Play Guitar

Mike Boldin in his glory days, on stage St. John's Lithuanian Hall, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Labour Day Weekend, 2000

In busier times, I played a Music Man EVH,
through a BOSS GX-700 Guitar Processor, using
a BOSS FC-50 MIDI Foot Controller,
into a Soldano Reverb-O-Sonic 50W 2x12 combo

My Current Rig

My Equipment List

Amps

Marshall Origin 20 head
MESA/Boogie 1x12 wide cabinet
Traynor Custom Valve 20WR (YCV20WR) combo
Marshall MG30DFX combo
Fender Mustang 1 combo
Hughes and Kettner TubeMeister 20 Deluxe head (not pictured)
Hughes and Kettner TM112 cabinet (not pictured)
Fender Rumble 40 bass combo (not pictured)
EVH 5150III Micro Stack in Stealth Black (not pictured) — actually sounds OK after the pedal board, without disturbing my family or the neighbours 😜

Guitars

Epiphone Les Paul Standard (Cherry Sunburst)— I rewired it with a DiMarzio harness (switch+pots+caps+jack), DiMarzio Super Distortion bridge pickup, and DiMarzio PAF Pro neck pickup
Fender/EVH Wolfgang Special (Sangria)
Ibanez EX370 (Black)— I replaced the middle pickup with some sort of Seymour Duncan stacked single coil pickup and a DiMarzio FRED in the bridge … It will be rewired and generally restored in the next few months, I hope…
Fender Squier Jazz Bass (White)
Godin Stadium '59 (Desert Green) (partially pictured)
Seagull S6 acoustic (not pictured)

Pedals

My pedal board

PedalTrain Classic 2 (the board itself)
Trutone CS12 1 Spot Pro (power supply)
BOSS TU-3W Chromatic Tuner
MXR EVH Phase 90 (phase shifter)
MXR EVH M117 Flanger — most of the time, I just leave it on the "Unchained" setting
Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer (overdrive — I use it as a clean boost)
ProCo RAT 2 (for light distortion)
Soldano Super Lead Overdrive ("SLO" for medium distortion/crunch)
MXR EVH 5150 Overdrive (for heavy distortion/leads)
BOSS DC-2W Dimension C (chorus for guitarists who hate chorus) — here, I run output B into the Traynor
MXR Joshua Ambient Echo (so I can pretend I'm The Edge :-)
BOSS SDE-3000EVH Dual Digital Delay — I use Eddie's presets here for a Wet-Dry-Wet arrangement (L output into the MG30, R output into the Mustang, Direct output into the Origin)

Not currently on my pedal board

Tech 21 SansAmp YYZ — so I can pretend I'm Geddy Lee :-)
BOSS HM-2W Heavy Metal (not pictured) — the updated version of my first pedal from the mid 80's
Electro-Harmonix Soul Food overdrive (not pictured) — a decent Klon clone
MoskyAudio Golden Horse overdrive (not pictured) — a cheap Klon clone
MXR Distortion+ (not pictured)
MXR Super Bad Ass Distortion (not pictured)
BOSS CS-2 Compression/Sustainer (not pictured)
MXR 10-band EQ (not pictured) — I will probably need to darken the overly-bright blue LEDs with a Sharpie
Jim Dunlop Rockman Guitar Ace (not pictured)

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