Wow, 8-strings are all the rage these days. From the amazing Tosin Abasi clinic we covered last week, to the latest announcement from Ibanez Guitars on the latest member to join their 8-string family: The RG Fixed series brings you the world’s premier metal axe, with the simplicity and sustain...

Man, those names are a mouthful. Here’s the press release: Mesa Drive Pedals (L-R): Tone-Burst, Grid Slammer, Flux-Drive and Throttle Box Your favorite amp just found a few new friends! Enter the Tone-Burst, Grid Slammer, Flux-Drive and Throttle Box.  These four pedals deliver an exceptional variety...

Well apparently, Sweetwater in the States have already started listing 2013 Gibson models for sale… so it looks like they will be our first glimpse into what Gibson has in store for us in the new year. According to MusicRadar (cos I’m too lazy to count for myself), Sweetwater shows a whopping...

Chris Broderick is a monster player who is finally racking up some recognition, a few years ago by being the second guitarist in Nevermore, and now with his Megadeth gig. He’s a master of many styles – alternate picking, sweeps, you name it, he can do it. I mean, how many people can actually...

Nov 26, 2012

The Hand-Wired Series reigns as both the flagship and as a popular favorite among the many families of VOX amplifiers. This esteemed series now welcomes a new addition; the AC4HW1 mini combo amp. The all-tube chassis uses two 12AX7 tubes in the pre-amp and a single EL84 vacuum tube in the power stage,...

Nov 21, 2012

Tosin Abasi, if you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, is one of the hottest “new” (I say “new” because really, he’s been in the scene for years now, but has only in recent years risen to prominence) progressive metal guitarists in the world. His use of extended range...

Hot off the press – it looks like Schecter Guitar Research are branching out into the world of amplification in 2013!! That is, provided that the Mayans weren’t correct and the world doesn’t end pretty soon. Personally I still think they just couldn’t be bothered filling in their...

Nov 14, 2012

Following on from our review of the McPherson Rock Box Distortion, we were lucky enough to get a very special pedal from McPherson Music – the limited edition Solar Fuzz! It is indeed exactly what the name implies – a fuzz, which miraculously, runs on solar power!!! I don’t know about you...

Guthrie Govan, or Mountain-Goat-Jesus, as I like to think of him, may be the most advanced and versatile guitarist on the planet at the moment. To say that he can play any given style on guitar is a massive understatement – give the man a backing track and he’ll redefine the genre for you while...

Nov 10, 2012

    So… as you probably know, I’m a huge fan of the Marshall Slash AFD100 amp. I’ve been lucky enough to have one for a few years now and it continues to kick major amounts of ass! However, for awhile now there have been rumours of a pint-sized Slash amp being designed by...

That is all. GO LISTEN TO IT NOW.   http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=soundgarden_king_animal_album_stream Ed Lim, Six-String Samurai Gear Reviews liked this post

Seriously – how do we get our hands on some sweet, sweet PRS merch? Unfortunately this press release (while cool on the part of PRS) is somewhat useless for the rest of us who live in the United States of not-America… Maybe some of our local retailers could talk to PRS about getting a similar...