Monthly Archives: June 2014
Electra Launches Phoenix S Model
Electra Guitars’ Phoenix S model is based on the company’s X110, with an offset double-cutaway ash body, maple neck, maple fretboard with 25.5" scale,...
Seymour Duncan’s Whole Lotta Humbucker, 59/Custom Hybrid Pickups
Seymour Duncan’s Whole Lotta Humbucker
Price: $94
59/Custom Hybrid Pickups
Price: $89
Info: www.seymourduncan.com.
In lean times, who can afford to introduce anything but a winner? Wisely, Seymour Duncan...
Rodrigo Sanchez
Rodrigo Sanchez is one half of the fiery acoustic duo known as Rodrigo Y Gabriela. They have evolved from a stripped-down dual-acoustic-guitar sound to...
Orange VT1000 Valve Tester
Orange VT1000 Valve Tester
Price: $499
Info: www.orangeamps.com.
Many a Vintage Guitar reader has a stash of tubes lying about their music room/workshop or in a...
Charlie Daniels Band
Before he became a leader of the Southern Rock movement, Charlie Daniels was part of a new breed of Nashville studio musicians who came...
Devo
Devo is far from the only band that was years ahead of its time. The difference is that 40 years after its formation, the...
DigiTech Launches Drop Pedal
DigiTech’s new Drop is a polyphonic drop-tune pedal that lets guitar and bass players lower their tuning from one semitone to a full octave....
Dynamo Amplification Expands Grand Tour Series
Dynamo Amplification has added the GTS-C to its Grand Tour Series of high-gain/two-channel amps, which are built with audiophile-grade components and toroidal transformers. The...
Epiphone Zephyr De Luxe Regent and Zephyr Amplifier
The Zephyr De Luxe Regent was Epiphone’s second-from-the-top electric guitar produced from the late 1940s through the mid ’50s. The instrument went through several...
G&L Fallout
G&L Fallout
Price: $1,400 (retail)
Info: www.glguitars.com.
From automobiles to kitchen appliances to, of course, electric guitars, designers have gotten a lot of mileage out of retro...