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Monday, 16 August 2010 |
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 At Kedron's Ellaways Music, GEARED runs a couple Gibsons – a goldtop Les Paul and an SG – into the compact EGNATER TWEAKER and REBEL 30 amps and riffs away.
Fast building a rep as lightweight, feature-loaded alternatives to the clunky old-school 50 and 100W heads, the “lunchbox amp” ranks keep growing. From the revolutionary, pint-sized Zvex Nano to the Orange Tiny Terror, Vox Night Train, Mesa/Boogie Transatlantic and the more boutique Suhr Badger 30 (the last two of which we've analysed in the previous issues of Geared), the nifty, EL84-loaded kickers are a godsend for players and roadies alike. With lots of pros – compact, ideal for transportation, generally killer-sounding and great value for money – and very few cons, they're the reason present-day guitarists are increasingly busy getting rid of their trusty old stacks.  Be first to comment on this article
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In the second part of his delay pedal feature, GEARED gets close and personal with the incredibly-named WAY HUGE AQUA PUSS and the mighty T-REX REPLICA.
GEARED catches up with KRYSTIE and GEOFF MCGREGOR of NOMAD TOURING – Brisbane’s first and only splitter van hire business.
GEARED chats to Big Sound 2010 Executive Programmer GRAHAM ASHTON – known locally as the man behind Footstomp Music and one of the busiest people in all of Brisbane.
GEARED queries longtime Brisbane-based pro vocalist and voice coach DANIEL KAY about contemporary voice tutoring, the common mistakes singers make and who he rates among Australia’s finest vocal talent.
As promised last week, the ever-excitable GEARED examines, compares and loves the bejesus out of two super-echoey delay; the MXR CARBON COPY ANALOG DELAY and SUBDECAY ECHOBOX MODULATED DELAY, kindly provided by Ellaways Music.
Aptly feeling like a complete amateur, GEARED has a conversation with legendary US jazz/blues/rock guitarist ROBBEN FORD – who's due to hold a one-off Brisbane masterclass next month.
Cruising through one of his fave local hangouts – Guitar Brothers – GEARED plugs into a SUHR BADGER 30 mini-stack, cranks it up and likes what he hears.
The previously non-acquainted GEARED duly gets smitten a pair of splendid SUHR guitars – the Classic and Modern models – at Guitar Brothers.
Firmly in the boutique effects domain this week, GEARED drives up to Red Hill’s Guitar Brothers and eventually plugs into the STRYMON chorus and flanger pedals.
