Pedals and Effects

Micah asked about gear, specifically pedals, in his comment. I've been using a lot more rack mounted gear then pedals these days. Only pedals I still use are the ProCo Turbo Rat (Can't live without that) and a DD3 for more for weird space sounds then delay.

I get most of my modulation and reverb out of a yamaha fx500 and a Line6 POD PRO. The Fx500 is a great buy if your looking for spacey effects and digital reverb. They used to retail for about $1100 in the late 80's but now you can find them on eBay for around $70. It's got every kind of reverb you can imagine, even a good reverse reverb. Also has great trem, delay, chorus, flange, and a really shitty sounding distortion (oh well what do you want for a digital box made in the 80's). Theres also this really weird symphonic modulation that eliminates all of the pick attack out of your playing and makes it sound like keyboards or strings underwater or something strange. I don't know how to explain it but if you ever listen to Slowdive (and you should) Christian Saville (sp?) abuses the symphonic modulation and dense reverb of the Fx500 on about every song they play.

The POD PRO is good for more modern (heh heh) sounding distortion, emulation and effects.

Sorry I don't know what type of weird guitar that that you gave Cecil, It never had a label on the headstock and my memory of it is fuzzy at best. Maybe a Hagstrom?