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1 month ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Art Thompson
Described as a guitar and mandolin, the Soprano TX is unique to Ellis Guitars, a Houston, Texas, builder of instruments and pickups (see review of the X Series pickup blending system in the September 2023 issue). The Soprano TX is a compact electric guitar that features a 16-inch scale cocobolo fingerboard — one quarter of which is fretless — sitting atop a bird's-eye-maple bolt-on neck.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Art Thompson
NowApple just promised to upgrade the latest AirPods Max version with 24-bit, 48 kHz lossless audio. And ultra-low latency audio, too. “With the included USB-C cable, users can enjoy the highest-quality audio across music, movies, and games, while music creators can experience significant enhancements …
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1 month ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Art Thompson
Created for Diamond Rowe, co-founder and lead guitarist for Tetrarch, this new Jackson model is a stylish electric guitar that looks splendid in its Dark Rose finish and black hardware. The body is constructed of nyatoh, a Southeast Asian hardwood that’s an alternative to mahogany, and has a bound, arched-maple cap with a veneer of poplar burl.
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2 months ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Art Thompson
“I invented it because I wanted it,” says Jonathan Spangler, founder and CEO of Ciari Guitars, talking about the creation of his Ascender line of folding-neck electrics. As a musician and an attorney whose job mandated extensive travel, Spangler needed a full-sized guitar that could fit into the space afforded most airline passengers — under the seat.
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2 months ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Adam Levy |Jimmy Leslie |Art Thompson |Matt Blackett |Barry Cleveland |Michael Ross
Think you’ve heard the most show-stopping, gut-wrenching hardcore blues solos of all time? We don’t think you have until you’ve heard every solo on this list of what we consider the 50 greatest badass blues guitar solos of all time. Let’s face it: Thousands up thousands of great blues solos have been played on the electric guitar, so you can imagine how daunting it was for us to narrow our selection down to just 50.
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2 months ago | 
guitarplayer.com | Art Thompson
Based on the original PRS Custom 24 that was introduced in 1985, the SE Custom Semi-Hollow Piezo takes things to a new level by delivering enhanced resonance courtesy of its semi-hollow construction. It also offers extended sonic range via a sextet of L.R. Baggs-designed piezo saddles that are incorporated into the PRS Patented Tremolo bridge.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Art Thompson
The Best Acoustic Guitars of 2025! These are the guitars that got our attention at the 2025 NAMM ShowThe NAMM Show came back at its usual winter time and place this year with some of the major manufacturers such as Gibson, PRS and Fender that had …
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
guitarplayer.com | Art Thompson
Colin Decket started down the road of amp making while working as a touring musician in the 1990s, where having the ability to repair amps on the road was a real plus. Over the next three decades years he says he took advantage of playing the many amps that recording studios had on offer and learning all he could about amplifiers — especially the tube-powered combos that captured his imagination and eventually inspired him to build amplifiers under his own name.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Art Thompson
“I got to go backstage at the Whisky, and Joe Bonamassa knew who I was! I immediately took a picture and texted it to my dad”: Sophie Lloyd on the time she met Joe Bonamassa – her childhood guitar heroAs she gears up for her debut US date at LA's Whisky a Go Go next week, Sophie Lloyd has looked back on one of the blues rock veterans who played an …
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
guitarplayer.com | Art Thompson
Founded in 1974 by David Oreste DiFrancesco and John Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah–based DOD became one of the major players in the mid-’70s effects pedal market. This limited-edition, updated version of the Overdrive 250 pedal that helped put DOD on the map features analog circuitry, a mechanical foot switch with a true bypass, input and output jacks, and a nine-volt adapter jack.
