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VOX Expands Heritage Collection With Three New Models
If you remember, VOX started this year off with a bang when they announced their new Heritage Collection line of guitar amplifiers––including the super-slick Limited Edition AC15H1TV––meant to celebrate the company’s 50th Anniversary in the rock & roll business. Today the company upped the ante when it announced three new additions to the Heritage Collection: the [...]
Continue reading...Ibanez & Bungie Giving Away Custom Halo 3 Xiphos Guitars
5. October 2007
If you’re a mad Master Chief fanatic like me (much to my beautiful wife’s dismay,) you’ll definitely want to get in on this giveaway from Ibanez and Bungie. As if the Halo 3 marketing juggernaut weren’t already powerful enough––they’re pawning off energy drinks for gawd’s sake––Ibanez is now set to give away three Custom Halo 3 [...]
Continue reading...New York’s Music Zoo Gets Exclusive Ultimate Relic Series Strats
2. October 2007
If you’re looking for something a little different in the way of a “Relic,” you might want to check out New York’s Uber Fender Custom Shop Dealer The Music Zoo––these guys have collaborated with CS guru John Cruz to develop a line of exclusive “Ultimate Relic” Strats, and the current batch is looking pretty stellar. According [...]
Continue reading...Leaked! Gibson Guitar Of The Week #48: RD Standard Reissue Silverburst
1. October 2007
Well, it looks like yet another online guitar retailer has inadvertently released specs and photos of a not-yet-announced guitar from Gibson’s Guitar Of The Week program, this one being GOTW #48––the RD Standard Reissue Silverburst. Yep, what you’re looking at is a reissue of the ill-fated RD Standard, circa the late ’70s, finished off in Gibson’s [...]
Continue reading...It’s Official… Gibson Unveils The Dave Grohl ‘Inspired By’ DG-335
27. September 2007
Well, you heard it here a few weeks ago, but today it became official: Gibson’s Custom Shop has announced the release of the new Dave Grohl DG-335––part of Gibson’s small but illustrious Inspired By series of signature guitars. As called out by more than a few of our readers, the guitar is based on the old [...]
Continue reading...Line 6 Debuts TonePort UX8 – Eight Channel USB Audio Interface
26. September 2007
Nice… for the last two years I’ve been using Line 6 TonePort products to record sound samples here at EGR, and I have to say I’ve been more than satisfied with the results––not to mention the sheer affordability. Now, hot on the heel of last week’s POD X3 announcement, Line 6 has unveiled yet another new [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #36 :: Explorer New Century In Satin Ebony
25. September 2007
Well, I’m happy to say that the prediction we made back in June was correct… Gibson today announced its Guitar Of The Week #36, and as expected it’s the rather industrial looking Explorer New Century in Satin Ebony. As mentioned in our previous post, the big news here is that the “New Century” line of guitars, [...]
Continue reading...SG Meets Flying V: Gibson Producing Zakk Wylde ZV
21. September 2007
What’s got black & white stripes, the wings of a Flying V, and the devilish horns of an SG? You guessed it––the soon to be announced Gibson Zakk Wylde ZV… otherwise known as the Zakk-V. No, we don’t have anything in the way of official specs yet, but based on the photo (which is just one [...]
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5. October 2007
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