Equipment

A brief description of Jon's equipment (pictures & more details coming soon)

Guitar Based Equipment:

Guitars:

  • BC Rich Beast WMD
    • Normally fitted with 'Heavy Bottom, Slinky Top' strings and usually the guitar used for music tuned below D Tuning
  • Epiphone Explorer Gothic
    • Usually fitting with slinky strings and with the action set as low as possible. This is the most frequently used guitar.
  • Jim Deacon Stratocaster
    • The first guitar I had. Bright tone and a nicely impure sound. Normally fitted with 'standard' strings and used for thrashing out course punk.
  • Alba Telecaster (Project)
    • This was a cheap buy, as new, through Ebay. Currently in pieces as the first project of many. Bought as a practice project for future higher quality works. Providing I don't mess it up (!) this has a chorus effect and a distortion effect being wired in to it's new metallic purple paint job with smoked effects backplate to be underlit with LED light.
  • Alba Stratocaster
    • This was a cheap buy, as new, through Ebay as the original first project but I was rather impressed and surprised buy the quality and feel of this one guitar! I kept it as it was. Prone to going out of tune easily after excessive whammy use (as I'd expect from this) but very clear sound. Often has very thin strings and compliments fuzz pedals.
  • Acoustic
    • This is an acoustic acquired from free from my gran. It has a few splits, old strings and slightly damaged and worn fretboard! Used seldom due to it's 'character' a new acoustic will hopefully replace this for the majority of acoustic playing soon.

Amps:

  • Marshall MG100HDFX
    • My most frequently used amp. An awesome sound. Amp also capable of minor domestic demolition works!
  • Marshall MG15MSII
    • 15W Double stack with a few effects and a rather nice sound for essentially a bargain amp.
  • Marshall MG10CD
    • My first amp kept for portability but I still like the no frills sound it kicks out.

Effects Pedals:

  • Digitech Whammy
  • ZVEX - Fuzz Factory
  • ZVEX - Super Hard On (10th Anniversary Limited Edition - 1 of 2 in the world. I won this on Ebay!)
  • Boss - MXR Phase 90
  • Boss - Metal Zone MT-2
  • Electro-Harmonix - Big Muff Pi
  • Electro-Harmonix - Double Muff
  • Behringer - Ultra Metal UM100
  • Arion - Distortion SDI1
  • Danelectro - Distortion
  • Danelectro - Chorus
  • Danelectro - Compressor
  • Danelectro - Slap Echo
  • Belcat - Chorus
  • Danelectro - Wah pedal. (Cheap and maybe broken with good results!)

Other:

  • Casio Keyboard
  • Clarinet
  • Upright piano (My grans)

More info on other peoples equipment to come soon!