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Mike Vlahopol & The Crossroads

The Crossroads has sang from the first night when it was founded. The band played in all the profiled clubs in Bucharest and many clubs around the country. Originally formed ad-hoc in 1996 the band played under the name AD-HOC for many years Read More ...

The UnderDog – part I – Sunrise

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Vlahopol Custom Guitars

Greetings & welcome to Vlahopol Guitars! Why Custom Guitars? As a manufacturers of electric custom guitars at Vlahopol Guitars we feel it is an important factor to answer the question, “Why should I get a custom made guitar?” Before we explain we can tell you Read More ...

My Rig

Hi guys, I am still working on a decent video to show you my FULL RIG since some musicians are asking what do I use that my guitars is sounds so good?!.. I have 3 different setups but this is my main one. So, in Read More ...

Endorsements

Hello, I am honored and privileged to have some of the best companies in the world backing me up for so many years now. Thank you for all the support! I will upload pictures with the products as well, very soon! Here are some of Read More ...

Biography

Lord Of The StRings! Guitarist, band leader, producer, song writer, radio and TV personality, session musician, Mike Vlahopol – half Greek – is well known as Lord Of The StRings or “Sharky”. Short History He started to play guitar when he was 15 and a Read More ...

Hi guys,

I am still working on a decent video to show you my FULL RIG since some musicians are asking what do I use that my guitars is sounds so good?!..

I have 3 different setups but this is my main one. So, in few lines my Guitar Rig goes like this:

First of all I have my Vlahopol Custom Guitars with Vlahopol Custom Pickups build for me exclusively by TESLA – which is freaking amazing.

My FULL RIG Signal chain:

Guitar > Bad Horsie II Wah Pedal > DS-1 > Jemini Distorsion > LiberaToe L6 > Helix > 30W FULL CUSTOM HAND WIRED TUBE AMP or DIRECT P.A.

My 2nd RIG:

Guitar > Bad Horsie II Wah Pedal > DS-1 > Jemini Distorsion > Helix > 30W FULL CUSTOM HAND WIRED TUBE AMP or DIRECT P.A.

My 3rd RIG:

Guitar > Helix > 30W FULL CUSTOM HAND WIRED TUBE AMP or DIRECT P.A.

in the LiberaToe L6 I have: 2 Dual Drives, 2 Dual Distortions, 1 Dual Chorus, 1 Dual Delay,(what the heck is DUAL, you may ask?)…
Well, one of the very nice cool thing about LiberaToe is that each single pedal has TWO CHANNELS in One Pedal meaning TWO PEDALS IN ONE. So, Imagine I have 2 Drives and 2 Distortions which means I have a total of 4 Drives and 4 Distortions at my discretion.

the HELIX is used just for some other Reverbs, Delays, Tube Booster and Volume pedal as they are all in one.

Since I got my LiberaToe L6 Platform I am not really using any of the DS-1 or Jemini since I have everything in the LiberaToe L6 but I keep it on the Board just to show people how they all sound.

They are all great but LiberaToe is FREAKING AMAZING.

Here you can find some of his COLLABORATIONS | visit -> Vlahopol Custom Guitars