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Archive for November, 2008

New Song: Lookin’ for the Good Life

Posted in Amps/Amplification, GarageBand, Guitars, Music, SM25, Saint Guitar Company, amplifiers, amps, gear, guitarists, musicians, reason amps, recording, tagged guitar, Music, recording, guitarists, musicians, saint guitars, reason amps, new song on November 28, 2008 | No Comments »

I love getting those intense spurts of creativity when I’m using awesome equipment. I just happened to have a couple of review pieces on hand: A Saint Guitars Benchmark and a Reason SM25 combo amp. This song started out as a simple riff this morning, and grew from there. It’s called Lookin’ for the Good [...]

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Calling all Guitar Teachers and Students!!!

Posted in Guitars, Music, buying gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar instruction, guitar lifestyle, guitar teacher, guitarists, improvisation, instruction, learn guitar, musicians, teaching guitar, tagged chords, guitar, guitar instruction, guitar teacher, guitarists, instruction, learn guitar, Music, musicians, scales, tabs, teach, teaching guitar on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

One of GuitarGear.org’s readers recently plugged his guitar instructional site, Teach Wombat, in one of my articles about moving into a new chapter of my guitar life. I normally don’t like random product plugs, but being a teacher, I’m always looking for teaching aids and resources, so I checked out the site, and it definitely [...]

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Engrish: Pull string with wiggle fingers over hole

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, musicians, tagged guitar, Music, guitarists, musicians, engrish on November 20, 2008 | No Comments »

English: Play Guitar
Earlier today, a friend of mine sent me one of the funniest Engrish things I’ve ever seen: http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/
This inspired me to see if I could find good Engrish stuff about guitars. There aren’t many, but I did find this one:
http://engrishfunny.com/?s=guitar
I remember getting a kick out of some of the manuals I used to [...]

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The BOSS VPB-2: A New, Cool Concept

Posted in Effects, Guitars, Music, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, musicians, pedals, tagged guitar, Music, guitar gear, gear reviews, guitarists, musicians, Effects, pedals, BOSS, pedal reviews on November 19, 2008 | No Comments »

The problem with evalutating pedals online is that you can’t really audition them very easily - especially in combination with other pedals. But BOSS has gotten us one step closer with the new BOSS VPB-2 or Virtual Pedal Board. It’s very cool in concept. You go to the VPB site, select a style of music [...]

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New Gear: MXR ‘76 Vintage Dyna Comp Pedal

Posted in Effects, GAS, Guitars, Music, Tone, buying gear, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, musicians, pedals, tagged Effects, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Maxon, Music, MXR, new gear, pedals, Tone, vintage gear on November 14, 2008 | No Comments »

Over a year ago when I was looking for a compression pedal, one of the pedals I reviewed was the MXR Dyna Comp, along with the Boss CS-3. I didn’t like either of them. The CS-3 was way too squishy and I thought it significantly altered my tone. The MXR wasn’t quite as bad, but [...]

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Reason Amps: Notes from a Conversation with Reason Amps founder Anthonly Bonadio

Posted in Amps/Amplification, Guitars, Music, amplifiers, amps, buying gear, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar lifestyle, guitar rigs, guitarists, musicians, performing, recording, tagged amplifiers, amps, anthony bonadio, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Music, musicians, obeid kahn, reason, reason amps, Tone, vintage gear on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is a continuation and expansion of the original new gear article I wrote previously…

Riddle me this…
So what do you get when you cross a veteran cabinet maker with an electrical engineering guru? Right. A new amp manufacturer. But the two guys I’m talking about, Anthony Bonadio and Obeid Kahn, didn’t just want to create [...]

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Gear Find: Reason Amplifiers

Posted in GAS, Guitars, Music, Tone, amplifiers, amps, buying gear, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, musicians, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, amps, guitar gear, gear reviews, guitarists, musicians, fat tone guitars, reason amps on November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Need a tube amp? Now you have a Reason. Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun. All right, I know what you’re thinking, “Another amp manufacturer?” That’s what I thought at first until I saw some video clips (I’ll get to those in a sec). But on the flip side of that mild complaint, thank the universe [...]

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When all else fails, go with the original…

Posted in Effects, Guitars, Music, Tone, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, musicians, pedals, tagged guitar, Music, Guitars, guitar gear, gear, gear reviews, guitarists, musicians, Effects, pedals, wah, Cry Baby, Dunlop on November 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »

About a week ago, I wrote an article about getting a wah pedal. I had tried out and listened to several, and actually dug on a lot of them, but I just kept on coming back to the original Cry Baby. There has just been something about the classic sound of the Cry Baby that [...]

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