@@KDH I don't think in my country we had Argos, we had different catalogues back in the 90'. But I think they never offered guitars, just clothes and some toys for the most part... Can't say for sure though since I wasn't interested back then (I believed I was incapable of anything music related, sadly). But I sure remember going through them and wanting the toys. :))
Your dad is a good guy, I love hearing these kind of stories. My stepdad bought me my first electric, he knew how bad I wanted one and surprised me with it for Christmas, it was a knock-off called CC Clark with an H s s setup, and a floating trem. Then the next year he surprised me with a USA Kramer with a Floyd rose, used, from our local guitar store. Dads are the best.
Totally heart warning, so nice to see someone without the "everything I do is obviously perfect and wonderful" attitude... great musicianship will ALWAYS speak for itself, humility and honesty is rarer in TH-cam videos these days.... subbed!
Enjoyed your story. I had a similar experience to you as a young 'un. In the guitar shop window I fell in love with a 2nd hand stat copy. I put a deposit on it, and with help from my part time cleaning job after school, finally saved enough dosh. On that special day when I handed my money over the counter to the cool guy wearing mirror shades and (yes...flairs) I was trembling with excitement. Then the guy smiled and said " just had this one come in, it's the same price". So there it was...an Eros Les Paul in such a bright sunburst it positively glowed...now MINE. Years later when I bought a Strat, I just couldn't bond with it. The nut seemed too narrow and I was forever catching the upper vol knob with my pinky nuckle thus turning myself down or off mid-flow. I didn't keep it long. Like you, I started with an accidental alternative that turned out a blessing. Cheers and happy Xmas.
School of rock was the best place for a musical inspiration. That movie gives a kind of honest look at people that want to make it but "don't" and as a little kid, seeing that made me go "that's still how I want to spend my life. Still worth it."
My first guitar was garbage and weighed a fucking tonne. I swear, it was a chunk of concrete with a green paint job on top of it and played like a club-footed baby..
Awe! Damn. Memories. Looks a LOT like my first rig too. I had a zoom pedal, a Vox 10 watt practice amp, and an 80’s “Vantage” super strat with a reverse headstock. I loved that thing! I played hundreds of gigs with that guitar. I put SO many stickers on it 😆! Eventually got myself a Marshall and started recording using the output on the back. Went straight into my laptop back when you could buy one cord/adapter, and plugged straight into GarageBand. I didn’t use any recording interface, but I made it work. I would tune my guitar down to get bass tones. Every now and then, I’d tune my classical down and use the laptop mic for my bass tones. TH-cam wasn’t really a thing. So I was flying blind. But loving every minute of it. I have so many 20 year old recordings that I would love to re-record. Or maybe release for fun. I was 10-11 years old so it’s all very strange to listen to now. Haha! Take care! Thanks for the awesome content as always. And rock on 🤘🏼
Should be 4 out of 5 Beards. You played a gig with it...that takes balls! Big ones! Mad respect to original rig. Thank you for your killer channel. Keep it coming!
As I'm left handed, getting a guitar locally in Ireland back in the day was a nightmare. I had to travel to Belfast, over 100 miles on the bus! My first setup was an ibanez with Floyd rose, a Marshall MG15 practice amp, and a zoom 505 multi effects pedal. I had to carry all that crap to the bus station, then walk home with it. I was wrecked lol. Then when I went to play it I realised I'd forgotten to buy cables.....
My first setup was with a B.C Rich platinum series warlock with a six inch practice and a rp55.I’ve kept the warlock and obtained a Washburn rb-2002 hammerhead,Shecter c7 deluxe and a Austin strat knockoff.I switched the rp55 out for a Line 6 Pod HD300 which I love.And I have also switched out the practice amp for a Line 6 4x12 with Celestion 30s
Also, when I first watched School of Rock, I was really into rap like Eminem and 50 Cent. I distincly remember after watching that movie that it was 110% clear that I wanted to rock n roll my ass off. The rest is history! That movie probably inspired an entire generation of rockers. Looking back on it, Mr. S was helping these kids learn rock n roll, but he was also helping these kids embrace themselves and help them express themselves through music. Helped Tamika accept her weight, helped Lawrence realize that he was cool af for playing the keys, all that stuff with Zack, and it told the story of the starving artist who just wants to ROCK. That movie is a timeless gem. You should do a video on that!
That's a nostalgic video. I owned the same Washburn X + amp bundle. I was thoroughly impressed with the guitar, which, in terms of quality and sturdiness was equal with much more expensive brands like Ibanez rg270 or Yamaha Rgx 121. Yay for Washburn for making our early years a pleasant experience.
I'm lucky to still have my first bass - a Kramer Striker 422s. By all means not a cool or nice Kramer, especially by ~2001 standards, but it holds up surprisingly well. I turned it into my BEAD (etc) guitar with the bigger four strings from a 5-string set (and filed nut slot, altered setup, etc). The neck feels kinda chunky (I'm used to my jazz bass) and the string spacing is... well, I'll say it is best suited for what I use it for. Looks the part, too! I'm quite glad I was able to get it instead of the bottom-barrel beginner bass. Served me well for a long time and now it's properly back in the arsenal.
I also really like that talkbox effect. If someone reproduced it in a standalone unit and called it the Vomit Box I would probably pick up two of them.
First amp and guitar was a Squier starter pack(strat with 23' scale length and just 1 volume and 1 tone knob, and a 10w frontman amp). That was 2 and a half years ago and now i have a mexican tele and a 50w boss katana mk2.
Aww man, this brought back memories. All of my first gear was given to me by family members. My first rig was my brother's old Squier strat with Select pickups (they were like a crappier version of EMGs) and I'm left handed so I glued the nut on upside down and reversed the strings (didn't know what action or intonation was). My amp was this terrible "bottle of bees" yoke called Prime and the only decent part was a Boss GT-6 that my brother (again) gave me. But hey, it worked and inspired me. I still have all of it except for the GT-6 and I refurbished the Squier years later when I learned about guitar maintenance/modding as a thank you to my brother. Simpler times.
I bought this exact guitar for my girlfriend for her first electric but I've been playing it a lot lately (since my electric broke) and really liking it. I honestly think it's better quality than a $500 dollar Ibanez I bought and got rid of.
My first guitar was a blue Fender Music Master II from the 50s or 60s or something. I've never figured out it's pedigree. My dad's friend gave it to me when I was 11. At age 12 or 13 I got a 92 sunburst fender strat for helping build and brick an addition with my dad. I'm looking at it right now, it looks like how I feel at age 41...
