My First Guitar Blog

Acoustic Guitars: This beautiful Breedlove acoustic was made in Korea, in 2005. It has 20 frets on a rosewood fretboard. The top and back are all made of solid wood, but the sides are laminate.

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Compact Discs: Released: Feb 19, 2008
Genre: Hardcore Punk
Label: Trustkill Records
Number Of Tracks: 13
It was released on February 19th, 2008 through Trustkill Records. After extensive worldwide touring in 2007, the band managed to find time to write and record an album.

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Bass Guitars: It has 22 jumbo frets. Awesome basswood body and maple neck. It has a solid top and a beautiful Black finish. It has a kind of strat body style to it. It has passive eletronics. It has volume and tone controls. It has a soapbar style humbucker. It is a pretty good starter bass.

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Compact Discs: Released: Jun 2007
Genre: Metalcore, Mathcore, Progressive metal
Label: Century Media Records
Number Of Tracks: 11
Ruin is the second album by the metal band Architects and the first to feature current vocalist Sam Carter.

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Live Concerts: Being good old Perth boys, it’s fair enough. But they are coming back to Sydney this year for Homebake, so they can match the intensity they brought with them earlier this year.

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Guitar Amplifiers: The amp was released just this year in October 2008. It features 12amp models, 11 stompboxes, and 11 effects. It’s an open back and it’s got a 12″ speaker. The speaker is a blue marvel which sucks, but at low volumes it sounds great.

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Guitar Effects: The TC Electronic NM-1 Nova Modulator effects pedal puts seven studio-grade modulation effects into one compact pedal with two sturdy footswitches! You can control and combine TC’s great chorus, phaser, tremolo, flanger, and vibrato effects for new and amazing tonal textures!

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Guitar Effects: This is the revamped version of the previous UX2 formerly known as the TonePort. The actual interface hasn’t had any changes other than it’s color being changed to completely black. The reason I waited around for this one was simply for the packaged software that was recently released, the POD Farm.

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Acoustic Guitars: Made in China. It has a 20 fret rosewood neck. It has a quilted maple body and all around looks amazing! The finish is nice and the usual wear and tear of guitar playing is not evident after over a year.

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Live Concerts: Being good old Perth boys, it’s fair enough. But they are coming back to Sydney this year for Homebake, so they can match the intensity they brought with them earlier this year.

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Electric Guitars: This a 2008 USA made Dinky. It has 24 jumbo frets, with a 25.5″ neck of quartersawn maple which, like all Jacksons, is super thin.

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An in depth explanation of intervals and an explanation on the music theory side.

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Compact Discs: Released: Oct 28, 2008
Genre: Death Metal
Label: Prosthetic
Number Of Tracks: 11
Dystopia is the second studio album by Canadian death metal band Beneath the Massacre. It was released on October 28, 2008 through Prosthetic Records.

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Compact Discs: Released: Jan 25, 2008
Genre: Pirate Metal, Folk Metal
Label: Napalm Records
Number Of Tracks: 10
Captain Morgan’s Revenge is the debut, concept, full-length album by the Scottish pirate metal band Alestorm. It was released in 2008 by Napalm Records.

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Compact Discs: Released: Nov 11, 2008
Genre: Death-Metal, Hardcore, Punk
Label: Deathwish Inc
Number Of Tracks: 10
This is what happens when you blend Entombed-like death-metal and crusty hardcore. This is essential stuff folks!

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