Kit’s Secret Guitar, Gear, and Music Page
Guitar stuff, guitar effects stuff, soundclips, videos, David Gilmour / Pink Floyd stuff, photos and more.
Feel free to email me with any questions or comments here: nasnandos@kitrae.net
Copyright 2008 Kit Rae.

I am a fantasy artist and fantasy weapon designer by trade, but my hobby is guitar playing and guitar and gear collecting. Hearing Pink Floyd's 1979 album, The Wall, made me want to learn to play the guitar. Specifically David Gilmour's two incredible guitar solos on Comfortably Numb were the catalyst, though the album is full of a range of great guitar sounds. There is something magical about Gilmour's beautiful tones and playing style that is like heaven to my ears. The Wall led me to all of the other Floyd albums, each full of different and wonderful guitar tones. I have tried to find those tones with my guitars and gear over the years. My first guitar was a crappy G&L SC3 strat, purchased in 1985, which I still have. I moved on to collect a wide variety of guitars - Gibsons, Gretsch, Fenders, Rickenbackers - but the Fender strat was always my favorite one to play. Currently I play and collect different effects and gear. This website was made to showcase various guitars and gear I have owned in the past, and my passion for David Gilmour / Pink Floyd guitar tones and effects. There are audio and video clips for reference and learning, as well as some of my own music. Enjoy!

Check out my YouTube page HERE

A great David Gilmour resource is Gilmourish.Com, hosted by Bjorn Riis. A great site for all things Gilmour and some great gear reviews as well. I gained much knowledge from this site. Some good backing tracks too. Most of the backing tracks used in my audio clips came from this site.

Check out the Gilmourish.Com YouTube page HERE

Another good David Gilmour resource is The Tone from Heaven. A great site for Gilmour's Division Bell tones and gear, as well as info on Gilmour's custom Pete Cornish effects board.

GUITARS AND AMPS

Here are pix of some guitars I have owned in the past. My main axes now are my crimson American Deluxe Strat, an American Standard “Black Strat”, and an American Telecaster.

Fender '04 American Deluxe Mahogany Strat SSS w/SCN pups(50th anniversary), Fender American Standard '08 Strat with custom mods, Fender '91 American Strat Plus w/Lace Sensor pups, Fender '03 American Telecaster w/ash body

Fender '04 American Deluxe Strat SSS w/SCN pups(50th anniversary), Fender American Standard '08 Strat with custom mods, Fender '91 American Strat Plus w/Lace Sensor pups, Burns Brian May Red Special, Fender '03 American Telecaster w/ash body, Gibson SG Standard, 1957 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top Re-Issue, '99 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty, Gibson Les Paul Studio Plus, Gibson '89 Howard Roberts Fusion Lite, Gibson 1972 ES325, '82 Gibson Custom Shop ES335 Dot, G&L '83 SC-3, Paul Reed Smith Custom 24, Peavy EVH Wolfgang Quilt Top Special, '96 Rickenbacker 340

Gretch Nashville Jr. Model 6122JR, Gretsch Nashville Brian Setzer Model G6120 SSU, Gretsch White Falcon 1/ Model G7593, '57 Duo Jet re-issue with Bigsby Tremolo, '90s Ovation Celebrity Acoustic, Sigma DM 12 String Acoustic, early '80s Dobro Resonator Slide Guitar, '05 Martin DM Mahogany Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar

Fender '65 Twin Re-issue amp (my main amp), Fender Cyber Twin Version 1 amp (great practice amp that sounds good with a wide variety of different guitars), Vox Brian May Special VBM1 amp

EFFECTS BOARD AND EFFECTS

This is my pedal board and various pedals I own or have owned in the past. I find a lot of things on ebay, test them, and keep them if I like them or throw them back on ebay. My board is always changing and hopefully improving as I learn more about vintage effects.

2008 PEDALBOARD Revision 4 - Changed to a two amp stereo setup. The left channel includes the CE-2 chorus and the right includes all other modulation. Added a modified Boss BD-2, a second BK Butler Tube Driver, A Boss CS-2 compressor, Ram's Head Big Muff and Pete Cornish P-2, and ditched a lot of stuff I was not using.