Count your blessings you started playing in the early 2000s, i started in 1988(ish). My starter pack was a Kramer "licensed" Beretta, 20W Peavy single channel solid state amp. The amp was just a practice amp without a dedicated overdrive channel. The result is that without clipping diodes, turning the gain up just results in it getting a little thicker, then woolier, THEN it starts clipping. However the clipping from solid state that isn't designed to clip sounds horrendous. As for the guitar, i would have loved if it had been basswood. I would have been happy with plywood. Instead it was some kind of pressed particle board. The Beretta only had a single volume control, and after a while the "wood" would start to disintegrate and the whole pot would spin around, pulling the wires off the lead. On the upside, i was forced to learn to solder to keep repairing it which lead me to becoming a luthier and later an amp tech. I was able to make a cloud with a silver lining from what was originally a pair of underwear with a skid mark.
I Really enjoyed this. Great video as always! I was reunited with my first guitar after many years about a month or so ago and the nostalgia was huge. Its really cool to look back and think, If it wasnt for this instrument specifically, I wouldnt be doing what Im doing now! Young me would have loved to have a had a fancy effects pedal like that Digitech at the time though!
That’s funny I had the Digitech RP100. I swear almost every teenage guitar player back then started out with one of those. It sounded bad to me even back then, but I didn’t care. I was too busy living out my inner rock star phantasies in my bedroom pretending I was all my guitar hero’s. Love your content!
Very cool. I bought a Digitech ElementXP a few years ago that I use as a PC guitar interface, for playing and for direct recording. Excellent sounds, and it has an expression pedal. Other than that, it's similar to the RP50. One of my first guitars was a Washburn. I wish I still had it. In many ways, it was superior to anything I've played since. It was a cheap Les Paul/PRS style with a bolt-on neck, but it was very solid basswood and maple, and the pickups had excellent character in the tone.
My first guitar was actually surprisingly similar. It was a tanglewood rock 3, which was very similar to the Washburn apart from having the cheap pot metal tuners you’d expect and it was HHH instead of HSS. First amp was a Roland cube 15, great amp tbh. Wish I still had it for practicing because I loved it.
My pop is 74. He is the reason I play guitar. He never got into effects. I gifted him a zoom similar to that with the drums and that’s kinda why I got it for him. I wanted him to not have to tweak… just use presets and then have a beat to play to. It served his purposes.
I recently bought what I consider to be my first guitar. I play left handed but I hate strat shapes. So I wanted a quality Les Paul style like slash had in guitar hero. Took all my summer money from my job but I got myself a Left Handed Greco EG-900 from 1976 with a refinish and modifications. I call her Natasha!
My first (and current) guitar rig is a sun/tobacco burst Squier Affinity Strat going into a Line6 Spider Classic 15. Currently no pedals, but that'll probably change soon cause I want an overdrive/distortion pedal to make it easier to go from clean to distortion I know my rig is far from the best, probably more so on the amp side, but the amp and guitar combo (at least to me) sounds pretty good. Especially for getting that strat tone,
I started out on a Squire Bullet Strat, found in a church basement, in sun-faded "Baltic Blue", which I proceeded to put through a mid-80's Peavey KB300. Yeah.
The good old DigiTech pedal, that same one was my first as well in like 2006. Through my ibanez 15 watt amp and guitar I got in a kit for Christmas that year
Great starter kit you had there! I remember trying out a friends RP50 with the vowel sounding filters. My 1st guitar was a 2nd hand Hohner copy headless guitar with H-H config, two pickup toggle switches Fender Frontman 25R Borrowed Zoom 1010
I had this exact guitar too! Purchased for my 12th birthday and my first "real" guitar until i finally destroyed it when I was 23. It served me super well and played nicely despite treating it like garbage for over a decade.
my first setup, (mid 80's) was an encore les paul junior, twin cutaway, Single HB, haven't seen one since..I can't recall where I got it, may have been mcCullough Piggots in the old building, suffolk st and a gorilla practice amp which ran on a 9v battery. I picked up the Amp at McCullough Piggots. As guitars go, the encore was great, held its tune..playable fretboard .I battered it learning on it and it stood up well. first big amp was a FAL kestrel two channel 100w combo with spring reverb and 2×12s, I thought I was ready for Croke Park🤣 First pedals were Arion distortion, super wet sound, preferred it to even boss metal pedals and they had dual outs. I also had an Arion Chorus and Delay. Again the Arions were plasticky but the sound was good and they stood up real well. I used a Boss metal pedal turned down to mere overdrive and the little Arion to wet the mix, was a much nicer sound than the straight Boss. Spent the next few years gathering all manner of equipmemt, flying v..stack.. live desk...the lot..then sold it all to buy a motorbike..
That’s similar to what I started with. I played through a Cort Guitar / neck through body maple baritone. Sounded amazing with a pyramid 25 watt speaker that sounded like hell blew up and a piano power speaker. I used a bass tube screamer pedal which didn’t improve anything. I still have the guitar. Those were the days. Nothing but the hope to get a better crunch.
My first was an Encore strat copy with a Kustom 10w amp. I was 10 and I think my parents thought I'd never stick at it so they just gave me the Ernie Ball teach yourself book, no lessons besides little things my older friends showed me. I stuck at it and when I was 16 they bought me an Epiphone Les Paul which is still my favourite guitar. I'm 38 now and despite owning a real Gibson Les Paul, that Epiphone is still the guitar I play the most.
I remember getting a RP100 for christmas shortly after getting started. I spent a lot of time in my room playing with the weird noises you could make with that thing, I think a lightly distorted flanger was one of my favorite ones to mess with. I also remember finding a website full of people sharing their custom settings, and thinking that all the "extreme metal" ones I found just sounded like a jar of angry bees ... not that my little practice amp was doing it any favors.
That's an honest little start... You can know, after a year or two, which direction you would wanna go after that. More bucker, or coil? More frets, or cool? Shorter scale (like most SC's), or cool? ^-a-side, or 3? Hardtail or trem? T-O-M or fender-style? You get me.... its a great place to start, and gives you enough options to give you an idea as to where you wanna go next. Not ALL guitars do that so well - Like a Tele or LP copy, if you follow. Amp is the weak link. The guitar itself and the Dod box - awesome entry into the multitudinous soundscapes of the electric guitar, an instrument that is a percussion item one moment, a wind-instrument sounding the next (endless gain sustain... is more like a clarinet or sax or flute, no?)... I think you done ok. Hey, it got you to where you are! And you are a wicked lil' player, KDH. I loved this, seeing your first rig, really fascinating for some odd reason. Anyhooch, enjoy the fretboasr, mate, really wish you and yours all the very best, from a New Forest Studio in England! \M/
Still have my first guitar. 94 Gibson Les Paul Studio. The amp was a solid state 212 fender front man combo. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family where a lot of people played music so I got a decent guitar for a first.
