If you were a session guitarist........

[Joeytpg]

show us:

1) ONE guitar you'd take with ya all the time (it can be one of your own collection or not, whatever)
2) ONE amp you'd always cary with you


In my case:

1) a real fat strat

2) Blackface Fender Bassman

 

[marshallmel]

Strat with a HSS configuration and my Shiva with the Bogner OS 2x12.

 

[The Hoff]

-My T.A. Droptop (HSH configuration)
-Surreal Atomica
-My pedalboard (if that's allowed in this hypothetical situation)

 

[Joeytpg]

I kept pedals out because there are SO MANY combinations, plus the MAIN sound comes from the guitar and amp (unless you're creating a sound with a given effect as platform)

 

[The Hoff]

I kept pedals out because there are SO MANY combinations, plus the MAIN sound comes from the guitar and amp (unless you're creating a sound with a given effect as platform)

Understandable...
TA Droptop
Surreal Atomica

I'd love to choose my LP (which I consider my number 1) but I get more versatility out of the TA with the 5 way switcher/push pull/in phase-out-phase switch.

 

[Joeytpg]

I kept pedals out because there are SO MANY combinations, plus the MAIN sound comes from the guitar and amp (unless you're creating a sound with a given effect as platform)

Understandable...
TA Droptop
Surreal Atomica

I'd love to choose my LP (which I consider my number 1) but I get more versatility out of the TA with the 5 way switcher/push pull/in phase-out-phase switch.

exactly, I agree.....as a session guitarist versatility is needed

 

[kasperjensen]

I actually have that exact Strat on the right in the picture above. Except I had it painted...!

If I could only chose one guitar and one amp... I don't know. Either the Strat I have or a PRS Custom 24. But I know I like my Strat more than my C24.

As far as amps go, I would probably have the Marshall JVM410 combo.

 

[kasperjensen]

Actually come to think of it... I am dying for a JVM410 of sorts. Paired with a good guitar, my NOVA system, tuner, wah, and volume... The world is yours.

 

[glassjaw7]

I'd bring:
Mayer sig strat
Mayer sig Two-Rock
Mayer sig condoms






Nah, just playin. Probably take a
PRS studio or 513 for the wide range of single-coil and bucker tones,
a Fortin Meathead or XTC of some kind (20th?) , and a small rack with an AXe-fx and some stomps.

 

[chunktone]

Virtually none of the session guitarists here in Nashville bring one of anything. Most will have a Tele, Strat, Les Paul, 335 and maybe a PRS.

For amps you see a lot of Fender's, Matchless, DrZ, Bogner, Marshall etc...

Most bring alot of pedals as well.

 

[Joeytpg]

Kasper, let me see that guitar

chunktone, you are indeed correct, most of them have a bunch of tools. I was trying to make it as versatile as simplicity would allow it.

 

[BYTOR]

If it's a session for jingles, movie soundtracks, many rock,pop and r&b acts, then you will probably end up playing a modeler of some sort. The guys that can play many styles well and have a modeler totally tweaked and ready to handle anything,will get the most calls.
No mics needed, any sound at the push of a button, in and out, time is money, nobody can tell or cares what the guitarist used on a track.

 

[racerevlon]

Suhr H-S-S and Hughes & Kettner TriAmp MKII

 

[kasperjensen]

If it's a session for jingles, movie soundtracks, many rock,pop and r&b acts, then you will probably end up playing a modeler of some sort. The guys that can play many styles well and have a modeler totally tweaked and ready to handle anything,will get the most calls.
No mics needed, any sound at the push of a button, in and out, time is money, nobody can tell or cares what the guitarist used on a track.

Some of the session players I know don't even go to the studios to record. They are hired because they can sort out all their work over a few emails.

They typically have a studio set up and ready to go. Get the call, receive the track, record the part with the appropriate equipment, send it back, producer cuts it in... And that brings us up to lunch

I think online sessions like this will be developed and become the norm in the near future.

 

[kasperjensen]

Kasper, let me see that guitar

chunktone, you are indeed correct, most of them have a bunch of tools. I was trying to make it as versatile as simplicity would allow it.

I will try and upload a picture tomorrow of it. It's the best Strat in the world. Fact. Can't even be argued.

 

[The Hoff]

As far as amps go, I would probably have the Marshall JVM410 combo.

Definitely some versatility to be had with those JVMs

 

[kasperjensen]

As far as amps go, I would probably have the Marshall JVM410 combo.

Definitely some versatility to be had with those JVMs

If they added a delay into it, it would be the ultimate work horse.

 

[Joeytpg]

If it's a session for jingles, movie soundtracks, many rock,pop and r&b acts, then you will probably end up playing a modeler of some sort. The guys that can play many styles well and have a modeler totally tweaked and ready to handle anything,will get the most calls.
No mics needed, any sound at the push of a button, in and out, time is money, nobody can tell or cares what the guitarist used on a track.

Some of the session players I know don't even go to the studios to record. They are hired because they can sort out all their work over a few emails.

They typically have a studio set up and ready to go. Get the call, receive the track, record the part with the appropriate equipment, send it back, producer cuts it in... And that brings us up to lunch

I think online sessions like this will be developed and become the norm in the near future.

You guys are totally spot on, it's how it's being done now, and it'll be the norm in the not so distant future. I do Voice Over work and session vocalist for a living and even though I've done a few jobs from my own home/project studio over e-mail directions, most of the producers here like it when I go to the studio hired studio and record. But I guess that's because they hired ME not my studio.......so obviously I have to go to the hired studio to record my parts.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Gibson Les Paul
Cameron CCV

What happens if they want you to play twangy Country? Give em the finger and turn the gain on 11.

 

[kasperjensen]

Here ya go!