Gear

The THV30DCE is an auditorium style acoustic cutaway guitar that features a top carved out of a specially selected bearclaw spruce, a deep hued Bocote body, a slim neck profile, and blackwood fingerboard. This is the main guitar I now use for live gigs.  What makes the guitar “smart” is the onboard system that creates sonic effects using the top of the guitar like a speaker woofer to amplify and modify the guitar sounds without being plugged in. Simply put, the guitar can be played acoustically with effects like reverb, delay, tremallo, chorus, even distortion, and a built-in looper. Learn more …

I have had this Guild acoustic guitar since 1980. It has a great, warm sound because of the solid spruce top and mahogany sides and back.  Guild guitars from this period represent some of the best acoustics coming out of the USA at that time. It has a piezo Bascus-Berry pickup, but usually I mic it or use it in unplugged settings. The pickup is passive so when used through the PA it needs a preamp to boost the signal to get a decent sound.

My cherry ES-339 is designed like the larger ES-335, but in a slightly smaller, lighter instrument. The hand-rolled C-shaped mahogany neck has a great feel. A pair of Epiphone Alnico Classic PRO™ humbuckers create the smooth mellow tone of a jazz instrument. Pulling out the volume knobs activates the coil-tapping feature, turning the pickups into single-coil to get a sound closer to a strat. It is my go-to electric guitar because of its versatility.

Great little 2-channel tube amp with footswitch. I have had it for 40 years. Pairs nicely with the ES-339.