Top 5 most essential gear.
 

You have your half-stack, guitar, and a cord that connects the two. What are the top 5 most essential pieces of gear you need after that? Ok so the strings, plectrums, straps, and other little things are a GIVEN. What about rackmounts? Preamps? Equilizers? Compressors? The list goes on and on.

Plectrums are fairly handy...
Oh, and make sure your guitar has strings on it!

picks, strings, extra guitars, guitar strap, strap locking system

Equalizer

1) tuner
2) strings
3) picks
4) guitar strap
5) something to hang yourself

strap is given... so its considered 0 in my 1-5

1. duct tape... straplocks arent strong enough for a les paul thats guna be swingin around like a sledgehammer

2. 31 band equalizer in the fx loop

3. chromatic tuner (preferably pedal)

4. Delay, nothing sounds cooler than well calculated delay

5. booster pedal or a channel selector switch... anything to get those solos louder than the rhythm

equalizer, good pickups, noise gate/reducer, plectrums are nice too ;)

other than the basic amp, guitar, cables, picks, strings, ect...

footswitch
tuner
noisegate
whammy(wh4)
dl4

basically my pedalboard.

That's the only thing required.. the soundguy will handle the rest...

a tuner could be handy ...

and a delay ...

Guitar -> Cable -> Amp -> ROCK!

footswitch, noise gate/supressor, whammy pedal, wah pedal and good pickups

1)ranch salad
2)Floorboards
3)Roland microcube
4)Fish tank
5)batteryhead.

what is a ranch salad? it sounds... kinky in a disgusting way

1. EMGs
2. Boss GT-8
3. ISP Decimator
4. BBE sonic maximizer
5. mogami cables

cab
head
guitar
cord
fingers

1. electrical AC power outlet
2. oxygen to breath
3. atmospheric pressure
4. 40% humidity
5. tempurature between 65-75 F.

How is duct tape stronger than a straplock, because i too have had a straplock rip out of my guitar when i swung it around my back, flew like a damn bird, quite embarassing.

Please, stop slinging guitars around. The straplock might hold together just fine but the guitar wood will not. At least use longer wood screws, pre drill the holes, and put wood glue on the screw threads when installing the strap buttons. That will help more then anything else.

In no order:

Boss NS2/similar noisegate.
Boss DD-3 Delay.
EQ Pedal/rack(ie: my Fish n' Chips EQ).
Volume pedal.
Dead silence... that's when inspiration comes to me.

In a brokeback mountain kind of way?