Anyone who knows me is aware that I am a huge fan of low wattage valve amps. I have been using the first generation Blackstar HT-5 head for over 6 years as my primary amplifier, both at home for practice, many of my blog reviews and demos, and with my …
I’m currently testing the Seymour Duncan Synyster Gates Invader bridge pickup for a review I’ll be writing for the Seymour Duncan blog. I thought I might shoot a quick metal rhythm demo for YouTube, again playing around with the fretboard cam view of things. I loaded the Synyster Gates Invader …
Now that Winter NAMM 2013 is over I thought I might post about the new products that really excited me. I don’t have much time to cover Winter NAMM these days on account of my wife and youngest son having their birthdays at the same time, but I do keep …
The Marshall Class 5 combo was released back in 2009, and provided excellent classic Marshall class A tone in a small footprint, and low wattage. Now in 2011 Marshall has released a new version of the Class 5 in both head and combo models. The updated Class 5 still retains …
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, …