I fondly recall the experience of building a fuzz box back when I was 13 years old (definitely a bit of time has elapsed since then) and just starting to play guitar. It was a BNB Electronics “Fuzzy.” Crude by today’s standards, it came in a plastic box and didn’t even have a footswitch. I think that I might have… Read more →
Category: Guitar Reviews
Radial Engineering SGI Guitar Interface
I know I’m not the only person around who has tried the old 100 foot long guitar cable trick. You know, the one where you run the really long cable from the guitar player in the control room to the live room (or iso booth) where the amp is? Like me, you’ve probably noticed that it doesn’t work all that… Read more →
Radial Engineering JD-7
The JD-7 is currently the best tool available for re-amping a track or splitting one instrument (or line level) signal into multiple (up to seven) outputs. Usually I would wait until the end of a review to get to the conclusion, but the JD-7 is such a great box (and excellent value) that I couldn’t help myself. First of all,… Read more →
Fender Acoustasonic Guitar
Evidently Fender has been hard at work since introducing the Stratacoustic and Telecoustic models from a few years ago, as the new Acoustasonic Stratocaster represents a quantum leap in playability and sound past those excellent (but admittedly budget oriented) instruments. The Acoustasonic is one of those products that you can tell has been in development for a while, as there… Read more →