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Gear Review: Hardwire RV-7 Reverb (Follow-up)

Posted in buying gear, DigiTech, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, pedals, rock star, Tone, tagged buying gear, DigiTech, digitech rv-7, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, Hardwire, Music, musicians, reverb, RV-7, stereo reverb on February 3, 2009 | 11 Comments »

Summary: With seven (7) licensed Lexicon reverb models, this is one bad-ass reverb pedal, and a great value proposition given the relatively inexpensive price of $149.99 for a true bypass pedal. With the Hardwire series, Digitech has really hit a home run! Pros: Just about the best-sounding spring and plate reverbs I’ve ever heard in [...]

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Insight: Playing Rhythm

Posted in guitar, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, improvisation, inspiration, musicians, performing, playing live, rock star, style, tagged guitar, guitarists, inspiration, making music, Music, musicians, performance, playing guitar, playing live on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In last month’s issue of Guitar Player, Steve Cropper was spotlighted. Cropper was a great session guitarist for Stax records who wrote and played with the likes Otis Redding, and was arguably one of the great guitarists responsible for establishing the 60′s era soul sound. In the interview, he was asked what advice he’d give [...]

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You Will Be Assimilated…

Posted in guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, rock star, Tone on July 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »

A couple of issues ago, Guitar Player mag published an interesting article entitled, “The Homogenization of Rock Guitar Tone” in which they interviewed a few top rock producers, and posed the question (paraphrased): Have we reached the point in guitar tone, where there’s nothing new to be heard? Interesting question that… and if we were [...]

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So You Wanna Be a Rock Star Guitarist…

Posted in guitar, guitarists, Guitars, musicians, rock star, tagged rock star on May 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »

A while back, one of my kids asked me, “Dad, what makes a rock star a rock star?” Being a dad who is also a performer, I didn’t want to give him the trite response and tell him to look up rock star on Google or make comparisons between rock guitarists. I wanted to provide [...]

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