If I had to retreat to a desert island, I would choose the Gibson ES-345 and Marshall Bluesbreaker combination, which sounded the most convincing to my ears. Musical greetings from Germany Mic 🙂

Strat, always! Fun fact, I did the exact same thing to my red American Standard, vintage hardware and single ply guard. They look exactly the same.

My 1, 1,1 setup lately has been my harmony silhouette (mini humbuckers), origin magma57 drive/vibe, and a 65 PRRI with 12" greenback. Love it

As what I thought your best was the Gibson Deluxe with the Fender '65 Super Reverb; as for my favorite is a Les Paul thru a Deluxe Reverb with a Tube Screamer. I just love the old 60s and 70s classic rock sound.

great choices!

My dream rig with the gear I have would be- CERIATONE SSS 50WATT amp Oswald Chocolate Burst Strat Marshall Guvnor original pedal Great combo

My rig would actually be stuff I already own. Amp - Marshall JVM410H/ 1960 cab, 2018 Les Paul Traditional, TC electronics Sentry noise gate. Set up has all the gain and clean I could want, on board reverb and very versatile amp.

Love your outlook god bless

Option #3! Thanks for sharing.

Fender American professianal ll, strat, Fender tone master super reverb, and MXR super bad ass distortion pedal, for me. For you, i like your strat rig.

This is going to be good!

Cool video idea. I vote for #3.

Good lord that gold LP with the mini-humbuckers sounds magical, Jack!

Gets it all done. My Peavey Classic Thirty Head with Spring Reverb and a 2x10" cab @ 8 ohms with my MXR Analog Delay. With my Gibson scale Warmoth Strat With a Humbucker in the neck and a Fishman acoustic bridge PUP. Gets it all done.

I'd do fat strat, Fender Deluxe Reverb, and a Metal Zone pedal, none of which I have but I think I could do anything with that combo.

I really loved the tone of the strat thru the Supro amp, but then I have played Strats for 25 years! Play what ya got brothers and enjoy it all!🎸👍

Great video! For you, I liked number 3. But I would of probably swap the Strat for the Gib with the mini's. Cause I always prefer single coils. But that's just me 🙃 For myself? I have often thought, "If my house was burning down ( God forbid ) and I only had time to grab one guitar ( ( have 7 ) and one amp ( I only have 4 ), what would I save. My rig of choice? 1.The amp - it's a no brainer. My all original 65 Super Reverb. It has the TONE I love and nothing else can compare with it. 2. Effects - I don't have that many effects, maybe four. But I would definitely chose - My Boss Distortion DS-1. It goes good with the 65 SR, and the Yardbirds stuff I LOVE playing. 3. Guitar - NOT so easy! "Right" now, I am leaning towards my Fender Custom Shop Jimmy Page "mirrored", Telecaster. Or the 1954 Strat RI. But this rig of choice is what I play 90% of the time; just switching out between the other 6 guitars. My dream rig? I would only add an original 1954 Esquire to it! BTW, your wife is pretty cool!!! If I ever get married, buying me a guitar as part of the marriage ceremony, will be be in the prenuptial agreement, along with she is NOT entitled to any of my guitar stuff if we part! 😆😆😆😆😆😆 Thanks again!

I liked #3 a lot.

I'm a big fan of strats but that Les Paul combo just slays.

been eying that 345 for years now and yours is the most beautiful i've seen so far. wouldn't be my one rig thing, because that would be a tele for versability (paired with a deluxe reverb) but "one true love" for sure

My wife also buys me guitars and amps ! She’s an awesome lady. For me my rig is my mesa mark 5 and my Baja tele or Epiphone 59 lp

Masterbuilt fender tele, maxon od 808 and 1964 super reverb amp, who needs anything more.

I would pick my rig. Gibson LP Standard + Boss Blues Driver + Fender Deluxe Reverb. All 3 of your combos are fantastic. 😎

The Strat and the Supro Amulet are my favorite. The Les Paul and the Fender Super Reverb is my second favorite.

Rig 1. That 345 into the Marshall is *chefs kiss*

What a great wifey !👍I pick # 2 , as for my rig , it would be my 2004 Candy tangerine Strat , Vox AC15 and Tech 21 plexi fly rig

All three! A copout, I know. Love your playing!

