were red, but they don't look good on me. Yes I'm shallow.

I could go along with a Focusrite and Tele endorsement, fuck I would go along with an endorsement by anyone, even Behringer (I like their cab sim/guitar direct box) But Tele I can get behind.

Right now my interface is Presonus, but I would like a Focusrite in the future....

They do play very nicely. I could probably get away with rocking one live and not looking like a total fool if only because of the context. It's been a while since I played one and I remember thinking they sounded very thin (likely because the body is about 1/16" thick cardboard, though it claims to be mahogany) but that may have been the result of my being in a Les Paul phase at the time.



Whatever works. I say this because I think it's kinda funny despite our fairly divergent tastes in a lot of things there's a whole bunch of gear a lot of us here have (or a variant thereof) or like/appreciate/want. (Though I would go for a different flavour myself re: high gainers, for example.) Said list seems to be Maps-Approved Gear Choices.

The Focusrite stuff I think was the best sounding in its price range when most of us who have 'em got 'em. Just better preamps- clean and open is a vibe, too. Certainly a better one than narrow and constricted.

Not a lot of fans of Floyd Rose trem endorsers on here, but I love the Ibanez Edge, shit I would like one on a 3 pup Tele.....

Cheapy little Tuna Melt.. love it. I've used that pedal for 7-8 years now.

Strats. I love dicking with mine. Not very doom though

Hair metal guitars and amps mostly.

Also: not for everyday use, but: EMGs. Which is most certainly tied to the directly above.

Also also: nylon string guitars. If you visited my house you would expect it because there is one right next to my pillow, but if you didn't, you might not, because i don't think i have ever posted anything recorded with it?

I love nylon/classical guitars. Flat fretbored!

This, and strats.

You would love the guitars my teacher brings over every week. Top notch classical guitars made by Dan Tisher, dude who makes guitars for the classical players at USC. Srsly nothing like playing a 9000 dollar custom brasilan rosewood guitar. Someday, I will own one.....someday

Telecasters, like everyone else. Looks I'm not too fond of, but they sound awesome.


I have a secret love for lower gain super compressed amps ala Cornford amps. You know, the amps that when they're as distorted as they get it's like a dirty clean tone with a compressor in front. Think Akerfeldt's lead tone in the first solo on Windowpane.

I want a lime green single-bucker Charvel-esque super strat sooo goddamn bad.

Also, before I got my Tron amp back, I was very interested in a Soldano/Jet City type amp, but the dirty channel fixed that gas pretty nicely.

One of the most comfortable necks I've ever played (for metal/quickly stuff) was an Epiphone Zakk Wylde sig.. That thing was fucking ridiculous, I would be down as fuck to own one.

I like the tone of some SS amps that others would describe as shitty. I like skronky ass nasty mids.

I kinda have a thing for hipstereque guitars, semi-hollows, and pretty shredders. That Carvin that Devin was offered for his amp was fucking hot!

I'd be down for a tele endorsement too...

BTW, just for the record I also love Teles. So I'm pretty sure it's unanimous love.