Bernie Rico Guitars Site If you’ve been playing guitar for any length of time you’ve no doubt heard of BC Rich Guitars. Models such as the Warlock and Bitch are instantly recognizable for their unique body shapes and are popular among rock and metal artists. The founder of BC Rich, Bernie Rico Sr has passed [...]
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Category Archives: Cool and Unusual Guitar Gear
3 of the Best Tube Amps for Rock & Metal
Tube amps are generally preferred by serious guitarists for their warm, harmonically-rich tone. They usually sound louder than solid-state amps of a similar wattage and have a presence to their distorted sound which is hard to replicate with transistor or even digital modeling technology. Almost all tube amps come with separate channels to allow switching [...]
Guitar Eye Candy – Design a Jem Contest Winner
In a previous news entry, we reported that Jem and Steve Vai were running a design contest for somebody to come up with a custom Ibanez Jem paintjob. Well, the winner has been announced and it’s congratulations to Alessandro Serrago on his winning design submission. You can see the winning design here. There’s also a [...]
Bullet Cables – Add Style to Your Guitar Cables
Bullet Cables are part of innovative Californian company Core One Creative Inc. They sell very cool guitar cables and jacks. You can purchase bulk cable lengths, individual jacks or pre-fashioned complete cables. The jacks are quite creative and feature amongst others, skull, syringe, bullet and spark plug inspired designs. (see examples below). The site features [...]
Studio Devil – Simulated Tube Amplifier Plugin
There are many amp modeling and effect simulators available on the market today. They usually come in the form of dedicated amps with built in modeling, external effects units or software plug-ins. The plug-in option has continually developed and diversified ever since Line6 released Amp Farm for Pro Tools in 1998. Today, some of the [...]