Articles from March 2008
March 31, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
300guitars.com is proud to announce the launch of a new page called “Spotlight”. A tech, artist, manufacturer or the like will be featured periodically with an in-depth look and interview. Our first Spotlight features John R. Frondelli the Technical Services Director of dBm Pro Audio in NYC. In his interview he talks about the repair and restoration [...]
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March 30, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
Drawing on Joe Satriani’s knowledge accumulated from decades of groundbreaking performances, both live and in the studio, VOX unveils a breakthrough in guitar tone – The SatchuratorTM distortion pedal. Designed to Satriani’s exact specifications. The Satchurator produces Satriani’s signature tone and adds new features and improvements never before combined in a distortion pedal. After almost [...]
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March 29, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
The Ampeg AMG100 electric guitars are wood-bodied iterations of the ADA6 Dan Armstrong “Plexi” guitar. They feature the same specifications as the ADA6, and are crafted from traditional vintage electric guitar tone woods. With 24 frets clear of the unique symmetrical double cutaway body and the same removable pickup system as the original Dan Armstrong design; [...]
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March 28, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
The Hughes & Kettner Chord Finder knows all the standard guitar chords and shows their variants in tablature format. You can even audition the chord played with different clean and overdrive sounds at the touch of a button! Now how cool is that for copping tunes and composing songs? Chord Finder bases on Java [...]
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March 27, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
From the Gibson Lifestyle Page: “Many guitarists think about strings more in relation to feel than to sound, and put little consideration into elements of their strings’ make-up other than seeking a thickness-or gauge-that feels good to their fingertips and is easy to bend and fret, as required to taste. Some sacrifice a little finger [...]
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March 26, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
Revolutionizing the way we hear and play music is a never-ending quest for Hartley Peavey.From the beginning, the Peavey musical instrument program has taken his famous maxim, “To be better, you must be different,” as a call to arms, pioneering the CNC building techniques that bridged the vintage and modern eras in guitar making [...]
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March 25, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
Always keep a tube of Krazy Glue or another brand of cyanoacrylate super glue handy in your gig bag. While it has literally hundreds of uses, a good reason for guitar players to have handy is to repair broken fingernails for players that have a finger picking style. A broken nail can hinder your performance [...]
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March 24, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
This article by John R. Frondelli brings attention to RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) restrictions on the manufacturing of musical equipment. It also adresses how manufacturing affects our planet and what is being done to decrease earthly contamination.
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March 23, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
Kent Armstrong has successfully reduced a traditional jazz humbucker to 1/2 of its original thickness while preserving the tone. At only 3/8″, these pickups will fit practically any guitar – no matter the distance between top and fingerboard. Both neck mount and side mount are available. The pickup is called the “Slimbucker” and is available [...]
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March 22, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
Great Tone. Flexibility. Portability. These are all very compelling words when it comes to guitar amps. Until now, they’ve been just that: words. It was in this conundrum that Greg Mackie saw the opportunity to once again be a major innovator in delivering audio to musicians, this time specifically for guitarists. More pragmatically, perhaps even [...]
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March 21, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn
The Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro Plus is an enormously powerful 19″ rack mountable effects unit that encompasses digital recording, sampling and digital delay. With a total of 198 seconds of memory time on-board (16mb), the capability to layer up to nine loops at once, Tap Tempo and a host of other features, the Echoplex is [...]
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