Whatever you find weird, ugly, or nasty about a medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all these will be cherished as soon as they can be avoided. In 1995, digital audio and video were still cutting-edge enough to look, sound, and feel not quite right yet. But when DVD players hit the market not long thereafter, making it possible to watch movies in flawless digital clarity, few consumers with the means hesitated to make the switch from VHS. Could any of them have imagined that we’d one day look back on those chunky tapes and their wobbly, muddy images with fondness?
Finished in Olympic White, the Hitmaker Strat has a slimmed-down, more aggressively contoured 1960 Strat alder body, and a ’59 Strat-profile, one-piece maple neck with a 9.5” radius fingerboard sporting 21 medium jumbo frets. The guitar is powered by a trio of custom single coils voiced specifically to replicate the quack and bell-like chime of its Rodgers’ original. These are controlled by a set of two tone knobs, a master volume and a five-way blade pickup switch. It is also adorned with a hardtail string-through bridge with bent-steel saddles, a mirrored chrome-plated brass pickguard, locking Sperzel tuners.
Available in four- and five-string versions, the MJ has standard specs of an alder body, a carbon-fiber reinforced maple neck, and an ebony fingerboard. Standard electronics include a pair of JVA Single Coils, but you can also upgrade to H50A Alnico Humbuckers, Kiesel’s Radium Single Coils or Humbuckers, or HB Alnico humbuckers. Its preamp is an 18-volt active/preamp configuration with stacked concentric bass and treble frequency/cut and boost knobs.
The sound of the ukulele brings a smile to so many faces, making you think about that island life. You can almost hear the waves and the birds chirping when you are listening to this Hawaiian music. It first rose to popularity in the 1920s and 1930s and has been steadily capturing the hearts of millions, inspiring many smiles and fond memories since.
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The original rock supergroup, Cream, lasted two years, changed the course of rock music, barely held together because of rancor between members and said goodbye in 1968. Their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London was one for the ages. Maybe not their best performance, but one of their most energetic. And inside the cavernous Hall, the three men laid down a wall of undeniable sound.
There’s a pop-psychology theory that left-handed people are more creative. Supposedly, the right hemisphere of the brain is more associated with creative activities and controlling the left side of the body. The argument goes that people with dominant left hands are likely to have more developed right brain hemispheres, and be better at creative tasks. As with everything in neuroscience, the truth is probably that it’s more complicated than that. Still, looking at famous wielders of upside-down fretboards, it’s a tempting idea. Perhaps it’s that left-handers are forced to be more creative, because the world is full of things that weren’t designed for them. Left-handed players have never had as wide a range of quality instruments available, so they’ve often had to overcome substandard gear to make great sounds. A surprising number simply learned on upside-down right-handed guitars, again having to discover their own approach to the instrument because conventional techniques were impossible. Whatever the reason, we salute the determination and inventiveness of these 30 greats of left-handed guitar, who are presented in no particular order.
This is a phaser with tons of flexibility. It has eight selectable phase control parameters, six LFOs, and two envelope-dependent phase shift modes. You can get classic, swirly and rich, vibe-esque phaser sounds and many robust LFO engine sounds with classic that have sine and square sharing the same control with reverse sawtooth and two independently controlled and intermodulating sine waves, an envelope-dependent phase shift–both up and down–letting you control the phase shift with your pick attack. This gives you an autowah-esque manually controlled phase shifting experience.”
Elliot Easton is an American musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter. He played lead guitar and sang backing vocals for The Cars. His guitar solos are an integral part of the band's music. Easton has also recorded music as a solo artist, and has played in other bands. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1918.
