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Blues
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Road Trip 2
Vertical Soloing
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Jonesing for
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2009 Student Plans...
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Voodoo Blues...
TRUEFIRE EAR EXAM
TrueFire’s 10-week Ear Exam kicks off
tomorrow and those who pass get a shot at a brand new Royale RL3 guitar from
Greg Bennett Guitars or one of 25 other prizes.
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Learn more ...
VIDEO PICKS
Alain Caron & Frank Gambale's
incredible performance at ASGN...
Stephen Bennett reveals some
serious grey matter for fingerstylists...
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit
treat the crowd to a
unique blues fusion...
Monte Montgomery treats you to a few tunes and an ear-opening clinic...
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Tone Freaks Take Note!
We've become addicted to the AFX pedals that
Fishman left behind
after their shoot here at TrueFire. And we're not giving them back!Available in three models - Chorus, Delay and Reverb —
Fishman AFX pedals
are simple to use, built like little metal tanks and provide a palette of
great sounding effects without coloring the signature sound of the
instrument.
Each pedal features eight effect presets, a level knob, two
effect-adjusting knobs, plus a bypass footswitch (the reverb and delay
pedals also offer a spillover mode for bypass).
An all-analog buffered path is
included to preserve tone when bypassed; the level control only adds the
effect in parallel to the input, so it never gets too over-the-top.
Where electric guitar effects cover your signal with several coats of
high-gloss paint, the AFX pedals apply a beautifully transparent finish on
your tone, allowing its true “grain” to come through, thus preserving what
you love most about your guitar. Seeing and hearing is believing...
>> Reverb
>> Chorus
>> Delay
Greg Bennett Guitars
We had the pleasure of hosting
Greg Bennett here
at the Fire a couple of months ago and were blown away with the depth of his
knowledge and experience with respect to designing guitars and basses (he's
also a great guitar player!).
Greg has single-handedly resurrected the
Samick line thanks to his ability to design around
traditional concepts, yet throw innovative features into the mix resulting
in a series of guitars and basses that
sound, play and look great.
The line features distinctive tone woods sourced from exotic locations over the
entire globe: ovangkohl and ebony from Africa, rosewood from India and rock
maple from North America.
Top caliber electronics and hardware as well as pickups from Duncan and Fishman, tuners by Grover
and bridges by Wildinson ice the cake.
We threw Greg into the hot seat to give you an
inside, up close and personal look at one of the leading guitar designers in the biz. Go to their
website and click on the
”Greg Bennett” tab on the bottom of the video player to view the interview. | |
From Bonsai Pop Songs to Four-Dimensional
Tic-Tac-Toe
David Hamburger knows his blues
inside and out, but he's drawing on an even broader range of roots music
styles for his latest project: scoring the documentary Wild Texas Weather
for the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas.
"The director, John Lewis, is hip to so many genres of American music," says
David "So, as the film moves from the Gulf coast to the Panhandle, he wants
the score to reflect those historical and regional shifts. It's like
four-dimensional tic-tac-toe."
Hamburger will score the film itself in his
downtown Austin studio,
where he also scores commercials and short films for various ad agencies,
production companies and music houses in Austin, New York and LA. "A thirty
seconds spot is like a musical haiku," says Hamburger. "I love that in just
half a minute you can get in, ramp up, change keys, tag it and get out." He
pauses. "Well, maybe it's more like a bonsai pop song."
>> See David's
showcase...
Sonic Infestation
Master guitarists and TrueFire artists, Bruce Arnold and John Stowell have
just released a new CD called "Sonic Infestation". The project began as a
series of free acoustic and electric duets recorded in Bruce's studio in New
York. After the initial tracks were laid down, Bruce spent 30 hours sampling
and modifying the original music and layering segments together to create a
compelling collection of vignettes and soundscapes.
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Hear it now
>> Pick up the
CD
>>
Download it
here
Stephen Bennett
Harp Guitar Gathering
The 7th annual
Harp Guitar Gathering is scheduled for October 30 through November 1, 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Stephen reports that he's "thinking
of this Gathering, in part as a celebration of my great-grandfather’s Dyer
harp guitar. It turned
100 years old this year. And it is that instrument that led
to the establishment of this tradition we’ve started of gathering every year
to eat and breathe all things harp guitar!"
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