Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Amped – The Illustrated History of the World’s Greatest Amplifiers by Dave Hunter
Written on May 10, 2012 at 9:31 am, by Jon
In this book, “Amped – The Illustrated History of the World’s Greatest Amplifiers”, Dave Hunter explores 60 of the greatest guitar amplifiers created over the past 75 years starting with the 1937 Rickenbacker MIII all the way through to the 2011 Dr.Z Carmen Ghia. Hunter understandably concentrates on amps from the 1950′s and 1960′s with… continue reading
Review: Sonic Mining Company
Written on April 12, 2012 at 8:50 am, by Jon
Back in the early 90′s I used to have a subscription to a magazine called ‘Guitar for the Practicing Musician’ and Reeves Gabrels had a column in which he explored some unconventional techniques for the experimental guitarist, I believe it was called ‘Outside Corner’. I remember one issue for instance where Reeves explained that by… continue reading
Review: Dave Weiner Sydney Guitar Clinic
Written on March 29, 2012 at 7:30 am, by Jon
On the 28th March 2012 Dave Weiner (Guitar teacher and Steve Vai’s guitarist of 13 years) held a clinic at the Guitar Factory, Gladesville, Sydney 2 days before the G3 concert rolls into town with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Steve Lukather. Many of you will know Dave Weiner from his popular YouTube channel where… continue reading
Review: Recording Techniques of the Guitar Masters by Brian Tarquin
Written on March 1, 2012 at 9:00 am, by Jon
If you’re a regular reader of Guitar Noize you may have seen Brian Tarquin’s guest posts on guitar recording techniques, if not check out the Brian Tarquin category here – http://www.guitarnoize.com/category/brian-tarquin/. Here is a quick overview of why Brian is such a great source of recording knowledge: Brian Tarquin is a Multi Emmy Award winning… continue reading
Review: Adam Ironside – Cosmology
Written on February 27, 2012 at 8:11 am, by Jon
‘Cosmology‘ is a new album from UK based guitarist Adam Ironside, the distortion aficionado (check out his site at http://www.dirtbox.net/) & Chapman Guitars endorsee. I have been following the progress of this album for some time on Adam’s YouTube Channel over the past 7 or so months so it is very cool to finally have… continue reading
Review: Chimp Spanner – All Roads Lead Here
Written on February 16, 2012 at 7:50 am, by Jon
Occasionally albums, or in this case, E.P.’s come along that are just that extra bit special ‘All Roads Lead Here‘ by Chimp Spanner definitely falls into this category. This brilliant instrumental Progressive Metal EP from 26 year old UK musician, composer and 7 and 8 string guitar virtuoso Paul Antonio Ortiz is, I believe, composed,… continue reading
Review: Paradigm – Mind Is Key
Written on February 13, 2012 at 8:00 am, by Jon
Paradigm are a Progressive Metal band from Sydney, Australia that I first heard about on the Suhr discussion forum when guitarist James Ivanyi posted the video at the bottom of this review which shows James tracking some of the guitar parts for their latest album ‘Mind Is Key‘ on a very nice Suhr Standard. As… continue reading
Review: Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth
Written on February 3, 2012 at 9:47 am, by Jon
One of the reasons I learned how to play guitar is because as a 12 year old I was given a VHS of Van Halen “Live Without A Net”, which is still a brilliant lesson in how to play guitar and stage presence and worth checking out even if you don’t like Sammy Hagar as… continue reading
Let Me Introduce You to Joe Robinson
Written on February 1, 2012 at 10:21 am, by Jon
If you haven’t heard of Joe Robinson he is an Australian guitar player and singer that won Australia’s Got Talent back in 2008 (check out his audition here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-0cCRbNCQ). Obviously he was massively influenced by Tommy Emmanuel but he has been growing and maturing as a singer/songwriter as well as guitar player and has… continue reading
Review: Jonas Tamas – Timeless Hour
Written on December 9, 2011 at 8:00 am, by Jon
Back in July 2009 I reviewed an album called “Sharp Guitars From a Flat Planet” which was the debut solo album by Hungarian guitarist Jonas Tamas. Since this release Jonas has signed to Steve Vai’s Digital Nations label and just released the follow up to “Sharp Guitars…” called “Timeless Hour“. If you bought the first… continue reading
