Total Recall - The History of Total Accuracy Guitar Tuition
Even the promotional giveaway audio cassettes from Total Accuracy came with a high quality chrome tape formulation. This 1993 promo features jam backings that include Rock & Roll by Led Zeppelin,...
View ArticleWhy PAID Software is More Likely to Treat You as “The Product” Than Free...
A Photoshop installation CD, back at the dawn of the century when it was possible to own a copy, and the main distribution means was the high street retailer. Within a compatible environment, you can...
View ArticleMexican Fender / Squier Strats: The Mid 1990s Boom
The aesthetically-pleasing Fender Contemporary Stratocaster, introduced in 1994, sat at the epicentre of Mexico’s bid to capture the Japanese stronghold in the middle of the brand’s price range. After...
View ArticleThe Seductress and The Clonewheel VXH - Free Tonewheel Organ VST Plugin...
Planet Botch VST tonewheel/clonewheel emulators are a bit like buses. You wait eight years and then three come along at once. Yes, hot on the heels of an analogue K-type emulator, this is a double...
View ArticlePlywood Fender Squier vs Top Line Vintage Gibson
THE CONTENDERS A vintage Gibson ES-355. A lavish, high-spend product, made in 1972, and sitting at the top end of Gibson’s range of thinline semi-acoustics. Wearing the archetypal translucent cherry...
View Article10 Reasons Why High Quality Audio Cassette Tapes Can Sound Muddy or Dull
In some cases, an audio cassette is expected to sound dull, muddy or woolly. Some tapes were manufactured to a very low budget, with an unsophisticated ferric-oxide formulation. And one of the...
View ArticleGary Moore: Why He Dumped Heavy Metal For Blues
With huge success, in 1989 the long-time rock guitarist and singer Gary Moore made a dramatic decision to dump heavy metal and pitch head first into the genre of blues. The stark contrast in styles...
View Article1987: A Landmark Year For Fender Guitars
TBX tone controls, Lace Sensors, bright yellow Strats, birth of Fender Korea, rebirth of Fender USA, death of Squier Japan, complete decimation of the Japanese Fender Contemporary range, and the budget...
View Article1996 Squier Deluxe Telecaster (Korea)
If ever you find yourself staring at a seemingly bog-standard Korean Squier Telecaster with a CN5 or CN6 serial number, you may not realise it, but what you probably have in front of you, is the...
View ArticleThe Story of the Vintage Reissue Guitar
Ohhhh yeahhhh! As Gibson themselves put it in 1970, the 1958-1960 sunburst Les Paul Standard design really was the “Daddy of 'em all”. The vintage reissue. Ideally a faithful replica of an old guitar,...
View ArticleYamaha SG 2000 - Japan's First Megastar Guitar
“Fabulously well made”... “Always a joy to play”... “A sound and sustain more like that from a Les Paul than almost any other Japanese maker's offering”... That's how seasoned guitar reviewer David...
View ArticleEnding The Confusion of Fender Japan's Vintage Strat Reissue Model/Year...
I'm sure you recognise them. But do you call these partners in crime the '60s and '50s Stratocaster reissues, or the '62 and '57 Stratocaster reissues? And which reference is correct? As a writer...
View ArticleCandy Apple Red: A History of Fender's Queen of Custom Colours
Is there a warmer finish anywhere on Earth? Candy Apple Red in all its glory on a Stratocaster, complete with the 1960s fashion statement of a matching headstock. Many a 1950s Stratocaster or...
View ArticleHow Well Have 1980s Stratocasters Matured?
Well, we're here. This is it. This is the distant future that the 1980s guitar magazines talked about. The point at which the guitars we were buying brand new back then, would have fully matured. In...
View ArticleThe 1990s Fender Model Code System Explained
Showing the model code 10-0909, a Fender USA '62 Vintage Reissue Stratocaster inspection tag from March 2nd 1990. How obsessive are you about guitar collecting? Do you insist on as-new instruments...
View ArticleRecalling the Fender Japan Floyd Rose “Hot Rod” Strat
Yes, it's whammy time, as an early 1990s monster of rock pops its three-tone sunburst above the parapet for a heavily overdriven trip down memory lane. If you don't remember the first Fender Japan...
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