One of my favourite pastimes is scouring YouTube for gear demos and one of my favourite channels is fearedse, run by a guitarist called Ola Englund from Stockholm in Sweden. Ola’s gear demos are not your traditional videos that show every knob and switch, instead Ola lays down brutal multitrack guitars over his own compositions. Ola demonstrates high gain amps as he is in a couple of very heavy metal bands, Feared and Scarpoint. I saw on his recent demo video above which is a track called
“Maybe it was inspired by YouTube, the way you can spend an hour on there and see clips of every amazing guitar player under the sun ... it just occured to me how great it would be to be able to hear a whole bunch of today’s greatest guitarists doing their thing on one album.” - Lee Ritenour on the making of 6 String Theory ... I expect most people aren’t that impressed to hear that B.B. King, Joe Bonamassa and Guthrie Govan all guested on an album because these days that process can be
If it’s good enough for Schoenberg, it definitely needs to be on Fretbase. While browsing through Schoenberg’s current inventory of new guitars (yes, we’ll use any excuse to pay a visit), we came across the Recording King ROJ-26. We were quite taken by its 000-size body, sunburst top and headstock shape – which reminds us [ ... ] ...
Guest article written by Corey Armed with genuine, useful information, choosing your first acoustic guitar does not have to be a difficult process. It can seem overwhelming with all the makes and models available. Some music stores are more helpful than others in helping beginners. However, much of the guesswork can be removed by considering [ ... ] ...
Like a lot of you, I spend a lot of my time trolling for my next guitar in the used guitar market. And if there is one thing I have learned, it is that amateur photographers can be come incredible photographers when they are inspired to sell a guitar. Recently I was particularly taken by [ ... ] ...
Lately there has been a lot of activity on Facebook about the Taylor Baritone 8 String Acoustic-Electric guitar. We’re not sure exactly why – other than the fact that this guitar has 8 strings! But we thought that this made for as good an opportunity as any to remind our readers that Fretbase is building [ ... ] ...
A guy walks into the guitar store looking for a Taylor or a Gibson and ends up walking out with a Larrivee L-09-12. Find out what he thought of it in our latest user review in which you can also learn what he thought about Larrivee’s customer service.Larrivee L-09-12 User ReviewLarrivee L-09-12 Acoustic 12 String ...
“Songwriter Player” was looking for a good acoustic guitar to accompany his male voice. He now owns a Gibson Songwriter Deluxe Modern Classic. Read his review to find out what he likes about the guitar and what modifications he made to it to make it even more to his taste. You can also find out [ ... ] ...
It all starts with the wood.We have written before about the risk to the ongoing manufacture of guitars if the tonewoods used to make guitars are not in some way preserved. We have also been impressed by guitar manufacturers’ efforts to use “sustainable wood” in the manufacture of guitars – like the Martin SWOMGT and [ ... ] ...
If awards were given out to guitar manufacturers for quickly rolling out new signature models, Gibson Guitars would already have locked in the award for 2010. Earlier this year, Gibson rolled out a Keb’ Mo’ signature blues guitar and also a John Hiatt signature. Now Gibson is back with a guitar for country-music players – [ ... ] ...