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Marshall’s Class5 Combo Drawing Rave Reviews… Due In Stores Soon

Finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel… Marshall’s latest entry into the low-powered amp market, the all-tube Class5 Combo, has been available and getting great reviews across the pond for many months, but appears to be only now starting to show up in the States — I can’t wait to get my [...]

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Video Demo: Marshall’s New Class5 Combo

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Gibson Giving Away Tickets To Les Paul Tribute Concert, Plus A Les Paul Studio

Sweet… according to Gibson this morning the company will be giving away ten pairs of tickets to the upcoming Les Paul Tribute Concert –– to be held November 19th at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN –– with one lucky winner receiving a grand prize of not only two tickets to the concert, but also a [...]

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PRS 25th Anniversary Guitars Now Online

Just a quick note for all you rabid PRS fans –– the company’s recently announced 25th Anniversary line of limited edition guitars is now online and ready to be ogled. There are a bunch of gorgeous instruments here, but stand-outs for me are the 25th Anniversary Carlos Santana model (check out the purfling on that [...]

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Epiphone Debuts New Limited Edition ’59 Les Paul “Burst”

In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, Epiphone has announced yet another beautiful reissue of the classic 1959 Les Paul Standard “burst” — this time in a strictly limited run of 1,959 instruments. The guitar looks to be highly accurate to its nearly royal lineage, boasting a whole host of appointments you’d expect from a ’59 [...]

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Audio Samples: Hear Epiphone’s New Emperor Swingster In Action

Emperor Swingster Demo from Epiphone Company on Vimeo. Nice… as I noted a few weeks back, Epiphone has updated its long-standing Emperor line of jazz archtops with the new Emperor Swingster, and this morning the company published a short audio demo of the instrument, including a diagram of all the settings used, and sound samples [...]

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Hey, Follow Us On Twitter!

Hey everybody, I just wanted to write you all a quick note that you can now follow Electric Guitar Review via Twitter.

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Creepy Halloween Effects Using Nothing But Electro-Harmonix Pedals

Hah!… with Halloween right around the corner I just had to share this video with you all. It’s Chicago musician Bill Ruppert showing you how to make a bunch of old-school monster movie sound effects using nothing but an electric guitar and a bunch of Electro-Harmonix foot pedals. My particular favorites are the creepy “Voices [...]

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