Tech Ed
Finding Vintage Guitar Rare Parts Online
If you have even one beloved vintage guitar, you’ve probably had to buy original parts for it at one time or another. You know the story: you bought an amazing 1967 ES-335 from some dude […]
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Effects
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: Badass ’78 & Green Rhino
Guitar players love distortion. No big secret, really. From the time we start playing we are pretty much issued a distortion pedal of some kind right out of the gate and we proceed from there. […]
Effects
EHX Micro POG Guitar Octave Pedal Review
Bored with the guitar’s four-octave range (and that’s only if you have a 24-fret guitar)? You could succumb to the seven-string itch, but that will only increase your range by a perfect fourth (or five […]
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Gibson Byrdland Guitars – Confession of a Vintage Gear Whore
Introduced in 1955 Gibson’s Byrdland was one of the first thinline hollowbody electrics. Designed with the help of hot-shot guitarists Billy Byrd and Hank Garland, whose surnames were combined to form the model’s name, the […]
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Gibson Les Paul BFG Gator
For a little bit of money, nearly any guitar of standard design (Teles, Strats, Les Pauls, SGs) can be clad in a full-wraparoud graphic decal. Common themes of such artistic measures include lightning bolts, snake […]
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Fender Stratocaster History: Curves Heard Around The World
Fender Stratocaster is, along with the Fender Telecaster and the Gibson Les Paul, one of the most iconic electric guitars ever made and has been the ride of choice of literally generations of guitar players […]
Amplifiers
Orange brings the Dark Terror
We all know who Orange is. World renown for making some of the nicest, sleekest valve amplifiers, they’ve been working on a high gain monster. Behold, the Dark Terror! The idea behind the Orange Dark […]
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How to Book a Show
How many concerts have you been to? You’ve probably been to at least one, and aside from booking the band and getting the security, a lot of other work can go into it. Being the […]
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Carvin Jones: An American Blues Guitar Virtuoso
Blues You Can Use From the Desert Southwest – Every once in a while, you run across something that is just astonishing, something that you’d never expect to find. For this writer, that “something” is […]
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Ibanez RG870 and RG920 Premium Series Guitar Review
I have to admit right from the start that metal has never been my medium of choice; I prefer trem-bar bends in short bursts, not big bombs, and I like distortion to sound like distortion, […]