Kristian Naugle's guitar information page

Here are two pictures which show some of my musical equipment that I used to make my music with. They both show my beloved speaker cabinent that I made in woodshop class when I was in high school in 1997. I finished it around Christmas 1997.

It uses 2 Eminence 10 inch 8 Ohm guitar speakers. They are 50 watts each. I made the cabinent from construction grade plywood, I think it was pine plywood. I was for the most part ridiculed for making this by the other students and the teacher somewhat looked down upon me for this project.

But I was glad that I did because I got exactily what I wanted in it and at a fraction of the costs of one that I could buy from a store. My wood working skills are not very good so it has blemishes but it works very well for music.

Listen to Tranquility and tell me what you think. I recorded that in October 2003 with my Peavey Predator guitar, it's Dimarzio Evolution humbucking pickup, through my Boss distortion because I have a bad tube in my amplifier's pre-amp section, then through my Arion digital delay pedal for that effect, then through my Zoom 509 DPM for chorus and equalizer, then into my 1986 50 watt Marshall JCM 800 amplifier to my speaker cabinent that I made.

And after that, the sound was recorded with a $2.12 cyber acoustics ACM-1 microphone into a Creative Labs SoundBlaster sound card into my computer and processes on an AMD K6-2 500Mhz processor. A few key things to my sound is that I had my Evolution wired in series-humbucking instead of the standard parallel-humbucking wiring.

I have what is considered a vintage Marshall all tube amplifier and I have 10 inch speakers which are a good copy of the Electro-Voice speakers. Now some of my audio gets messed up because of the way it is recorded or processed.

I have recorded some things through my RCA camcorder and it was a cheap one. If the audio source is directly facing the microphone in the video camera, it will make the audio have more treble than it really did.

If the audio source is from the side or behind, the camera adds a little bass but retains most of the integrity of the sound. That camera is also sensitive to light levels also. If there is less than sunlight brightness around, the camera diffuses the image for that grainy look.

But if you record in the bright sun, the image looks clear. Here below are some pictures. The one on the left is from 1998 and shows my vintage 1962 Gibson SG junior with my Marshall JCM 800 and my speaker cabinent that I made.

The picture on the right is the same as on my home page and I use my Peavey predator with the DimarzioEvolution in it. This Dimarzio Evolution was made by Dimarzio for Steve Vai in the early 1990's. I love it's sound and they are very good pickups for a reasonable price.

Musician's Friend Has them for around $60-$70 most of the time and in different colors. Also in this picture is my Marshall amplifier and my speaker cabinent that I made. They are in the bottom left corner of the picture.

This is my gear from 1998, my Gibson SG junior, Marshall JCM 800, and my speaker cabinent. This is my gear from 2001 on to the current 2004 with my Peavey Predator, Marshall JCM 800, and my speaker cabinent.