I have a similar story. I was going to get one of those crappy starter packs but my dad took me to a Sears-like department store in Mexico where they had two guitars I really liked: a grey Explorer-type (can't even remember the brand) and an Epiphone LP100 in Vintage Sunburst, which reminded me of the one Slash used in the November Rain video. I was a huge Metallica and Guns n Roses fan so both models got my attention immediatly, but I ended up picking the Epiphone because the Explorer didn't have a toggle switch tip for some reason and I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to be sent to the store (it would've taken like a week). For an amp, I started with a small practice amp from a guitar my dad used to have. I gotta admit I did kinda quit playing the guitar for a while because I couldn't play Canon Rock within my first 2 minutes of playing (to this day I still can't), but I eventually picked it up again and haven't put it down since. I don't get to make a living from it, but I gig and have made a lot of friends along the way thanks to it. Couldn't have picked a better hobby.
My first guitar was a black LTD EC-300 that I got for Christmas back in 2002. Still have it to this day, and not only for nostalgia reasons - The fret ends and fretboard are still among the nicest I’ve ever played! Overall a suprisingly good guitar to this day. Its 20th anniversary is next year, so I’m planning to treat it with some new pickups and tuners 🥰
My first guitar was a Washburn rocker series (very similar to yours but with a pointed headstock) and a crate amp with built in effects, about a year later I got a zoom 505 pedal multi effects pedal.
My first guitar was the same! I actually still use that amp, I never got around to buying a new one sadly, but its served me well over the years. And my first pedal was also digitech! although it was the rp70.
My first “rig” was a Peavey T-15 with a Peavey Decade 10w amp…I had a technics turntable and I would sit for hours moving the needle back on my Rush, VH, Iron Maiden, Scorpions etc records…ahh, the memories 😎
Oh god...the rp55 The bag of bees * i eat my words, god some of those presents just bring up alot of great memories..I wish it was fun like it was back when I didn't care about tone and using recording vsts
Washburn is an underrated compay. I own a '96 4 string xb-100 bought it new, and will never get rid of it, and if I find another Im buying it. Owned a MB-2 years ago, great bass as well. Totally underrated brand
@@DSchea my Washburn XB-Bantum, literally Bottom shelf bass. $300, is made out of the perfect piece of wood, it's not pretty, I stained over it. But the natural, sustain, raw bass grit tone. Bottom frets beautiful tone, when tuned perfect, almost all its frets throw harmonics. It, to this day is completely stock. And I love it. I own a '74 Rickenbacker 4001. And I shit you not, they sound great together.
My first guitar was an acoustic Levin from 1955. A piece of junk that had been standing in the corner for years. Now it's a rare guitar, but with so many large cracks it can't really play any more. It gave me strength & technique, because the strings are about 1km from the fretboard. I recently picked up a Wasburn x200"pro" with emg pickups for ~220$. It's currently my fav 6-string rythm-guitar, producing a far better sound than any of my expensive guitars.
My first guitar rig was a second-hand BC Rich Warlock Bronze Series and a Roland CUBE-10GX. TBH the warlock plays/sounds OK (I ripped the neck pickup out and replaced the bridge with a spare epiphone pickup), and the cube is a solid enough amp for what it is.
I have this multi-effects. My cousin gave them for my birthday around 2003 - 2004. Used them for long time - about 10 years, after this I went for Line6 processor. So my point is that I'm not a professional musician, I'm not gigging. Time to time I jam with my friend. And for this kind of use this effects are pretty good. So yes as was said in the vid good effects.
I wonder what I’d think of my first rig today. It was a similar setup but probably more akin to the Volcano. I think the guitar amp and chord were like 100 bucks from Sears in like 96 or 97. About a year and a half after I got it I found a Mexican strat for 150 bucks at a pawn shop. I gave away the Sears guitar after playing the strat and realizing how a decent guitar should feel and play. That strat is still probably what I play the most and I think it’s the least I’ve paid for a guitar that I still have
I had a zoom 505 back in the day and I bought the zoom FP01 expression pedal for it separately, which could be used plugged into it for volume, wah, whammy and variable harmonizer. One thing my 505 didn't have that your digitech does is the drum machine. I had a separate metronome at a later stage but that drum machine could have improved my timing in the early days.
My first guitar was a £60 black Encore, single humbucker from Argos circa 1993. Played that through a headphone amp, then a second hand 15w Squier or Fender amp. It never had a setup, never had pedals but I could get all the sounds I wanted
Lately I've been running the drum machine of my RP-155 at band practices, because our drummer has been unstable. It actually works. It's tricky to both play and push for breaks but I manage! Tempos are tricky to get right because they are labeled 0-100 and not by bpm. But we have been soldiering on like this to keep moving until another solution is in place. The RP-155 is a seriously handy tool. FWIW
I currently have the holy grail of beginner guitar rig which is ibanez gio and blackstar amp but that being said I am using bias fx and the tones it offers are really good and I also like the neck of my guitar. Forgot to mention I have been playing the same guitar for 6 years now. Keep it up champs \m/
Mine was a 3/4 size Stagg that I got for my birthday from a yard sale for £50 in 2005. The amp was a peavey backstage 10w that my dad surprised me with to go with it. Obviously over the years I got more and more stuff and much better stuff so it sat unused. Ended up giving it all to my cousin for his birthday so that he could get started learning too as he was taking lessons at school but didn’t have a guitar of his own.
My first guitar was a Hamer Slammer (Strat copy). First amp was a old 80s solid state Marshall 1x10 combo. When I pickup a cheap strat copy to try these days, they blow away the Hamer i had lol.
My first was a peavey raptor and rage 158 amp. I still have/use the guitar strap that came with the bundle. My next guitar was a 98’ peavey Wolfgang...
Shit I remember back in the day my grandfather paid for my first lessons, he even bought me a much better combo amp, a Lab Series L5 if you can believe it, but I didn't like it at the time because it didn't sound like a Marshall. I still played that shitty plywood les paul and zoom 505 through it, but the moment I got my first job at 15 I went out and bought a Fender foto flame floyd rose strat. I still have it, say what you want about foto flame, it's pretty rad. Then I went and bought a Marshall DSL 100w. Boy my parents were so pissed at me when I brought that home. Didn't have a cab so I used to sit it on top of the Lab Series and run the original CTS speakers through it. The speakers were kind of worn out and muffled but I didn't care.
