Guitar/Gear game changers... what were yours?

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SFW":2t2258fs said:
Game changers... The first time I played through a tube amp. That was an eye opening experience. Miles away for the Peavey Bandit 75 I started with. lol!
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I went from a Peavey Bandit 112 to an Engl Savage 60 tube head with a 2x12 Engl Pro vertical slanted cab in 2004 or 2005. Total game changer.

And more recently, after being already on a little lunchbox head trip (H&K Tubemeister 18-->Carvin V3M--->Engl Ironball), once I got a used Mesa Mark V:25 Mini, my joy of playing at home increased tremendously.
I think in the 2 weeks following getting that amp, I played more guitar at home than the 6 months before!
It did coincide a bit with using my TC Alter Ego v2 in Looper mode more, so I had a rhythm track record to play leads over. :thumbsup:
 
G12H30 55hz Blackbacks was the most significant "oh hell yeah, this is big" moment.

Everything else happened in stages and not so much as a "whoa, game changer" thing...maybe my first experience with an original Floyd equipped guitar (because I've really never looked back and have been stuck on them ever since).
 
For me:

MCP pickups: They are in all of my guitars now. Absolute game-changer for me.

Cameron Atomica: Depending on which guitars I use and how it is dialled it nails Anthrax "Spreading the disease" and Accept "Balls to the wall" tones, which are my grail tones. Also excels at Iron Maiden/Judas priest and older school rock to suit my mood.
 
riffermadness":32rcwk0h said:
My EVH 5150-3 LBX..just sounds kickass!
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Bro, I got that amp recently. I was very surprised. Much better than my expectations. It is a beast for such a small amp. Great tones :rock:
 
This!!!!
 

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Stock Marshall JTM45 reissue (bought used for around $600) in 2003.

Game changer because... I hated the tone! :lol: :LOL:

Which led me to learn about tube amps, because I basically re-built it the way I wanted it
with PTP board, lowered filtering, new OT, etc... and I only had to put about $5-600 into it.

So, 2003 was the year I graduated from being an intermediate amp head to an advanced amp head.

I currently have it running at 100V (via variac) and more of a Superlead preamp & tone stack.

Who says you can't have it your way?
 
My game changers:

Ceriatone Chupacabra

Mayones Duvell guitars
 
Fuego":3bm3oh4y said:
My wife recently divorcing me after 23 years. That'll put all sorts of time to play on u.
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That f'n sucks! VERY sorry to hear. Hope you're doing ok?
 
After years of playing Boogies, JCM 800's and Fenders, I found my tone in a Bogner Shiva.

Speakers wise, Celestion 12-65

Pickups - SD Seth Lovers and Dimarzio 36 Anniversary
 
Going from upside down strats ala Hendrix because I'm a lefty...to a Lefty 1987 Ibanez RG550.
 
Got an Axe FX2 a little over a year ago. Perfect gadget for what I do. I used a Pod HD for a while but Fractal audio changed everything for me.
 
Keeping my collection of guitars set at different tunings so laziness would not take hold and keep me from trying to learn songs played in alternate tuning.
 
floyd rose bridge/ nut style guitar

love how solid they stay in tune
 
I was already totally hooked on guitar when I saved up and got my SG and LP (separate purchases). I was quite content with the amps I had at the time. Well, until I "discovered" Mesa amps. They sounded so cool and neat that I ordered a Son of Boogie when they first came out. My plumb line for amps changed at that point. I willingly drank the Kool-Aid.

Having said that, the real "game changer" in my playing came about when I got my hands on a used Mark IV. Fantastic amp! The thing that made this one a game changer was not so much its tone (I was already a fan of the Mark series) or it's being a Mesa (I was already a fan of theirs). Strangely enough, it was the Mark IV's unforgiving character. It was such a step above everything else I had ever played through in that it faithfully amplified every thing I did - especially the mistakes and my sloppy playing.

The Mark IV made me concentrate on technique more than I ever had before. In short, it forced me not just to learn a song well enough to check it off of the list, but to learn the song and make it sound like I really knew the song. My playing moved up a notch (please note that I do not claim to be a great player, "hopefully adequate" is the term I use).

For me, that was a huge game changer!
 
This Esquire from '51 and the Showman, modded by Dumble with the Ultraphonix plataform, were the game changers for me.
That are a lot of amps and guitars that I like, but these two are something else.

 
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