Guitars

Epiphone SG Tribute Plus: Both Inspired by Gibson and Affordable

Considering all the expensive guitars Epiphone released the last few years it’s refreshing to see them focus on something a bit more affordable like the Inspired by Gibson Epiphone SG Tribute Plus line. These take great step up from the previous SG Tribute series and offers a classic Gibson SG mahogany body shape with a […]
Pickups

Seymour Duncan JB Jr for Tele Bridge Pickup

Seymour Duncan‘s original JB humbucker was one of their original pickups that put the company on the map when they started back in the 70s, offering a hotter output than PAF pickups paired with vintage speakers and people swear by them to this day. Now, finally, they’ve made a telecaster bridge model of the JB […]
Plugins

Free Amp Plugin: Universal Audio’s Showtime ’64 Tube Amp

If you’re on the look-out for new (and free) guitar plugins, Universal Audio is currently giving away their UAD Showtime ’64 Tube Amp plugin for free until October 31st. The Showtime ’64 is emulating the Fender Showman tube amp made popular by Dick Dale, Keith Richards, John Frusciante, The Beatles, David Gilmour, Jack White and […]
Guitars

PRS SE Chleo: A Somewhat Budget-Friendlier Herman Li Signature Model

PRS collaborated with Herman Li (of DragonForce) and released his signature PRS Chleo model back in June and it was limited to 200 guitars with a hefty $6,850 price tag — they’ve just released the more budget friendly SE Chleo edition now, removing some features while keeping others and lowering the price to $1,999. I […]
Guitars

Gretsch Limited Edition Double-Cut Center Block Falcon

As an old fan of Gretsch guitars, there’s few that look as classy as a Gretsch Falcon to me. Well, now they’ve released limited edition double-cut and center block variants of them as part of their Professional Collection, both of these beauties featuring string-through Bigsby trems and all gold hardware in either Vintage White or […]
Guitars

Sire Larry Carlton I-series: A sleek take on the Les Paul shape

Allright, I like the look of this! Sire‘s Larry Carlton I-series of guitars feature a slimmer, sleeker Les Paul single-cut shape with a more vertical shaped lower horn and come in a variety of configurations — all with sandblasted swamp ash bodies. They’re bolt-ons but comes with a really sweet price tag. To me, the […]
Guitars

Tosin Abasi’s Kaizen finally available from Sterling by Music Man

Amazing news, Animals as Leader‘s Tosin Abasi‘s signature guitar Kaizen has been around for a couple of years from Ernie Ball Music Man, featuring a fresh take on a futuristic body shape and multi-scale fretboard but it also came with a really hefty price tag at around $3,999. Now it’s finally available as a more […]
Guitars

PRS Chleo Limited Edition: DragonForce’s Herman Li Signature Model

PRS is teaming up with Herman Li of DragonForce with a limited edition signature guitar: the PRS Chleo, and I’m sure the looks of this might shake up a few traditional PRS fans a tiny bit. There’ll only be 200 of these made though, so don’t worry about them flooding the PRS market just yet. […]
Pedals

Keeley Electronics reimagines the Klon Centaur with the Manis Overdrive pedal

Guitar pedal legend Robert Keeley reimagined Bill Finnegan’s mythical Klon Centaur pedal and came up with the Manis Overdrive. Besides being able to fully clone the original Klon circuit you also get two switches: a bass boost to fatten the bottom of your sound by lowering the frequency response by one octave and increasing the […]
Amps

Victory Amps Launches The Deputy Lunchbox 25W Valve Head

Peter Honoré, perhaps more known as “Danish Pete” from Anderton’s Youtube channel, collaborated with Victory Amps to create The Deputy; an amp meant to fit right between Victory’s clean option The Dodge and their dirtier more Marshall-like The Sheriff, aiming for an amp that can go from 60’s blues cleans to late 60’s/70’s rock with […]
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