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.
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.
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 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.
As an all in one bundle, this is a great idea. It gets the user ready to record quality vocals with the addition of a microphone stand right away. This makes it a great solution for the home or project studio, but it may be outside of the budget of many home studios.
Made in Tokyo, Japan these instruments really are top shelf and I’ve deliberately tried to steer clear from the ‘sent somewhere else to be made to save on cost’ statements as that kinda point is seriously moot here! Try the Metro…I doubt you’ll be disappointed.
The Buckshot is a surprisingly capable little guitar which sounds familiar yet new, much like how it looks. It’s also worth pointing out that playability straight out of the box (well, out of the case) was utterly flawless: low enough to not get in the way of more fleet-fingered wanderings, but high enough to maintain nice lively tone.
