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like it says on the tin, post your oldest and your newest and discuss the pros and cons. do you like your older setup more or happier with your current one? what would you change on your older setup and what would you bring back to your newer setup?

will post when i've found the oldest ones.

Old: This was a cool setup, I kind of miss the Vox, I don't miss lugging it around though. The Crate was awesome too and it was such a shame it got lost in the post (probably nicked off the van). Before the Vox I had a Peavey Windsor but I don't have any pictures of that, it was pretty terrible though.

New: I've down-sized quite a lot, mainly due to looking just for portability. I travel to gigs and lessons on public transport so I have to use an amp that I can easily move about. The Polytone is brilliant for jazz and is super loud, the Rivera can do any style of music but is a bit heavier (I'm going to be fitting a neo speaker soon to bring the weight down a little). Pedal wise, I don't use wah anymore nor do I use fuzz or much modulation. I run my G3 with mainly delays and reverbs. The volume pedal was cheap and works.

My oldest proper setup and one I used and gigged for years was:
Now I loved that setup, I barely used the Zoom, mostly just for a tuner and then chorus or phase in a couple of songs. What I mostly miss is the fact that I wasn't that bothered about guitars, pickups, pedals, leads, speakers, amps, tubes... I just plugged in and played the damn thing. My spare waking hours weren't spent reading about minute details that may or may not make any difference to your "tone", they were purely spent playing guitar. I really miss that. Unfortunately I don't have any pics.

This is the oldest of my subsequent pedalboards I could find, still playing through the Marshall VS100R at this point:


But don't get me wrong, I love my current set up, we'll my "real" one back in the UK: This has stayed static, amp and pedals-wise, longer than any setup I have had since that first one. And I am really happy with it. The odd pedal or guitar purchase comes and goes but basically it stayed the same for a couple of years now. The amps are just brilliant, I love them all. My RV50 is what I use(d) mostly in the last band and an amp that I fundamentally adore as I mistakenly sold my first one and ended up buying a replacement a couple of years later when I could no longer live with the mistake. James' old '64 Bassman is a glorious thing, I regret not having the opportunity to gig it yet. And the Princeton is a lovely little amp which I use at home.

While I am in China I am rocking this: It does the job nicely.

My oldest setup was just everything I had at the time:
My current one:
The only Pro's to the old one are being able to carry everything in a single gig bag otherwise my current one is better in every way. No need to worry about batteries, far more flexible and plain old sounds better in a band. Though they still follow the same kind of ethos: something to even out the volume, a fuzzy drive and something to boost it.