In a refreshing endorsement of modern gear craftsmanship, Perry — an avid guitar collector himself — tells Total Guitar:“Big legacy companies like Gibson and Fender are now starting to make guitars that are as good as the ones they made back when they were first invented.” “I’ve played...
And that’s before we even start discussing guitars and amps…Broadly speaking, there are three types of FX: first, there’s the gain-type effect, such as distortion units, boosters, compressors and so on. They change the dynamics, or volume, of our guitar signals. Then, there’s ...
Of all of the guitars around, the ones that catch your eye and caught the eye of many others are the ones thatstillcatch your eye. Some guitars age in ways that make them just increase in coolness while others were groundbreaking designs in their day. Think of the Fender Stratocaster. It...
I did it with Pro Tools instead. That’s the one thing I love with Pro Tools. I was very late to start using Pro Tools but once I started I threw away my old tape machines. I mean, fuck this shit. Well, I didn’t throw them away but I got rid of them – they are beautiful...
The Academy Is... are a quintet of Illinois pretty boys who play watered-down pseudo-rock that Taking Back Sunday and Brand New fans will most certainly lose their shit over. With distorted guitars and lyrics about heavy hearts, they're trying to be bitter and unfuckwitable. But there jus...
(and not much top treble, either). Oh, they’re swell in the upper bass (where Fender guitars mostly play), but they just seem to cut off below about 60-80Hz, making for a old-fashioned, one-note-bass kind of sound. (I’ve heard these Lamm amps sound fabulous on other occasions...