Archive for September, 2009
Demo: New Bogner Uberschall Twin Jet
Posted by: | CommentsThe guys over at Tone Merchants have done a cool demo of the new Bogner Uberschall. JMR doing the demo is a great player and makes the amp sound good. Also Tone Merchants is a great place to deal with so I whole heartily recomend them for gear purchases.
What Happened To The Guitar Hero?
Posted by: | CommentsIs it just me or does it seem that the “guitar hero” in rock and pop music has been long gone for a while and doesn’t seem to be coming back? I mean, back in the 60’s and early 70’s we had Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and Beck. Then in the 80’s the idea of a “guitar hero” seemed to be even bigger where we had Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Paul Gilbert just to name a few. Now while I know the popularity of the alternative/grunge scene, which I really liked by the way, put and end to another music scene that quite frankly in my humble opinion needed to die, I have to say I miss the guitar solo being played by a wicked guitar slinger. That’s not to say there are not any new smoking guitar players out there because we have the likes of Andy Wood, Guthrie Govan, John 5, Jim Root, and I’m sure I’m missing a few but it just seems the idea of guitar playing being out front as it once was has yet to come back to popularity. A lot of the instrumentalists and soloist, new and old, have seem to be a more underground thing which I guess could be argued is a good thing to a certain extent. I guess what I’m saying is I just miss hearing a good solo in new music these days. I hear some here and there in popular bands but not what it used to be. Maybe I’m getting nostalgic… I dont know but I do see hope in young players who post clips playing in online contests like Guitarmageddon. Then you have the young guns I hear playing in stores that rip out some of the older rock and metal songs, Vai licks, and even some of these young Jazz cats you hear on line….. so I have hope that one day the “guitar hero” will come back to forefront again but who knows.
What do you guys think?
Suhr Pedals Demo: Koko Boost and Shiba Drive
Posted by: | CommentsHere is a great video of Andy Wood demoing a couple of cool new pedals from John Suhr. The pedals seem to be really versatile and react well to the volume on the guitar.
Review: Mills Acoustics Guitar Cabinets
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When gearing up to do clips for this blog I was looking for a more modern approach to add to the classic sounding cabs I already had to do demos with. One name that kept popping up in my search was “Mills Acoustics Afterburner”. Let me just say dealing with this company was top notch.The communication with Mills was great and the product that was delivered was, in my humble opinion, one of the best I’ve had and what was delivered was a great product made by people who truly care about what they do. Words can only convey so much so I will try to describe what I heard whenI ran this cabinet through it’s paces but I also hope the demo’s to come on this site will do this cabinet justice because this cab quite frankly sounds massive in person and I’ll be using it along with a traditional cab to demo heads here.
When compared to a more classic style cab the Mills has its own sound going on but in a very good way. The more classic style cabs are well….. more classic in tone and focus which is good for certain tones. In this day and age when you think “modern” sounding guitar cabinets you think more bass and bottom end. The Mills doesn’t focus on emphasizing or adding more bottom end, it quite frankly a fills the whole room with tone. I ran a Plexi style head, a JCM 800 style head ,and a VHT Deliverance head for the more modern flavor when I was auditioning the cab. With the classic style heads like the Plexi and JCM 800 you just get more “dimension” and more “presence” in the room as compared to the regular 4×12 I had. The VHT was the same experience, so to me this cab works well for modern sounding heads as well as classic sounding heads. I like both the classic cabinet and the Mills for different reasons but if I were to have to pick just one to live with it would be the Mills. It just does it for me.
Please check back for my clips on this site to hear the cab in action.
