Monthly Archives: January 2011

Sunday Night Queensrÿche Cover

Glenn de Laune is awesome at getting great tones out of digital stuff, such as the Pod X3. This is a really impressive Queensrÿche cover where he plays all instruments and even sings himself. The ultimate bedroom guitarist?

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Put Your AmpKit Pedals in the Right Order

Just as with physical gear AmpKit will sound bad if you put the stomp boxes in the wrong order or in the wrong place. This is most obvious with the delay pedal (D-delay). Per default it’s put before the amp if you add it to a setup, which sounds like crap if you add distortion. […]

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Christmas Present of the Year

At Christmas I got one of the best gifts ever! Since the end of 2010 I’ve been a bit obsessed with Nevermore, so I guess it was inevitable that I would start looking for a seven string. One night in december I was halfheartedly browsing some ads on Sweden’s least serious guitar forum (although the best at […]

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Another New Pickup

I bought an SD59 to put in the neck of my Cort a few months ago. To much other stuff to do, so I haven’t mounted it yet. I saw a comment on a forum where someone said it’s a bit bassy and rumbling… We’ll see. Right now I’m actually more into buying another Duncan […]

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Blown Away by AmpKit

AmpKit is an iPhone-app for amp simulation and effects. In short, all you need (short of a chord) to transform you phone into a full-feature digital guitar rig like a POD or Boss GT. You connect your guitar using an adapter that fits into the headset port, like the iRig eller AmpKit Link, and you’re ready […]

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Riffs and the Unconscious

I came up with an awesome riff the other day. Today I recorded it and added some drums and stuff. I suddenly got that feeling, that you’ve heard something before… And it only got stronger. I finally realized the riff was extremely similar to the start of the main riff of Bark at the Moon. […]

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