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You’ve probably seen the Vox amPlug before. It’s a plug-in headphone amp for late night jamming or those other times when cranking your Marshall stack just isn’t feasible (oh, the horror). Well, Vox have recently added a number of options to the range. You can now have amPlug convenience in a number of additional sound-styles.
As well as the AC30, Classic Rock and Metal styles, you can now get the amPlug in Lead, Bass or Acoustic versions.
Lead is modelled on a US high-gain boutique amplifier. This amPlug has a digital delay …
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Well, not really, but this is quite cool in a ‘basic guitar anatomy’ sort of way.
You can step through, at a (very) basic level, the making of a Martin Guitar (or pretty much any acoustic guitar really). You get a wireframe diagram that is built up with extra bits as you move through each step in the process. At every stage, there are some photos and some information about what’s happening and why.
It’s interesting for those of you who wonder how many pounds of pressure an average acoustic guitar bridge …
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The boys and girls over at Taylor really have been busy for their 35th Anniversary. Hot on the heels of their XXXV Parlor, they’re telling us about this: The XXXV 12-Fret.
12-fret guitars are considered by many to possess a ‘better’ tone than their 14-fret equivalents. Only having 12 frets to the body allows the soundhole and the bridge be located closer to the ‘sweet-spots’. Their drawback is, obviously enough, higher fret access. Let’s face it though, for many people, the area beyond the 12th fret on an acoustic guitar is …
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Here at Guitarless, we like parlour guitars. We like them a lot.
And this one looks like a beaut. This is the latest in Taylor’s 35th Anniversary series of special editions and it really does look special. This is the XXXV Parlor
What Taylor have given us is a Sitka spruce top and a rosewood back and sides. They tell us that the sides and back are Madagascar rosewood which is denser than Indian rosewood and can therefore be milled thinner. The Sitka top is specially selected from a slow-growing stock which …
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Dean B. Zelinsky is a name you may know. He started Dean Guitars many years ago and has come and gone from that company a couple of times since. He’s currently ‘gone’ and is running a new company DBZ (or Dean B. Zelinsky) Guitars. Three-letter acronyms seem the order of the day for guitar companies lately.
After a strong performance in the US, DBZ are now shipping their guitars to more of the world and has distrubtion in Canada, Australia, South America and most of Europe (including the UK).
As you’d expect …
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Further to yesterday’s news that Guns N’ Roses were being sued by two record companies for allegedly using samples of songs by, German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss, G N’ R manager, Irving Azoff has released the following statement:
“The band believed when the record came out and still believes that there are no unauthorized samples on the track. The snippets of ‘ambient noise’ in question were provided by a member of the album’s production team who has assured us that these few seconds of sound were obtained legitimately. Artists these days …
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Point your browsers to jskguitars.com, the home of startup company JSK Guitars, and the baby of Joe Knaggs. Joe was formerly Director of R&D and Private Stock for PRS Guitars. He left in the summer to blaze his own trail in the guitar world. JSK, or Joseph S. Knaggs Guitars, has only got a holding page at the moment. There’s no real information bar the tantalising glimpse of things to come (i.e. the image that I’ve swiped from their site and placed below – If Joe or any of his …
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News is beginning to make the rounds of the internet concerning the release of Kats Karavan a 4-CD box set of music from the legendary John Peel’s radio shows. Readers outside of the UK and Ireland may be unaware of Peel but he was a household name for forty-odd years, renowned for playing a massively eclectic mix of music from new and upcoming artists and bands. It’s no exaggeration to say that he provided the first radio broadcasts for many hundreds of artists.
Spanning the years from 1968 to his death …
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The massive-foreheaded boffins in Line 6 have been busy of late and have announced and shipped two new rock-toys.
First off is the M9 Stompbox Modeler. This is a multi-effect pedal that houses a huge collection of splendid stompbox-type effects. Included are loads of distortions and drives, compressors and reverbs. There are filters, modulators and pitch-shifters. It’s also got a number of effects lifted from Line 6’s DL4 delay modeler and includes a 28-second looper with plenty of control over your loops.
You can run three effects simultaneously and can tweak the …
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This is the Graveyard Disciple, a collaboration between Epiphone and Zakk Wylde. And it’s, erm, a coffin.
It’s a limited edition coffin, however, comprising a mahogany body and a maple neck all decked out in funereal black. An ebony fingerboard and none-more-black hardware complete the look.
It’s loaded with EMG-HZ pickups. These are passive pickups and are probably a concession to the price bracket. It does come with a proper Floyd Rose trem though.
The Graveyard Disciple is certainly not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. Those that will be attracted by …
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