I have the same guitar but metalic red, its awesome, and I used the same pedal years ago. cool gear and the gods of metal didnt want you to pick up a bad guitar. and respects to dad for being a supportive father.
my first guitar was a gibson SG crimson some of the knobs were missing but it was a good guitar, after that I bought a flying V , I think it was Samick, then I bought an ibanez strat from a pawn shop in usa, and I had a japanese guitar that had a great body,pickups,bridge but bad neck, so I went to sam-ash and asked them to install the ibanez neck on the japanese guitar body, they adjusted it and playing it was smooth af. and sounded awesome. then I sold it and bought a gibson les paul black beauty, and and digitech RP-6. then sold them and quit guitar for some years but I am back with a similar washburn. that's it... my life story although no one asked 😀
My nearly identical X is sat right here, mine just has the fender style trem bridge with cast blocks and a maple headstock. It has been slightly customsed over the years because I always felt it looked a little plain standard (shame I can't post pictures) and has some more expensive friends now but it was my first electric and still my only solid body. I preferred it to the Full-on Fat Strat a friend crazily lent me when he went on holiday way back when. He said the Washburn played well too. It must be 15 years old now and has stood up well to being bashed about by a beginner but now is due to go back to the shop it was bought from for some fret work and a new nut. The fact I’m getting it sorted out says a lot for what was a £120 guitar. Hopefully if I leave it in plain view the boy will pick up.
You and I are a lot alike. School of Rock and Guitar Hero was the catalyst for my guitar curiosity. I started out with a Washburn I got used for $200 and also had/still have the RP80.
Same sort of story here. Squire strat which was a good one thankfully but can't remenber the little amp. Then later I got a Zoom doodah similar to the one you got. Not the greatest tools to use but as a novice they were like gold!
My first electric guitar was a Squier tele. Amp was a fender frontman 10g. And I was big metal fan. I still am lmao so that was odd. I was a giant fan of 311, RHCP and RATM at the time though so makes some sense.
I love your playing, you have a great feel. This channel is going places. Companies are going to throw gear (and bags of money) at you to demo and no matter how shit it is when you play for the review it will sound like the most amazing new product. We will all go out and buy it and it will always sound like garbage and we will eventually question if we should keep playing guitar at all. You will be rich, we will be broke, surrounded by junk, depressed and just wait in silence for death.
I still have my 1st electric and amp….a Squier Strat and Fender Sidekick Reverb 25 I got at Guitar Center Hollywood in the late 80’s. Yes, it’s one of those Japanese Squiers that people talk about. Plays better than my American Strat.
Those Washburn X-20's were a very underrated guitar. It was my first guitar as well and I regret selling it. My learning rig was a black Washburn x-20 and a Crate GFX-15. No peddles I just kept the Crates' onboard effects knob on the chorus+reverb and just went with it. My son uses that amp now to learn, wish I had kept the guitar for him too.
I had one of those, les paul junior replica, was bought 1987 ish. Gloss black..brilliant little guitar, was hacked bashed chopped and changed and was still reliable
My first rig was a second hand Washburn mercury series and the exact same digi tech effects! I had a peavey amp first. I actually kept the washburn for over 20yrs as it really was half decent and guitar isn't my main instrument. I felt bad when I traded it in for a prs. I probably should have have kept it although I got a fair bit more for it than I'd actually paid for it all those years ago.
I wish I really knew what I had as my first guitar.Second really because my dad bought me a knockoff Les Paul that was way too heavy for my 11yo small frame.He sold that and came home with a brand new 1983 Peavey Mystic,American made with really good sounding "razor"pickups.Only problem it wasn't a Gibson,Fender or like the new shredders Charvel, Jackson or whatever.It was such a good guitar but I only had it a year because I had to have one of the "cool" guitars.I now own one again and I was right rembering it was a great guitar I just wish I knew that then and kept my first guitar.
Oof, I remember my first guitar was a Behringer Metalien and its respective Behringer 15w combo amp, and I had a Zoom 505 II, it was also surprisingly good guitar for the insanely low price it cost
After loosing my guitars in a house fire many years ago, a friend gave me a blue X series so i would have something to play. Today its heavily modded and a solid piece of my current collection. Its a great guirar and i love mine!
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0:44 Only the real ones remember drooling over the guitars in the Argos catalogue back in the day 😂😂😂😂
They don’t even make the Argos catalog anymore😢 Kids today will never know
Is getting somewhere before finding out if it's in stock even a thing now? It's how I DIDN'T end up with a Yamaha Pacifica 112 sadly.
HAHA YES
I used to do the same with the Sears XMas catalog. I really wanted the one with the built in fx.
@@KDH I don't think in my country we had Argos, we had different catalogues back in the 90'. But I think they never offered guitars, just clothes and some toys for the most part... Can't say for sure though since I wasn't interested back then (I believed I was incapable of anything music related, sadly).
But I sure remember going through them and wanting the toys. :))
Your dad not giving up and taking you to another place to get that guitar is heart warming
LOL dad was probably thinking i'm not doing this again we will get a guitar today!
At 6:44 dad realized he was wrong ... 😳
@@rejeancomeau77 I read this comment just as that noise happened 😂
@@Dreyno 🤣
My first guitar was an American Vintage 57 Strat, but I was 42 and gainfully employed.
LOL. We all have to start somewhere!
Lucky you hahaha
Ah, being a child and looking through the guitars in the laminated book of dreams in Argos. Such memories.
Your dad is a good guy, I love hearing these kind of stories.
My stepdad bought me my first electric, he knew how bad I wanted one and surprised me with it for Christmas, it was a knock-off called CC Clark with an H s s setup, and a floating trem. Then the next year he surprised me with a USA Kramer with a Floyd rose, used, from our local guitar store. Dads are the best.
Let's not forget the RP50's chromatic tuner. Helping our young selves actually play in tune for those first fumbling years!
Totally heart warning, so nice to see someone without the "everything I do is obviously perfect and wonderful" attitude... great musicianship will ALWAYS speak for itself, humility and honesty is rarer in TH-cam videos these days.... subbed!
omg i have the same guitar! i love it so much! :D
Enjoyed your story.
I had a similar experience to you as a young 'un. In the guitar shop window I fell in love with a 2nd hand stat copy. I put a deposit on it, and with help from my part time cleaning job after school, finally saved enough dosh. On that special day when I handed my money over the counter to the cool guy wearing mirror shades and (yes...flairs) I was trembling with excitement. Then the guy smiled and said " just had this one come in, it's the same price".
