Month: September 2018

Nashville, TN (September 28, 2018) -- The Les Paul Player Plus range has been designed specifically for the avid player who is looking for an instrument that will over deliver on practicality. Stylish, classic Les Paul looks are coupled with a satin finish and rounded neck profile for unparalleled comfort and playability. A Richlite fingerboard and cryogenetically treated frets provides the Les Paul Player Plus range with incredibly precise tones while keeping your instrument's perfect playability at all times. P-90 Pickups - This is simply the king of the single-coil pickup, leading the pack since 1946. The P-90 blends high output with warm mids and stone-etched treble. Mini Humbuckers - With a small size, narrower magnetic field and unique design, this is the pickup to pick up when the goal…

(Image: © Ed Perlstein/Getty Images)As any GuitarWorld.com reader knows, the guitar industry has produced a whole hell of a lot more than the Strat, the Les Paul, the Tele and the Gretsch 6120. There have been thousands upon thousands of new models released in the past 70-plus years.But, if you had to pick the top 10 guitar models of all time, where would you begin? Obviously, the Strat, the Tele and the Les Paul would have to be there—but what's Number 10? Number 8? Number 7? You get the idea.A few years back, the gang at WatchMojo.com—an organization that makes top-10 lists out of pretty much anything (including spaceships and explosions)—took a stab at assembling their own top-10-guitars list.They—and we don't even know if "they" play guitar—started off by placing…

      Ratings Pros: A good jumbo with easy playability and retro flair. Cons: Laminated construction. Unplugged sound could be more powerful. Case not included. Street: $299 Cort Guitars CJ Jumbo cortguitars.com Tones: Playability: Build/Design: Value:   High-end guitar makers like Bourgeois, Collings/Waterloo, Martin, and Santa Cruz have mined the potential of old-school designs for years. And it’s nice for retro-minded, budget-conscious players that companies at the other end of the price spectrum are following their lead. A good case in point is the South Korean company Cort, which has been a major player in the affordable guitar market for decades, making instruments under its own name and for others, like Ibanez and ESP. Cort’s new CJ Retro Jumbo is an unabashedly retro acoustic-electric—at least outwardly. There’s more than…

Grand Rapids, MI (September 17, 2018) -— The ThroBak Electronics’ ’64 MXV Stratocaster pickup set has been meticulously researched to reproduce the distinctive bite and punch of '63/'64-era vintage Fender Strat pickups. Wound on the same model vintage ME-481A pickup winder, used to wind early '60s vintage Fender Stratocaster pickups, and assembled using ThroBak’s own bobbin flatwork, 42 AWG Plain Enamel magnet wire, custom USA Cast Alnico 5 rod magnets and topped off with ThroBak’s custom USA molded nylon covers. ThroBak’s famous attention to vintage correct specs. includes having period correct tooling marks on our nylon pickup covers and using vintage stranded cloth covered pushback wire with un-tinned strands. The final result is a set pickups whose cosmetics are as true to vintage as their incredible tone. The ThroBak ’64…

Epiphone has announced its new Limited Edition Slash Firebird guitar. A more affordable version of the superstar Guns N' Roses guitarist's Gibson Firebird, the guitar will be available in two editions: the Premium Outfit, limited to 100 guitars, and the standard edition, which is limited to 900.Both editions feature an AAA flame maple top in Translucent Black finish on a three-piece mahogany body, a pau ferro fingerboard, Seymour Duncan Slash open-coil humbuckers and Sprague Orange Drop capacitors. (Image: © Epiphone)The Epiphone Slash Firebird also features an Epiphone LockTone ABR Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece, Kluson Reissue Firebird banjo-style machineheads with 12:1 ratio, a Switchcraft 1/4 output jack and Epiphone straplocks.Slash’s skull and top hat logo appears in red on the pickguard, while the guitar's neck boasts a rounded custom Slash profile. The…

