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New Pickup Day (NPD): DiMarzio Tone Zone

I’ve had a DiMarzio PAF Pro installed in the bridge position of my 20th Anniversary Ibanez RG550RFR for a while, and whilst in sounded pretty sweet it just didn’t have the drive I wanted from a bridge pickup. Even after some modification experiments I found that I could give it …

New Gear Day (NGD): Celestion G12 Vintage 30 speaker

After waiting over seven months for it to arrive, my Celestion G12 Vintage 30 is finally here! I decided after getting my Blackstar HT-5 head last year that I needed to upgrade the speaker that was in my cabinet (Kustom KGA65 combo amp) to something that provided some more mid-end …

New Gear Day (NGD): Daphon E20OD Overdrive pedal

Since I’ve started modifying stomp boxes I’ve been on the lookout for cheap second hand pedals to tinker with. Then I stumbled on to Daphon’s range of cheap pedals. Costing a lot less than a lot of second hand pedals I thought why not give them a go. I had …

Building a backyard studio – almost finished!

Well my backyard studio is almost finished. I finished painting the door and doorway yesterday, and the carpet was laid today. There’s some touching up, and cleaning up needed due to my needing to rush the painting so it was done before the carpet was installed. I will do this …