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What Guitars are your Guitarist using?

Bard2dbone said:
Explain dual humbuckers. Four coils? What makes them dual ?

Their guitars have more toggle switches on them than should be allowed. When I asked why, "dual humbucker" was the explanation I was given.

Sounded good to me. Whether or not it's true I dont know, I'm only a Bass player. ;)
 
Both of my guitarists have Jackson DK2s - one has an Orange and Blue Flame w/ black hardware and DiMarzio PAF Pro bridge humbucker, the other Black w/ chrome and a Duncan JB @ bridge. In addition, one of them recently got an American Strat with:

Non-original all-maple neck
Floyd Rose-compensated nut system
Seymour Duncan (?) EVH bridge humbucker
Fender single coil @ neck
Original Floyd Rose tremolo
Natural ash body
Black hardware
 
The band I play with most uses the following
Rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist = Ovation 12 string
First lead = 1986 Paul Reed Smith or 1962 Flying V
Second lead and rhythm owns a guitar shop so they vary. Recently he has used a Gretsch 6120, a Hamer Artist Korina, a Paul Reed Smith semi-hollow, a 1960 Strat and a Zion 99 Special with Joe Barden pickups. I want the Gretsch, but I don't have $3K laying around. If I did it would go to an Aguilar DB750 instead of the Gretsch.
 
We play in a variety of tunings, so our guitarist always brings at least three guitars.

- 1st Jackson (E tuning) - I'm not sure if this is a Soloist or not. It has a snakeskin finish and two humbuckers.

- 2nd Jackson (E tuning) - I'm pretty sure that this is a Soloist. He hasn't brought it to a gig since last summer. It has a burst finish and stacked humbuckers.

- 1st Charvel (Tuned a whole step down) - Again, I'm not sure of the model. It only has a single humbucker in the bridge position. We do a Motley Crue medley, so he uses this guitar to play in the wierd D tuning that Mick Mars uses.

- 2nd Charvel (E Tuning) - I've only seen this guitar once. He needs to replace the pots in it. It has one of those psuedo-cracked rock finishes. As you can tell by the Jacksons and Charvels, our guitarist is a product of the 80s. :D I keep telling him that all he needs now is a Kramer.

- Schecter C-1+ (Drop D Tuning) - Sunburst finish with two humbuckers. I've been very impressed with Schecter's guitars and basses.

- Schecter C-1 Diamon Series (Drop C# Tuning) - This one's black with two diamond inlays going up both sides of the fretboard.

His rig:

- Two of the older Mesa/Boogie 2x12 cabinets (back when Boogie's cabs were black)

- Sansamp preamp

- Mesa 2:90 power amp

- Digitech effects

- Rocktron EQ

- Rocktron Hush noise-gate (This thing's ruined me for all other guitarists. I cannot stand a noisy guitar rig! Our guitarist has the most quiet rig I've ever heard, even when he's using a lot of gain)

- Furman Conditioner
 
one of my guitarist has an Epiphone Flying V 1958 edition, Seymour Duncan Humbucker and gibson pickups.

the other one, haha, has a suzuki? les paul wannabe. it doesn't soudn too bad but its jsut halarious. I have a suzuki too but its a dirtbike, lol.