So there it was...an Eros Les Paul in such a bright sunburst it positively glowed...now MINE.
Years later when I bought a Strat, I just couldn't bond with it. The nut seemed too narrow and I was forever catching the upper vol knob with my pinky nuckle thus turning myself down or off mid-flow. I didn't keep it long. Like you, I started with an accidental alternative that turned out a blessing. Cheers and happy Xmas.
School of rock was the best place for a musical inspiration. That movie gives a kind of honest look at people that want to make it but "don't" and as a little kid, seeing that made me go "that's still how I want to spend my life. Still worth it."
My first guitar was garbage and weighed a fucking tonne. I swear, it was a chunk of concrete with a green paint job on top of it and played like a club-footed baby..
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@One-Eye you're one of the 6 people who have seen Valhalla Rising.
Sounds interesting
Awe! Damn. Memories. Looks a LOT like my first rig too. I had a zoom pedal, a Vox 10 watt practice amp, and an 80’s “Vantage” super strat with a reverse headstock. I loved that thing! I played hundreds of gigs with that guitar. I put SO many stickers on it 😆! Eventually got myself a Marshall and started recording using the output on the back. Went straight into my laptop back when you could buy one cord/adapter, and plugged straight into GarageBand. I didn’t use any recording interface, but I made it work. I would tune my guitar down to get bass tones. Every now and then, I’d tune my classical down and use the laptop mic for my bass tones. TH-cam wasn’t really a thing. So I was flying blind. But loving every minute of it. I have so many 20 year old recordings that I would love to re-record. Or maybe release for fun. I was 10-11 years old so it’s all very strange to listen to now. Haha! Take care! Thanks for the awesome content as always. And rock on 🤘🏼
Wonderful story on how you started on the guitar, and we are very grateful for your channel.
3.5 out of 5 Beards.
Did anyone actually ask you to rate this?🙄 I see why people unsubscribe to your channel. Ha ha ha!
Not a bad score
Should be 4 out of 5 Beards. You played a gig with it...that takes balls! Big ones! Mad respect to original rig. Thank you for your killer channel. Keep it coming!
As I'm left handed, getting a guitar locally in Ireland back in the day was a nightmare. I had to travel to Belfast, over 100 miles on the bus! My first setup was an ibanez with Floyd rose, a Marshall MG15 practice amp, and a zoom 505 multi effects pedal. I had to carry all that crap to the bus station, then walk home with it. I was wrecked lol. Then when I went to play it I realised I'd forgotten to buy cables.....
My first setup was with a B.C Rich platinum series warlock with a six inch practice and a rp55.I’ve kept the warlock and obtained a Washburn rb-2002 hammerhead,Shecter c7 deluxe and a Austin strat knockoff.I switched the rp55 out for a Line 6 Pod HD300 which I love.And I have also switched out the practice amp for a Line 6 4x12 with Celestion 30s
Also, when I first watched School of Rock, I was really into rap like Eminem and 50 Cent. I distincly remember after watching that movie that it was 110% clear that I wanted to rock n roll my ass off. The rest is history! That movie probably inspired an entire generation of rockers. Looking back on it, Mr. S was helping these kids learn rock n roll, but he was also helping these kids embrace themselves and help them express themselves through music. Helped Tamika accept her weight, helped Lawrence realize that he was cool af for playing the keys, all that stuff with Zack, and it told the story of the starving artist who just wants to ROCK. That movie is a timeless gem. You should do a video on that!
I'd love to see KDH do a video about School of Rock, and you're analysis of the film is spot on.
Lawrence is good at piano, he will be rrrocking in my show!
I just had a 40 year old flashback to my early gear watching this , thanks for a trip down memory lane!
This is such nostalgia, I have a cheap Washburn 7 string and it’s so damn fun to play ! Thanks Dad, been nourishing my music love for hears
That's a nostalgic video. I owned the same Washburn X + amp bundle. I was thoroughly impressed with the guitar, which, in terms of quality and sturdiness was equal with much more expensive brands like Ibanez rg270 or Yamaha Rgx 121. Yay for Washburn for making our early years a pleasant experience.
I'm lucky to still have my first bass - a Kramer Striker 422s. By all means not a cool or nice Kramer, especially by ~2001 standards, but it holds up surprisingly well. I turned it into my BEAD (etc) guitar with the bigger four strings from a 5-string set (and filed nut slot, altered setup, etc). The neck feels kinda chunky (I'm used to my jazz bass) and the string spacing is... well, I'll say it is best suited for what I use it for. Looks the part, too!
I'm quite glad I was able to get it instead of the bottom-barrel beginner bass. Served me well for a long time and now it's properly back in the arsenal.
I also really like that talkbox effect. If someone reproduced it in a standalone unit and called it the Vomit Box I would probably pick up two of them.
Man, loved your story. Made me think about my first rig as well. Behringer Beginner's Pack. Good days!
This was SO me in the 70s, and luckily somehow cheap stuff ended up working out (sometimes). Great video.
I was so hoping you’d play “Living on a Prayer” with the talkbox sim!
Always interesting and entertaining to hear how people get started playing.
First amp and guitar was a Squier starter pack(strat with 23' scale length and just 1 volume and 1 tone knob, and a 10w frontman amp).
That was 2 and a half years ago and now i have a mexican tele and a 50w boss katana mk2.
Aww man, this brought back memories. All of my first gear was given to me by family members. My first rig was my brother's old Squier strat with Select pickups (they were like a crappier version of EMGs) and I'm left handed so I glued the nut on upside down and reversed the strings (didn't know what action or intonation was). My amp was this terrible "bottle of bees" yoke called Prime and the only decent part was a Boss GT-6 that my brother (again) gave me. But hey, it worked and inspired me. I still have all of it except for the GT-6 and I refurbished the Squier years later when I learned about guitar maintenance/modding as a thank you to my brother. Simpler times.
I bought this exact guitar for my girlfriend for her first electric but I've been playing it a lot lately (since my electric broke) and really liking it. I honestly think it's better quality than a $500 dollar Ibanez I bought and got rid of.
My first guitar was a blue Fender Music Master II from the 50s or 60s or something. I've never figured out it's pedigree. My dad's friend gave it to me when I was 11. At age 12 or 13 I got a 92 sunburst fender strat for helping build and brick an addition with my dad. I'm looking at it right now, it looks like how I feel at age 41...
