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Shielding Your Strat For Buzz-Free Playing: Quieting The Beast

17. July 2007

If you’re one of the many guitar players who’s been told over and over again that there is little to be done about the dreaded 60-cycle hum that emanates from your beloved Strat whenever you plug it in––it’s time to rethink things. Sure, a good old fashioned shielding job can help a bit, but even [...]

Vintage Guitar Reviews The VOX Limited Edition Brian May Custom AC30

16. July 2007

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Someone must have forgotten to give me the memo, because I wasn’t even aware that VOX was producing a Limited Edition Brian May Custom AC30 until I came across this review over at Vintage Guitar Magazine’s website. The big news here is that the amp, which was developed in conjunction with legendary Queen guitar-man Brian [...]

Hear Amplitube Jimi Hendrix In Action… Courtesy Of Guitar Player Magazine

16. July 2007

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As a companion piece for their upcoming review of IK Multimedia’s Amplitube Jimi Hendrix digital modeling software, Guitar Player Magazine’s Michael Ross has recorded a pretty impressively authentic Hendrix-style jam in Ableton Live, and uploaded it to their website as an mp3. For the recording he apparently used a vintage ’65 Strat fitted with DiMarzio [...]

First Look: Effectrode’s All-Tube Phaseomatic Deluxe

13. July 2007

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Before I sign off for the weekend I just wanted to leave you all with a quick look at this beautiful stompbox I just got in for review––a brand spankin’ new prototype of Effectrode’s Phaseomatic Deluxe. The pedal is essentially a re-ingeneered “Deluxe” version of the world’s first photo-optical, vacuum tube phaser, and like its [...]

It’s Official: Fender Announces The Joe Strummer Telecaster

13. July 2007

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Well, it’s official––Fender today confirmed what we reported a few days ago: the imminent release of the new Joe Strummer Telecaster, which will be based on the battered & beaten ’66 Tele that Strummer played throughout his career, including his time heading British punk royalty the Clash, and his later work with the Mescaleros. Having [...]

Random Acts Of Blandness: Eight Random Things About Cary

11. July 2007

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I was sitting around this morning feeling annoyed by the general lack of good guitar news, when I was pleasantly surprised to find that I’d been tagged by IG as part of the Eight Random Things About Me meme that is going around. So in following the rules of this little game of “online tag,” [...]

Reader Poll: What’s Your Absolute Dream Guitar Rig?

10. July 2007

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Some folks dream of wailing away in front of a menacing wall of Marshall stacks, a few dozen road-weary stompboxes blinking at their feet… others long for the simplicity of a low-powered Class A, dressed in tweed and barely the size of a small suitcase, with nothing more than a dependable boost pedal thrown in [...]

GP’s Video Roundup: 19 Guitar Effects Pedals Tested

5. July 2007

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If you’re a reader of Guitar Player Magazine (Hunny, I swear, I only read it for the articles,) you may have caught their recent effects pedal “Pow-Wow” (July, 2007 issue.) It turned out to be a fine roundup of a whole slew of new effects, but the big news for me is that they’ve just [...]

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