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VHT Sig:X
July 2008 At the 2008 Winter NAMM show, my favorite piece of gear was hands down the Sig X amp from VHT. (The name means “your signature here.”) When I sat in front of it for a demo, I saw what appeared |
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Bench TestDanelectro Dano ’63
July 2008 Since it revived the Danelectro name in the ’90s, the Evets Corporation has paid homage to many of Dano founder Nathan Daniel’s original ’50s and ’60s beasts. This time, the company has tackled the 1963 Sears Silvertone 1457L—the guitar ...
Field TestKustom ’72 Coupe Hardtop Head and 412 Speaker Cabs
The Kustom ’72 Coupe Hardtop head ($1,199 retail/$999 street) followed in the footsteps of the ’72 Coupe and ’36 Coupe combo amps—the latter of which received a very favorable review in the October 2005 issue of GP. Like those combos, ... Fight ClubPresonus FaderPort vs. Frontier Design AlphaTrack
Until recently, if DAW users didn’t want to record and mix using a mouse or a laptop touch pad, their only options were large and relatively costly control surfaces. Then, Presonus introduced the FaderPort ($229 retail/$149 street), ...
Vintage ValutG&L John Jorgenson
I have always been a big fan of G&L guitars. They’re built great, and they have very unique-sounding pickups. One G&L that was missing from my collection, however, was the 1995 John Jorgenson model. Reportedly, only 200 were ... |
Gear21 Ass Kickin’ Distortion Boxes
Ask a guitarist what single piece of gear he or she could live without, and chances are good that a distortion pedal would not be mentioned. Fact is, good as today’s amplifiers are at delivering clean and overdriven sounds, ... Shop Talk: Silverface to Blackface Mod
Is there a way to convert a Fender silverface Super Reverb to make it sound like a blackface model? Stage Magic Pedalsnake
The Pedalsnake concept is simple: Musicians who use multiple cables between their pedals at the frontline and amps at the backline now have the convenience of having them all in one flexible cable—with power, footswitch lines, MIDI, ...
Editors PickIK Multimedia StompIO
When IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube software first appeared in 2002, remote control of its amp models and effects wasn’t much of an issue. Typically, you would record one sound per track, and when you wanted another sound, it was simply ... Vox Virage SC
The legacy of the original Vox company is one of innovation, imagination, and the desire to build the best-quality instruments that the technology of the era could produce. Anyone familiar with Vox history knows of its legendary amplifiers, ... Presonus FaderPort vs. Frontier Design AlphaTrack
Until recently, if DAW users didn’t want to record and mix using a mouse or a laptop touch pad, their only options were large and relatively costly control surfaces. Then, Presonus introduced the FaderPort ($229 retail/$149 street), ... |
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