Monthly Archives: September 2012

  Matt Schofield (VG, March ’12) was recently selected British Blues Awards “Guitarist of the Year” for the third consecutive year, and has been inducted to the British Blues Awards Hall of Fame. He joins bass player Andy Graham, British harmonica player Paul Jones, and American guitarist Joe Bonamassa (“Overseas Artist”) as this year’s inductees. [...]

Guitar/motorcycle builder Nick Perri recently completed a custom instrument that honors David Mann, a graphic artist renowned in the biker community for his murals and well as his work in Easyriders magazine and on custom motorcycles. Perri’s Chopper Fest guitar was built, finished, and equipped with help from Nash Motorcycle Company, SpaGetty’s Garage, TV Jones pickups, and GHS [...]

The TC Electronic Flashback X4 Delay and Looper has 12 delay types and four TonePrint slots. Other features include a 40-second loop, TonePrint functionality, three pre-sets, a dedicated tap-tempo, and expression pedal input. Read about it at tcelectronic.com/x4.

The Line 6 Relay G55 guitar wireless has a receiver housed in aluminum and uses the company’s fourth-generation digital wireless platform. With 12 channels of 24-bit audio, 10Hz–20kHz frequency response and 117dB dynamic range (A weighted), the company claims its signal is indistinguishable from a high-quality guitar cable up to 300 feet. Check it out at line6.com/relay-G55.

Kiss and Motley Crue recently wrapped up a 41-city co-headlining tour. THE TOUR raised more than $450,000 for charities including Hiring Our Heroes, Aurora Victim’s Relief Fund, Operation Homefront, Skylar Neil Foundation, Spondylitis Association of America and the Augusta Warrior Project. For more, visit uschamber.com/hiringourheroes, operationhomefront.net, augustawarriorproject.org, and spondylitis.org/.  

Rotosound is reissuing its Vintage Fuzz Pedal using the same circuit configuration as the ’60s original, but with modern resistors and capacitors. The pedal uses a Darlington Pair for high-gain input, which drives a temperature-compensated “fuzz” transistor; the Fuzz control can govern changes in the amount of drive from a soft crunch to a gruff [...]

The Radial PZ-DI direct box is designed to work with all types of acoustic and orchestral instruments. Its three-position impedance-selector switch lets the player match load with the pickup and includes a 220k-ohm setting to warm up magnetic pickups, a 1 meg-ohm setting to replicate a classic DI, and a 10 meg-ohm setting to eliminate [...]