Great vid Jack cheers, for me id have the les paul rig but for you its got to be the strat rig 🎸🎸🎸

For you, Rig No 1. I think you could do almost anything on it in your style. For me, my Fender Vintage 2 ‘61 Strat, Fender Princeton Reverb ‘65, & Boss BD-2. But I’d cry for my 😂TS808.

I like rig 3 for you and me! I almost thought youd pick the ric 620. You sound great on that guitar.

I think the first rig suits you best my friend. As for my myself, I've been playing for 19 years and I actually just sold off ALL my stuff within the past year to buy a Fender '68 Vibro Champ reissue, an MiM black strat w/maple fretboard and all single coils, and an MXR Carbon Copy (I have bought a couple other pedals too but that's the one I would keep out of the three). I plan on using this rig for a long time, maybe for decade(s) to come. Although I may upgrade the strat to an American made one at some point, not sure. I can't decide if it seems like it's even worth it to do so, the quality on the newer mexican strats is phenomenal.

Super reverb, definatly

Hands down, Jack, I'd pick rig number 2 for both of us! You've made some really lovely clean recordings, and I think you would miss not being able to express yourself with those kinds of tones. Plus, the overdriven tones have just the right amount of grit, yet smoothness to cover a number of musical styles. And those neck coil tones are absolutely gorgeous! (Plus candy apple is my all time favorite guitar color!) Personally, I thought the LP mini hummers sound wooly on the low strings even with a clean setup. Rig 1 sounded great for the Blues, but maybe isn't as versatile as #2.

My MIM Tele, loaded with Seymour Duncan Nashville Studio pickups, modded with a 4 way switch and reverse control plate. My Fender TM Super Reverb paired with my ThorpyFX The Dane drive/boost pedal.

my modded duel humbucker Harley Benton Tele with blues engine pickups from iron gear ,out-of-phase, coil split switches, spark 40 amp, and demon fx purple pedal

liked the 345 rig!

Third one was my cup of tea. My personal choice: tele american standard,boss overdrive, fender custom vibro champ reverb amp.

Its such a personal decision 😂 Im an old school classic rock/blues guy soooo My 65 Princeton loaded with a 12 inch Creamback, my Les Paul Standard 60's and Keeley Oxblood overdrive. Oh and an MXR Carbon Copy delay!

@strumminronin

3 ай бұрын

A second vote on the PRRI with a 12-inch speaker! Great call, and I like the CreamBack too, though I might lean towards the A-Type, or be too tempted to try the Neo Cream as well as the Neo V. 😅

Number 1 would be my choise, but for you I would choose number 3. I have Sire H7 with Duncan antiquities, Victory Super Sheriff and Tumnus Deluxe. At the moment I would not change any of those to anything else, but it's also nice to have some reverb and delay. And sometimes a phaser. Phasers are cool.

I myself am prejudiced to Rig #1 (I've got the same 2016 Memphis ES-345 in the same colour), but it seemed to my ears that Rig #2 was the one you really connnected with. For me, it would be the ES-345, the Princeton Reverb, and the EarthQuaker Dispatch Master.

The 3rd rig for sure - I love mini humbuckers! Although... replace that strat with a tele and then rig #2 might win!

The Strat / amulet was super nice. Amulet might be my next amp. Of my current stuff, I would go with a Collings 335, Princeton reverb, and probably a morning glory.

They all sound great. I’d probably pick the 2nd rig bc versatility of strat, Amulet has rev/trem built in, and Dude OD. For me I’d pick the PRS 594 Thinline into Boss SD1 into Amulet 10” (bc that’s the one I have!).

For me it would be #1 (without the overdrive), the cleans from #3 are also great. For you i would choose #3

Ive always had a minimalist rig: 1 amp, 1 electric, 1 acoustic, and 3 or less pedals. Always sold/traded for the next thing. Current Rig: Hot Rodded Gretsch G2420 (turned into a 5420T with Dynasonics) into a Nobels ODR-1 into a Keeley Memphis Sun into a Fender Custom 68' Vibro Champ. If I had to pair down for this challenge I would do a Tele into an Echoplex tape unit into a Princeton. Of your three Rigs in this video my favorite was the second. The Amulet amp is amazing, a friend of mine got one last year and gigs with it.

