"An overview of D'Addario Strings with Mellow and Bright sliders to help you make your choice. Categories are split into Acoustic, Bass, Classical and Electric."
"Eddie Van Halen is not know for his use of a Wah but it is none the less an effect he has always had. His customized wah from the early 90s had a High Q inductor and a wider fequency sweep making it sound far more vocal than a normal wah. .."
"Using a wood plectrum for the first time can be a breakthrough moment for a musician. Some will never go back to nylon or plastic once they’ve tried it. It opens up a whole new avenue for modifying your tone and expands on the choices a musician will already have made with regard to the guitar itself and choices of strings. It is very liberating to be able to produce a brighter or warmer sound simply through changing your pick."
"The MXR Variphase Phaser Pedal CSP001 is essentially a phaser built into the Dunlop ‘Crybaby’ casing - so you can use it like a wah pedal to control the speed of the phase."
“The Orange Thunderverb 200 kicks out 200 watts of all-valve power. Thunder by name, thunder by nature. The loudest offering from Orange (and probably one of the loudest guitar amps out there) has a whole host of useful features and is built to last. This amp means business.”
"On a first impression of the Memory Man with Hazarai there’s a lot to take in and many controls that double up as a different parameter in different modes, so lets take a look at a run down of this crazy little box of tricks."
“I opened the Orange shop but nobody would supply me with new stock. There was something of a cartel between the big names at the time. We ended up designing our own amplifier.”
“Wood makes a huge difference to the tones of guitars. This article has some wood tone explainations to help you understand the effect it has on the overall sound.”
“ Clarence Leo Fender is born. By 1922 he had graduated high school and was running an amateur radio station while building amplifiers and public address systems.”
“Boasting up to 600ms of delay, the sparkly green MXR Carbon Copy Delay is a real looker. It will gleam on your pedal board under stage lights and make most other pedals look a bit dull...”
