Archive for the ‘Guitar News’ Category
Some new distortions to check out. Below is an excerpt from the Source Audio press release.
For the sonic explorer, the Soundblox Pro Multiwave Distortion offers 23 distinctive and modern effect types. What makes the Multiwave unique is its use of multi-band processing, which offers a clear distortion with unprecedented note articulation. Sounds range from basic tones to aggressive synth-like, octave heavy, and extreme foldback effects that go far beyond traditional distortions. The pedal is used on tour by artists ranging from Chuck Garvey of moe. to Brad Whitford of Aerosmith to Reeve Gabrels.
Soundblox Pro Multiwave Distortion
For the vintage guitar tone enthusiast, the Soundblox Pro Classic Distortion features 4 tube amp and 8 fuzz box overdrive tones in the same powerful control format as the Pro Multiwave. The sounds are organic and enormously customizable via pre- and post-mid control drives and the EQ. Unlike other products, which attempt to digitally clone, model, or emulate vintage gear, the Pro Classic is the result of a five-year listening study and iterative algorithm design process involving over 40 classic pedals and extensive artist evaluation.
Soundblox Pro Classic Distortion
Fender American Special Series
The latest incarnations of Fender’s famous Telecaster and Stratocaster models comprise the new American Special series-built “by the people and for people” as value-conscious “guitars for the times.” They are designed specifically to bring the full Fender experience of a terrific-sounding, smooth-playing, rock-solid-built U.S.-made Fender guitar to the workingman without emptying his bank account.
The three instruments in the new series—the American Special Telecaster, American Special Stratocaster and American Special Stratocaster HSS—are highly affordable Fender electric guitars that are within the reach of an entire spectrum of players. As such, they share many features with their cousins in the acclaimed Highway One™ and American Standard series.
url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5WIwx4B46c
The Winter NAMM 2010 show starts tomorrow January 14 and runs through January 17. The press releases for the new gear started rolling out ahead of the show about a week ago. We plan to put up the press releases that would be of most interest to the alternative guitar crowd over the next week.
See some cool alternative guitar press we should post? Let us know!
Hartman Electronics has updated its SFZ Dual-stage Hybrid Fuzz pedal to include external 18VDC power capability. Users can run the pedal using (2) 9V batteries or via 18VDC external power.
Hartman has also made bias control—previously available as an add-on option—standard in the SFZ. All pedals now ship standard with individual, dedicated bias controls for both the Silicon and Germanium fuzz stages.
The Hartman SFZ contains two versions of the classic Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face circuit together in a single pedal.
Have you tried out this pedal? Let us know what your impressions are in the comments.
Edit: added youtube video
vid url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EB7iWvoboM
Hartman SFZ Dual-Stage Hybrid Fuzz
Black Friday 2009 Guitar Gear Deals
The purpose of this post is to highlight the guitar deals that can be found for the upcoming Black Friday 2009. If you come across other black friday deals please post in the comments and we’ll update the post accordingly.
- Musicians Friend is offering instant rebates based on the amount of money you spend. You can get up to $200 off instantly on orders over $1000. [MF Black Friday link]
- Guitar Center deals are in store only. 15% off on Friday and 10% off on Saturday and Sunday. Plus many deals on various individual items. You may have to track down the guitar center ad in your local paper to get the coupons.
- Sweetwater hasn’t divulged details of their deals but do have a promo page up. [SW Black Friday link]
- Know of more?? Leave a comment and we’ll update the post.
NOTE: We’re not linking any of these with affiliate codes. We really want to know where the good deals will be Friday.
The great Les Paul has passed away today. He had huge impact on the guitar field and as well as the multi-track recording field. If you’re not familiar with the man we encourage you to take some time today and look back at what he’s done.
One of the best documentaries on Les Paul, which is an absolute must see, is the ‘Chasing Sound!’ documentary. Below is a preview clip from that documentary.
Les Paul Trio Clip
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
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.
