Joe Bonamassa:
After 5 years in development. The 1948 Fender Dual Professional JB edition is about to be released!! Coming in hot! All dials set for scorch. 😎👍
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Heritage Auctions: 2019 Sundragon Limited Edition Signed Jimmy Page Guitar Amplifier, Serial #15/50.
Limited Edition run of 50 hand-built amplifiers. This is number 15 of the 50 Sundragon amps signed by Jimmy Page. Designed by Jimmy Page and Perry Margouleff. Built by renowned amp builder Mitch Colby. This amp was inspired by the sounds heard on Led Zeppelin 1 and other songs. This is a new/mint condition example together with the footswitch, t-shirt, original packaging, and shipping box. This is a highly collectible amp. Original soft case and box included. Condition: Mint.
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Gibson Acquires MESA/Boogie
Gibson: We are pleased to announce the addition of Mesa/Boogie to the Gibson Brands family!
Accept: The official 
Jackson Guitars: Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian Shows Off His King V Axes in a Sweetwater ‘Rig Tour’
Marshall Amps: We headed over to Studio 91 to spend some time with legendary Robin Trower. We talk tone, touring and everything in between.
Watch the full video below:
Jim Dunlop: Powered by two heavily modified Marshall amps, the sound on Dookie would become Billie Joe’s sonic signature throughout his career. He sat down with us to talk about those amps and how cool it is that the MXR team was able to capture it in a pedal form.
Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar tone on Green Day’s groundbreaking album Dookie sounded dirty and punchy with the perfect amount of articulation to express the musicality of his fast, melodic riffs. He got that sound by running his signal through two heavily modified amplifiers—one scooped with a ton of gain and the other with a well-defined midrange. When it came time to mix the record, the band blended the two signals together in different ratios to match the vibe of each track.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dookie, we’re releasing the MXR Dookie Drive. It captures the sound of both of Billie Joe’s amps in a single pedal so that you can dial in your own variations of that famous Dookie sound. We borrowed the amps themselves so that the MXR team could carefully analyze all the sonic qualities that make them sound so darn good. After much analysis and A/B testing, our engineers rebuilt the amps from scratch in pedal circuit form and fit them into a single housing. The High Gain and Clean Gain sections each have their own controls, while the Blend control allows you to mix them together just like Green Day did in the studio. If you want some extra scoop in the midrange of the overall output signal, just hit the Scoop switch.
The Dookie Drive isn’t just for Green Day fans—this totally unique pedal provides a full harmonic range of overdriven tones for a playing experience that is full of depth and dimension.
What's the first song you learned to play from Green Day's Dookie?
This pedal faithfully captures the paradoxically punchy and dirty yet articulate tones that Billie Joe Armstrong used to lay down that record's fast, melodic guitar riffs.https://t.co/zxOquWLXXh pic.twitter.com/tKcbxpuzCo
— Jim Dunlop (@jimdunlopusa) August 27, 2019
Brian May Guitars: LEGENDARY TONE… ON YOUR DESKTOP! The hotly anticipated AMPLITUBE BRIAN MAY signature software collection from IK Multimedia is available now from the official Brian May Guitars online store.
The AmpliTube Brian May for Mac/PC, iPhone and iPad – available now! Both feature precise models of the exact live and studio gear used by the legendary guitarist from the iconic band Queen – all recreated in collaboration with Brian May himself.
From Brian’s treble booster to his three-amp live setup and carefully curated effects selection, guitarists can enjoy new amp, cab and stompbox models in a convenient package, along with presets covering his celebrated discography. Each model was created with the supervision of Brian May and his long-time technical team, to carefully replicate his rig.
A key element of Brian’s distinct sound comes from his Red Special guitar that, famously, he hand built with his father in the 1960s from spare parts and household materials. Because the guitar is such an integral part of his rig, IK’s engineers went the extra mile to even create a new stompbox effect that helps simulate the Red Special’s tone and controls. This offers guitarists a more authentic musical experience that pays homage to this living legend.
