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November 2011

String Stretcha – review

Changing strings can be a bit of a pain at times. You get your new strings all wound on and tuned up, but then your guitar just keeps going out of tune. Strings need to be stretched before they hold tune. The standard finger and thumb stretching technique works, but …

New Gear Day (NGD): Positive Grid JamUp Plug

There are quite a few iOS guitar interfaces out there in the market now. One of the newest players out there is Positive Grid, with their JamUp Plug. Positive Grid have managed to price the JamUp Plug very attractively, out-pricing many of it’s competitors. This will make it very attractive …

Ormsby Guitars Nunchucker Humbucker – review

Ormsby Guitars, based in Western Australia, build awesome guitars with pretty much any spec you may ask for. Perry Ormsby, the owner of Ormsby Guitars also makes his own range of hand-made pickups. Perry was extremely generous and sent me two of his pickups to review. The first of those …

Gravity Guitar Picks – review

Gravity Guitar Picks are a new player in the guitar pick market. Made from sheets of cast acrylic, they are engraved using a laser, cut into individual picks, and then they are grind and polished one by one into the finished product. They are a bit more pricey than most …