Music Gear

Antares have held a demonstration session of their ATG-6 “Atuo-Tune for Guitar” Technology, and we have the video. Last week we brought you news of the announcement from Antares that they will soon be introducing a new product for guitarists – read the story here. Since then, Harmony Central have posted a video recorded by […]

I quite like Jaime Campbell’s style – his latest effort is a flat-pole hot-wound Stratocaster pickup set for a fatter twist on the classic Strat tone. Still with snappy highs, a fatter mid-range with rounded bass. Scatter wound with wax potted coils and flat Alnico 2 magnets. Higher output. Vintage style cloth covered lead wire.

Jaime Campbell, who makes custom guitars & handwound pickups from ‘The Creamery’, his workshop in Manchester has just launched his new design of pickup. Based on the old Filtertron style but designed to fit a standard Humbucker cavity, the first set in the new handwound ‘Swing-O’ range is now available. “After looking at modern variants

Three new sets are being added to the Martin SP Lifespan range of acoustic guitar strings and will be available at Summer NAMM. Martin have certainly been busy in the lead up to Summer NAMM this year with a series of new product announements from ukuleles to acoustic guitars, and now new strings. Here are

It’s not every morning you sit down at your computer and discover something that has happened for the “first time in the known universe”, but that’s what happened today according to the email I received from Atlantic Quality Design, Inc. (my guess is they copied the idea from another part of the multi-verse). Before I

It’s always a difficult decision for a manufacturer to go into competition with their own retailers, but it often works out well for We The Customers! Rotosound have partnered with Shopatron to add a new online store to their website offering their entire range of guitar strings and accessories. They have an interesting twist –

I don’t know if this has ever happened to you or not, but it certainly happened to my band more than once. You’ve just finished a gig or a rehearsal session and while you’re loading your gear – someone quietly picks up your guitar and steals it. I wish we had Rock Lock then. You

You’ve probably heard of the Roundwound strings from Rotosound, now they’ve joined up with fellow British company Bare Knuckle Pickups for this promotion. Bare Knuckle Pickups have quite a large range to suit players who are into Humbuckers, P90s, Strats, Teles etc. This special offer is currently available world wide where ever Bare Knuckle Pickups

Sheptone are known for their range of pickups, and now they offer the Sheptone Strat Harness – a complete MOD with pickups and pots pre-installed. The harness is a complete assembly – all you have to do is solder two wires and bolt it on to your pickguard for an instant upgrade! It fits onto

HeavyMetalBay.com aims to become the “go to” site for metalheads to find music, videos, memorabilia, clothing, jewellery, posters, instruments, amps and more. HeavyMetalBay.com is a great idea and it’s always good to see a new site start up to fill a niche, so it will be interesting to see if they can steal this segment