Seymour Duncan Liberator – review

One of the things that many guitar players like to do with guitars is change their pickups. Many are not comfortable with using a soldering iron, so they quite often will pay a tech to do what is essentially a fairly simple task. Seymour Duncan have recognised this, and developed …

Cool new gear: The Creamery Dirty Shirt high output humbuckers

Jamie Campbell of The Creamery, a custom guitar and handwound pickups builder, has released some very nice new high output humbuckers,  called the Dirty Shirt. The basic configuration of the Dirty Shirt pickups utilise Alnico 8 magnets and the bridge has 13.4K output, while the neck model has 10.6K output. …

MXR Noise Clamp – review

Playing at high gain, or with a lot of pedals in your chain can cause numerous noise issues, combining both even more so. A noise gate is the perfect thing to help control unwanted noise, but they can introduce their own set of problems. Some noise gates can alter a …

Cool new gear: Devi Ever Silver Rose

Check out the latest pedal built by awesome pedal builder Devi Ever. The Silver Rose was commissioned by none other than Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins, and now it’s available to the public too. Combining a Big Muff and Super Fuzz into one pedal, Devi Ever has added a …