I’d choose your third rig! I’ll cop out as well - in fact I recently did the exact same thing - 3 rigs: Fender Tele + Princeton Reverb, + Vemuram Shanks; Gibson LP, + Vox AC15HW + Flint; Gretsch Electromatic + Magnatone Starlite + Deco. If I had to choose just one, it’ll be the Tele + Vox AC15 + Deco.

I was always surprised the mini buckets were not more popular. The p90 will always be the king of pickups to me though

All of them sound great. I prefer rig 2 for both of us. I don't own a Supro, but really like them. A Strat into a classic sounding amp is hard to beat. Overdrive+reverb and good to go. It is just classic.

Rig 1 and 2 both scream Jack. I love your style on a strat. Rig 2 for Jack. Gimme a a late 90s Jcm2000dsl, a charvel so cal pro mod and the boss eq pedal.

Jack, out of your chosen items, I would go for the Strat, and the Super Reverb. A dream setup would probably be one of those new fangled multi scale guitars with active pickups, a tweed Bassman, and a soundproof, full featured "man cave"!

Everyone's different, but simplicity and ultra utility is the key to a successful desert island experience. Fender Strat, and a do-it-all solid state amp like the Boss Katana. Two things and one cable to connect them. Doesn't get simpler while also having the ability to go from Air Supply to Motorhead without flinching.

Nashville style Tele, JC amp, Analog Alien Rumble Seat

My rig would have to be my Squier SE Stratocaster, my Vox Pathfinder 15R with its proprietary footpedal to activate the boost and tremolo ( but that doesn’t count towards an effect pedal) so I would choose my modded boss bluesdriver pedal. That would be the rig that would always make me happy.

i liked rig number 2 for you 😀👍👍

Have scaled down that last 4 years or so.... All i got left is my 1990 57' reissue strat and your X Mesa Boogie Subway Rocket Reverb!

Telecaster, Super Reverb, Fuzz Face. With the Super, you get to cheat two bonus reverb and tremolo effects into the deal, the Fender blackface tone that’s good for everything from country to rock to RnB to whatever. Fuzz Face with its excellent cleanup ability with guitar volume gives you from glassy cleans to overdrive to Jimi fuzz. The four speaker cab of the Super also leans into the bigger tones of an amp stack. Telecaster can get you from Strat neck pup territory to Les Paul bridge pup territory.

Of the three you demo'd, I'd pick #3. My personal choices, based on my current inventory, would be my 2017 Gibson Les Paul Tribute, into my Walrus Audio Ages overdrive, into my Top Hat Deluxe Custom amp.

Fun but it had me sitting here with my mouth open for a while! 🤣I confess the Strat & the Supro combo got me . . . those amps are really something. For myself, given what I have at hand in the studio I would have to go with my: Fender Blues Junior (it's old!) 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom TC Electronic Alter Ego X 4 - I started out with WEM Copycat & Roland Space Echo in the '70s and can't do without having a coupla 'wobbly tape' delays handy.

Another great video Jack, I liked rig number 2. That Strat is a beautiful guitar. Is it a candy apple red? Keep up the great work!😃

@JackFossett

3 ай бұрын

Very close! it’s a slightly darker shade, back in that era they called it “Candy Cola”

Soooooo that distortion III sounds lovely! My rig would be a Strat(the blue on in my pic), a Princeton, and a OCD or maybe a full drive. The boost in the full drive would be nice. Great video!

I like your #3 For me, LP with P90’s BB Preamp, DrZ Z28 MKII

Mine is my Hamer Artist, Dr. Z Route 66 and JHS AT Drive.

Current mood (with equipment I own): American Standard Tele, Vox AC15HW1X, Keeley Super Phat Mod

Awwww, i was hoping for an appearance of the ivory SG Custom. My vote is for the Les Paul rig.

@JackFossett

3 ай бұрын

That easily could have made it.

After debating with myself a lot, I would go with your second choice. For personal meanings (Wife and Son represented), also for being the best team up in my opinion. But for me, I am staying with the amp (Or maybe a lighter Deluxe Reverb or even a Princeton), and picking a more gainy overdrive or even a Fuzz Face instead. I'm even doubting which guitar to pick, if switching to a Tele or even a Custom 24. But I had clear that would have been my starting point.

The mini humbuckers with the o.d. sound like Dickey Betts.

