Posted in AmpliTube, Amps/Amplification, GAS, Guitars, IK Multimedia, Music, amplitube fender, amps, announcements, buying gear, fender, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar reviews, guitarists, musicians, tagged amp, ampl, amplification, amplifiers, amplitube fender studio, amps, fender studio, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, ik, IK Multimedia, Music, musicians on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IK Multimedia Amplitube Fender Studio
Summary: Need a quick, portable way to get your guitar ideas down on track, with an incredibly easy-to-use USB interface for performing live through software models? Look no further. Amplitube Fender Studio will get you rocking in minutes!
Pros: The inclusion of Fender Studio SE, RiffWorks T4 and Amplitube X-Gear, provide you [...]
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Posted in DigiTech, GAS, GarageBand, Guitars, Miscellaneous, Music, buying gear, distortion, effect pedals, fender, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar reviews, guitarists, modes, music theory, musicians, new gear, tagged GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar tuners, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, Peterson Tuners, StroboRack on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peterson VS-R StroboRack
Summary: Super-accurate, super-sophisticated, yet super-easy-to-use. With point-one cent accuracy and built-in temperament and sweeteners, plus a huge display, accurate tuning is a breeze with this unit!
Pros: The big display makes tuning extremely easy, and the built-in sweeteners (I’ll get into that in a bit) ensure that once you’re tuned you sound great.
Cons: None, [...]
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Posted in GAS, Guitars, Music, buying gear, gear, gear find, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar reviews, guitarists, musicians, new gear, tagged Fernandes Guitars, GAS, gear, gear find, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new gear, relic guitars on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are some things in life that you just can’t pass up. About a week ago, my friend Jeff Aragaki of Aracom Amps mentioned people finding great vintage gear in pawn shops. I kind of stored that tidbit away for future reference, mainly because there aren’t any pawn shops really close to where I live. [...]
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Posted in Amps/Amplification, Guitars, Music, Roland Cube 80x, Tone, amps, announcements, gear reviews, guitar gear, guitarists, musicians, new gear, tagged amp, amplification, amplifiers, amps, cube 80x, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, roland, roland amps, Roland Cube 80x on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was sniffing around the Internet for some juicy tidbits of information, and ran across a great demo by Johnny Demarco demonstrating the various capabilities of this awesome amp! I have a Cube 60, and this amp totally kicks its ass with built-in tap tempo delay, a looper, and 10 amp models. I’ve always contended [...]
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Posted in 6V6, Effects, GAS, Guitars, Hardwire, Music, amplifiers, amps, effect pedals, fender, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitar picks, guitarists, musicians, overdrive, pedals, picks, plectrum, tagged amp, amplification, amplifiers, champ 600, effect pedals, Effects, fender, fender champ, fender champ 600, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians on June 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I forgot how much fun this little 5 watter is to play! I just put in new tubes to make it have more headroom, as this is an incredibly pedal-friendly amp. The tubes I got were as follows: NOS JAN-Philips 12AT7 and a JJ 6V6. The idea behind this is that the 12AT7 has about [...]
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Posted in GAS, Guitars, V-Picks, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar picks, guitarists, picks, plectrum, tagged GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar picks, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, plectrum, V-Picks, v-picks psycho on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
V-Picks Psycho
Summary: It’s big. It’s fat. It’s humongoid! And it has TONS of tone!
Pros: Just a joy to play with! You can get big fat tones out of this, but its slightly pointy tip and sharp edges produce subtle harmonics that make notes ring.
Cons: None
Price: $20 (but it’s $10 right now as the June special!)
Specs:
1 [...]
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Posted in Effects, GAS, Guitars, IK Multimedia, Music, buying gear, effect pedals, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitarists, mac, musicians, new gear, pedals, tagged effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, ik, IK Multimedia, Music, musicians, pedals, recording, steal, StealthPedal on June 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
IK Multimedia Stealth Pedal
Summary: It’s official, IK Multimedia’s StealthPedal has just been released! The new StealthPedal is a lesson in packaging up familiar components to produce something totally unique. This is the first of its kind: A USB-powered guitar audio interface/software controller that you can use for recording or playing live as well as controlling [...]
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Posted in GAS, Guitars, Music, buying gear, gear, gear find, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar strings, guitarists, musicians, new gear, strings, wyres, tagged GAS, gear, gear find, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar strings, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, strin, strings, wyres, wyres strings on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Up until recently, I had never heard of Wyres Strings until I was in a nostaligic mood, and looked up the great French acoustic guitarist, Pierre Bensusan, went to his site, and saw this page, where he was endorsing Wyres Strings. Intrigued, I looked up the Wyres string company on the web, and looked at [...]
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Posted in AmpliTube, Effects, GAS, Guitars, IK Multimedia, amplitube fender, amps, announcements, buying gear, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, tagged AmpliTube, buying gear, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, IK Multimedia, Music, musicians, overdrive, pedals, StealthPedal on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those computer-based DAW jockeys, you know about IK Multimedia’s Amplitube software. I recently wrote a review of Amplitube Fender Edition, and loved it. Now I have an even bigger reason to love it, and that’s IK Multimedia’s StealthPedal which looks like an expression pedal but is actually a fully-functional, USB-powered audio interface WITH a [...]
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Posted in GAS, Guitars, Music, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar reviews, guitarists, musicians, tagged GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar reviews, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, nash t-52, nash telecaster, telecaster on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My good friend Jeff recently lent me his Nash Tele – a T-52. He’s one of those guys who’s totally into that relic look. Me on the other hand? Give me a nice shiny guitar any day! And even if I found an old guitar at an estate sale, I’d have it cleaned and brightened [...]
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