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Gear That Has Changed My Life

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, aracom amps, booster, clean boost, Creation Audio Labs, custom guitars, distortion, effect pedals, Effects, fender, GAS, gear, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitar picks, guitarists, Guitars, Holy Fire, Mk.4.23, Music, musicians, overdrive, pedals, picks, plectrum, reason amps, Red Bear Trading, Saint Guitar Company, Saint Guitars Benchmark, SM25, Strat, style, Tone, V-Picks, tagged amplifiers, amps, aracom, aracom amps, clean boost, Creation Audio Labs, effect pedals, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitar picks, guitarists, overdrive, pedals, picks, plectrum, reason amps, Red Bear Picks, RoxBox, saint guitars, Tone, V-Picks on March 3, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I recently started a friendship with Vinni Smith at V-Picks – what a cool dude! Not only does he make great picks, but that man can make an axe sing! Anyway, I was e-mailing him this evening about how his “The Snake” pickup has changed my life, and it got me to thinking about specific [...]

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New Site Announcment: Stage Craft Gear Cabinets

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, buying gear, GAS, gear, guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, reason amps, SM25, Tone, tagged amp cabs, amplifiers, amps, cabinets, cabs, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Stage Craft, Stage Craft Gear, stagecraft on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recognize the cabinet? It looks an aweful lot like a Reason Amps cabinet, doesn’t it? That’s because the one of the founders of Reason Amp, Anthony Bonadio, also owns a cabinet making company called Stage Craft Gear, a not very widely known cabinet maker – at least among consumers. They’ve actually made their start as [...]

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Move over OCD, the Holy Fire is where it’s at for me now…

Posted in booster, buying gear, clean boost, Creation Audio Labs, distortion, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, Holy Fire, inspiration, Mk.4.23, Music, musicians, overdrive, pedals, playing live, reason amps, SM25, Strat, Tone, tagged clean boost, Creation Audio Labs, distortion, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effect pedals, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, Holy Fire, Mk.4.23, Music, musicians, OCD, overdrive, pedals, Strat, Stratocaster, tube screamer on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

What do you do when you have two kick-ass overdrive/distortion pedals and don’t know which one to choose because both pedals bring so much to the table? The obvious answer is to use both. But my problem in choosing is exacerbated by limited pedal real estate, so I have to make a choice. Actually, the [...]

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Thoughts on Guitar Amp Speakers

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, aracom amps, buying gear, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, reason amps, SM25, speakers, Tone, tagged alnico, amp speakers, amplifiers, amps, aracom amps, ceramic, driver, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitar speakers, guitarists, Music, musicians, reason amps, speaker driver, Tone on December 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »

My good friend Phil of Phil ‘N The Blanks has been bugging me to write about speakers for the last couple of weeks. I’d talk about this speaker or that in some amp or cab, and he’d say, “There’s your next article, dude. You gotta write about speakers.” Admittedly, I’ve been a bit reticent about [...]

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First Impressions: Saint Guitars Messenger Baritone and Aracom Amps RoxBox 18 Watt Amp

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, aracom amps, buying gear, custom guitars, gear, gear reviews, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, performing, playing live, reason amps, Saint Guitar Company, SM25, Tone, tubes, tagged 18 Watt, 18 Watt Amps, amp, aracom, aracom amps, baritone, baritone guitar, buying gear, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, Guitars, messenger, RoxBox, saint, saint guitars, Tone on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Saint Guitars Messenger Baritone Just wanted to share some initial sound bites that I created with a couple of new pieces of gear. The first is a Saint Guitars Messenger Baritone. Before now, I had never played a baritone, and really didn’t know what to expect. But after playing around with it for a few [...]

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Review: Reason SM25 Combo Amp

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, buying gear, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar lifestyle, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, reason amps, Saint Guitar Company, SM25, tubes, tagged amp, amplifiers, amps, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Music, musicians, reason amps, recording, SM25 on December 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Reason SM25 25 Watt Combo Amp Summary: Incredibly expressive and versatile amp that can deliver a wide range of tones from glassy, sparkly cleans, to lewd, rude, and crude distortion, all in a single cabinet! Pros: Killer tones in all channels. Amp is voiced bright by design, which makes it great to use in the [...]

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New Song: Lookin’ for the Good Life

Posted in amplifiers, amps, Amps/Amplification, GarageBand, gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, reason amps, recording, Saint Guitar Company, SM25, tagged guitar, guitarists, Music, musicians, new song, reason amps, recording, saint guitars on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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