If you’re in the market for a recording amp that can produce both classic, sparkling Fender clean tones, and dirty, vintage tube overdrive you might be interested to know that Fender has posted sound-clips for their new Princeton Recording Amp… and they’re pretty freakin’ impressive. The amplifier is Fender’s latest re-working of their popular Princeton Reverb [...]
Continue reading...1. November 2006
According to their website, Line 6 will be giving away a prototype of their new Spider III digital modeling amplifier every month for an unspecified amount of time. As if the allure of free equipment weren’t enough, the amps that are up for grabs here are apparently the actual pieces used by various big name [...]
Continue reading...31. October 2006
Happy Halloween… Boo! And while we’re on the subject of Ghosts & Ghoulies, you might want to take note that the highly-anticipated Blood Drive Distortion pedal (from the good folks at Coffin Cases––who else?!) is expected to be available in stores starting tomorrow, September 1st, 2006. The coffin-shaped Blood Drive pedal is said to sport a warm [...]
Continue reading...30. October 2006
It’s only once in a very long while that I come across an authentic, American Made Gibson SG selling for anywhere near this price range, so I thought this offer was pretty much a no-brainer for our “Price Drop!” series. Music123.com has actually dropped their prices on a whole slew of Gibson guitars recently (perhaps they’re [...]
Continue reading...30. October 2006
Latest Edition To The Les Paul Family You just never know where your path is going to take you… this morning I was researching a post on another Gibson classic––the SG Special Faded––when I stumbled onto the welcome announcement of this beautiful behemoth: Gibson’s new Les Paul BFG. According to their official mini site, the BFG is [...]
Continue reading...24. October 2006
In a world of rather soul-less digital technology, the pure analog tone and just plain funkiness of classic pedals like the Big Muff, Small Clone, and Q-Tron are simply priceless. Heck, many of the greatest guitar tones in 'Rock' have been created with a little help from Electro-Harmonix.
Continue reading...23. October 2006
Well, there’s yet to be an official announcement from Fender, but according to an interview with ex-Police drummer Stewart Copeland (currently posted over on Fender’s website,) an Andy Summers model Telecaster is apparently in development. It’s of course far too early to say what the specs will be, but the instrument will reportedly be based on [...]
Continue reading...20. October 2006
Unless you were hiding in a hole yesterday you probably caught mention of Fender’s latest press release announcing the upcoming debut (slated for November) of their new Limited Edition Custom Shop recreation of Eric Clapton’s iconic black Stratocaster –– affectionately known as Blackie. The ‘Blackie’ replica, which is part of Fender’s Tribute Series of guitars, is [...]
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6. November 2006
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