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As musicians we go online to watch and read reviews of new and used gear. You want as much information as you can get before spending your hard earned money. Musicians are never satisfied, or short of opinions. This website is a compilation of gear purchases combined with lessons learned. Maybe you can add some comments and throw your hat into the ring as well while you’re here.
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What Guitar Pick is Best for Playing Rock?
I never thought that something as simple as a pick could control your playing style as much it does...until I started experimenting with different guitar picks. For YEARS I've used the exact same Fender medium picks (celluloid) - and ALWAYS the tortoise shell ones....
No Guitar is Safe Podcast Review
I have a healthy one hour commute to work (each way), so I spend a couple hours in the car every days. Over the years I have listened to thousands of hours of music, and the last couple of years I have listened to hundreds of audio books as well. Mainly biographies of...
Does a Coiled Guitar Cable Make a Difference?
Over the years the argument has come up time and time again - does the coiled guitar cable make any difference? The first guitar I ever had was a Squier Bullet for $99. The first amp I had I bought from the neighbor. It had a homemade 4x12 bottom that was giant, and...
Is Flamenco Metal a Thing?
Short answer is - yes it is! Years ago (in my younger days) when I started on guitar, my parents would only let me switch from violin to guitar if I agreed to take classical guitar lessons. So I did. That was even my major in college for a brief time. My father...
Guitar Pick Punch
Have you ever wanted to make your own guitar picks? Probably not, but it's actually a thing. I have heard of people that make their own guitar picks from old credit cards before, but there's actually a little device you can buy on Amazon to punch them out on demand....
Unique Guitar Player Gift – Pick Wallet
If you're looking for a cheap and affordable gift for a guitar player for Christmas or other occasion, a pick wallet can be a really cool thing to give. Sometimes as a musician you don't know you need something until you see somebody else use it, or until it's given...
Guitar Player Gifts under $50
I wanted to write this page of Guitar Player gifts - because people often ask me what to get a guitarist for Christmas. Not just for me, but people I know as well! I got the Guitar Center catalog the other day, and a lot of times I don't see much, but they did a...
Washburn X50 Review
This is my review of the Washburn X50 and X50 Pro FE guitars with the Buzz Feiten tuning system. Another manufacturer that I think is highly underrated is Washburn Guitars. For 100 years they have been making quality instruments, but since the 80's Washburn has been...
Crate Taxi TX50DB Limo 50W Guitar Amp
The Crate TX50DBE Limo Combo Amplifier is battery-powered for outdoor gigs, or you can plug it in using the included adapter where there's juice. Delivers 50W through a 10" woofer with a piezo tweeter for full range sound. 2-channel operation with 1/4" input, gain,...
Headphone Guitar Amp Review
To practice guitar quietly you need a "headphone guitar amp". In the privacy of your own bedroom or basement you can have an entire Marshall stack between your ears! There are bunches of headphone guitar amps on the market right now, and many are just, well....very...
How to Get or Build a Zendrive Clone pedal
How to Get or Build a Zendrive Clone pedal As long as I can remember I have wanted a Zendrive pedal. I don't know why I never purchased one, it seems like guitars, amps, and other things have always taken precedence. For those of you that don't know, the Zendrive is a...
Pete Townsend “Who I Am” Book Review
Recently I heard someone say that they had been listening to the Pete Townsend book "Who I Am" on their daily commute. Since my commute to work is a little over an hour, it sounded like something that might be interesting to me. I am always interested in musicians...
Why I Love My EVH Wolfgang Special
This isn't a review as much as it is they story of how I came to own my favorite and probably most played guitar of all time. My white EVH Wolfgang special. This is what it looked like the day it arrived in the mail. I had seen pictures of it online, but I had no idea...
Who Played the Peavey Mace Amp?
Seems like I end up hearing classic songs lately and wonder "what amp did they use on that?" That very thought came to my mind when playing "Any Way You Want It", I wondered - what did Neal Schon use for those screaming lead solos on that classic song? A few Google's...
Kramer 84 Baretta Guitar (EVH) now on sale
It's hard for me to say this (because I'm 48), but remember the (now) "vintage" 84 Kramer Baretta guitar? The Kramer Baretta was the famed hockey stick neck one pickup, one volume pot Floyd Rose masterpiece played by Eddie Van Halen. Remember the guitar magazine ads...
ZT Lunchbox Combo Guitar Amp Review
In the last few years boutique amps have fallen into favor quite a bit, but as a sub-segment of that "lunchbox" style amps have become even more popular with guitar players. When you think of a lunchbox style guitar amp the Vox Nightrain comes to mind, or the Mesa...
Bare Knuckle Pickups The Mule Review
If you're been reading any of the guitar magazines over the last few years, odds are you've seen that ad with the shirtless gentleman with a handlebar mustache about to bare knuckle fist fight. It's a great logo, and "Bare Knuckle Pickups" is just about the greatest...
Joyo Vintage Overdrive Pedal with JRC4588 Chip (like TS808)
I've been buying expensive guitar effects pedals for years. Fulltone, Visual Sound, TC Electronics, Voodoo, Boss, DOD - and I've always steered away from cheap pedals (like Axion, Yamaha, Danelectro, etc.). So I'm surfing ebay earlier this year for new pedals, and I...
Butler Silver Hammer Amp Video Review
This is a video review and demo of my Butler Silver Hammer guitar amp - which is a PTP (point to point) hand wired Plexi style amp. It's like a Marshall Plexi, but the difference is that this amp actually has 2 channels (one clean, one overdrive), AND this amp has a...
Visual Sound Route 66 Pedal Review – It’s American Overdrive!
I used a DOD digital effects pedal for years on a solid state amp, and one day a friend came over to jam - and he had his pedal board with him. He plugged it into one of my amps and we were playing some classic rock, and he was using this overdrive pedal that looked...
My new Fender Thinline 72 RI is Awesome!
This is my new Fender Thinline 72 RI (reissue): The image is stock, I'll post one of my playing it soon. I used to be a Gibson man, and I was kind of "anti-Fender". I liked classic rock, metal, 80's hair bands, modern rock. But the last couple years I've been heavy...
My Favorite Signature Guitars
Seems like everyone and their brother has a "signature guitar" anymore. You seem them from time to time in Guitar Center or the latest Musician's Friend catalog, but never all at once. The kind of seem to come and go. I decided to list my favorite signature guitar...
Guitar Modeling Effects vs. Traditional Pedals
If you are a guitar player and you use effects there are traditional analog and digital pedals, and then there are digital modeling effects. This can be very confusing if you don't know much about either one. This article is an attempt to give you a brief...
Nikki Sixx Epiphone Blackbird Bass is Awesome
What would classic 80's rock be without Motley Crue? Nikki has a signature bass that's both affordable and that sounds great, he calls it the "Blackbird" (fitting eh?). If you love it louder than Hell, then you're never too young to fall in love with Epiphone's Nikki...
ESP LTD Cobweb Guitar
Esp has been making these LTD series guitars for awhile now, and you can't beat what you can get for the money. They look great, play fast like a dream, and their resale value is pretty high. I'm sorry, you don't get half of the guitar for the same money in an...