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New Gibson Songwriter Deluxe Modern Classic User Review


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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 5:24 p.m.

“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 [ ... ] ...

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Review: Electro-harmonix Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker & Sanyo Pedal Juice


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Published Aug. 5, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.
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You can win this Electro-harmonix Big Muff Pi With Tone Wicker as part of the Blue Noize solo contest! ... This is a first for me as I’m demoing 2 pedals at once, well ok one of them isn’t actually a pedal, maybe that should have been 2 products at once… there that’s better. So first up is the Electro-harmonix Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker for some crazy retro fuzz action and the second is the Sanyo Pedal Juice which I mentioned a little while ago on Guitar Noize and it is a

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Review: Lee Ritenour’s 6 String Theory


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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 4:58 p.m.
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“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

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New Larrivee L-09-12 User Review


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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 3:19 p.m.

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 ...

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Blues Guitar Solo – Blue Noize Contest Entry


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Published Aug. 4, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.

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Blue Noize Contest


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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 9:36 p.m.

Jon at Guitar Noize is launching another excellent contest, this time a blues solo competition he’s calling Blue Noize. There are some great prizes to be had, including a PRS 25th Anniversay SE Custom guitar, a Big Muff Pi pedal, a Suhr Riot pedal, a POG2 pedal, Dunlop Max Grip picks, and BMF leather straps. [ ... ] ...

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News: CG Blog Wins Award


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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 7:45 p.m.

Brett over at Guitar Friendly was nice enough to honor the Classical Guitar Blog with a first place in the “Guitar Instruction and Lessons” category of the 2010 Guitar Blog Awards. Thanks, Brett! Did you enjoy this post? Check out News: CG Blog featured on Total Guitar’s “Blog of the Week” ...

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SoundSchool - Striking a Chord With Deserving Street Kids Around the World


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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.
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My friend Oli called me the other day to let me know about an amazing Music Charity project that he is undertaking, something he has talked about for a long time now and I’m happy to say it is finally happening so here is the press release about this worthy cause: ... An inspirational trip to India in 2009 and three mates wanting to do something with their individual skills has inspired a new fundraising music movement, giving the gift of music to disadvantaged kids living on the streets,

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Introducing the Recording King ROJ-26 Acoustic Guitar


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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 1:52 p.m.

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 [ ... ] ...

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Review: Goosoniqueworx Seventhheaven distortion pedal


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Published Aug. 2, 2010 at 3:17 p.m.
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The Goosoniqueworx Seventhheaven Distortion pedal is an incredibly versatile pedal as you will see and hear in the demo above, when I saw the words High Gain distortion on the Goosoniqueworx website I’m afraid I foolishly assumed that this would be a one trick pony but I was very wrong. There are lots of knobs and switches but don’t let that scare you off it is very simple, normally a distortion pedal has a tone knob, well the Seventhheaven has a 3 band EQ so 3 of those knobs are for treble,

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