Monthly Archives: December 2013
Fix Pedalboards Offers Mini, Micro Boards
Fix Pedalboards’ new MicroFix pedalboard is designed to hold three standard-sized pedals on its 6" x 12" footprint. The MiniFix has a slightly larger...
Billy Gibbons
Before ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons launched his career as guitarist and front man with a Texas-based group called the Moving Sidewalks. The band also...
Laurence Juber
The latest from Lawrence Juber will befuddle guitarists who struggle simply to work up solo versions of songs in standard tuning. Here, Juber has...
Majik Box Releases Bipolar Fuzz
The Majik Box Bipolar Fuzz is a dual-mode fuzz pedal with two discrete circuits that produce sounds ranging from the company’s representation of classic...
JHS Upgrades Panther Cub Delay Pedal
JHS Pedals’ Panther Cub Delay is designed as an upgrade to the original Panther, packaged in an enclosure half the size of the original....
Michael Sweet
The yellow-and-black attack of the Christian-metal band Stryper has returned. The band’s new album, Second Coming, helps mark 30 years of preaching their metal...
The Guild and Gibson Johnny Smith Models
The name “Johnny Smith” is synonymous with class, elegance, and style. Most guitar players are familiar, if not with the man or his music,...
Pokey LaFarge
Pokey LaFarge’s retro vision – rooted in bluegrass, blues, jazz, jug band, pre-World War II country (especially Jimmie Rodgers) and ’30s Western swing –...
Electro-Harmonix Unveils Nano Big Muff Pi
Electro-Harmonix has released a Nano version of its Big Muff Pi distortion pedal. Designed to work and sound identical to the original and with...
Alan Jackson
When Alan Jackson announced a bluegrass album produced by Alison Krauss in 2006, the result was Like Red On A Rose. On it, Jackson...