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REVIEW: Dunlop’s Rotovibe Expression Pedal
Old-School Rotating Speaker Effects… Without The Speaker! Way back in the day, when I couldn’t even begin to consider buying something as expensive and cool as Fender’s Custom Vibrolux guitar amp, I searched and searched for an alternative way to get that cool “Vibrato” sound, and was lucky enough to stumble upon the Dunlop RotoVibe. [...]
Continue reading...REVIEW: Yamaha’s CG171SF Flamenco Guitar
27. April 2006
Not Exactly An Electric Guitar, But… While we’re on the subject of Flamenco, I thought I’d take a moment to review a guitar that has to be one of the best deals going around – Yamaha’s gorgeous CG171SF Flamenco guitar. The Good: Being a bit manic about authenticity, I was absolutely convinced going into this [...]
Continue reading...REVIEW: Fender’s Reissue Blues Deluxe
29. March 2006
Vintage Tweed Sound & Style Much to their credit, when the demand for retro sound equipment began to ramp-up in the early ’90s Fender was right on top of it — they released their super-cool “Tweed” series of all-tube amplifiers in 1993 and I was lucky enough to purchase one that very same year. Amazingly, [...]
Continue reading...REVIEW: Marshall’s Guv’nor Distortion Pedal
15. March 2006
FROM SUBTLE TO SCREAMIN’ Big Distortion In A Little Package About ten years back I came this close to purchasing a very expensive Marshall pre-amp due to the fact that I was in bad need of some badass distortion, and well…the stomp boxes I’d tried just couldn’t cut it –that is, until I decided on [...]
Continue reading...REVIEW: Fender’s ’65 Twin Reverb Reissue
9. March 2006
ALL TIME FAVORITE AMPLIFIER This One Just Kicks! OK, I thought I’d switch things up a bit and talk about my all time favorite guitar amplifier, Fender’s legendary ’65 Twin Reverb Vintage Reissue. For the old-school, all-tube purist (like me!) the fact that Fender continues to produce these beauties is an absolute godsend – the [...]
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2. May 2006
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