Boss introduced a new Fender Reverb Pedal based on the 1963 Fender Reverb to the Boss Legend series of pedals.  To quote the press release:

The FRV-1 recreates the classic spring-reverb sound of the 1963 Fender Reverb via patented COSM® technology. Three classic controls for Dwell, Tone, and Mix allow players to refine their tone, adding buttery warmth or sparkling twang.

Check out the BOSS site for more technical specs and a video showing off the pedal. Available in July.  [BOSS US product link]

Boss '63 Fender Reverb Pedal

What makes a guitar blog worth adding to your RSS feed reader? Regular updates, unique content, and some insightful posts.  (we have a ways to go to meet those requirements )

So here are a few of our favorite guitar blogs.  We’ll be updating the blogroll shortly to include them.  We would love to know what are some of your favorite guitar blogs that we should b e following – post them in the comments.

Favorite Guitar Blogs

• Guitar Lifestyle – “celebrate the guitar, educate new guitarists, and inspire other guitarists”
• Guitar MX Blog – A blog for guitar players and enthusiasts
• Guitar Noize – guitar news and reviews
• Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog – great content even if you don’t like strats
• markmcguigan.com – news, videos, and general info

This is the “Forum Top 5″ list from jag-stang.com for May 2009. The “Forum Top 5″ recaps the top forum posts of each month so those that may have missed them get a chance to jump in on the discussion. Only threads posted within the month (May 2009 in this case) are considered for the top 5.

If you want to jump in on the discussion, and are not currently a forum member, you only need to setup a forum user account. (its very quick and easy - click here to register)

DiMarzio has released the following new artist pickups for 2009.

• Billy Corgan – BC-1 & BC-2 (signature strat)
• Andy Timmons – AT-1 (signature ibanez)
• Steve Morse – reintroduced Steve Morse neck & bridge pickups

The BC-1 is based on the Air Norton S and the BC-2 is based on the Tone Zone S. Each of which had the frequency response lowered to get the sound Billy Corgan was going for in his new signature strat.

DiMarzio BC-1

This is the “Forum Top 5″ list from jag-stang.com for April 2009. The “Forum Top 5″ recaps the top forum posts of each month so those that may have missed them get a chance to jump in on the discussion. Only threads posted within the month (April 2009 in this case) are considered for the top 5.

I wanted to use this post to highlight a great thread in our forums.  It is a post in the Fender Mustang section titled “Pics of Everyones fender mustangs“. It was started back in summer of 2008 and has over 5500 views at the time of this posting. 

Below is a selection of photos from that forum post.  If you have a Fender Mustang and haven’t jumped in on sharing your photos yet we encourage you to do so!

(Click an image for larger version)

We’ve kept a backup copy of the brillant Mr Maxima’s Fender Mustang Story web site at jag-stang.com for many years since it disappeared. We were recently contacted by Mr Maxima that he has revived the web site.

It’s now located at: http://fendermustangstory.com

We’ll be updating our copy of the page shortly to refer folks to the new site.

EHX is introducing a couple new pedals.  One is a treble booster (Screaming Bird) and the other is a bass booster (Mole).  Check out the video below for some more info on the pedals.

[via the EHX blog]