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REVIEW: Orangewood Mason Mahogany Live Acoustic Guitar
Starting with a Grand auditorium shape, the Orangewood Mason Mahogany Live Acoustic Guitar...
REVIEW: Sterling By Music Man Sabre Electric Guitar
Typically, when a manufacturer offers up a lower-priced import instrument, it’s been streamlined...
BOOK REVIEW: Pedal Crush
Guitar related books are plentiful, and many have become the respected bibles for the instruments they have covered. They’re part informational/reference items, but the glossy pictures make them...
REVIEW: Boss RC-5 Loop Station Pedal
Looping in general is a pretty simple process using a footswitch-enabled recording and playback device. In practice, it can take, well...practice, even getting the hang of simple units. Sometimes...
REVIEW: Boss OC-5 Octave Pedal
Boss pedals generally set the standard, right from the get-go, of that particular effect device, until they re-set and raise the bar. Their OC-2 octave pedal is a classic. Now they’ve updated things...
REVIEW: Boss RC-500 Loop Station Pedal
https://youtu.be/X3JY03lsebc It’s no surprise that looping pedals can be a way of providing personal accompaniment to performances, but in many cases, getting a small one-button device to get into...
REVIEW: Boss GT-1000CORE Multi-Effects Processor
When you take a flagship product, and streamline/consolidate it, the results in many cases are less than half the value. Boss figured out how to make a new axiom: “less is equal” by taking their...
REVIEW: CopperSound Third Man Triplegraph Octave Pedal
Back in 2017 we got to review Coppersound’s Telegraph Stutter pedal with its unique momentary switch that uses the mechanical concept of old timey telegraphs. Now Coppersound has gone to a whole new...
REVIEW: CopperSound Strategy Analog Preamp Pedal
OK, yes the new CopperSound Strategy pedal looks like a Jeff Goldbloom/fly merger/accident happened with a stompbox and a Strat. The input is the same jack that’s been around since 1954, along with...
Introducing Novation Circuit Tracks
New groovebox encourages music makers to ‘create instinctively; perform immediately’. The latest in Novation’s Circuit family of grooveboxes has arrived! Circuit Tracks is an extraordinary...
Yamaha YC61 Stage Keyboard REVIEW
The new Yamaha YC61 is quite the beast – a 61-key clonewheel-style organ and piano combo that takes cues from some existing Yamaha instruments (like the CP73) and retains the feel and sound the...
Taylor Guitars GTe Urban Ash Acoustic Guitar REVIEW
It’s no secret, Taylor makes really nice guitars, and we’ve had lots of experiences with them, from their hyper exotic to their more affordable models. Now they are back at it with an entirely new...