One of the new guitars that Eastman announced at the NAMM show was the Romeo-SC: Romeo-SC is the first Eastman guitar to include a lipstick style pickup, via Seymour Duncan's Vintage Stack in the neck - in addition to a Seymour Duncan ’59 pickup in the bridge. This allows for an incredibly versatile range of tones that seduces the imagination from all genres. It’s also the … [Read more...]
Ampire: The Sound of Music
Ampire looks like it could be an interesting movie: Ampire is a feature length film which takes a fun peek into the evolution of ‘Sound’: the Amp and the ever changing voice it has given the guitar. Ampire is loaded with laughs, great behind the scenes stories, little known facts and even a few secrets. All new, never before seen interviews with artists and band members of … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Guitar Hoarder
Steve Housewright, a self-professed guitar hoarder, writing for minimalism.life: Guitar hoarding is still around. Social media is filled with people who share their latest instrument purchases. It’s an illness and they lovingly know it! People post photos of guitar collections that fill entire rooms. Once the guitar-collecting compulsion takes hold, you seldom can give it … [Read more...]
MXR Dookie Drive v3
Last year, Dunlop/MXR collaborated with Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to create the Dookie Drive, which is meant to recreate the two Marshall sound from the Dookie album. At this year's NAMM show, MXR have announced the latest version of the pedal (v3) with updated artwork to reflect Green Day's upcoming Father of All... album: Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar tone on Green … [Read more...]
Mythos Pedals Lark
Another new pedal from Mythos Pedals is the Lark, a collaboration with guitarist and YouTuber Rhett Shull: A collaboration between Mythos Pedals and guitarist Rhett Shull, the Lark is inspired by one of Rhett’s favorite 60’s combo amps. The 5 watt, tremolo laden, Kalamazoo made amplifier that inspired this pedal has been a studio favorite for years and for the first time you … [Read more...]