Category: Gear

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This could be pretty interesting: Blackstar Amps just launched Polar 2, a 2-channel USB-C audio interface made specifically for guitarists, targeting some common woes when recording our precious instruments, and audio qualities aside you gotta love when audio interfaces manage to look both stylish and durable. It features two FET (field effect transistor) inputs, “designed […]

As a recent aficionado of humbucker-sized P90s – they can really transform the sound of a guitar if you haven’t tried one yet – these look extremely interesting: Seymour Duncan’s new Hot + Vintage Phat Cat Silencer humbucker-sized P90s. Now, they’ve had the humbucker-sized Phat Cat before, but these aims at being noiseless, which probably […]

This is awesome, Orange Amps just made everything on Orange Learn free for all; a website with free courses to learn guitar (mainly) but so far there’s also a vocal course too. Not only are the courses free (and the guitar courses range from debut to 1–8 in difficulty), they are also officially recognised on […]

Blackstar just unveiled a new iteration of their line of ID:CORE practice amps: the Blackstar ID:CORE V4. These come in four different models where the differences are mainly between footswitch support (not on the smaller ones), different power and speaker sizes (10, 20 and 40 watts and 2×3″, 2×5″ or 2×6,5″ speakers) as well as […]

This doesn’t happen too often; Neural DSP is running a 50% off birthday sale on ALL their plugins. I’ve tried quite a few of them and can personally vouch for it being a pretty awesome deal (esp. Archetype Petrucci and the Soldano SLO-100 in my case). I mean, you have signature plugins like Archetype: Petrucci, […]

Here’s Human Technologies‘ Amp Driver, a hand-made guitar pedal designed to be the ‘ultimate professional boost, overdrive and distortion device’ straight from Northern Ireland. So both a high end overdrive and high end preamp in the same small box. The Amp Driver combines the very finest in perfected classic overdrive pedal design with all new […]