Monthly Archives: September 2013
PRS Intros DG Custom Amps, Cab
PRS has introduced the David Grissom signature DG Custom 30 and DG Custom 50 amps along with the matching DG Custom 2x12 cabinet.
The DG...
Harman’s DigiTech Intros Element/Element XP Multi-Effects Pedals
Harman’s DigiTech has released the Element and Element XP multi-effects pedals. Both have six overdrive and distortion stompboxes, compressor, three-band EQ, flanger, phaser, tremolo,...
The Fender Showman
In addition to several significant shifts in style and presentation, for Fender, the transition of the late 1950s into the early ’60s represented a...
Nick Moran Trio
Moran and band are definitely an organ trio steeped in the tradition, but they aren’t afraid to mix things up a little. That’s immediately...
Kenny Olson Cartel
Think Detroit rock and roll – the MC5 and Iggy by way of Ted Nugent and Kid Rock: gear-grinding rock with plenty of volume...
Frenzel FM-DP1 Tube Preamp
For five decades after he built his first guitar amp in 1952, Jim Frenzel designed tube and solidstate equipment for the military, FAA, and...
The Xaviere XV-JT90 and XV-585
Xaviere is a company that imports its guitars from China, sets them up in its Massachusetts shop, then sells direct.
The company’s XV-JT90 Offset Hybrid...
“Rockabill-Lee”
England’s Albert Lee provided one of Woodstock’s highpoints, with his band Ten Years After’s frenetic version of “I’m Going Home,” and Lee got caught...
SolidGoldFX Launches If 6 Was 9/BC183CC Fuzz
The SolidGoldFX If 6 Was 9 pedal is the company’s take on the late-’60s/early-’70s Fuzz Face. It uses a pair of new-old-stock BC183 transistors...
The Clutter Family
A line in Bob Dylan’s “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding” goes, “If my thought dreams could be seen, they’d probably put my head...