There has been a lot of discussion over Eddie Van Halen’s use of his name on a huge range of signature products over the past few years. Some wonder if he’s spending more time trying to sell his name than writing new music for Van Halen. One item of contention …
Having just read about the demise of the Guitar Hero franchise this week I thought it would be apt to review a new iOS app called Rock Prodigy. This free application works on iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, and is a guitar teaching app/game that works much like Guitar Hero, but you use …
I have been using the free Power Tab guitar tablature software for many years now. It’s a pretty good piece of free software, but it does have it’s bugs. I hasn’t seen any development for many years either. I had been quite curious about Guitar Pro, and it’s RSE2 sound …
Following on from my Ibanez RG465M mini-review, here is my Blackstar HT-1R combo review. The Blackstar HT-1R is the newest edition to the HT line of Blackstar amplifiers. This tiny little brother to the Blackstar HT-5 is a 1watt 2 channel valve amplifier, sporting 1xECC83 and 1xECC82 valves, digital reverb, …
Since my wife and new-born son were still in hospital, and having a nap I thought I would go into my local music store and try the Ibanez RG465 and a Blackstar HT-1 combo. I thought I might give them both a mini review. The RG465 is an Indonesian made, …