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Fender has reported the most recent in its Alternate Reality line of unusual electric guitars - meet The Sixty-Six, which groups a scaled back Jazz Bass body with Strat and Tele arrangements. The ash body includes a similar chrome control plate and knobs as the original Jazz Bass structure, and is offered in the trademark Jazz Bass Natural Finish with the beautiful dark scratch-plate, yet includes the Strat's vintage-style synchronized tremolo. Two Player Series Telecaster single coil pickups and a Player Series hum-bucker are fitted to this amazing instrument, changed through a five-way selector switch.Also onboard in a Modern C...

HeadRush goes on location with world touring guitarist Zakk Sandler. Zakk Sandler is the well-talented guitarist and keyboard player in the highly regarded Hardcore/Rock band, Falling In Reverse. They just wowed crowds at Warped Tour through the summer and are now outfitting to shred into Spring! Take a Look at this video of how Zakk utilizes the Headrush Pedalboard with scenes to roll out enormous improvements rapidly and get the sound he requires!  

In recent history, the acoustic guitar boasts a bunch of key body shapes and styles that can fill in as one of the key variations for players hoping to get another instrument. While the careful definitions change brand to brand and time to time, most guitarists fully understand what you mean when you allude to a guitar as a dreadnought, a jumbo or a grand auditorium. In the video above, The guys at Reverb are investigating a portion of these fundamental classes and show the variations between various guitars that fall into each. Here are the guitars we have in...

The Gibson Les Paul is viewed as one of the two most significant electric guitar models ever made. First discharged in the mid-1950s, the Les Paul has now been created in a large number of variations throughout the years, the center structure has been spun off into a tremendous star grouping of Les Paul sub-models and families. Gibson likewise tends to switch up the specs of explicit models year-to-year, bringing about a marvelously various pool of instruments to filter through in case you're thinking of purchasing a new axe! Price Range When making any guitar buy, think about the best...

Watch while Fender's John Dreyer walks us through all of the new highlights the American Acoustasonic Telecaster has to offer. To see how The American Acoustasonic Telecaster was made, follow the link! http://bit.ly/2VdK8Lg

  Warwick's Idolmaker Bass, first revealed a year ago, is presently accessible in a progressively moderate RockBass position. Four-string and five-string renditions will be accessible, the two of which highlight a mahogany body, three-stripe laminated maple neck with Ekanga veneer stripes, and a wenge fingerboard. Two MEC vintage soapbar single-loop pickups are fitted, combined with dynamic RockBass two-band gadgets, controlled by means of volume, parity, treble and bass handles. There's a push/destroy work on the volume to incapacitate or empower the dynamic hardware, as well. The Idolmaker Bass is accessible from late 2019 in Black, Burgundy Blackburst or Vintage Sunburst...

The TM-1 is the newest addition to Roland’s vast hybrid drumming arsenal!

Tech 21 has announced the Geddy Lee Signature SansAmp YYZ pedal!

KRK unveiled the latest generation of its hugely popular Rokit range!

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (JANUARY 25, 2019)—Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announced the refresh of the Squier® Classic Vibe Series, which now includes decade-specific Stratocaster®, Telecaster®, Jaguar®, Mustang®, Jazzmaster®, Jazz Bass® and Precision Bass® models. The first refresh to the Squier Classic Vibe offering, which originally launched in 2012, these additions are a tip of the hat to `60s and `70s features, as well as design elements from Fender guitars developed in the Southern California factory through the years. “We used our in-house expertise to redesign all the pickups for the Classic Vibe Series, which are also Squier-branded now,” said Billy...

ANAHEIM (January 24, 2019) Yamaha today unveiled the CG-TA TransAcoustic nylon-string classical guitar, bringing the company’s groundbreaking TransAcoustic technology together with the rich tone, superior playability, and classic design of its top-selling CG series guitars. The CG-TA is among the newest additions to the family of Yamaha hybrid guitars, joining the CSF-TA, LL-TA/LS-TA, FG-TA/FS-TA and SILENT Guitars™. The CG-TA incorporates an actuator completely hidden inside the guitar, a unique Yamaha technology. When the instrument’s strings are played, the actuator senses the vibrations, enhances them, and conveys them back to the guitar body and the air in and around the guitar to create...

I like to brainstorm a lot with other guitarists about gear, music, tone and other assorted subjects when one subject came up which can be summed up in one simple question: what are the top 10 tremolo systems on the market, right now? There have been many, many tremolo systems for the past decades and with modern technology, insights and metallurgy, the list of great tremolo systems seems to be nearly limitless. One remark beforehand: even though we as guitarists call this device a tremolo, it’s technically a vibrato! A ‘real’ tremolo effect is a rhythmic variation in volume and a...