Count your blessings you started playing in the early 2000s, i started in 1988(ish). My starter pack was a Kramer "licensed" Beretta, 20W Peavy single channel solid state amp. The amp was just a practice amp without a dedicated overdrive channel. The result is that without clipping diodes, turning the gain up just results in it getting a little thicker, then woolier, THEN it starts clipping. However the clipping from solid state that isn't designed to clip sounds horrendous.
As for the guitar, i would have loved if it had been basswood. I would have been happy with plywood. Instead it was some kind of pressed particle board.
The Beretta only had a single volume control, and after a while the "wood" would start to disintegrate and the whole pot would spin around, pulling the wires off the lead. On the upside, i was forced to learn to solder to keep repairing it which lead me to becoming a luthier and later an amp tech.
I was able to make a cloud with a silver lining from what was originally a pair of underwear with a skid mark.
I Really enjoyed this. Great video as always! I was reunited with my first guitar after many years about a month or so ago and the nostalgia was huge. Its really cool to look back and think, If it wasnt for this instrument specifically, I wouldnt be doing what Im doing now! Young me would have loved to have a had a fancy effects pedal like that Digitech at the time though!
I really enjoyed this KDH!! I think I’m gonna watch the Chappers exspose’ for old times sake. Cheers.
Yep. That vid made me rethink my watching. Unsubbed the Chap-hole. Always kinda thought he was self inflated but Man. What a dick.
That’s funny I had the Digitech RP100. I swear almost every teenage guitar player back then started out with one of those. It sounded bad to me even back then, but I didn’t care. I was too busy living out my inner rock star phantasies in my bedroom pretending I was all my guitar hero’s. Love your content!
Very cool. I bought a Digitech ElementXP a few years ago that I use as a PC guitar interface, for playing and for direct recording. Excellent sounds, and it has an expression pedal. Other than that, it's similar to the RP50. One of my first guitars was a Washburn. I wish I still had it. In many ways, it was superior to anything I've played since. It was a cheap Les Paul/PRS style with a bolt-on neck, but it was very solid basswood and maple, and the pickups had excellent character in the tone.
My first guitar was actually surprisingly similar. It was a tanglewood rock 3, which was very similar to the Washburn apart from having the cheap pot metal tuners you’d expect and it was HHH instead of HSS.
First amp was a Roland cube 15, great amp tbh. Wish I still had it for practicing because I loved it.
My pop is 74. He is the reason I play guitar. He never got into effects. I gifted him a zoom similar to that with the drums and that’s kinda why I got it for him. I wanted him to not have to tweak… just use presets and then have a beat to play to. It served his purposes.
I recently bought what I consider to be my first guitar. I play left handed but I hate strat shapes. So I wanted a quality Les Paul style like slash had in guitar hero. Took all my summer money from my job but I got myself a Left Handed Greco EG-900 from 1976 with a refinish and modifications. I call her Natasha!
So I just found this guitar 5 minutes ago for $75 with an awesome case at Sam Ash. Tested it using a keeper amp set up in the store. I picked it up
My first (and current) guitar rig is a sun/tobacco burst Squier Affinity Strat going into a Line6 Spider Classic 15. Currently no pedals, but that'll probably change soon cause I want an overdrive/distortion pedal to make it easier to go from clean to distortion
I know my rig is far from the best, probably more so on the amp side, but the amp and guitar combo (at least to me) sounds pretty good. Especially for getting that strat tone,
I started out on a Squire Bullet Strat, found in a church basement, in sun-faded "Baltic Blue", which I proceeded to put through a mid-80's Peavey KB300. Yeah.
I vaguely remember as a kid I wanted one of them X Series Washburns, however I had to put up with a Yamaha erg 121! 😂
I can't believe how good you made that rp50 sound, because I had one in my early guitar days, and hated it even then
The good old DigiTech pedal, that same one was my first as well in like 2006. Through my ibanez 15 watt amp and guitar I got in a kit for Christmas that year
Great starter kit you had there! I remember trying out a friends RP50 with the vowel sounding filters.
My 1st guitar was a 2nd hand Hohner copy headless guitar with H-H config, two pickup toggle switches
Fender Frontman 25R
Borrowed Zoom 1010
Those guitars are pretty solid. My friend also got this Washburn as his first guitar. I changed his pickups and he still plays it at home.
I had this exact guitar too! Purchased for my 12th birthday and my first "real" guitar until i finally destroyed it when I was 23. It served me super well and played nicely despite treating it like garbage for over a decade.
my first setup, (mid 80's) was an encore les paul junior, twin cutaway, Single HB, haven't seen one since..I can't recall where I got it, may have been mcCullough Piggots in the old building, suffolk st and a gorilla practice amp which ran on a 9v battery. I picked up the Amp at McCullough Piggots.
As guitars go, the encore was great, held its tune..playable fretboard .I battered it learning on it and it stood up well. first big amp was a FAL kestrel two channel 100w combo with spring reverb and 2×12s, I thought I was ready for Croke Park🤣
First pedals were Arion distortion, super wet sound, preferred it to even boss metal pedals and they had dual outs. I also had an Arion Chorus and Delay. Again the Arions were plasticky but the sound was good and they stood up real well. I used a Boss metal pedal turned down to mere overdrive and the little Arion to wet the mix, was a much nicer sound than the straight Boss. Spent the next few years gathering all manner of equipmemt, flying v..stack.. live desk...the lot..then sold it all to buy a motorbike..
That’s similar to what I started with. I played through a Cort Guitar / neck through body maple baritone. Sounded amazing with a pyramid 25 watt speaker that sounded like hell blew up and a piano power speaker. I used a bass tube screamer pedal which didn’t improve anything. I still have the guitar. Those were the days. Nothing but the hope to get a better crunch.
Yeah bro you make that starter gear sound incredibly underrated when youre playing with it!
My first was an Encore strat copy with a Kustom 10w amp. I was 10 and I think my parents thought I'd never stick at it so they just gave me the Ernie Ball teach yourself book, no lessons besides little things my older friends showed me. I stuck at it and when I was 16 they bought me an Epiphone Les Paul which is still my favourite guitar. I'm 38 now and despite owning a real Gibson Les Paul, that Epiphone is still the guitar I play the most.
My first guitar was a Cort Effector, and Explorer with onboard effects.
I remember getting a RP100 for christmas shortly after getting started. I spent a lot of time in my room playing with the weird noises you could make with that thing, I think a lightly distorted flanger was one of my favorite ones to mess with. I also remember finding a website full of people sharing their custom settings, and thinking that all the "extreme metal" ones I found just sounded like a jar of angry bees ... not that my little practice amp was doing it any favors.
I no longer have my beginner rig, but it was a Korean squire strat, Peavey Stereo Chorus 2x10 and Boss ME-30 multieffects processor.