Les Paul Deluxe rig…Jeff Carlisi is one of my favorite guitar heroes. He recorded all his great 38 Special Albums with one.

For myself, I would choose: the Strat and the Supro amp. Over the years, I have developed a preference for the sound (clarity) of single coil pickups rather than humbuckers. It's easier to make a Strat sound like a hum bucker than it is to make a guitar with hum buckers sound like a single coil guitar. I prefer the look of a Strat compared to a Les Paul, or an SG, and I think in terms of construction Strats are more robust and much more easily modded to one's personal preferences. Since I don't know your preferences regarding pickups, tone, scale length, and the musical styles you favor, etc., I don't feel comfortable deciding which is the one and only rig you should have.

An ES335, Fender Princeton Reverb, and finally a BOSS BD2

This video really made me think, what would be my rig??? I have a nice collection of equipment and it’s a tough one! I think I’d pick my Firebird, my Carr Mercury V, and for pedal? TC Electronic Flashback delay that was a valentine’s gift from my wife

@JackFossett

3 ай бұрын

That rig has a 100% Jack Fossett approval rating.

Nice choices. For you my guess would have been a Fender Telecaster, a Nobels ODR-1 and some Fender Deluxe Reverb. So, I failed...

58 custom shop strat, kingtone duellist, 1964 super reverb

A Schecter Elite with the sustainiac and Fishman Fluence and Floyd Rose. The Boss GX100, and 2 Frfr power cabs.

Okay, as a bass player, my Ibanez srt800dx, a Markbass tube 800, and the Markbass ny210 2x10 cabinet, and for the pedal, one no one ever thinks of, boss tuner! Bam!

Jack's rig: you sound the best with single coils. But with the Twin instead of the Supro. My dream rig: A Tele and a Tone King Imperial II. No pedals needed for this bad boy

Strat, Marshall JVM, tuner

I'm actually putting 2 things I've never owned in my rig. My squier strat, a silver face Princeton, and a good fuzz face that cleans up.

I'd maybe go with the first guitar, second amp. For me I just need an LP or SG special, small fender with a reverb tank and a boost and I'm off to the races.

What a fantastic video Jack have a wonderful Easter long ❤ happy birthday weekend ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@JackFossett

3 ай бұрын

Same to you!

The secret to a happy marriage: Communication is overrated. Buy all the gear 😘

@matt-fn9gr

3 ай бұрын

Happy man that’s the plan

@crsantin

3 ай бұрын

You are correct

I haven't played enough guitars nor amps to make that kind of decision. I must acquire more of both to make an educated choice 😆 Having said that, out of these 3 rigs, I would choose the first one for myself. My main guitar lately is my Epi 335, so that first rig def caught my attention! And lol, great ending!

Strat and supro!

#3 for me! 🙂👍

My ‘59 tele deluxe, my ‘63 Deluxe, and a Nobels ODR-1

As I mentioned, my favorite was rig was #3. Can you share your settings on "The Dude?" I loved that tone.

Fender Strat with Dimarzio Area 51 noiseless pickups, TS-9 Tube Screamer, Fender Deluxe Reverb amp.

I'm thinking you need #1. As for me, probably that one as well but a different color 335.

Gibson SG Std ‘61+Boss OS2+Roland Blues Cube Hot

One? What a horrific thought. But ok…my US Wolfgang in cherry red, no longer available. I’ll take my 5150 Iconic 40 watt combo, nice clean channel. One pedal? Can I glue a delay pedal to my phase 90 and call it one pedal? All your choices sounded great. That Supro is nice.

I have to have 2 guitars. I have had a custom made guitar I designed with input from literally an assistant of Leo Fender who worked by his side 4 hours every day for 2 years. . He is still alive and I promised not to tell anyone as he would be swarmed with those wanting help. I call it the LENARD. Imagine a Fender Jazzmaster body if it was NOT offset. It has a 50's Tele at the bridge and a 50's middle and neck Strat PU. I literally get the best of both Tele and Strat from one guitar. My second guitar is a Gibson SG Standard Ltd Ed with 57 Classic PU. Amp is easy. A Marshall JMP 50. My 3rd one. I bought my first in London UK in 71.

You will not be surprised to know that I would pick the Les Paul Deluxe rig for me & you could play the 345 rig 😁 Your Pelham Blue Firebird is excellent too.

