Archive for the ‘Guitar Equipment’

Repositoning pick from 4/5th finger to regular position10.15.07

My question to all of you guitarists out there is, does anyone out there place their guitar picks in between their 4th and 5th (consider their thumb as 1st finger etc.) finger while using their remaining fingers to play bare finger picking during certain parts of a song?

I’ve been trying different ways to bring [...]



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Tonelab LE10.06.07

I was introduced to the Vox Tonelab SE peddle by a guy who I was playing with this past weekend at the Arlington Hotel’s Capron’s Cavern, Paris Ontario.

The event was being held for a dear family friend who was celebrating his 50th birthday. Craig Peeler was the guitarist who played a wide variety [...]



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OMG you gotta hear it to believe it10.04.07

Now I already have a good pick-up system in my Larrivee L-03 but when went into my favorite guitar store, the 12th Fret in Toronto, I feel madly in love with the L.R. Baggs IMix.
Now I have been looking to update my pick-up system in my L0-3 lately and found many systems in which [...]



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Guitar side ports09.28.07

The one thing that I see in the evolution of the acoustic guitar today is its link with the past from Canada’s own, Glenn Gould. He used a unique approach while playing in his later years, around 1983, when he took away part of the piano body to let the sound come out of [...]



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More on my 1959 Fender Duo Sonic08.30.07

This baby was first introduced to us in mid 1956, the original Duosonic (two pickups) were Fender’s 3/4 size, student model, 22.5″ short scale beginners guitars.
With the switch in the middle position, the two pickups are in series, giving a humbucking pickup type sound. These short scale student models were made to the same [...]



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