Feb 12, 2011 | Guitar Amps
The Laney LC15R sets the tube combo amp standard – it may look like a baby, but it sounds like a real mother. The LC15R amplifier delivers 15 watts RMS of pure EL84 tone into a 10 “cCustom designed driver to produce unadulterated pure valve tone.The LC15R...
Feb 11, 2011 | Guitar player gift ideas, Guitar Reviews
The Traveler ET-1 “travel guitar” is one of the coolest little things I’ve seen in awhile. It’s basically a full-scale guitar in a mini size. The tuners are moved from the headstock to actually in the middle of the body! It comes with a small...
Feb 10, 2011 | Bass Guitars, Guitar Reviews
Modulus makes some high end bass guitars and the Quantum Q5 is no exception!! These are a bass players bass, a “wish list” instrument if you will for many – not exactly what you would get as a beginner or intermediate player. Many people who have...
Feb 9, 2011 | Bass Guitars, Guitar Reviews
The Peavey Cirrus BXP 5 string bass has some of the best tone I’ve heard in a long time! It’s just so bright and snappy. There was a time when I didn’t want to own anything Peavey at all because I remembered what some of the quality was like about a...
Feb 8, 2011 | BC Rich, Guitar Reviews
Looking for a used BC Rich Warlock Guitar? You couldn’t find a better bargain if you tried! If you were reading my post the other day, you know that I sold my Agile 3100 and PRS Santana guitars because I bought a 1991 ESP Horizon (which I LOVE!). The ESP is the...
Feb 7, 2011 | Guitar accessories
The Peterson V-SAM Virtual Strobe Tuner/Metronome is a Virtual Strobe tuner, audio tone generator, and metronome in a compact format. Its tuner modes expand upon the V-SAM with an even wider variety of alternate temperaments including one that creates and stores...
Feb 6, 2011 | Guitar accessories, strings
When I was in college and just a young buck my major was classical guitar performance. Playing a nylon stringed classical guitar is quite different than playing an electric. Not only do you learn a completely different kind of left (and right) hand finger dexterity,...
Feb 5, 2011 | Guitar Books, Guitar player gift ideas
Hal Leonard books have been very good to me over the years, very affordable, and resources I go back to again and again. Being a guitar player means that the learning never stops, and one thing I tell young players time and time again is that practice is just like...
Feb 4, 2011 | Guitar accessories, Guitar pickups, Guitar Reviews
This Lace Sensor Hot Gold 6K Dually Humbucker Neck Pickup is made by combining two Sensor Hot Gold single coil neck pickups.Lace has been building Sensor electric guitar pickups since 1985. Used exclusively by Fender until 1996, Lace Hot Gold pickups have the same...
Feb 3, 2011 | Guitar accessories, Guitar Pedals
Electro Harmonix has been around a loooong time. The first guitar pedal I ever owned was an Electro Harmonix fuzz. That thing was indestructible! You’re lucky to find some of the original vintage effects on eBay from time to time, but many companies are now...