Signal Chain - Guitar -> Evidence Audio Lyric cable -> MXR Dynacomp -> Skreddy Lunar Module fuzz -> Digitech Brian May Red Special Distortion -> Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Ram's Head) -> Pete Cornish P-2 (big Ram's Head muff sound) -> Skreddy Pink Flesh (Ram's Head Muff clone with a bit of Colorsound boost thrown in) -> B.Y.O.C Large Beaver ('71 Triangle Muff clone) -> Boss CS-2 Compressor -> Colorsound Overdriver (almost always on) -> Butler Tube Driver #1 with 12AU7 tube -> Butler Tube Driver #2 with 12AX7 tube -> Boss BD-2 Blues Driver with Keey Phat mod -> Boss GE7 EQ -> Boss FV300L Volume Pedal -> TC Electronic ND1 Nova Delay -> RIGHT CHANNEL FROM DELAY INTO -> EH Deluxe Electic Mistress Flanger -> MXR Phase 90 -> Fender '65 Twin Reissue. LEFT CHANNEL FROM DELAY INTO -> Boss CE-2 Chorus -> Fender Cyber Twin version with Fender '65 Twin setting

2008 PEDALBOARD Revision 3 - Added a Tube Works Tube Driver with a 12AU7 tube and swapped the Sunface fuzz for a Skreddy Lunar Module fuzz. Still comparing the Lunar Module fuzz to the Sunface, and comparing and original Digitech Whammy to the newer Whammy 4 for pitch shifting.

Signal Chain - Guitar -> Evidence Audio Lyric cable -> Skreddy Lunar Module fuzz -> Keeley Compressor -> Digitech Brian May Red Special Distortion -> Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (green Sovtek version) -> Skreddy Pink Flesh ('73 Ram's Head Muff clone with a bit of Colorsound warmth thrown in) -> B.Y.O.C Large Beaver ('71 Triangle Muff clone) -> Colorsound Overdriver (always on) -> Butler Tube Driver with 12AX7 tube replaced with 12AU7 -> Tone Works Tube Driver with 12AU7 -> Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer -> Boss GE7 EQ -> Boss FV300L Volume Pedal -> TC Electronic ND1 Nova Delay -> EH Deluxe Electic Mistress Flanger -> MXR Phase 90 -> Electro Harmonix Small Stone EH4800 Phaser -> Boss DD20 Giga Delay -> Boss CE-5 Chorus -> Fender '65 Twin Reissue.

2008 PEDALBOARD Revision 2 - Added a Sunface fuzz , swapped the Boss DD-20 delay for a TC Elctronic Nova delay, and swapped the MXR Dynacomp for a Keeley compressor.

Signal Chain - Guitar -> Evidence Audio Lyric cable -> Analogman Sunface fuzz with BC108 silicon transistor -> Keeley Compressor -> Digitech Brian May Red Special Distortion -> Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (green Sovtek version) -> Skreddy Pink Flesh ('73 Ram's Head Muff clone with a bit of Colorsound warmth thrown in) -> B.Y.O.C Large Beaver ('71 Triangle Muff clone) -> Colorsound Overdriver (always on) -> Butler Tube Driver with 12AX7 tube replaced with 12AU7 -> Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer -> Boss GE7 EQ -> Boss FV300L Volume Pedal -> TC Electronic ND1 Nova Delay -> EH Deluxe Electic Mistress Flanger -> MXR Phase 90 -> Electro Harmonix Small Stone EH4800 Phaser -> Boss CE-5 Chorus -> Fender '65 Twin Reissue

2008 PEDALBOARD #1-Under construction

Signal Chain - Guitar -> MXR DynaComp Compressor -> Digitech Brian May Red Special -> ProCo RAT distortion -> Boss DS1 -> Skreddy Pink Flesh Muff clone -> Absolutely Analog Green Russian Muff clone -> Colorsound Overdriver -> BK Tube Driver with 12AU7 tube -> Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer -> Boss GE7 EQ -> Boss FV300L Volume Pedal -> Boss DD-20 Giga Delay -> EH Electic Mistress -> MXR Phase 90 -> Boss CE-5 Chorus -> Boss DD3 Digital Delay -> Fender '65 Twin Reissue

2007 PEDALBOARD

Signal Chain - Guitar -> MXR DynaComp Compressor -> Digitech Brian May Red Special -> ProCo RAT distortion -> Boss DS1 ->BK Tube Driver with 12AX7 tube -> Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer -> Boss GE7 EQ -> Boss FV300L Volume Pedal -> Boss DD-20 Giga Delay -> EH Electic Mistress -> MXR Phase 90 -> Boss CE-5 Chorus -> Fender '65 Twin Reissue