Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:30 am by 15MetalRocker

Now that the Winter NAMM show is over it’s our turn to show the most interesting updates on the music market, and one of the most interesting ones are the signature releases by Joe Satriani on two companies that already have worked with him, so the result can only be excellent (theoretically). Both products will be available next month so stay tuned to hear when or definitive prices, but that will be later now let’s take a look at the features.

The first product unveiled by this tandem is the Peavey JSX 50 Guitar Amp an all-tube amp that features 2 channels (clean and crunch), five 12AX7 preamp and two 6550 power amp tubes, presence, volume and boost (with on/off switch) controls, 6-way attack control and pre-gain boost switch for crunch channel, built-in mic-simulated and line (with level control) outputs, effects loop and tube bias adjustments speaker output swit...

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Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:37 am by 15MetalRocker

Another manufacturer that releases signature models for Christmas is Reverend that teamed up with country guitar player and producer Pete Anderson to produce his first signature model, the Reverend Pete Anderson Guitar that is a gorgeous full hollow body single cutaway guitar designed to be highly playable that also is one of the first models to include Uni-Brace low-feedback bracing.

The Reverend Pete Anderson Signature Guitar features full hollow maple body with laminated spruce top and bound f-holes, 3-piece korina neck, medium oval neck profile, rosewood fingerboard, 22 narrow jumbo frets, 24.75″ scale length, Tune-O-Matic bridge w/ roller saddles, Bigsby B70 tremolo tailpiece, two Revered P90 humbucker pickups, 3-way pickup switch (middle position cancels both pickups hum) and volume, tone and bass contour controls.

The guitar has an optional ...

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Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:35 am by 15MetalRocker

Carvin and Steve Vai have joined forces again to build what now is his second signature amp product line, as the previous one was Legacy, this one has been called Carvin Steve Vai Legacy II. In this product line there are only two models, a 100-watts head amp called VL2100 and a 100-watts combo amp called VL2212, both amps look very similar (there are only some changes in the controls section) and they are all-tube amps which sound is very similar to the previous signature model but almost with 15 years of combined experience added.

The shared features between the two Carvin Steve Vai Legacy II Signature Amps models are 3-channels (clean, clean boost and lead), 3-band EQ, 5 12AX7 (V1, V2, V3 Groove Tubes), Quad EL34 matched Groove Tubes (includes a bias switch for 5881, 6L6GC or EL34), cabinet-emulation line output, effects loop, 25-, 50- and 100-watts output and 4, 8 ...

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Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:03 pm by 15MetalRocker

The Gibson Dark Fire Guitar features chambered mahogany body (that makes the guitar lighter that any other Gibson), mahogany neck, teflon nut, re-designed knobs, … As I commented before, the pickup combination looks great with one Burstbucker 3 humbucker (bridge, provides classic PAF sound), one P-90h black soapbar (neck, P-90 vintage sound with high output and sweet treble response) and piezo pickup (with one saddle per string, located in the bridge) that comes with an studio active amp for enhancing the acoustic sound.

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Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:57 pm by 15MetalRocker

Eddie Van Halen has launched the new Eddie Van Halen Wolfgang electric guitar and it will be available soon.


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Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:34 pm by 15MetalRocker

Gary Moore, rock, metal, blues and more guitar player, who already had a signature model from Gibson. The Gibson Les Paul Gary Moore BFG Signature Guitar has been designed to match the personal requirements of Gary Moore and all based on a replica of one of the first Les Paul’s he had.

The features of the Gibson Les Paul Gary Moore BFG Signature Guitar are chambered mahogany body with maple top, mahogany, neck, 50’s neck profile, rosewood fingerboard, 24.75″ scale length, Tune-o-matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece, Burstbucker 3 Zebra and Burstbucker P-90 pickups, 3-way pickup mini-toggle switch and kill switch (that activated or deactivates pickups) and 2 volume and 1 tone controls.

The guitar comes with nitrocellulose lemon finish, a very cool one, with no bindings and no inlays, so if you want to emulate Gar...

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Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:35 am by 15MetalRocker

Gibson has unveiled its last release from its Custom Shop brand, they are not reissue models but they have some features that made these models, back in 1958, great success. We could say that there are 2 groups in these new models, on one hand the 2008 ‘58 Explorer and the 2008 ‘58 Flying V, and on the other hand the 2008 ‘58 ES-335 and the 2008 ‘58 Les Paul, both groups share some features, let’s see the common and the specific ones.

The first group (with the Explorer and the Fying V) share korina body and neck, rounded neck profile, rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, 24.75″ scale length, ABR-1 bridge, BurstBucker 1 and 2 humbucker pickups, 3-way pickup switch and 2 volume 1 tone controls. While the specific features of the 2008 ‘58 Explorer Guitar are solid body and lightweight aluminum stopbar tailpiece; and the specific features of th...

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Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:07 am by 15MetalRocker

The "50 Watt Combo" is a replica of the 1960's 50 watt plexi with a solid state rectifier (you can order this with a GZ34 rectifier tube * if you want) in a combo version. It uses two EL-34 output tubes and a heyboer 50 watt plexi output transformer. The output tranny built for me by heyboer has the correct 3.4k primary plate load. Unlike the 45, which uses a shared cathode, the 50 watt uses a separate cathode arrangement on the first tube, which adds pre-amp gain. A .68 bypass cap on the second stage 33k slope resistor and 500pf cap gives that classic British midrange crunch of the original. You can order this amp with a small switch that takes this .68 bypass cap in and out of the circuit. I also offer my gain stage mod, which gives you a great amount of controllable gain. Also available is the optional negative feedback control that will give you more or less power amp gain. Thi...

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