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REVIEW: The Rickenbacker 620

19. June 2006

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Intro Unless you hang out in the right circles you really don’t hear much about Rickenbacker these days, which is really a shame when you consider that they continue to produce high-quality guitars, with truly one-of-a-kind styling and craftsmanship. In fact, in a world where badly-conceived Stratocaster and Les Paul clones abound, Rick’s unique [...]

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REVIEW: Gibson’s Classic ES-335 Hollowbody

6. June 2006

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Intro Gibson’s incredible ES-335 was first introduced to the world in 1958 as a guitar to bridge the gap between the popular hollowbody instruments of the day, and the newer, more streamlined solidbody models. It was apparently a stroke of genius on Gibson’s part, because the ES-335 has gone on to become one of [...]

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REVIEW: Dunlop’s Rotovibe Expression Pedal

2. May 2006

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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. Of course, [...]

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REVIEW: Yamaha’s CG171SF Flamenco Guitar

27. April 2006

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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 that if [...]

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REVIEW: Fender’s Reissue Blues Deluxe

29. March 2006

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Vintage Tweed Sound & Style An All-Tube Amplifier With A Few Modern Touches 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 bought one at a Music [...]

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REVIEW: Marshall’s Guv’nor Distortion Pedal

15. March 2006

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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 a last-minute [...]

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