What’s included in AmpliTube Brian May
AmpliTube Brian May features 10 brand new models including 2 amps, 3 cabinets and 5 stomps created to recreate both the guitar and gear Brian used live and in the studio. A new pedal modeling his Red Special guitar, the unique home-built “Deacy” Amp (with adjustable battery power!), the famous triple-amp setup, his tone-shaping effects, and even a harmonizer so you can nail those Queen leads and go Headlong into the tone that sparked a rock revolution – they’re all here.
2 Amplifiers
BM 30
Based on the classic triple VOX® AC30™ setup, this model offers 3 amps with the effects chain in a Wet-Dry-Wet configuration to match Brian May’s iconic setup.
BM DK
Originally created by John Deacon, after modifying an old radio. This small amp soon became the trademark sound of many Queen songs.
3 Cabinets
2×12 BM 30 Blue
Triple cabinet based on the cab section of VOX® AC30™ equipped with with Celestion™ Alnico Blue speakers.
2×12 BM 30 H70
Triple cabinet based on the cab section of VOX® AC30™ equipped with with Celestion™ G12H Anniversary speakers.
1×6 BM DK
Cabinet section of the BM DK amp, featuring a 6” speaker, modeled after the mysterious “Deacy” amp.
5 Stompboxes
Red Special
Created by a detailed study of Brian May’s famous guitar, this helps add the unique tonality and controls of the Red Special itself.
Treble Booster
Based on the original KAT® Treble Booster, this stompbox effect will enrich your guitar tone similar to Brian May’s by boosting it before it reaches the amp.
May Wah
Based on a rackmount Dunlop® Cry Baby® wah, modeled in the exact configurations Brian uses to shape his tone.
FOX Phaser
Based on fOXX® Foot Phaser, a pedal-controlled phaser with a unique and distinctive sound.
Star Gate
This noise gate helps clean up the signal chain, minimizing the noise feeding Brian’s unique amp and pedal setup.
Groundbreaking Modeling Technology
For the AmpliTube Brian May, we used our latest Dynamic Interaction Modeling™ to deliver the highest level of ultra-realistic sound when modeling Brian’s gear. The product of 20 years’ experience modeling analog gear, DIM™ models the behavior of EVERY component in the circuit all the way down to its smallest nuance and character. IK models have set the industry standard evidenced by our co-branding recognition from the most influential partners in the industry such as Fender®, Ampeg®, Orange®, Soldano® and many more.
Applied to Brian May’s rig, the result is the same sound and feel you’d get from the real gear as he used in the recording studio and live in concert.
This machine is wild!! It transforms your guitar into a different instrument in a different universe – in this case, MY universe. Dial in one of the presets to get into Hammer to Fall or Bo Rhap or Killer Queen. Then make your own custom adjustments to fine- tune it, and mould it, and create the tone you want to own. And … save!! Enjoy!
Brian May
Nikki Sixx: “I just bought a new table top bass practice amp. The VOX Amplification Adio BS not only holds up to a major beating from the low end it also gives you a plethora of presets like fuzz,classic, slap and even some synth tones, oh ya and it’s bluetooth. I don’t get paid to hype gear. If I love it, I love it. When ya find something cool, pass it on…Plus it runs in batteries……#bassplayer #RocknRoll ?☠️”
RATT Out of the Cellar producer Beau Hill – Interview excerpt
This excerpt was taken from the Out of the Cellar full in bloom interview with RATT producer / engineer Beau Hill. Also, make sure to listen to our Invasion of Your Privacy interview @ this location.
You can listen to the interview excerpt via the embedded YouTube clip above or Soundcloud widget below.
EXCERPT DESCRIPTION:
Beau talks about RATT guitarist Warren DeMartini’s quest to find the perfect amp for Invasion of Your Privacy.
You can listen to the entire Out of the Cellar podcast at this location.
Listen to more excerpts from this interview
The segment has also been transcribed below.