That's an honest little start... You can know, after a year or two, which direction you would wanna go after that. More bucker, or coil? More frets, or cool? Shorter scale (like most SC's), or cool? ^-a-side, or 3? Hardtail or trem? T-O-M or fender-style? You get me.... its a great place to start, and gives you enough options to give you an idea as to where you wanna go next. Not ALL guitars do that so well - Like a Tele or LP copy, if you follow.
Amp is the weak link.
The guitar itself and the Dod box - awesome entry into the multitudinous soundscapes of the electric guitar, an instrument that is a percussion item one moment, a wind-instrument sounding the next (endless gain sustain... is more like a clarinet or sax or flute, no?)... I think you done ok.
Hey, it got you to where you are! And you are a wicked lil' player, KDH. I loved this, seeing your first rig, really fascinating for some odd reason.
Anyhooch, enjoy the fretboasr, mate, really wish you and yours all the very best, from a New Forest Studio in England! \M/
Still have my first guitar. 94 Gibson Les Paul Studio. The amp was a solid state 212 fender front man combo. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family where a lot of people played music so I got a decent guitar for a first.
I'm always amazed by people who still have stuff from their childhood.
I don't have anything from more than a few years ago... probably.
I have a similar story. I was going to get one of those crappy starter packs but my dad took me to a Sears-like department store in Mexico where they had two guitars I really liked: a grey Explorer-type (can't even remember the brand) and an Epiphone LP100 in Vintage Sunburst, which reminded me of the one Slash used in the November Rain video. I was a huge Metallica and Guns n Roses fan so both models got my attention immediatly, but I ended up picking the Epiphone because the Explorer didn't have a toggle switch tip for some reason and I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to be sent to the store (it would've taken like a week). For an amp, I started with a small practice amp from a guitar my dad used to have.
I gotta admit I did kinda quit playing the guitar for a while because I couldn't play Canon Rock within my first 2 minutes of playing (to this day I still can't), but I eventually picked it up again and haven't put it down since. I don't get to make a living from it, but I gig and have made a lot of friends along the way thanks to it. Couldn't have picked a better hobby.
My first guitar was a black LTD EC-300 that I got for Christmas back in 2002. Still have it to this day, and not only for nostalgia reasons - The fret ends and fretboard are still among the nicest I’ve ever played! Overall a suprisingly good guitar to this day. Its 20th anniversary is next year, so I’m planning to treat it with some new pickups and tuners 🥰
My first guitar was a Washburn rocker series (very similar to yours but with a pointed headstock) and a crate amp with built in effects, about a year later I got a zoom 505 pedal multi effects pedal.
My first guitar was the same! I actually still use that amp, I never got around to buying a new one sadly, but its served me well over the years. And my first pedal was also digitech! although it was the rp70.
My first “rig” was a Peavey T-15 with a Peavey Decade 10w amp…I had a technics turntable and I would sit for hours moving the needle back on my Rush, VH, Iron Maiden, Scorpions etc records…ahh, the memories 😎
Oh god...the rp55
The bag of bees
* i eat my words, god some of those presents just bring up alot of great memories..I wish it was fun like it was back when I didn't care about tone and using recording vsts
My first rig was a Samick SG, plugged into a Zoom 505ii into a Laney Hardcore Max 30 watt amp. Good times.
Nothing at all wrong with that beautiful Instrument! Great playing, that guitar can still track!
You upgraded to the rp90 can’t lie, good times, I just naught a korg px4d! Still get it rocking
Washburn is an underrated compay. I own a '96 4 string xb-100 bought it new, and will never get rid of it, and if I find another Im buying it. Owned a MB-2 years ago, great bass as well. Totally underrated brand
My number 1 axe is a 2008 Washburn HM-20 reissue. Check it out its killer! Better than my Jacksons ( ofcourse only my opinion)
@@DSchea my Washburn XB-Bantum, literally Bottom shelf bass. $300, is made out of the perfect piece of wood, it's not pretty, I stained over it. But the natural, sustain, raw bass grit tone. Bottom frets beautiful tone, when tuned perfect, almost all its frets throw harmonics. It, to this day is completely stock. And I love it. I own a '74 Rickenbacker 4001. And I shit you not, they sound great together.
Ahhh yes the RP50 with the Delay Lama preset, loved that shit.
thanks, a blessing in disguise!
My first guitar was an acoustic Levin from 1955. A piece of junk that had been standing in the corner for years. Now it's a rare guitar, but with so many large cracks it can't really play any more.
It gave me strength & technique, because the strings are about 1km from the fretboard.
I recently picked up a Wasburn x200"pro" with emg pickups for ~220$. It's currently my fav 6-string rythm-guitar, producing a far better sound than any of my expensive guitars.
That’s a dope guitar honestly
We all have had our various starting points. This was cool to see.
My first guitar rig was a second-hand BC Rich Warlock Bronze Series and a Roland CUBE-10GX. TBH the warlock plays/sounds OK (I ripped the neck pickup out and replaced the bridge with a spare epiphone pickup), and the cube is a solid enough amp for what it is.
I have this multi-effects. My cousin gave them for my birthday around 2003 - 2004. Used them for long time - about 10 years, after this I went for Line6 processor. So my point is that I'm not a professional musician, I'm not gigging. Time to time I jam with my friend. And for this kind of use this effects are pretty good. So yes as was said in the vid good effects.
I wonder what I’d think of my first rig today. It was a similar setup but probably more akin to the Volcano. I think the guitar amp and chord were like 100 bucks from Sears in like 96 or 97.
About a year and a half after I got it I found a Mexican strat for 150 bucks at a pawn shop. I gave away the Sears guitar after playing the strat and realizing how a decent guitar should feel and play. That strat is still probably what I play the most and I think it’s the least I’ve paid for a guitar that I still have
I had a zoom 505 back in the day and I bought the zoom FP01 expression pedal for it separately, which could be used plugged into it for volume, wah, whammy and variable harmonizer. One thing my 505 didn't have that your digitech does is the drum machine. I had a separate metronome at a later stage but that drum machine could have improved my timing in the early days.
