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Epiphone Giving Away A Broadway Archtop
Before I sign off for the day I just wanted to point you all towards the latest “contest” from Epiphone––they’re giving away a beautiful blonde Broadway Archtop, paired with a copy of the book “Epiphone: The House of Stathopoulo.” The guitar features a top of select spruce, laminated maple body, maple set neck (25.5″ scale [...]
Continue reading...Randall’s George Lynch Signature Series Preamp Modules Now Available
29. August 2007
Well, we’ve got it on good authority that tomorrow Randall will be announcing the general availability of four new pre-amp modules for its innovative MTS Modular Tube Guitar Pre-Amp System––the highly-anticipated George Lynch MTS Signature Series. If you’re lucky enough to own one of Randall’s MTS amps, or of course the custom Lynch Box, you’ll [...]
Continue reading...Line 6 And Bogner Unveil Hybrid Tube/Digital Modeling Amplifier
28. August 2007
And They Call It The Spider Valve Well, it looks like the cat’s finally out of the bag… Line 6 has been alluding to something big for the last few weeks, and today they finally let us in on it. In a collaboration with renowned tube-amp maker Bogner, Line 6 has apparently developed a whole [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #32 :: SG Special With EMGs
28. August 2007
Gibson this morning pulled the veils off its latest Guitar Of The Week offering––a smooth new SG Special armed with a pair of active EMG humbuckers. I like the stripped down look… the guitar is part of Gibson’s low-cost SG Special line, so while it shouldn’t dent your pocketbook too much, being a Limited Edition [...]
Continue reading...Fender’s Limited Edition “Thin Skin” ’62 Jaguar In Shoreline Gold Is Now In Stores
21. August 2007
You won’t find it listed on their website, and you certainly won’t stumble onto one while perusing the guitar racks down at your local “big box” guitar store, but if you look in the right places you’ll find that a few select retailers are now carrying this Limited Edition “Thin Skin” ’62 Jaguar decked out [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #31 :: Flying V New Century
21. August 2007
So here it is: the latest custom Flying V to be born out of Gibson’s year-long Guitar Of The Week series––the newly minted limited edition Flying V New Century. To be perfectly honest, I’m very happy to see Gibson taking the New Century line in a whole new direction, because in case you missed it, [...]
Continue reading...T-Rex Unveils Their New Viper Vibe Pedal… Sort Of
16. August 2007
Back in May of this year (2007,) and apparently without an ounce of fanfare, T-Rex released their seriously stylin’ new Viper vibrato pedal onto the world. I don’t know how it went unnoticed––wrapped in black & white snake print it’s one of the more striking stomp-boxes I’ve seen in quite some time––but when I stumbled [...]
Continue reading...Electro-Harmonix Beefs Up XO Line With Q-Tron+ & Octave Multiplexer
14. August 2007
Wow, these guys just can’t stop… apparently not content with their recent release of six brand new pedals, Electro-Harmonix has added yet two more effects to their new XO Line––updated versions of both the Q-Tron and Octave Multiplexer. Q-Tron+ The Q-Tron+ appears to be a suped-up version of E-H’s classic Q-Tron envelope filter––now loaded into [...]
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30. August 2007
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