@JackFossett

3 ай бұрын

That Deluxe is just something else. I easily could have picked either of my Firebirds too.

Honestly, my Hot rodded old Peavey Predator covers all the sounds I want to make, plays great, stays in tune. And a Silver Stripe Peavey Bandit with an upgraded speaker can cover just about anything with virtually no maintenance cost. Add a proco rat and there’s no tone I feel like I can’t get.

Strat/Dude/Supro FTW!

Gretsch Streamliner 2622 Xotic AC Booster (or Soul Driven, they are similar) Laney VC30 2x10" (UK model with the Jensens) For higher gain, lawsuit-era Yamaha SG w/P90 "Buckers" from Seymour Duncan (splitable dual P90s) into a Valvetone "YP" 50W head (it's a handwired P2P JCM800) into a 2x12 EB cab loaded with Greenbacks. Pedal? Some sort of delay, probably analog. Maybe a Maxon AD-9 Pro. These things I own or have owned. OR... Pre-CBS Fender Strat, Original Echoplex EP-3 (for the preamp and delay) and a HiWatt DR103>4x12 loaded with Fanes. if we lived in a JUST world, I would own all of these.

I'd definitely go with the LP with mini humbuckers. I fell in love with this tone when I heard Rick Beato use one when testing string gauge. Put 9's on it and you're good to go.🤗😁🙂

@christopherguzzi1316

3 ай бұрын

But I'd pair it with a Marshall.

@kurtweiand7086

2 ай бұрын

The Deluxe sounded phenomenal, the bluesbreaker amp, and the combo Rev. Delay pedal!

DSL 100HR with a vintage 1987 4 *10. Gives me every thing I need... If I were to just add 1 pedal it would be a boost. But in reality, I play largely with a boost, delay (slapback I want in the mix but not noticeable because its not PRESENT in the mix) and a chorus. The biggest thing I notice is my 335 sounds good with both my stage rig and my practice rig (the stage rig comes out if Im playing a GIG) but my 74 Les Paul sounds very uninspiring in my practice right and screams in my GIGing rig. Some times its what guitar sounds best on what amp.

I loved the sound of the ES-345 with the JTM the most here. At home too, a similar combination gives the tone I think sounds best (a 335 copy and the Marshall ST20H JTM with Creambacks). ES-345 as your only guitar would be my choice. But while my JTM is my favourite amp, would be hard to choose as my _only_ amp. The drawback is it won't do squeeky clean the way the Fender Super would - can easily get a bit flubby and driven in the bass. But I definitely prefer the ES to the LP - they are more classic and refined sounding, whereas I find LPs sound a bit cheesy somehow - reminds me too much of 70s/80s hair rock excess. I'd probably pair the 345 with the Fender Super, and call it a day. Here at home, I'd pair my 335 with my Vox AC30, because it's more of an all rounder than the JTM (can do cleaner cleans), has tremelo, spring reverb. I don't have any Fender amps at the moment. They're very expensive even second-hand in Europe. But I'm saving up to buy the Fender Deluxe '65 reissue next year. Gotta have a Marshall JTM, VOX AC30 and Fender Deluxe. 3 amps, 3 guitars (335, Tele or Jazzmaster, LP Special or SG) is as restricted as I'd want to be.

Of the three rigs i like #3 for you just ahead of the first. But if I had to come up with a rig suggestion for you it would be a Friedman Twin Sister (2 gain channels and everything from cleaner Bassman/JTM45 tones to JMP), Keeley Caverns reverb/delay pedal and your 335. You could do just about anything very very well

@JackFossett

3 ай бұрын

Ive actually never played a Friedman, but you're definitely not the first person to recommend them - people seem to just absolutely love them

@VintageRadius

3 ай бұрын

@@JackFossett i think perhaps contrary to popular belief, Dave’s heart is really with lower gain tones. I think you would dig the Dirty Shirley line.

For me it would be a Tele with a Supro Blackmagik reverb and for the pedal I would bring my Danelectro ''The Breakdown'''.

I have an MXR "Badass" distortion (it's an overdrive ) and it's a wonderful thing. Also, I have a Bandmaster tweed with 3 alnico's. I prefer it over my Bassman bc it breaks up sooner.