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Best acoustic amp out there

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I use to have the best, in my mind, guitar amp for what I was playing during the 80’s. It was the HiWatt 50 watt custom. This thing had everything going for it! The Rock, Progressive Rock and the blues sound was unreal! It could handle any size room with minimal miking.

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Now a days, I need a warm sounding amp with the ability to spread out the sound throughout any size room and I think that I have found it. The L. R. Baggs CORE 1 Acoustic Reference Amp. is what I would recommend.

I tried this little gem out at the 12th Fret in Toronto. It had the warm sound that I was looking for and the weight (28 lbs.) was perfect for my needs. They claim a 140 degree wide sound dispersion with 200 watts of power!

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The analog meters are so simple to read and interpret that even my mom can figure it out! This is VERY helpful when you need a BIG sound without all the distortion added on.

I love the headphone feature as well (I know my wife and neighbours will too). It also comes with multiple auxiliary jacks for drum machines plus CD players so you can figure out songs.

Don’t be afraid of it’s flat honeycomb speaker, it only bites through the sounds of other instruments and not your fingers!

The wide range that the bass and treble controls have are exquisite plus quite functional. The nicest surprise was the reverse phase capability with this amp. I have this feature on my 1980 Fender LEAD II and only recently have I understood the principles of it. When looking for THAT SOUND, this will come in handy!

So if you have the bucks and want a true head turning tool on stage to use then look no further. Now all I need is more dollars then cents!

Keep on Jammin’





Guitar players dream

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Now this looks like a great place for a musician, especially if they’re a guitar player, to vacation. I have no idea where this Guitar Island is located or how big it really is, but I’d love to find out.

I’d be happy to visit this island and sit on one of those benches playing guitar for hours. Wouldn’t you?

Guitar world

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I was at our pharmacy the other day picking up some meds for my wife and I had to wait for the quit a while for the prescription to be filled. As everyone knows, there is only so many things you can do to pass the time waiting in any pharmacy, so I picked up a guitar magazine. While browsing their selection I came across Guitar World, the one with Eddie & Wolf Van Halen on the cover.

I took the book out of it’s plastic cover and started to leaf through it. The articles were interesting enough and the behind the scene photo’s of Zeppelin’s reunion concert was worth the price!

The one thing that caught my eye was this CD/DVD that came with it. It had Lenny Kravitz Exclusive Lesson on the cover of it, (ahhhh) and other video’s about “Special Riffs” and “String Bending” … When I got home I put the CD into the old computer and checked it out!

They had all sorts of stuff on it but the best was from this guitarist called Phil X. His little thing on this was called ” Betcha can’t play this, with Phil X“(I realize that his video on the DVD is not up there right now, but wait a month to try this out, you’ll see what I mean!).

It was about this speed freak on guitar playing this riff on his axe, at around MACH 5 no less!!! He did it a couple of times and then slowed it down one time to let us mere mortals to watch in real time. He reminded me of Wayne and Garth so much that I just had to share this with all of you!

Keep on Jammin’

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