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Swappable Tube Preamps: Randall MTS Series Hits The Stores

8. August 2007

Tube Freaks Take Note: Randall yesterday announced that its innovative new swappable tube pre-amp system––officially dubbed the MTS Series Modular Tube Guitar Preamp System––is now available for your consumption. I don’t know about you, but as a dyed-in-the-wool tube fanatic the idea of effortlessly hopping back and forth between entirely different tube pre-amps whenever the [...]

Vintage Guitar Reviews The VOX Limited Edition Brian May Custom AC30

16. July 2007

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Someone must have forgotten to give me the memo, because I wasn’t even aware that VOX was producing a Limited Edition Brian May Custom AC30 until I came across this review over at Vintage Guitar Magazine’s website. The big news here is that the amp, which was developed in conjunction with legendary Queen guitar-man Brian [...]

The ’65 Fender Super Reverb: Real Or Reissue?

16. May 2007

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If you’ve ever wandered through the racks of sparkling new “vintage” re-issue amps at your local guitar retailer, wondering exactly what you’ll get when you throw down your hard-earned cash on a piece of Fender faux-history, you might want to give this article over at Guitar Player a good read. In true face-off fashion, the [...]

More On The Zakk Wylde Flying V & Marshall Microstack

3. May 2007

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Just a quick note for the Zakk Wylde fans out there: this morning Gibson finally published a real product page for the Custom Shop Zakk Wylde Flying V, and it includes full guitar specs, the history of the instrument, and a downloadable pdf product sheet. Also, Marshall has posted a pretty impressive demo video of [...]

Introducing The Verbrovibe: Headstrong’s ’63 Brown Vibroverb Replica

27. April 2007

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Hehe, you’ve gotta’ love this… Headstrong Amplifiers, self-proclaimed makers of the world’s only “exact replica of the 1964 Princeton reverb and 1964 Deluxe Reverb Blackface” have done it again, this time producing the first true replica of Fender’s classic, and not to mention seriously hard to come by, ’63 Brown Vibroverb. And they call it [...]

Sound Samples: 24 Top Amplifiers Compared

16. April 2007

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Wow––I’ve gotta’ send out a huge thank you to reader Franck Gestin (in France even!) who was kind enough to clue me in on this great resource. Online German guitar retailer ProGuitar has built an exhaustive section on their website dedicated to comparing some of the top guitar amplifiers, including high-quality recordings made with both [...]

Win An Epiphone Blues Custom, Firebird, & ’69 Camaro Clone

4. April 2007

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Well, there must be something in the air right now, ‘cuz both of the big dogs in guitar building are currently running guitar/car giveaways, and while some lucky bastard’s actually going to win one of these packages, the less than subtle oneupsmanship between Fender & Gibson seems a little silly to me this late in [...]

Guitar World Reviews The Hand-Wired Marshall 1974X

29. March 2007

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Just a quick note: I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been drooling over Marshall’s new 100% hand-wired 1974X combo since it was first announced last year, and in fact I’ve been keeping an eye out for one to test drive in my area, but so far I haven’t had any luck (damned cow [...]

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