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Beau Hill: I can tell you one other little anecdote of Invasion of Your Privacy (laughs) and this is actually quite funny. Warren (DeMartini) was really unhappy that we played Cellar (Out of the Cellar) on one rig. He was just very incensed by that. So, while they were on tour for Cellar, Warren and his roadie would go into music stores all across the nation and they would audition Marshall rigs. So, Warren started purchasing and they’d ship them back and put it in the warehouse….from the whole tour. When everything was said and done, he had like 25 heads and 20 or 25 4X4 cabinets in the warehouse because he was, ‘by God, we made the money….we’ve done what we had to do….I sacrificed what I needed to sacrifice….and by God, I’m going to get the sound that I want to get.’ I went, ‘ok, great.’ (laughs) So, when we went to set up to do Invasion, Warren said, ‘I want two whole days of studio time, just me, myself and my roadie….so that I can get my sound.’ Remember, we now had 25 heads and 25 or 30 different cabinets. His idea was, come hell or high water, he was going to check every head with every cabinet and come up with this impossibly monstrous and unique sound. So I said, ‘ok, you’re a multi-platinum recording artist, if you want to waste two days of time, ok, let’s do it.’ I have a picture of this somewhere, it was really spectacular. So, we were recording his guitar parts at Rumbo (Recorders) and there was one iso-room that was pretty big. I told the roadie, ‘ok, set it up’…so he set it up four piled on high or three piled on high, I guess and five or six across, Marshall cabinets. And, over in the corner, he had these 25 heads or however many it was….all piled up on top of each other and everything was wired. I said, ‘ok, Warren great, go for it and let me know what you decided for your rig.’ He goes in and closes the door, he’s in the room with the amps right now….turns everything on 10….goes in there and starts wailing away.
(laughs)
Beau: He’s playing and playing and playing and then he stops and you can hear the (sound of a cable being unplugged)….you know, they’re changing jacks, and his roadie is in there with him….and he plays and plays and plays and plays. I’m in the control room, I’m like two glass protection areas away from him and I can’t even hear myself think anymore, it’s so loud. He comes in, after I’d say about 20 or 30 minutes of this….he walks in and says something to the effect of, ‘well, I can’t really tell.’
(laughs)
Beau: Of course he was totally deaf at that point. What we wound up doing was….I got his roadie to take the rig that we used on Cellar and I just said, ‘stick it in the mix’…in the pile of amps. So, he gave me the look and I said, ‘this has just got to be between us, replace one of his heads with the old one and do this again.’ So, he went out and bought 25 amps and we wound up using the first amp, which he hated.
(laughs)
Beau: Now, all of a sudden, he liked it. So, we used that for him on Invasion and I don’t know think to this day he knows we did a switcheroo on him. But you know, sometimes it’s, especially with those guys, I just kind of had to let them think that whatever it was, it was their idea. I was like, ‘yeah, that’s great, ok.’
full in bloom: Right. (laughs)
Beau: It was a little psychology 101 sometimes with those guys.
full in bloom: A role of a producer, right?
Beau: (laughs) Yeah, herding the cats. You have to know how to do that.
Now available inside AmpliTube for iPhone and iPad, the Dimebag Darrell CFH collection precisely models the exact gear used by Dime to record Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell album, on a device you can carry with you anywhere.
Tones From Hell now
on your iPhone and iPad
The Dimebag Darrell CFH Collection meticulously models the ferocious, soulful guitar tone of “Dimebag” Darrell Lance Abbott, one of the most influential guitarists of all-time. Now available inside AmpliTube for iPhone and iPad, this collection precisely models the exact gear used by Dime to record Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell album, on a device you can carry with you anywhere.
333% Authentic
We worked with Dime’s long-time guitar tech and right hand man, Grady Champion, to carefully model all of Dime’s personal guitar effects, amplifiers and cabinets that he used in the studio while recording Pantera’s groundbreaking album Cowboys From Hell, which started the revolution of the “Power Groove” in metal.
The Dimebag Darrell CFH Collection features 9 brand new models including 2 amps, 2 cabinets and 5 stomps. This includes a meticulously modeled reproduction of the highly coveted Randall® RG 100 ES Amplifier, a completely re-modeled 1986 Roland® JC-120™ combo amp, along with all the pedals Dime used while recording the album.
