We feel very privileged to have a very, VERY special guitar in stock at Absolute Music. With only three of them in existence, this instrument is something that is extremely rare.
This Telecaster was built by Fender’s Paul Waller for the 2004 NAMM show and the body and neck feature a hand-crafted 3D brick design, which is continued along the ebony fingerboard.
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Our guitar manager Terry Haselden is back to offer his enlightenment in the world of acoustics…
From the powerful ‘spr-wiang’ of Tom Petty’s 12-string in Free Falling to the delicate finger-picking of Paul McCartney’s Blackbird and the beautiful classical guitar of Andrés Segovia, the acoustic guitar in all its incarnations is an absolute staple in music. There’s something special about playing an acoustic guitar. Even when you’re on stage in front of thousands (I have to admit, I’m not speaking from experience here!), when it’s just you and a guitar – no amp stacks, no noisy drummer – it gives such a special feeling to the player and to those listening.
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This article was written by Absolute Music guitar expert Lee Williams and is featured in Issue 7 of our Absolute Music Magazine…
Even after all this time, there’s something about the word ‘iPad’ that gets us all excited. Stompbox pedals (for the most part) can come and go, but mention of a new unit that uses an iPad and a downloadable app as its interface and suddenly the tech-head in all of us (that’s the bit that watches Top Gear re-runs on Dave without ever getting bored and sets the Gadget Show to record every single week) gets wildly aroused.
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The Boss GT-100 features next-generation amp modeling, re-creating vintage amps as well as providing you with up-to-date COSM tones. The GT-100 is the step up from the popular GT-10, featuring a unique dual-LCD system. EZ TONE has also been enhanced with newly designed Amp Customise and OD/DS Customise features.
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Orange Amplification have announced their smallest and most potable Terror ever and have aptly named it the ‘Micro Terror’. This amplifier head comes from an established and highly popular product range and it keeps with the design and quality of the rest of the Terror series, providing quality sound that is surprisingly ‘big’ compared to its deceptively small size.
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We’ve got two new products from TC Helicon to tell you about, both from their outstanding VoiceLive series.
The first product is called the VoiceLive Play, a harmony and effects unit for vocalists. It includes over 200 presets, an Aux input (with Voice Cancel) for plugging in an external device such as an MP3 player to sing along with and RoomSense technology, which makes use of embedded microphones to automatically set the key for harmonies.
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On the surface, the DigiTech iStomp is just like any other guitar stompbox. It has your standard inputs and outputs, it has a row of control knobs and it has that metallic stomp switch. However, dig a little deeper and you will find that the iStomp is actually a whole lot more!
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Following the success of their PolyTune pedal, TC Electronic have decided to release a second, smaller version for those people who are on more of a budget or for those who simply don’t have the room on their pedalboard for the full size version.
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The new Roland G-5 guitar integrates Roland’s COSM technology into a Fender Stratocaster. This means that whilst the G-5 can sound and act like a Stratocaster, it can also unleash sounds that you wouldn’t associate with it in a million years, due to the integrated COSM technology!
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With iOS devices well on their way to world domination, Alesis have released a whole range of products that harness the power of the iPad and utilise it in a number of practical musical situations.
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