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Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #26 :: ’61 SG Reissue Classic White

17. July 2007

Late last night Gibson posted specs for this week’s Guitar Of The Week, but I was too damned wrapped up in HBO’s Big Love to post… anyway, here it is: GOTW #26––the ’61 SG Reissue done up in Classic White. As far as I can tell the only thing setting this instrument apart from Gibson’s [...]

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 [...]

Hear Amplitube Jimi Hendrix In Action… Courtesy Of Guitar Player Magazine

16. July 2007

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As a companion piece for their upcoming review of IK Multimedia’s Amplitube Jimi Hendrix digital modeling software, Guitar Player Magazine’s Michael Ross has recorded a pretty impressively authentic Hendrix-style jam in Ableton Live, and uploaded it to their website as an mp3. For the recording he apparently used a vintage ’65 Strat fitted with DiMarzio [...]

First Look: Effectrode’s All-Tube Phaseomatic Deluxe

13. July 2007

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Before I sign off for the weekend I just wanted to leave you all with a quick look at this beautiful stompbox I just got in for review––a brand spankin’ new prototype of Effectrode’s Phaseomatic Deluxe. The pedal is essentially a re-ingeneered “Deluxe” version of the world’s first photo-optical, vacuum tube phaser, and like its [...]

It’s Official: Fender Announces The Joe Strummer Telecaster

13. July 2007

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Well, it’s official––Fender today confirmed what we reported a few days ago: the imminent release of the new Joe Strummer Telecaster, which will be based on the battered & beaten ’66 Tele that Strummer played throughout his career, including his time heading British punk royalty the Clash, and his later work with the Mescaleros. Having [...]

BOSS Recreates Roland RE-201 Space Echo In A Digital Pedal

12. July 2007

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Apparently continuing with their recent push towards digitally re-creating some of the world’s most beloved analog guitar gear, BOSS today unveiled the RE-20 Space Echo twin pedal––a digitally modeled re-working of the classic RE-201 tape echo machine. The original Space Echo (right,) which was first offered by Roland beginning in the early-’70s (and stayed on [...]

Gibson Introduces Limited Edition John Lennon Les Paul

11. July 2007

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Gibson today announced yet another handsome addition to its small but illustrious Inspired By series of Custom Shop guitars–the new Limited Edition John Lennon Les Paul. The guitar, which will be produced in a very limited run of just 300 instruments, is a replica of the rather substantially modified early model Les Paul Junior that [...]

Random Acts Of Blandness: Eight Random Things About Cary

11. July 2007

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I was sitting around this morning feeling annoyed by the general lack of good guitar news, when I was pleasantly surprised to find that I’d been tagged by IG as part of the Eight Random Things About Me meme that is going around. So in following the rules of this little game of “online tag,” [...]

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