Entertaining Interview with St. Vincent
From episode 8 of the series “Guitar moves”. Annie Clark demonstrates some of her techniques.
Insanely Ingenious Home-made Guitar FX
Just saw this over on ToneFiend. This guy on youtube who goes by the name MotorGoblin, is the MacGuyver of the guitar world. You won’t believe the way he goes about making a vibrato, wah and flanger. Each one of these videos made me laugh out loud when it was revealed what he was building.
Fishman’s New “TriplePlay” Wireless Midi Controller
Fishman, mostly known for their acoustic guitar pickup systems, just announced the release of their new guitar midi controller, the “TriplePlay”. Unabashedly calling it “the best Midi guitar controller the world has ever seen”. It uses a very thin hexophonic pickup that easily mounts to the guitar with no permanent modifications, and uses a wireless […]
Pro Guitar Shop Introduces “Demo It Live”
Pro Guitar Shop seems to be one of the webs more visible online guitar gear retailers. With a seemingly endless stream of contests, video demos and recently, a new riff of the day, taught by the popular Andy. Their latest marketing blitz is something they are calling “Demo It Live”. It’s essentially just a web […]
New Seymour Duncan Pickup – “Whole Lotta Humbucker”
Sounds pretty nice, but pickups interact with the other elements of your signal chain. Hard to tell how good they are till they’re in your guitar. But these seem like they’d be worth a try. I recently switched the Alnico 5 magnet in my burstbucker pro humbucker which is in my Les Paul, and replaced […]