Cort Guitars has introduced the GA-QF acoustic-electric, the newest addition to their Grand Regal Series. The Grand Auditorium-sized instrument offers multiple luxurious features without a high price tag.The GA-QF sports a highly-figured maple top and mahogany back and sides, as well as a merbau fretboard with an abalone rosette. Available finishes are Trans Black Burst and Coral Blue Burst.Other features include a Venetian cutaway for increased playability, a Fishman Isys T preamp system with an LED tuner and phase control and a Sonicore pickup that relays acoustic tones naturally and organically.The guitar also sports a 45 mm Graph Tech NuBone XB nut and saddle, specially formulated to produce more bass harmonics, a dovetail neck joint and diecast machine heads.The GA-QF is listed at the incredibly affordable street price of $299.99.For…

EPIPHONE LES PAUL TRIBUTE “PRIZM” PLUS OUTFITThe Epiphone Les Paul Tribute “Prizm” Plus Outfit is the ultimate brightly colored Les Paul, with a combination of custom upgrades. The guitar features a carved AAA flame maple veneer top, Gibson USA '57 Classic humbuckers with series-parallel switching, Mallory tone capacitors, Switchcraft electronics, Grover locking machine heads and a premium hard case.STREET PRICE: $899.99 epiphone.comBOSS GT-1000 GUITAR EFFECTS PROCESSORThe BOSS GT-1000 is a premium amp and effects processor for guitarists. Designed for superior tone and exceptional musical response; the GT-1000 is the first-ever guitar multi-effects processor with 32-bit AD/DA, 32-bit floating-point processing and 96 kHz sampling rate throughout. The GT-1000 is driven by BOSS’s latest custom DSP engine and filled with cutting-edge BOSS technologies in a compact and lightweight floor-based unit. The GT-1000…

Bend, OR (September 13, 2018) -- Breedlove has unveiled an assortment of the company's new 2019 models, just in time for the holiday season. These models represent the continuation of Breedlove's popular new body shapes, The Concertina and the Concerto, within the Pursuit and Discovery Series. Also, Breedlove's popular Oregon Series Concerto and Concert are now available standard in cutaway models! Pursuit Concertina E New for 2019, but available now, we're proud to introduce the smaller bodied Concertina to the Pursuit Series lineup. Based on the ever-popular Pursuit Concert platform, this smaller body guitar sounds warm and beautiful with a solid red cedar top and mahogany back, but with additional sound and projection from the Concertina body. This guitar is ideal for the player looking for a more nuanced sound…

Melville, NY (September 12, 2018) -- Korg has released two more accessories as part of their growing initiative to dominate the tuner and metronome catagory. Korg has taken the sleek design and impeccable accuracy of the Rimpitch and has released the Rimpitch C2; an evolution of KORG’s innovative acoustic guitar tuner, now in an even more compact package. Also new to the line is the MA-2, an electronic metronome further improved on from its predecessor, the MA-1. The Rimpitch C2 has been designed specifically for the acoustic guitar, fitting perfectly in the instrument’s sound hole. This unique construction allows for high visibility and limited distraction as it’s placed within the player’s natural field of vision. In addition, the Rimpitch C2 comes equipped with a highly visible LED display, making the…

Seymour Duncan has debuted its new Billy Gibbons Red Devil Strat pickups.From the company: Wanting to recreate his 59’ humbucker tone but in a Strat-sized single coil route, Gibbons placed a call to Maricela “MJ” Juarez. From their  conversation a new pickup set was born.The Red Devil for Strat set features three unique pickup winds, with specially  calibrated Alnico 5 magnets, 4-conductor lead wire for multiple wiring options and vacuum wax potting for squeal-free performance. The bridge is wound like a P.A.F., with enough meat to beef up your Strat and provide the fat tone of Billy’s #1. The neck and middle step back the heat a little and brush on sweet, smoky blues—ideal for cleans, rhythm or lead.    Hand built in the company's Santa Barbara, CA factory, the Red…