Up until very recently I associated the words Night Train (when used together) with the Guns N’ Roses track or the Harley-Davidson model of the same name. After looking into the VOX Lil’ Night Train though, I may have a new favourite association. … 52 Amplifier Heads, week 2—VOX Lil’ Night Train
52 Amplifier Heads, week 3—Egnater Tweaker
This week I’ve decided to step it up a bit. Where the previous amp heads were one and two watts, the Egnater Tweaker is 15 watts. This is a bigger amp head, but from the research I’ve done this still a reasonably priced amp head. Awesome. What also impressed me while researching this amplifier, was the quality of video on the amplifier itself. Egnater has a great little introductory video that explains the amplifier’s features while this YouTube video provides some very good sound bites of the amplifier’s natural tones. And it sounds great! … 52 Amplifier Heads, week 3—Egnater Tweaker
PlecPicker plectrums
For Christmas I treated myself to some PlecPicker plectrums. I discovered PlecPicker on Twitter and was instantly drawn to their glow-in-the-dark plectrums. Do you know how many plectrums I’ve lost in the dark?! Heaps is how many. Not anymore thank you very much. These plectrums glow an awesome green!
Of course you’ll not really see what I’m talking about on this website because green isn’t allowed here. All colours are banned. The black and white image below does show how with the lights out all you can see is the plectrums. It’s that simple. They glow. You don’t lose plectrums. … PlecPicker plectrums
Six scary questions—Rock Prodigy
I decided recently that it would be a good idea to start a new article series where I interview people from the world of guitars and/or iOS development. One of the first companies I thought of was Rock Prodigy as they cover both fields. Luckily for me, they agreed to be the first company I questioned. I am very grateful for that.
The format of this article series is simple. I ask six scary questions and one not-scary question. None of the questions are really scary questions. They’re just questions that I—Scarebear—really wanted answers to. The last question I imagine everyone wants to know the answer to.
So, without further ado … … Six scary questions—Rock Prodigy
Yay! I’ve had a win!
Late last year I entered the StompBox competition with this video entry. Today I discovered I’d won the competition thanks to this handy tweet by the team at 4PocketsAudio. Yay me! I am very keen to get my hands on the Aurora Sound Studio HD app and the iRig HD interface by IK Multimedia. There are other prizes as well and I look forward to working out what I’ll do with those! … Yay! I’ve had a win!
Black and White—my first recorded riff with bass
On Boxing Day—or post-Christmas as I sometimes like to call it—I purchased my first bass guitar. It was a cheap bass guitar, but I’m not a professional bass player so I don’t need much. Truth be told, I’m very happy with my purchase. So happy I decided that I needed to play this bass on a guitar track of mine. It was time to dig up an old riff and add another layer to it. Seeing as how the song now has guitar and bass, I decided to call the tune Black and White (the track was previously called Drop D because it is played in drop D tuning—ingeneous). I love both of those non-colours just as much as I love guitar and now, bass. … Black and White—my first recorded riff with bass
UltraTuner by IKMultimedia
I was recently lucky enough to acquire the new UltraTuner app by IKMultimedia. There are plenty of iOS tuning apps out there, but this app allows you to tune your instrument in a few different ways—that alone is unique. Not only that, but you can adjust the app to suit your instrument and your surroundings. That’s just neat! … UltraTuner by IKMultimedia
52 Amplifier Heads, week 1—Blackstar HT Metal 1H
This year I hope to find out a lot more about valve amp heads. I am doing this so I can hopefully get one for myself. I’m currently a solid state amplifier man. What better way to research the options than to write about 52 different amplifier manufacturers. I know they’re out there and the one that jumped at me to kickstart this new weekly series is the Blackstar HT Metal H1. Yeah, it’s \m/ and I want one. … 52 Amplifier Heads, week 1—Blackstar HT Metal 1H
52 Guitars—the summary
It took a year, but I managed to finish my series on 52 Guitars. It probably took a year because I decided to write an article each week, but I was dedicated. Some said I couldn’t do it and some didn’t care. Regardless, I did it and my website has more content than it’s ever had before. If you’ve followed at all, you now have a list of 52 guitar manufacturers. That’s right. I didn’t just select 52 guitars from the top five guitar manufacturers, I went out there and researched some luthiers I’d never heard of until this year. 2013 made me a better guitar fan. It also saw me finally receive a new guitar. 2013 was way better than 2012. … 52 Guitars—the summary
52 Guitars, week 52—Maton Guitars MS500 HC
I’ve enjoyed putting the 52 Guitars series together. Each week I’ve written about a different guitar from a different guitar manufacturer. As this is week 52, I wanted to make sure I ended on a very high note. Something that would mean a lot to me while representing a little bit of me and where I come from. I could only do that with an Australian luthier. An Australian luthier with a global following. It had to be a Maton. … 52 Guitars, week 52—Maton Guitars MS500 HC