Abe

The trio.

This is what I run through when practicing here at home, from right to left, then into Guitar Rig 7 on desktop PC. Considering an upgrade to a Boss RC-600 to replace the Boomerang, as the Boss saves memory after power down and I would be able to save the best of the loops and even incorporate it into a band jam setting.

PRS SE Hollowbody II My most recently acquired guitar. I adjusted the intonation a bit and tweaked the humbucker pickup heights. I'm quite pleased with this guitar. It is not a top tier guitar by this company but I find it to really fit me. Set up right it is a tonal tone machine. This is the first hollowbody electric guitar I've liked this much. I use 10-46 gauge strings on it.

Taylor 514ce V-class Came to me new and nicely set up. Low action, as good of an intonation as I can ask for. Sounds nice when played well. I and others have said that Taylors are kind of 'trebly' compared to Martins. I have limited experience with Martins though. I use 11 gauge strings on this.

Breedlove Organic Solo Pro Concert CE Nylon Good to have around. Softer strings to play on when I've beat up my fingers. A bit off on the intonation and octaves in some areas of the fretboard which does hold me back from totally enjoying the guitar. But it's got some playing time.

Hello. I'm gonna post some pics of the current guitars I play, as well as the little rig I go through when I'm practicing here at home. I might take it back into a band jam setting again like I used to.

Thanks for the background DianeB. I'll try to contribute what little I can here. I'll share some info, guitar pictures, info on the rig I use, and also some old live jams we used to record. Sometimes it's just nice to know of mutual interests concerning these things. I just recently started to be active on the guitar again so maybe I'll have more to share. I'm not looking to spam you or sell anything. I'll try to reoccur here with some regularity and add a bit of activity to the forum. 🫡 🎶

Hello. My name is Jeremiah and you can call me Abe here. I posted another thread in this forum section having not seen this thread. To summarize, I recently got back into guitar playing after a long hiatus. Did a lot of stretches and exercises to gain back hand and finger strength, and also got some callouses to return. I'll try to check in often and share some stuff. I look forward to reading and being part of discussion about music, guitar playing, and the gear we use to do it with. Thanks for having me. 👋

Hello. I'm new here, and you can call me Abe. I've lived in New England, USA all my life. Grew up in MA, then lived in ME for 17 years, then moved back down here to MA. I have had guitars around all my life, and me and all my siblings could play some basic guitar chords since a young age. We can also drum and play some other instruments. I started to play piano decently but I no longer have access to one. Our parents were both artistic and could play, more so on the guitar for my Dad and other forms of art for my Mom. Between the ages of 16-24 especially I really took it seriously, studied, and learned in a self-taught way to become more of both a rhythm and a lead guitar player. I like all kinds of music, but I'm more of a jazz-inclined freestyling jamming sort of player. I never play anything the same way twice and I'm actually kind've useless when it comes to composition as I don't memorize things very well and I play via feel. I can sometimes wing it from scratch successfully. Guitars I've had were Harmony, Hohner, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Ibanez, Taylor, and most recently a PRS. Much of which was lost due to unpredictable life events and an electrical house fire in ME. (All humans and cats made it out safely though and that's what matters most.) So recently after a long hiatus I decided to get back into playing music on guitar. First I acquired a new Taylor acoustic. Every time I started playing a lot on it I would do too much too fast and create blood blisters on my fingertips before gaining my callouses back. So next I bought a Breedlove Nylon string guitar and played more on the softer strings. Most recently I acquired my current electric guitar which is a hollowbody PRS that I really like. I've since stretched and worked out my hands and fingers and gained back some callouses, mostly catching back up to where I left off years ago. Myself, two brothers, and a friend are thinking of getting back together to jam like we used to so I'm hoping we can have some musical success with that. So basically I registered at some forums like this just to be relevant with the musicality of my efforts. Currently I've been on a break from playing a couple hours per day because I seem to have sprained my left ring finger a bit excitedly doing full step bends on the G and B strings. 🎸 I may share some pics of my current guitars and some old live jam recordings of myself and my bros playing together. Thanks for having me. I hope to share and learn some about playing music and the instruments and gear we do it with. 👋