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The RP500 is a powerful multi-effect processor designed specifically for the performing guitarist. Designed for the rigors demanded on stage, the RP500 is built like a tank with a cast metal chassis, 9 heavy-duty metal switches, and metal expression pedal. Stage control is easy with big LED indicators that display program or pedal status, large 10- character LED display. XLR and 1/4″ outputs with ground lift give you the ability to run to your amp and directly into to a mixer. For players who only want effects, the RP500’s exclusive Amp/Cabinet Bypass and Pedalboard buttons let you defeat amp and cabinet effects in all presets and let you turn on and off effects just like individual stompboxes. The built-in expression pedal gives you real-time (more…)

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The new flagship of the BOSS multi-effects series, the GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor, is driven by  BOSS’s latest generation custom DSP engine and is a floorboard powerhouse that offers a marked improvement in sound quality, features, and user interface from previous generations. The latest DSP engine provides unprecedented tone quality and effects capability with a more natural and musical response, making it a professional’s dream. But the BOSS GT-10 also has a graphically-friendly user interface. The innovative EZ Tone wizard creates top-quality sounds quickly and intuitively without spending tons of time tweaking knobs, which allows users to obtain great sounds in a straightforward manner.

The new GT-10 comes loaded with innovative features including Phrase Loop, and Parallel Effects Chain. The GT-10 also comes equipped with a rear-panel USB port, where audio and MIDI data can be streamed digitally to computers, digital recorders, or other compatible devices. The port also allows for safe and quick transfer of creative data.

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>$987,500 for a guitar! This seems a little farfetched, yet is completely true with last year’s record sale of a custom-built guitar once played by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. What possesses someone to buy an instrument at such an exorbitant price, and how do you determine what the (more…)

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Step 1: Pay for Quality
I’ve known guitarists who went through five or six guitars within a couple of years. They weren’t satisfied and kept trading up, and by the time they finished, they’d spent enough to own the best. The one point of advice echoed by every professional player we interviewed was to buy the very best quality you can afford the first time. Playability and dependability are measures of quality, and there are no shortcuts. In the highly (more…)

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Silvertone from 1957-58. This instrument is actually for sale for $1449 and according to the 1957 Sears catalogue has “Curly maple top and back. Mahogany sides. Hand-polished finish. 2 built-in pickups. Volume, tone control. 3-way selector switch”. It also has a glued-on, fully (more…)

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