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Guitar Pro 6 – review

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 …

Blackstar HT-1R combo – review

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, …

Cool new gear: Ibanez RG Premium series

Well NAMM 2011 is on right now, and of course everyone will be drooling over all the new gear being released. There are plenty of sites covering everything coming out so I’m not going to worry about trying to cover everything too. I’ll just mention some of the new items …

Suhr style “blower switch” pickup modification

A while back I stumbled upon a really cool pickup switching idea while reading various Internet guitar forums. People were talking about the Suhr Guthrie Govan signature guitar and a really cool feature that it had. Suhr called it the “blower switch”, and it’s a switching system that allows you …