Monday, Feb. 13th 2012 1:23 PM
Vox Amplification has just announced the arrival of two new additions to its acoustic amp range – the AGA30 and the AGA4-AT. These two new acoustic amps from Vox should excite acoustic players, as they are designed to preserve the acoustic tone of guitars and other acoustic instruments as well. Both of these new guitar amps can also be used to connect an MP3 player to, allowing you to play along to your favourite tunes without the need for additional hardware.
The Vox AGA30 is a two channel amp that offers both a standard channel and also a tube pre-amp channel, with both channels featuring bass and treble EQ controls. The Vox AGA30 also features an anti-feedback control that minimises feedback, making the amp a great option as a stage monitor. With 30 watts of power, a full range speaker and a direct/tuner output for connection to bigger PA systems, the new Vox AGA30 acoustic amp is a great new addition to the Vox acoustic amp range.
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Friday, Feb. 10th 2012 9:13 AM
When it comes to unusual custom guitars, they don’t come much more unusual than the gold and mother of pearl coated Gibson Les Paul that was customised by a time-served luthier in the UK. Kim Webber, 55, from Somerset in the UK was handed a vintage Gibson Les Paul Deluxe by a customer who wanted the previous modifications removing, modifications that included plastic triangles being stuck to the body, and new modifications to be made.
Vintage Gibson Les Pauls are adored by guitar players across the world and this particular example is no different, which is why its owner asked Webber to strip back the instrument and customise it using fine shells and precious metals.
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Tuesday, Feb. 7th 2012 5:35 PM
The Gibson Custom Shop has been hand making some of the finest guitars in the world for over 80 years and it even became its own separate division of Gibson in 1986. However, as is the case with many time-served craft making processes, some things never change at the Gibson Custom Shop, with many tools and techniques that were pioneered by Orville Gibson all of those decades ago still being used today.
One thing that has always been the mark of a classic guitar and a hallmark of the Gibson Custom Shop is the use of the very finest quality woods. For as long as the shop has been in business the best grades of mahogany, spruce, maple, and holly have been used to manufacture their custom guitars. The finest woods from Canada, the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast are sourced to create the best possible bodies and necks.
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Monday, Feb. 6th 2012 1:30 PM
Waukesha in Wisconsin, the birthplace and resting place of the late, great Les Paul has seen the arrival of some very unusual custom guitars over the past week or two. A collection of ten fibreglass ten-foot-tall Gibson Les Pauls have been delivered to Waukesha, Wisconsin to mark the start of the GuitarTown Project, which is a charity event that has run in a number of towns and cities across the world, which involves guitars, artists and charity auctions.
Over the next couple of weeks a number of well known artists will decorate the fibreglass Gibson Les Pauls. But there will also be an additional 15 Gibson Les Pauls sent to Waukesha, sent from the Gibson Foundation, only this time they will be the size that you would expect them to be. Like the ten-foot-tall Gibson Les Pauls, the 15 regulation size Les Pauls will be decorated by local artists but these custom guitars will be auctioned, with proceeds going to the GuitarTown Project.
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Monday, Jan. 30th 2012 9:19 AM
If you’re an owner of an iPhone or an Android powered mobile phone and you are also a guitar fan then Gibson Guitars may have the ultimate app for you. The Gibson Android and iPhone App is packed with useful tools, lessons and all of the latest news from Gibson.com. The Gibson App features a guitar tuner, a metronome, chord charts and even guitar lessons that will all help you to enjoy playing your guitar even more.
- The tuner function of the Gibson App features both a standard and a traditional chromatic tuner, and it not only caters for standard ‘EADGBE’ but also several alternate tunings as well.
- The metronome function is a Tap Tempo Metronome that allows you to tap out a beat on the screen of your mobile device, or you can simply choose a specific BPM.
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Friday, Jan. 27th 2012 10:12 AM
The Pawn Stars team are used to being offered some treasures but, when they were offered a vintage Gibson Les Paul, they spent big to buy this particular ‘piece of history’, but why exactly? Well, Pawn Stars bought Les Paul’s cream 1961 Gibson SG, that’s why they spent big. Not often do you get the chance to buy a Gibson Les Paul that was owned by the man who made it famous, but that’s exactly the chance that the Pawn Stars team got and they took it.
The historic vintage guitar was being sold by the nephew of singer Mary Ford, who is Paul’s ex wife, and it was accompanied by paperwork documenting Paul’s relationship with Gibson, a relationship that blew hot and cold at the best of times. So, Pawn Stars really were buying a piece of musical history and at a princely sum too. They paid $90,000 for the historic Gibson Les Paul, a price that the nephew was adamant about before he entered the shop.
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Wednesday, Jan. 25th 2012 10:24 AM
Former Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley is an iconic artist from the Glam Rock era of the late 70’s and 80’s, and is famed most notably for modifying a Gibson Les Paul to pour smoke out of it as he played. To mark his undoubted success and his lifelong affiliation with the Les Paul, Gibson is making a range of Ace Frehley Gibson Les Pauls, each capturing the Glam Rock sound and vibe.
There will be three versions of these custom guitars; 50 x hand-aged guitars that are personally signed by Ace Frehley himself, 100 x hand-aged models without signatures and 150 x custom Les Pauls that have had the ‘vintage original spec’ treatment.
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Thursday, Jan. 19th 2012 9:12 AM
In 1980, Peter Frampton’s prized 1954 Gibson Les Paul was on a cargo plane along with his other equipment when it crashed en route to Panama. All of his equipment, including the vintage guitar, was believed to have been destroyed in the accident and Frampton’s career continued without his beloved Les Paul. However, thanks to a couple of fans and the Curacao Tourist Board, Peter Frampton’s guitar has been returned after 30 years of separation.
The guitar was Frampton’s number one instrument, which he used in sessions with George Harrison and Harry Nilsson, and which he believed to be lost forever. But a fan of Frampton thought that he may have discovered the prized Gibson Les Paul on the Dutch island of Curacao so he enlisted the assistance of another fan in Holland and, along with some help from the Curacao Tourist Board, they reunited the lost guitar with Frampton in Nashville just before Christmas.
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