Guitarists love to commit to their tone. We spend hours agonizing over the perfect overdrive pedal, debating the merits of analog delays, and dialing in our amplifier EQ until the room shakes just right. As a part of that ritual, a compressor pedal is often clicked on and left on. It squashes the raw signal,
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Starting out guitar, or even getting some reliable gear together for gigging, can be a daunting challenge. Let me help you with my Thomann landing page Guitar Geordie Recommends After 30+ years of playing, recording and performing, I’ve picked up a few opinions about guitars, pedals, recording equipment and everything else that makes music happen.
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Guelph, Ontario. Pedal Book, a new iOS app for guitarists who use analog effects pedals, is now available on the App Store. The app lets players build a digital copy of each pedal they own, match its controls to their real settings, and save the result as a tone. Analog pedals have no built in
Thinking of taking up the guitar? Looking for reliable, great-sounding gear to get you through your first gigs? Here are my 10 recommendation to get you started, without breaking the bank! Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s Let’s cover electric guitars first, and if it’s LP-style solid body you’re after, the Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s
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Boost Mids MIds are the home frequency of electric guitars, so if you can’t hear them, you’ll sit way back in a band mix. Gibson Les Pauls are inherently mid-focussed, which is one of the reasons why many prefer them in a live context to something like a Fender Stratocaster, but boosting the mids past
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Review of the Danelectro Cool Cat Transparent Overdrive V2 guitar pedal. More than just an ordinary guitar overdrive pedal Version 1 of the Danelectro Cool Cat Transparent Overdrive was a clone of one of the most highly regarded and sought after overdrive/booster pedals out there, the Paul Cochrane Timmy clone. After the legalities were settled
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Before investing time and money into learning guitar, it helps to understand whether this particular instrument aligns with your lifestyle, goals, and personality. Not everyone thrives as a guitarist, and that’s perfectly fine. The decision to pick up an instrument deserves thoughtful consideration beyond romantic notions of playing campfire songs or performing on stage. Taking
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Part 4 of my Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout series. Review of the Danelectro Cool Cat Drive V2. OCD Clone, Take 2…. Here’s the current state of play in my Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout. Amp: Fender Blues Junior III Guitar: Epiphone ES-335 PRO Please checkout my Music Gear Reviews for more info and background on the series. You’re probably
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Part 3 of my Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout series. Review of the Joyo Crunch Distortion. A”Marshall In a Box” at a knock-down price. Let’s take stock of the situation in my Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout. Next up we have a clone of the M.I. Audio Crunchbox, which promises more of a mid-range thump than the
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