The Woodie is a unique accessory which will look great displaying your proudest guitar acquisition in the lounge room/pool room/rumpus room or on stage, and the best part is that it really works: the way it seems to gently grip the guitar feels very secure and sturdy. And in the delicate balancing act of form verses function, the Woodie is a winner.
The Dunlop association and subsequent re release of the Way Huge line seems to have been a successful one so far giving those wanting that once elusive sound another chance with pedals, consulted and overseen by the original designer himself — not just approximated clones from another builder.
Washburn has made some killer double-cutaway guitars over the years, from the N4 and Steve Stevens models to the X series to over-the-top creations with 36 frets. The company has never shied away from building guitars for all price points, and the X-200 PRO E comes in at substantially less than you probably expect to pay for a guitar with appointments of this nature. Let’s have a look.
The news is that the Walden D560 is quite the nice guitar. Whilst a pretty, no frills instrument, it has a well balanced tone with good clarity and volume.
for the price the VSA590 really needs a look whether you’ve got a small budget or leaning more towards the guitars on the top shelf. Vintage’s reputation has been slowly growing over the last few years and with good reason — nice guitars with usable features at a good price.
Playing through an 8x10 (affectionately known as ‘fridges’ by most people) is something every bass player should do at least once in their life! 4 x10 cabs are cool and typically more than enough volume to smash out any gig but 8 x10s really need to be heard to properly convey their tone, power and sheer size.
Bob Taylor summed up the appeal of the 8-string like this: “The great thing about having those extra strings in the middle is that you can play on them, you can play around them, you can accentuate them, you can de-accentuate them, you can strum them, you can fingerstyle them. And it seems like anybody that plays guitar gets on that and says ‘Oh, I know how to use this! I know just what I want to do!’ When you play it, it sort of comes naturally, how to employ what it can do. And that’s why people are excited about it: because it offers something truly new.”
The front panel features an LCD screen that is packed with information as well as controls for Stop, Play/Pause, Record, Menu, Forward and Backward among others as well as a jog wheel for quickly navigating through its options.
The DP-008 really lives up to its name in a way that its tape-based predecessors couldn’t: it’s really portable (instead of relatively easily movable like my old 4-track), and it packs a lot of the features of an actual studio — and of course it records to CD quality, which is a lot better than recording song sketches onto your mobile phone.
To be honest you could actually get two of these for the price of some other boutique makers and languish in tone heaven — or just pay one of your mates to do the switching for you. Either way the Badger is a ripping tone machine no matter what your musical taste.
