PRS’s newly updated 513 is named for it’s unique electronics layout––namely, five proprietary single-coil pickups, producing a full thirteen different tonal configurations via two separate pickup switches: a traditional 5-way pickup selector, and en extra 3-way “mode” switch (for your choice of: single-coil, clear humbucking and heavy humbucking modes.) By all accounts the 513 can quickly [...]
Continue reading...24. August 2007
Well, we quite literally drew numbers out of a hat on this one, and the first place winner of our George Thorogood Custom Guitar Slide Giveaway is… Chris Goulden, of The Crow Flies. He’ll be receiving a copy of the newly re-mastered 25th Anniversary Edition of George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ album Bad to the Bone, along [...]
Continue reading...23. August 2007
Hey, just a quick reminder that you’ve got just twelve more hours to get in on the George Thorogood Custom Guitar Slide Giveaway we announced last week. To enter for a chance to win a slide hand-made and signed by Thorogood himself, just leave a comment (using a valid e-mail address so we can contact you) [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2007
If you’re like me you’ve probably got a good little Gibson Guitar Of The Week wish list going on in the back of your head… you know––something like a Goldburst Les Paul with a Bigsby Vibrato and locking tuners… or maybe an ES-335 decked out in Amber, with dual P-90s and a Charlie Christian at [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2007
When I published my Top 10 Guitars For Girls list back in 2006, Luna Guitars’ Andromeda Floyd Grape came in with an honorable mention at #9, not due to any kind of lack of quality on Luna’s part (actually, the specs looked great,) but because the company was simply too young, and for the life [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
Well, this week marks the grand release of the 25th Anniversary Edition of George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ seminal album Bad to the Bone––now digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and including a bunch of great extras, like six new recordings and a rare B-side. To help celebrate the re-birth of Bad to the Bone, [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
Just a quick note for the vintage effects freaks out there––over on YouTube Avi Bortnick & Michael Leonhart have posted a short clip of the new Electro-Harmonix Germanium OD in action, and it sounds pretty much like you’d expect… a little bit sweet, a little bit raunchy, and a whole lot of old-school overdrive. Would have [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2007
Word on the street has it that ProTone Pedals––makers of some of the world’s most wonderfully raunchy guitar effects––will be unveiling at least three new pedals at the upcoming Winter NAMM 2008 show in Anaheim. But while the Brown Sugar Vibrato and Peligro Fuzz both sound like fun pedals for analog-effects fanatics, to my mind the [...]
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27. August 2007
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