Didn’t get as much on here as I wanted to during the show, but that ok, all of the really good stuff was over on PG anyway. Here are some of the highlights for me:
Kemper Profiling Amplifier – This amp basically copies the “mojo” of any amp you can get mic’d up. Here is the video I shot where we demo how close the profiling actually is.
Vox Tony Bruno Combos – Vox teamed up with boutique amp guru to create a line of production model amps based on Tony’s designs.
65Amps Empire – This is a great 3-channel amp that covers some of the “greatest hits” of the classic British-voiced amps.
Today I am heading out to the annual circus that is NAMM. If you are unable to make it out to sunny California in the middle of January, there are a few places where you can keep up with the show.
I will be posting some pics and videos here in addition to Twitter (@jasonshadrick)
Premier Guitar has a dedicated page here to collect all of our pics, videos, tweets and anything else we can squeeze out of the show. Of course I will be contributing to that as well as the Twitter account (@premierguitar).
A few weeks ago, Rebecca Dirks (our PG Web Editor) and I took a road trip to Chicago to get an inside look at Satch’s gear from the man himself. The Chicago Theater is a beautiful venue and hearing Joe crank up his Marshall amps in such a historic place was really cool. Check out the video below for news about his prototype Marshall Heads, his pedalboard and how his solo rig differs from his Chickenfoot rig.
In the January issue of Premier Guitar, I did a feature interview with Kevin Eubanks about his new album, Zen Food. I really liked the album and thought the interview turned out well.
I am not ashamed to toot our own horn over at PG, I think we are doing some pretty cool stuff. Just today we uploaded some really cool videos from a recent trip some of my colleagues took out to California.
In this video, Sterling Ball himself takes us on a “backwards” tour of his factory in San Luis Obispo, CA. His excitement over each step of the construction process is contagious.
In this video, Dudley Gimpel, EBMM’s Chief Designer, pulls out some of the prototypes from the vault and gives us some insight into their creation.
I think this is probably some of Chris Kies’ best work.
