“So, Dave, how do I slash the amp?”: Dave Davies picks up a razor and slashes a speaker on camera to demonstrate how he got the Kinks’ iconic proto-fuzz guitar to…

There are gear demos and then there are gear demos in which a guitar legend performs the most radical amp mod to show us how ...
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1Wamp, An Open Hardware Guitar Amplifier

The folks at [ElectroSmash] recently released 1Wamp – a one watt, open hardware, Guitar amplifier packed with features. It consists of a JFET based pre-amplifier, a Big Muff Pi a.k.a BMP based Tone ...
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Les Paul & Leo Fender Perfected the Invention of the Electric Guitar in the ’50s

The joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a gloriously loud one ...
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Warren Haynes’ Gibson Les Paul Standard is here and it’s a plain-topped beauty with an onboard boost

Gibson has unveiled the Warren Haynes Les Paul Standard and it is a doozie that’s finished in deep red ‘60s Cherry, equipped with hum-cancelling P-90 pickups and an onboard clean boost that hit the ...