Queen: Don’t Stop Me Now has always been my favourite guitar solo. In this article, I’m going to try to explain why. Queen: Don’t Stop Me Now. The song. Queen: Don’t Stop Me Now is the penultimate track of Queen’s 1978 Album Jazz, and was released as a single on 26 January 1979. It also
Queen: Don’t Stop Me Now: Analysing My Favourite Guitar Solo Read Post »
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,
Demystifying Guitar Compression: Why Your Mix Needs More Than a Pedal Read Post »
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
5 Effortless Tips for a Tremendous Live Guitar Tone Read Post »
The BOSS Nextone Stage 40 is billed as ‘combining classic tube sound and feel with next-generation tonal diversity’, but does it live up to that promise? I’ve spent the last 6 months putting the BOSS Nextone Stage 40 through its paces in a variety of scenarios, and in this BOSS Nextone review, here are 10
BOSS Nextone Stage 40 Review: 10 Things It’s Not (And Who It’s For) Read Post »
Lowering the saddle of your acoustic guitar may be the most painless guitar mod you’ll ever make, and also the most effective! Once you’ve discounted the nut and neck-relief, the only component blocking your path to a slick-playing instrument is the Acoustic guitar saddle, and the fix is simple: Sand it down! Don’t Panic! Now,
Acoustic Guitar Action: Lowering the saddle. Read Post »
Exploring the differences between the two most common guitar fretboard (or fingerboard) materials. Maple and Rosewood. Looks It depends on the Guitar. I’ve seen some gorgeous maple guitar fretboards with a little flaming, but a lot of them, particularly at the cheaper end of the spectrum, are just too anemic/plain looking. Up close, the darker
Guitar Fretboard: Maple vs Rosewood Read Post »
The Hotone Ampero Mini is one of the smallest guitar multi-effects units on the market. But can it really do it all? Initially, I purchased the Hotone Ampero Mini (a bargain at £150) to integrate it into my existing setup of analogue overdrive pedals into the front end of an amp (in this case, my
Hotone Ampero Mini Review — Is This Mini Pedal Worth It? Read Post »
This is very much a Holy Grail-type quest. By this we mean it will never be fully accomplished but neither would any guitar player want it to be. Part of the joy of learning how to develop your guitar tone is the endless experimentation with your technique and equipment. This is not to say that
In Search of the Perfect Guitar Tone Read Post »
Review of the Zoom G6 Guitar Multi-Effects processor….. … or rather a demonstration of how bad the UI experience is. Enough for me to send it back. I’ve always loved Zoom products, from way back to the 505 through to the G3. The OD/Distortion and amp modeling beat anything by Line 6 in my book,
Zoom G6 Review: They RUINED it! Read Post »
