Ibanez TS9 tubescreamer vs Joyo Vintage Overdrive
Strangely, I have never played through an actual Tubescreamer, so I’ve been looking at correcting that recently. While poking arount the net I heard some buzz about the Joyo Vintage Overdrive being a perfect clone for an Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer. Apparently the infamous GearManDude had also heard this and did a shootout between the two.For […]
Fender Voyager Prototype Guitar
Apparently the Music Zoo was given permission at NAMM to take a peak into “Larry’s Lab”. Larry Thomas, the CEO of Fender has commissioned the prototype Fenders in this room to push the boundries. New designs, and new manufacturing techniques. The one shown here was built by Charvels Josh Hurst. The guitar shown here […]
Fender Pawnshop “Excelsior” & “Greta” Amps
Fender has been spewing out a staggering amount of new gear for NAMM. I’ve been trying to just hit the highlights so that Guitarify doesn’t start looking like “Fenderify”. But these new amps are just too cool to pass up. The Machete I posted a few days ago was pretty unexpected, but I think these […]
New Fender Machete Amp
Fender has just released a bunch of videos demoing their new Machete amp. It looks like they are trying to do something a bit different then the usual Twin Reverb, Tweedy, vintage type stuff everyone loves. This amp has a modern sound and seems geared toward hard rock and metal. It’s 50W with one 12″ Celestion speaker, 2 […]
New Rail-Hammer Pickups
Joe Naylor, most known for starting Reverend guitars, Naylor Amps and a few other ventures, has just announced this new Patent Pending pickup design. The press release explains the concept behind these pickups, but basically they are half rail, and half pole piece humbuckers. Another unique thing about theses pickups besides the design is […]