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Line 6 And Bogner Unveil Hybrid Tube/Digital Modeling Amplifier

28. August 2007

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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 new line [...]

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Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #32 :: SG Special With EMGs

28. August 2007

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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 GOTW [...]

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Fender’s Limited Edition “Thin Skin” ‘62 Jaguar In Shoreline Gold Is Now In Stores

21. August 2007

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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 [...]

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Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #31 :: Flying V New Century

21. August 2007

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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, those [...]

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T-Rex Unveils Their New Viper Vibe Pedal… Sort Of

16. August 2007

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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 onto [...]

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Electro-Harmonix Beefs Up XO Line With Q-Tron+ & Octave Multiplexer

14. August 2007

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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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Swappable Tube Preamps: Randall MTS Series Hits The Stores

8. August 2007

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Tube Freaks Take Note: Randall yesterday announced that its innovative new swappable tube pre-amp system––officially dubbed the MTS Series Modular Tube Guitar Preamp System––is now available for your consumption. I don’t know about you, but as a dyed-in-the-wool tube fanatic the idea of effortlessly hopping back and forth between entirely different tube pre-amps whenever the mood [...]

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Gretsch Resurrects Classic ‘59 Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose

7. August 2007

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Hell yes… Gretsch today released full specs on its new G6119-1959 Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose––a remake of the stunning red hollowbody that guitar legend Atkins can be seen playing on the cover of his 1961 LP “Chet Atkins’ Workshop.” Incredibly, the instrument is just one of more that twenty guitars to bear Atkins’ name in Gretsch’s [...]

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