I still remember the first time I heard of Parker guitars. It was a TV show I loved as a kid called Beyond 2000 which featured cutting edge technology and innovative engineering. I must admit not exactly warming to the unique upper bout but seeing the guitar carved our of a single piece of wood by a... [More]

My second pedal was a Boss DM-2 which, in the stupidity of my youth, I threw away in the garbage because it stopped working. Since those days I've come to love delay and have owned several of the bigger "super" delay pedals. Several companies have reissued their more legendary rack delays as pedals ... [More]

Logidy originally created the EPSi pedal to allow guitarist's to add a convolution based reverb to their pedalboard. However shortly after their product announcement, the company was inundated with inquiries of using the pedal to run IRs (impulse responses) of guitar cabinets. Within a few weeks, fi... [More]

There's always some fun gear announced at the annual Musikmesse show. This year an early announcement which caught my attention was the Boss GP-10. The GP-10's feature set is more closely tied to that of the Roland GR series. In fact, it largely looks to be the little brother to the GR-55. Here's a ... [More]

Zoom Just launched a new version of their StompShare app including 20 new effects for free which can be loaded into the MS-100BT pedal. Effects include models of the MXR M234 Chorus, the Ice setting from the Strymon Timeline, Line 6 Particle Verb, and the Ampeg SVT bass amp. Additional pricing is as... [More]

You may remember that Bain Capital acquired Guitar Center through a buyout in 2007. Since then, Guitar Center hasn't been doing great and recently reported a $398.7 million dollar loss in the 3rd quarter of 2013, has approximately $1.6 billion in debt, and has recently had their corporate bonds down... [More]

Let's face it, dial up any radio station the average teenager is listening to and you'll be hard pressed to hear any guitars. Such is life. Music evolves...or maybe devolves...regardless, in my experience a great many guitarists are more interested in emulation rather than creation. Don't get me wro... [More]