Former Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson is selling off a bunch of his personal gear via Reverb.com. Some of the items up for sale include a 1973 Gibson Les Paul Custom electric guitar, a Teye Master Le Mora Mother Of Pearl electric guitar, a Fender Vibrolux 1960 5F11 Amp w/ Road Case, a 1973 Fender Telecaster Bass, a 2011 Fender EC Twinolux and much more. View all the items for sale at this location.
Tracii Guns: “The TG100 prototype is just about finished.
Can’t wait to get the testing going.”
Orange Amplification @ NAMM 2018 Booth #4644, Hall D
Orange Amplification presents the Brent Hinds Terror, designed in collaboration with the guitarist and vocalist of the multi-award winning band Mastodon. The latest Terror amp has its own distinctive voice and character, features styling based on the tribal imagery of Brent ’s facial tattoo and is completed by his signature.
The new Brent Hinds Terror features two channels and a new gain structure that give the latest Terror amp a completely individual nature and personality. The single-control natural channel has been redesigned to have more bottom-end yet retaining the finely balanced and highly playable character of the Terror series. The sensitivity of the new gain structure is far higher compared to previous Terrors, brightening up sound at lower levels and fattening it up the more it is dialed in.
The power switching options of the Brent Hinds Terror offers 0.5, 1, 7 or 15 Watts, making it perfect for bedroom, studio and stage. For the best possible tone and durability, the new amp uses the same beefy transformers as the rest of the Terror family to take advantage of the EL84 output. This gives players warm valve compression and saturation at neighbor friendly levels.
Check it out at the Orange Amplification booth #4644, Hall D, where all the other Orange products can also be seen.
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Orange: Amplifier Company Turns 50
Orange celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2018, founder and CEO Cliff Cooper shares his thoughts on this milestone:
“Few would have thought, including myself, that half a century ago, Orange would have risen to the dizzy heights it has in the global music arena today. From those very humble beginnings in 1968, my love of music and sound assisted me in my vision of producing amplifiers and speakers that were quality built, reliable and with a sound truly pleasing to the ear. This vision was then and always will be, my goal in life. Musicians are far more demanding these days and not satisfied with just singular loud distortion. Of course, the world today is much more interconnected than it was 50 years ago and we continually strive to service the need to produce the finest working tools for the apprentice through to the master musician.
“Orange has always been and always will be an innovative company, but if innovation means gimmicks without improving the quality of sound, then we will not incorporate them into our designs. Our team’s willingness to listen to feedback generated from our global dealer network is of great importance and benefit, allowing us to continually adapt to the needs of the musician.
“I feel so proud of our achievements since we started in 1968 and I, with Orange, will always do our utmost to provide the very best tools to assist that wonderful desire to listen and appreciate music, with a sound that is as close to perfect as possible. Finally, on such a significant landmark as our 50th Anniversary, it would not be complete, without a full appreciation of the efforts of all those past and present, who have worked so hard and contributed so much to the success of Orange. To them and all our supporters, I truly thank you. As always, I wish you every good wish in your special world of music.”
Cliff Cooper | Founder & CEO
The Stone Roses bassist Mani will be unloading several instruments and amps used on recordings and tours with The Stone Roses and during his time with Primal Scream.
Mani’s official Reverb Shop doesn’t launch until next week – we will post the link when it’s up. In the meantime, you can view pictures of the upcoming items at this location.
Highlights include:
A Rickenbacker 4005 bass used throughout Mani’s time with the Stone Roses as a backup for the infamous Pollock Paint Spattered 4005 and in the studio.
A Fender Bassman head and cab used on the recent singles, “All for One” and “Beautiful Thing.”
Mesa Boogie heads and cab used on Second Coming album and ’95-’96 tour.
An Epiphone Jack Casady bass used in the Roses reunion tour including their performance at Heaton Park in Manchester.
A Fender acoustic bass used as a warmup instrument on the last tour.
A Rickenbacker 3005 played towards the end of the Stone Roses and during the early days of Primal Scream.
A studio-used Mosrite bass.
A Gibson EB-3 used in the Stone Roses for the Second Coming Tour. The back of this bass features artwork by Mani.