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Pickup month at LonePhantom.com

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

This month has become pickup month at LonePhantom.com headquarters. I’ve been lucky enough to score a number of new model pickups, a classic, and a great Australian boutique handwound humbucker to test and review. There’s currently four humbuckers installed in three different guitars that I have to test, and two more awaiting installation in my RG470 project.

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Joe Naylor's awesome new Railhammer pickups.

First up are a set of new Railhammer Chisel humbuckers. Created by the noted Joe Naylor (of Reverend Guitars, Armor Gold Cables and more), the Railhammer pickups are a new concept in humbucker design, with thin rails over the bass strings, and fat pole pieces for the treble strings.

The idea behind this is that the rails sense a narrow section of the bass strings, reducing smearing and muddiness. The oversized pole pieces sense a wide section of the treble strings, increasing thickness and sustain. All of these gives a rich clarity, while still providing a thick organic tone. (more…)

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My top picks for Winter NAMM 2012

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Like many other musicians I look forward to seeing what new products are announced when Winter NAMM comes around each year. Last year I spent some time posting quite a few new products that caught my eye. This year I didn’t really have the time to post about them as it was a flat out week on the home front with my wife’s and my son’s birthdays all within the days that NAMM was on. Now that NAMM is over I thought that I might write a post covering the new products that excited me the most this year. So lets get started: (more…)

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Help a brother out

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Help a brother out.

I have really enjoyed running my blog over the past year or so. It’s reinvigorated my love of writing, and guitar playing. I love getting feedback from my readers too. Many  have found my reviews helpful, and people have really been digging my DIY posts. I’ve been lucky enough to have a few companies, distributors and shops help me out with providing gear to review as well. I’m a pretty poor musician with a mortgage, family, and the associated costs that come with these things. I don’t get to spend too much on gear, so all of these businesses who have helped me out, I hope my reviews have helped you out too.

My wife and I recently had our second child. It’s been a fantastic experience on a personal level, but along with a number of costs regarding house repairs we have found ourselves in a far tighter position financially than we expected we would be in. This of course means that I have even less money (read nearly zero) to spend on musical gear, and bits and pieces for DIY projects.

I can canvas gear companies, distributors, and my local music stores to borrow gear to review to some extent, but I have a number of DIY projects I’d like to post about on my site, and no money to purchase parts for this.

What I am leading to with this post is a request to help a brother out. If you have enjoyed reading my site, found it helpful, learned something new, etc I’d love it if you could spare a few $$$ to donate to me. I understand many are finding it tough financially these days, but even if every visitor could spare $1.00 I would be eternally grateful. I would be able to continue working on DIY projects, and posting (hopefully) interesting content for you all.

You can donate money via the PayPal donate button below, or using the donate button on the side of every page.

I’m also looking at advertising to the site in an effort to raise some money, so please don’t be put off by the sight of some ads. I will endeavor to make them as relevant as possible to guitar and music. If any music instrument and gear companies would like to help out I’ll offer reasonable advertising rates too. Money and guitar gear will be accepted!

I want to keep this site alive with great regular updates, and I hope you can all can help me with this. Any donations is greatly appreciated.

Thankyou! :)

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Win a JamUp Plug and JamUp Pro iOS app from Positive Grid!

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Win a JamUp Plug and JAmpUp Pro iOS app!

I’ve been testing out the JamUp Plug and JamUp Pro iOS app recently. I’ve found the Plug to be an awesome instrument interface, and JamUp Pro has some great sounding amp and effects modelling. Reviews for both of these will be appearing very soon.

Positive Grid are having a great Christmas giveaway where one lucky winner per week for the next four weeks can win not only the JamUp Plug, but the JamUp Pro app too!

This is a great little combo for those of you with an iOS device, so get over to the giveaway page, sign up and good luck!

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New Gear Day (NGD): Positive Grid JamUp Plug

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

New iOS guitar interface from Positive Grid.

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 to potential buyers. (more…)

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