Another interesting new guitar from this year's NAMM show, the Duesenberg Guitars Johnny Depp Artist Series: Being one of the most in-demand actors of the past 25 years and best known for his character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of Caribbean movies we have designed an iconic guitar in the Duesenberg tradition by telling the story of Johnny’s life from his tattoos; each one … [Read more...]
NAMM 2014: Gretsch G5034TFT Rancher
This is definitely an interesting new guitar by Gretsch, the Gretsch G5034TFT Rancher: The G5034TFT Rancher is perhaps one of the most distinctive Rancher models ever created, with a beautiful Savannah Sunset gloss finish, a sweet iso-chamber mounted Fideli’Tron™ pickup for great amplified tone and performance, and even a Bigsby® B70G tailpiece with a “wire” trem arm. Other … [Read more...]
NAMM 2014: Fender Custom Shop Nile Rodgers Hitmaker Stratocaster
I first heard about the new Nile Rodgers Hitmaker Stratocaster a few months ago when he posted about it on his Twitter page. His original Stratocaster has played on tons of hit records (hence the Hitmaker moniker). Here is Fender's press release about the guitar: SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Jan. 23, 2014) — The Fender Custom Shop is proud to introduce the limited edition Nile Rodgers … [Read more...]
NAMM 2014: Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz Dirty Donny Edition
Another new entry by Dunlop: the Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz Dirty Donny Edition: The Swollen Pickle™ Jumbo Fuzz Dirty Donny Edition serves up the same burly high-gain fuzz as the full-sized Swollen Pickle but in a more petite package, featuring a simplified control set up and a corpulently cool new paint job. The Dirty Donny Edition retains six of the Mark II’s seven … [Read more...]
NAMM 2014: MXR FET Driver
Dunlop has announced an interesting new pedal called the MXR FET Driver: Featuring a unique circuit design, the MXR FET Driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube amplifier by cascading an op-amp gain stage into a FET stage. The FET Driver thickens up lead tones with musical, amp-like distortion and sustain without the fragility and inconsistency associated … [Read more...]