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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One of the main causes of guitar playability issues is the guitar nut height. Find out how to solve this problem quickly, easily and cheaply. The guitar nut height on my Yamaha Pacifica 112J needed serious attention. The three wound string were fine, but as you can see from the pic below, the nut height
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Review of the Paul Reed Smith (PRS) SE 245 Limited edition Soapbar Spalted Maple electric guitar. A modern take on a Gibson Les Paul? My trusty Gibson Les Paul Studio had just about bitten the dust (full story here). I was after something more modern, reliable and also with a little more top end bite.
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By Shawn Leonhardt for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Derek Trucks is a virtuoso slide guitarist who has been playing with famous rock groups like the Allman Brothers Band since he was a teen. While slide blues guitarists may have been his early inspiration, he has since added Latin and Indian scales to his
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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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How to Tackle Barre Chords By Shawn Leonhardt for Guitar Tricks and 30 Day Singer Barre chords are an absolute pain in the fingers! When you are learning how to play guitar, barre can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you approach them correctly and practice them often they will become easier. Here are
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Part 5 of my Guitar Overdrive Pedal Shootout series. Review of the ProCo Rat 2. Meeting a Legend. I won’t bore you with the background of this shootout, for that please refer to the other parts in the series on this site. I’d now been through the clone phase, and so far in my quest
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