Category: Gear

Amps

Vox amPlug 3: Updated, ultra-portable practice amps

Sometimes small and portable is all you need to keep the practice routines going. Vox just launched the third generation of their super portable line of tiny plug n’ play mini amplifiers: amPlug 3. Now, these small little things has proven themselves before (like how they performed back when Ola Englund tried an earlier version […]

Amps

Is the Boss IR-2 the amp/cab sim pedal I’ve been waiting for?

Now, I can’t say that I was waiting for an amp/cab sim pedal.. but now that I see that it exists, I’m a bit blown away by the Boss IR-2 to be honest. Sure, there’s other IR-loading pedals out there, or small power amps, but this small combo looks like it could solve so many […]

Pickups

Joe Bonamassa’s Seymour Duncan “The Blonde Dot” Vintage ES-335 P.A.F. Humbucker Set

Think what you will about Joe Bonamassa, but he ought to know a thing or two about P.A.F humbuckers (the classic and earliest iteration of the humbucker pickup, acronym coming from the “Patent Applied For” sticker found beneath them, invented by Seth Lover for Gibson back in 1955). His new signature set of Seymour Duncan […]