Big Things Come In Small Packages Not content to be one of the main contenders on top of the tube-amp market (sorry, valve-amp for those in Europe,) VOX has now released two incredibly small amps that pack a powerful punch in the digital guitar effects department: the tiny VOX DA5, and it’s slightly larger cousin the [...]
Continue reading...27. April 2006
New Spin On A Classic Distortion Pedal Well, it looks like Electro-Harmonix has done it again – they’ve apparently just updated their venerable line of distortion pedals (whose pedigree starts way back in the ’70s with the classic Big Muff,) with the newly-released Metal Muff – a distortion pedal aimed squarely at the metal-head demographic. The Electro-Harmonix [...]
Continue reading...26. April 2006
New From Fender For 2006 ALL-TUBE PERFECTION? OK, first off I think Fender has been reading my mind… seriously, according to their website Fender’s new Super-Sonic 112 Combo may be the all-in-one guitar amplifier I’ve been dreaming of for, I don’t know, the last 20 years! Anyone who follows this blog knows that after years of loading equipment [...]
Continue reading...21. April 2006
GIRLS ROCK, TOO! Hammer Of The Goddess Contest According to their website, Gibson is running a contest to give away one of their newly-minted Les Paul Goddess guitars, and as far as I can tell, all you have to do to be entered for a chance to win is fill out their short entry form (contest deadline [...]
Continue reading...20. April 2006
Hehe… it’s not every day a comic book character gets to grace the front of a limited edition guitar, but hey, “Emily the Strange” is no regular comic book character, either! In a move that’s sure to make “Emily” collectors happy, everyone’s favorite angry young lady has made her way onto the stage with Epiphone’s [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2006
Ok, most of us will never have the kind of scratch lying around to allow us to just go out and purchase one of these, but hey– a boy can dream, right? If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is: Gibson’s new Custom 3-Pickup ‘57 Les Paul Black Beauty. Oh yeah, if this one doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2006
If you’re lookin’ for something a bit more exotic than your typical ash or alder Tele, you might want to check out Fender’s new Special Edition Koa Telecaster — it’s Fender’s first offering to make use of tropical koa wood outside of their gorgeous, but rather expensive Custom Shop models. It looks like Fender’s managed to [...]
Continue reading...11. April 2006
I’m Back From The South Pacific Well, I got in late yesterday from a much needed two-week vacation on Hawaii’s Big Island, and not being content to stay away from a stringed instrument for all that time I ended up picking up a cheap-o ukulele in a Farmer’s Market in Kona for just $12. Amazingly, the thing [...]
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1. May 2006
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