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Saturday, April 28th, 2012
Carbon fibre provides phenomenal grip, and great feel.
Boutique guitar picks are typically quite pricey compared to traditional production picks. Carbon fibre anything is typically quite pricey over any equivalent material. Being a former car nut, as well as a guitar geek I’ve had a thing for carbon fibre for some years. When I read about the RJL Guitars carbon fibre picks I was quite excited not only over the carbon fibre, but also the price! I contacted RJL Guitars, and they were kind enough to send me a selection of their range of picks to review. (more…)
Tags: 0.5mm, 0.75mm, carbon fibre, Jazz, Jazz XL, pick, review, RJL Guitars, Standard
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Ernie Ball make a real impact with the new Cobalt guitar and bass strings.
Guitar strings are not a type of product that is known to have manufacturers coming up with new innovations that can truly change the game. Ernie Ball may have just stepped up to the plate this year with the release of the new Cobalt electric guitar and bass strings. Manufactured with a proprietary combination of iron and cobalt, it is said these new strings create a stronger magnetic pull than regular steel/nickel based strings. This should provide two major benefits, greater volume, and more definition and clarity. I wanted to see how different these strings felt and sound compared to traditional electric guitar strings, so I contacted Ernie Ball, and they got CMC music, the Australian distributor for Ernie Ball, to send me a set of Super Slink Cobalts to review. (more…)
Tags: 9-42, clarity, Cobalt, definition, dimension, electric, Ernie Ball, guitar, review, Slinky, String, Super, volume
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
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 commercial mass produced picks. This is due to acrylic being harder to work with than a lot of the other plastic types used for guitar picks.
Chris at Gravity Guitar Picks was nice enough to send me out a sample bag of various picks to test out and review. In this review I’ll be testing out the 1.5mm Classic Standard and Razer Standard, 3mm Classic Standard and Razor Standard, and the 3mm Razer XL.
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Tags: 1.5mm, 3mm, acrylic, Classic, Gravity Guitar Picks, guitar, pick, plectrum, Razer, review, Standard, XL
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Get rid of that nasty reverberation!
One of the annoying things with tremolo type bridges is the nasty reverberation that comes from having springs loaded in the back to counter the tension from the strings. Sure, you can stuff tissue paper in the back of your spring cavity, but that’s just not going to work if you leave your cavity cover off. Thankfully Floyd Upgrades once again has a solution for better tone.
The Floyd Upgrades Noiseless Springs are a fantastic cost effective, and neat replacement for noisy springs. No need to stuff your spring cavity with anything again. At $9.95 they’ll hardly break the bank, and the result will be very much worth it. (more…)
Tags: Floyd Upgrades, noise, Noiseless, reverb, review, solution, spring, Springs, upgrade
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Blue on blue, Strings by Aurora look good here!
I have noticed coloured strings are becoming a bit of a point of interest with guitar players online lately. I was put onto Strings by Aurora on a guitar forum I frequent, and thought I would contact them to see if they would be interested in reviewing their products. They were kind enough to send me a couple of sets to review, a clear coated silver 10-46 set, and the blue Lite gauge 9-42 strings I’m reviewing here.
I installed these strings on my blue Ibanez style custom, and found that they stretched in nice and quickly, and of course looked awesome. Compared to DR Neon strings which feel kind of like cotton, the Aurora coating feels much more metallic and string-like if you get what I mean, Anyone who has tried the DR Neons would probably understand what I’m saying. They probably feel more solid as a result. (more…)
Tags: 9-42, blue, coated, color, colour, guitar, review, strings, Strings by Aurora
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