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SMG Tips: Ain’t Nothin’ But a String Thing!

SMG Tips: Ain’t Nothin’ But a String Thing!

Speaking for myself as a player, I always struggled trying to get a consistence sound using 10′s. I started making my own custom set of….

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SMG Review: Ring it and Rock it with JetSlide!

SMG Review: Ring it and Rock it with JetSlide!

The JetSlide is a simple, yet uniquely shaped and effective guitar slide. The slide portion is a solid bar of brass, stainless steel, or copper that runs nearly finger length and curves up at the end, giving the appearance of a jet plane’s fuselage and tailpiece.

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SMG REVIEW: EMG’s DG20 Prewired Pickguard

SMG REVIEW: EMG’s DG20 Prewired Pickguard

EMG is recognized as an innovator in the guitar industry, having designed the first active pickups. Rob Turner, who ignited his brainchild in high school by experimenting with passive pickups and preamps, is the company’s founder. Interestingly, Rob started his music career as a drummer.

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SMG Review: You Rock Guitar by Inspired Instruments!

SMG Review: You Rock Guitar by Inspired Instruments!

There has been a huge influx of popular video games focused on “virtually living the dream” and promising to transform your youngster or teen into the next Guitar Hero. This insurgence of guitar based gaming has done a great job of reintroducing REAL guitar driven music to young potential shredders…

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SMG Review: Go Go Tuners TT-1

SMG Review: Go Go Tuners TT-1

The Go Go Tuners TT-1 include features such as a large bright LED screen, which illuminates red when out of tune and green when in tune, while simultaneously showing you if you are sharp or flat. The 360 degree swivel arm bracket makes positioning the TT-1 a snap in any direction.

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SMG Review: T-Rex ToneBug Series Guitar Effects Pedals

SMG Review: T-Rex ToneBug Series Guitar Effects Pedals

Over the past week I have run the gauntlet with five of the T-Rex ToneBug effects pedals. The Sensewah, Fuzz, Booster, Compressor/Sustainer and the Fotenschlager distortion pedal. I hope this review sheds some new light on an awesome effects company and their products.

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New Kit from ModTM Kits DIY, the ThunderDrive!

New Kit from ModTM Kits DIY, the ThunderDrive!

The ThunderDrive is an overdrive pedal kit that provides a strong clean signal boost in the early gain settings and smooth distortion at maximum gain settings. Adjusting volume and gain controls provides a wide variety of tones in spite of its simple construction. It is capable of overdriving the preamp section of your guitar amp or adding its own layer of distortion at lower volume.

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SMG Review: AweSome Musical Instruments’ Telecaster </br>Hyper-Mod™ Control Plate

SMG Review: AweSome Musical Instruments’ Telecaster
Hyper-Mod™ Control Plate

Innovative products are often conceived when seeking to improve upon an existing design. In the case of Thomas Wnorowski, he recognized that the tonal possibilities residing within his Strat copy fell far short of their potential, so he set out to do something about it.

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