Posts from February 2014

Why don't these things come with an on/off switch? Find out.

As far as I know, there is no popular music genre that ever truly dies. For any genre you can think of, there are fans of it even if it's not the popular music of the moment.

This game sucks, except when it doesn't

Guitar review of the Gretsch G5445T Electromatic Double Jet

Today I headed out to Sam Ash and while there I tried out two guitars. One was a Fender and the other a Gretsch. I'm writing about the Fender first.

This is not about the first movie, It's about the second one, .

I own a 1989 . It's my first guitar and now 25 years old. That's vintage. Today, you don't need vintage to get vintage tone as Squier makes brand new guitars that totally capture what vintage Strats are supposed to sound like.

Back in October 2013 I bought the above you see, have been recording with it off and on for the past few months, and this is the update on how it's fared out so far.

A whole lot of gold on this anniversary edition Squier Strat

Cartoons now are vastly different than what they used to be.

While I'm not a Les Paul player, I was happy to see Gibson dropping their prices for several USA models for 2014. In this article I'm concentrating on the first 6 of them from lowest-to-highest in price.

Hendrix tone is basically about three things. Fuzz, octave and an envelope filter (which you know as wah-wah or just wah). The stuff you need to get Hendrix tone is below (both for cheap and expensive ways), however you should keep reading after that stuff because there are certain things you need to know.

Trust Leo's original design and good things will happen

Building a metal guitar is an easy thing, and it can be done inexpensively. Or said more plainly, it can be done real cheap. As in under $200 cheap.

Is it worth it to buy a Martin D-45? Yes.

was released on 1 February 1994, so yes, that means the album is officially 20 years old... ...but that doesn't mean it was anything special, because it wasn't. The album was nothing but 1970s "pop punk" wrapped in a 1990s flavor. This is not to say the album was bad, because it wasn't. It is, […]