Guitars
Guitar Buyers Guide: Guitar Lingo
You might be reading this because you are shopping to buy your first electric guitar or buying it for someone else, or you’ve been shopping for years but were never quite sure what terms like […]
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Amplifiers
Finding the Right Guitar Amplifier – Amp Wattage
I have a Pignose Hog 20, and every time I jam with other players, the drummers drown me out. I’m 15 years old and don’t have a lot of money. I’m wondering what size amp […]
Amplifiers
Rivera Sedona Guitar Amplifier Review
Rivera’s Sedona is essentially two amps in a single package, but before you hit the next button on this page thinking that it’s just another two-channel combo, you should be aware that it is the […]
Amplifiers
Kendrick 2210 Combo Guitar Amplifier
Not only is the Kendrick 2210 the best-sounding, best-looking and best-built Fender-style amp I’ve run across it also encapsulates two prevailing trends in musical equipment: a craving for the lost quality attributed to anything “vintage”, […]
Guitar Tabs
Easy Learn How To Play Smoke on the Water [on Guitar]
Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple has to be the easiest guitar song in the world to learn. This timeless classic rock song is as much fun to play as it is easy to […]
Amplifiers
VHT Sig:X Amplifier Head Review
NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO, VHT paved the road for the modern “super amp” category by combining a high-power output stage with three fully independent channels and an advanced switching system—along with a host of other […]
Amplifiers
DIY Homebrew Mesa Boogie Dual Recto
This kid built his own DIY homemade – Mesa Boogie Dual rectifier (2 channel). He says it’s created from old Tesla music 70 amplifier parts. You can see more photos here. Mesa Boogie Dual rectifier […]
Gear
Auto-Tune and Gloom – Fad Finally Fading?
Have you ever listened to T-Pain? You know how his voice always sounds like a robot? Well, thanks to something in vocal technology called Auto-Tune, sensible style and effort to make music has been lost […]
Guitars
Break Strings Much? Ernie Ball Offers a Solution
For the longest time, I refused to play anything but DR’s on my electric guitar. Though, once I really began gigging out every other weekend, I began to encounter a really frustrating issue. Every two-three […]
Amplifiers
3rd Power Amplification creates the “American Dream”
In browsing the list of new releases from Winter NAMM this year, the amp company 3rd Power caught my eye. In further research, I found a You Tube video featuring blues/rock aficionado Ford Thurston playing […]