My first guitar was a £60 black Encore, single humbucker from Argos circa 1993. Played that through a headphone amp, then a second hand 15w Squier or Fender amp. It never had a setup, never had pedals but I could get all the sounds I wanted
Lately I've been running the drum machine of my RP-155 at band practices, because our drummer has been unstable. It actually works. It's tricky to both play and push for breaks but I manage! Tempos are tricky to get right because they are labeled 0-100 and not by bpm. But we have been soldiering on like this to keep moving until another solution is in place. The RP-155 is a seriously handy tool. FWIW
I currently have the holy grail of beginner guitar rig which is ibanez gio and blackstar amp but that being said I am using bias fx and the tones it offers are really good and I also like the neck of my guitar. Forgot to mention I have been playing the same guitar for 6 years now. Keep it up champs \m/
Mine was a 3/4 size Stagg that I got for my birthday from a yard sale for £50 in 2005.
The amp was a peavey backstage 10w that my dad surprised me with to go with it.
Obviously over the years I got more and more stuff and much better stuff so it sat unused.
Ended up giving it all to my cousin for his birthday so that he could get started learning too as he was taking lessons at school but didn’t have a guitar of his own.
Yes! I can relate to that "School of rock" story. I wonder how many people bought an instrument after seing that movie.
My first guitar was a Hamer Slammer (Strat copy). First amp was a old 80s solid state Marshall 1x10 combo. When I pickup a cheap strat copy to try these days, they blow away the Hamer i had lol.
It really doesn’t sound too bad. That’s super awesome that ‘school of rock’ was your into to guitar.
My first proper electric was a Washburn Lyon red Strat copy. Solid guitar. I still have it, but it's completely unplayable lol!
My first was a peavey raptor and rage 158 amp. I still have/use the guitar strap that came with the bundle. My next guitar was a 98’ peavey Wolfgang...
Shit I remember back in the day my grandfather paid for my first lessons, he even bought me a much better combo amp, a Lab Series L5 if you can believe it, but I didn't like it at the time because it didn't sound like a Marshall. I still played that shitty plywood les paul and zoom 505 through it, but the moment I got my first job at 15 I went out and bought a Fender foto flame floyd rose strat. I still have it, say what you want about foto flame, it's pretty rad. Then I went and bought a Marshall DSL 100w. Boy my parents were so pissed at me when I brought that home. Didn't have a cab so I used to sit it on top of the Lab Series and run the original CTS speakers through it. The speakers were kind of worn out and muffled but I didn't care.
I have the same guitar but metalic red, its awesome, and I used the same pedal years ago. cool gear and the gods of metal didnt want you to pick up a bad guitar. and respects to dad for being a supportive father.
my first guitar was a gibson SG crimson some of the knobs were missing but it was a good guitar, after that I bought a flying V , I think it was Samick, then I bought an ibanez strat from a pawn shop in usa, and I had a japanese guitar that had a great body,pickups,bridge but bad neck, so I went to sam-ash and asked them to install the ibanez neck on the japanese guitar body, they adjusted it and playing it was smooth af. and sounded awesome.
then I sold it and bought a gibson les paul black beauty, and and digitech RP-6.
then sold them and quit guitar for some years but I am back with a similar washburn.
that's it... my life story although no one asked 😀
My nearly identical X is sat right here, mine just has the fender style trem bridge with cast blocks and a maple headstock. It has been slightly customsed over the years because I always felt it looked a little plain standard (shame I can't post pictures) and has some more expensive friends now but it was my first electric and still my only solid body. I preferred it to the Full-on Fat Strat a friend crazily lent me when he went on holiday way back when. He said the Washburn played well too. It must be 15 years old now and has stood up well to being bashed about by a beginner but now is due to go back to the shop it was bought from for some fret work and a new nut. The fact I’m getting it sorted out says a lot for what was a £120 guitar. Hopefully if I leave it in plain view the boy will pick up.
You and I are a lot alike. School of Rock and Guitar Hero was the catalyst for my guitar curiosity.
I started out with a Washburn I got used for $200 and also had/still have the RP80.
Same sort of story here. Squire strat which was a good one thankfully but can't remenber the little amp. Then later I got a Zoom doodah similar to the one you got. Not the greatest tools to use but as a novice they were like gold!
My first electric guitar was a Squier tele. Amp was a fender frontman 10g. And I was big metal fan. I still am lmao so that was odd. I was a giant fan of 311, RHCP and RATM at the time though so makes some sense.
Still got one of those Digitech's sitting in the back of the cupboard - Inspired me to go drag it out for a 'memory lane' journey.... Cheers.
I love your playing, you have a great feel. This channel is going places. Companies are going to throw gear (and bags of money) at you to demo and no matter how shit it is when you play for the review it will sound like the most amazing new product. We will all go out and buy it and it will always sound like garbage and we will eventually question if we should keep playing guitar at all. You will be rich, we will be broke, surrounded by junk, depressed and just wait in silence for death.
I still have my 1st electric and amp….a Squier Strat and Fender Sidekick Reverb 25 I got at Guitar Center Hollywood in the late 80’s. Yes, it’s one of those Japanese Squiers that people talk about. Plays better than my American Strat.
Those Washburn X-20's were a very underrated guitar. It was my first guitar as well and I regret selling it. My learning rig was a black Washburn x-20 and a Crate GFX-15. No peddles I just kept the Crates' onboard effects knob on the chorus+reverb and just went with it. My son uses that amp now to learn, wish I had kept the guitar for him too.
I started with a black double cutaway Encore. I loved it. Still use it today if I need a tuning that my other guitars floyd bridge can't do.
I had one of those, les paul junior replica, was bought 1987 ish. Gloss black..brilliant little guitar, was hacked bashed chopped and changed and was still reliable
My first rig was a second hand Washburn mercury series and the exact same digi tech effects! I had a peavey amp first. I actually kept the washburn for over 20yrs as it really was half decent and guitar isn't my main instrument. I felt bad when I traded it in for a prs. I probably should have have kept it although I got a fair bit more for it than I'd actually paid for it all those years ago.
Your old lad is a good man! Got a Yamaha EG112 in Argos some many years back
I wish I really knew what I had as my first guitar.Second really because my dad bought me a knockoff Les Paul that was way too heavy for my 11yo small frame.He sold that and came home with a brand new 1983 Peavey Mystic,American made with really good sounding "razor"pickups.Only problem it wasn't a Gibson,Fender or like the new shredders Charvel, Jackson or whatever.It was such a good guitar but I only had it a year because I had to have one of the "cool" guitars.I now own one again and I was right rembering it was a great guitar I just wish I knew that then and kept my first guitar.
Oof, I remember my first guitar was a Behringer Metalien and its respective Behringer 15w combo amp, and I had a Zoom 505 II, it was also surprisingly good guitar for the insanely low price it cost
After loosing my guitars in a house fire many years ago, a friend gave me a blue X series so i would have something to play. Today its heavily modded and a solid piece of my current collection. Its a great guirar and i love mine!