Equipment Rundown 2

This is my effects pedal.

It's a DigiTech RP55. Don't ask me what that means, because I don't know. I use it for pretty much all guitar/bass instrumental tracking. How it works is that you plug your guitar into it, and it outputs into the interface, which goes into the computer. This pedal is how I add effects like distortion, chorus, flanger, phaser, delay, reverb, or what have you. There are originally 99 pre-set effects. Some of them are crazy and I would never use them, and some of them are really cool. The other neat thing about this pedal is that you can edit and save any effect that you want. There are pretty much unlimited options within, and my bandmates and I have spent a lot of time making really good guitar sounds that we are able to use time and again. There are far too many displays and buttons to explain it all, but the two main buttons control the pre-set effect being used (right goes up the number line, left goes down). The arrow buttons control individual effects within a pre-set, which you can make louder or softer, or change the sound of entirely. The screen is a display that shows all of everything you are doing, and all of the little displays are some kinds of effects. It's complicated.

This is my guitar rack.

It's also not actually mine. In fact, none of the instruments pictured belong to me, either. They belong to my bandmates, but we're pretty much like family anyways. Plus we definitely don't have anything against sharing. They stay at my house, so I make good use of them when they aren't being used by their true owners at rehearsals. The instruments pictured (From L to R) include: a red gibson SG (in gig bag), a black Epiphone SG, a plum Mexican-made Fender Stratocaster, a red Epiphone Firebird, and a black Jay Turser Jazz Bass. All of these guitars have been used during my process, and each is used for something different. They each produce a different sound, and some musicians prefer one over another. It all depends. The bass is the only bass we own, however, and gets used for everything. Other guitars that we own and are not pictured are a Takamine Electric-Acoustic, a black Squier Fender Starcaster, a black Squier Fender Bullet Telecaster, and a red Gibson Les Paul custom. We haven't used all of those for recording, but the Electric-Acoustic is definitely a frequenter.