Since I'm mostly interested in sounds rather that 500 notes a minute, I'm looking for new ideas for how to create sounds using electric guitars, as few pedals as possible and a good amp. Beside, here's a good chance to brag about your equipment :D

My personal fav gear to date is:
Fender Strat (Japanese, still Fender)
Turbo Rat distortion
Gibson 20W Combo amp with a 12" and loads and loads of reverb.

When rewireing my guitar (reversing polarity), all knobs at 10 and cross feeding I get a flute sound (no kidding) for solos and, when adding tremolo, a huge Hammond organ sound with clipping. Absolutely brutal. Something close to Neil Young's sound, although not quite as wild.

When reducing the distortion, it gives me a surf/60's garage sound that is so maddenly sweet :brain:

I have a Yamaha Pacifica 120s and Marshall Valvestate 20w amplifier, I'm not much into creations of different sounds I don't have enough money for that :(

Well, the reason I bought the Japanese Fender, was because it was the cheapest playable guitar they had. The Gibson amp was also dirt cheap because no serious 'heavy metal dude' would look twice at that relic with only 20W. I, however, am not a 'heavy metal dude' :D
All in all I'd say it cost me about 700? over a 1 year period. Plus a fortune in strings. Now, THAT is expensive.
Beside, Brian May made his own guitar from scratch... That's sound!

Well for that you need some skill eh? :P
I'm thinking of getting me a wah pedal, or a digital effects pedal but those are mostly crappy at least what I've seen that my friends have...

A not only rotten dirt cheap, but FREE distortion box is a broken radio-casette player (preferebly a Radionette). Plug your guitar into it and get the most savage DESTRUCTION sound you'll ever hear, Wah-Wah? It's nothing but a tone controller attached to a pedal of some sort. If you get a potmeter, it should be easy to build one yourself.

Well I don't know how I have no knowledge of electrics and mechanics...

I got an Epiphone Les Paul Standard and a Godin Freeway Classic through a Marshall MG100DFX with nice but not the best effects and good reverb. With that I use a Ibanez VL - 10 Volume Pedal and a Danelectro Daddy O Overdrive Pedal. My CryBabyWah should be on the way home now...

Sounds... One thing I really like is putting the heavy distortion of the Marshall and the softer one of the Danelectro together. Ultra fast feedback but blow away distortion: I need a Noisegate. I don't make that much experiments since I need only standard sounds for my Coverband: Clean (w/ Chorus), Crunch and...Heavy/Lead Sound (the lead sound is with chorus, too...)

If you mix heavy distortion with fx like chorus, flanger, phaser.... you will get some decent tones. Know that "Paranoid"-Solo? I love it. *g*

Epiphone makes good guitars. I played on an SG once, the only fault i found was the balance, but then again, that is in the SG's design, Gibson or Epiphone. BTW: Gibson Thunderbird is the most awkwardly built guitar ever. I wish I had a Mosrite. I have no idea how they're like to play, but they look so cool!! :D (I want to have at least one guitar were I can say "It sounds crap, but maaaan, just LOOK at it!". YAY! :D

I guess it'd be best if you can say: "Man, in the one hand it sounds delicious and on the other the look is marvellous!"

Ibanez SZ320, Fender Frontman ( :whistling: ) and Ibanez SM7 Smash box distortion.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mr Miau @ Jun 8 2006, 09:13 PM) [snapback]235340[/snapback]</div>Well, my guitar is more like "it sounds heavenly, and is wonderful to play, but it looks like a heap". Sound over visuals! :brain:

heLL0:
Ibanez? I never played them much. Aren't they 'built for speed' with very narrow fretboards? Are they easy to play?

The SZ series have a thiner neck so it takes some time to get used to it. I find them easy to play.

:)
I am using my Soviet pickup on acoustic guitar. And ReValver and Guitar Rig 1.0 to make distortion and stuff.
:D

Other than that I have bass guitar. It's normal, I bought it couple of months ago. :)

I use an old Marshall 50W amp, and a BC Rich Beast tuned down to B. The old amp has a pretty nice sound to it especially with really downtuned guitars. Makes for a nice bassy sound. Dunno how old it is though, but it's at least 15 years, maybe 20. I sometimes use a Boss Overdrive too. That one is pretty old too i think, because I can't find it in any shops or anything. :P Must have gone out of production.

I agree very much with the sounds rather than 500 notes a minute. I play mostly very slow bluesy stuff, and some drone/sludge-ish stuff in the vein of Khanate and Burning withc if anybody here listen to that kind of stuff. :P

Yeah I like playing Sludge too, ... and DOOM ! Grief and bands the like.

With clean sound, my set-up is great for slide and finger picking, with over-done destortion, just about anything that needs a brutal sound. Black Sabbath-ish riffs, power chords in general, HC, punk, rock'n'roll. Lots of controllable feedback to play with too.

heLLO: Please say you're from around my area. Nobody plays doom around here. :( I wanna plaaaayyyyy !

You're in Norway :( , I'm in Croatia. Too bad. Unless you have some recording experience :max:

Why don't you two use the Internet? Get an audio recording program, agree on wav. files, and send ideas and riffs to each other. You don't have to get a rehearsal studio or anything. You don't even have to use the same program, as long as you agree on file format. I suggest wav. since that is the closest you get to 'real sound'. MP3 is smaller, but has poorer audio quality.

I ment that under 'recording experience'... ^_^

Hehe. The only thing I can get near recording is plugging my guitar into the line in on my soundcard... And that doesn't sound very nice. I got to get me one of those Line6 Guitarports. Or maybe just a decent mic... :P

There's a thread here about recording software. Most recording software has fxs, and allow fx plug-ins. I use CakeWalk, no amp, just guitar to line-in. With fxs, the sound can be quite decent for sketching an idea, or maybe even serious recording. I know CakeWalk is easy to learn how to use, and I'm sure the others are not much more difficult.

I use Nuendo 2 for serious projects. It's has much options, effects, drum processor blablabla ....

Cool. Gotta check those out then. But I'm not very fond of digital stuff, especially when applying effects and stuff. I tried revalver once... Lag was a huge problem. I usually plug it trough my amp and then into the soundcard. A bit better sound and no lag, and it won't hurt the soundcard as long as I'm careful with the volume out from the amp.