Archive | Guitars
Welcome To The EGR Chop Shop: Let’s Build Us A Boost Pedal
Inspired by my recent successful foray into Strat mods, not to mention IG’s great “Gator Muff” Pedal Build Project, I’ve decided to tack a new department onto Electric Guitar Review––the EGR Chop Shop. Heck, I figure if I’m gonna’ get my hands dirty poking around inside various guitars, amps, stompboxes and the like I may [...]
Continue reading...Clapton & Mayer To Perform On Good Morning America Tomorrow
19. July 2007
Details are a bit sketchy at this point, but according to an e-mail going out from Fender, John Mayer and Eric Clapton are expected to perform on ABC’s Good Morning America between 8:00-9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning (Friday, July 20.) I’m not sure if this is purely a promotional tie-in, but Mayer was apparently Fender’s first [...]
Continue reading...Speed Linking: Lovepedal COT 50, Washburn Shoots A Guitar With A Shotgun, Reverend’s New Warhawk II
18. July 2007
Usually, when a slow news day comes around I just jump on it as an opportunity to get working on my next review… unfortunately, I managed to blow a tube or two in my favorite amp this week, so the review I’m working on is on hold for a day or two while I wait [...]
Continue reading...Shielding Your Strat For Buzz-Free Playing: Quieting The Beast
17. July 2007
If you’re one of the many guitar players who’s been told over and over again that there is little to be done about the dreaded 60-cycle hum that emanates from your beloved Strat whenever you plug it in––it’s time to rethink things. Sure, a good old fashioned shielding job can help a bit, but even [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Vintage Guitar Reviews The VOX Limited Edition Brian May Custom AC30
16. July 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Hear Amplitube Jimi Hendrix In Action… Courtesy Of Guitar Player Magazine
16. July 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...First Look: Effectrode’s All-Tube Phaseomatic Deluxe
13. July 2007
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 [...]
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20. July 2007
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