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Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout: Electro-Harmonix East River Drive Review

Part 2 of a Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout series. Review of the Electro-Harmonix East River Drive guitar overdrive pedal. Bargain JRC4558 chip Ibanez Tubescreamer Clone? Moving on from my previous attempt at a standalone overdrive, the Joyo Ultimate Drive, this was it. Tubescreamer time! Never having owned a tubscreamer in the past, I plumped for […]

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Danelectro Cool Cat Transparent Overdrive V2 Review

October 8, 2022 / Guitar, Guitar Gear Reviews, Guitar Pedal and Multi-FX Reviews

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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Guitar Strumming Techniques for Beginners

October 6, 2022 / Guitar Lessons, Guitar Tricks

If you are just starting on the guitar with some beginner guitar lessons, the strumming process can seem like a daunting hill to overcome. Besides learning how to move your wrist in a particular up-and-down movement, you will also have to study modern rhythms. These basic syncopated patterns and techniques will be the key to

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Easy Guitar Gig Tips

September 29, 2022 / Guitar, Guitar Tips

Advice and tips for the Gigging Guitarist. Less is more Keep it simple! There’s a wealth of very complicated equipment available on the market today. Multi-channel amps, multi-effects units with their own effects loops using the four cable method (4CM). But ask yourself, are the thousands of sounds available any good? would you use them?

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Zoom G3 Guitar Effect and Amp Simulator Review

September 22, 2022 / Guitar, Guitar Gear Reviews, Guitar Pedal and Multi-FX Reviews

An In-depth, hands-on review of the Zoom G3 Guitar Effects & Amp Simulator Pedal. A loveable box of tricks I really miss my Zoom G3. From the moment I pawed over the box, gawping at it’s many functions, to the moment it went on ebay for a highly respectable £70. It just did the job,

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BOSS BR-800 Digital Recorder Review

September 20, 2022 / Guitar, Guitar Gear Reviews, Music, Music Production, Songwriting

How the BOSS BR-800 Digital Recorder became an invaluable part of my recording and practice setup. My brief history of the stand-alone multi-track recorder My first multi-track recorder, way back in the mid-90’s was a cassette-based Tascam 4-track Porta05 ministudio. Obviously cassette tape had it’s limitations, primarily the degradation of the tape itself after numerous

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Fender Blues Junior III review

September 19, 2022 / Guitar, Guitar Amplifier Reviews, Guitar Gear Reviews

In-depth review of the Fender Blues Junior III guitar amplifier. Comparisons…… I’ve owned a fair few amps in my time, a Vox AC30, Marshall DSL401, Orange Rocker 30 and Cornford Roadhouse 30 to name but a few. All amazing amps in their own right, but they all had to go for various reasons. The Vox AC30 was

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The Guitar Tone Bug.

September 18, 2022 / Guitar Tips

The Guitar tone bug. Why guitar tone has once again become my number one priority instead of reliability, cost, and convenience. Not so long ago, the vast majority of my guitar-playing time was spent either gigging or rehearsing for gigs, and my priorities were reliability, cost, and convenience, definitely NOT guitar tone. Reliability? Because I’d

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How to Creatively Apply Guitar Scales to Solos and Riffs

September 7, 2022 / Guitar Lessons, Guitar Tricks

When you first learn a musical scale in your beginner guitar lessons, you play one note at a time ascending and then descending. This quickly gets boring and repetitive, so it is important to find other ways that stimulate the mind and the muscles. Whether you are trying to apply guitar scales to a solo

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