Review: The Everything Guide To Digital Home Recording

I’ve been recording my guitar playing pretty much ever since I have played guitar, my first forray into the home recording realm was a Yamaha Four Track cassette recorder, I then moved to DAT Tapes in the late 90′s before finally technology started to make home recording on a Computer viable with high quality, low [...]

Review: Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth

One of the reasons I learned how to play guitar is because as a 12 year old I was given a VHS of Van Halen “Live Without A Net”, which is still a brilliant lesson in how to play guitar and stage presence and worth checking out even if you don’t like Sammy Hagar as [...]

Review: Positive Grid JamUp Pro for iOS

If you have an iPhone or an iPad and play guitar no doubt you will have thought about the possibilities of using it as your practice amp and there are a few Apps available now that will let you do just that. The latest to come storming onto the scene is JamUp Pro from Positive [...]

Review: Jonas Tamas – Timeless Hour

Back in July 2009 I reviewed an album called “Sharp Guitars From a Flat Planet” which was the debut solo album by Hungarian guitarist Jonas Tamas. Since this release Jonas has signed to Steve Vai’s Digital Nations label and just released the follow up to “Sharp Guitars…” called “Timeless Hour“. If you bought the first [...]

Review: Toontrack EZ Mix with Metal Essentials pack

EZmix is a simple (EZ), yet powerful, mixing tool that gives you access to a huge array of mix presets for the whole gamut of mixing needs. Whether you need to mix drums, vocals, guitars, bass or keyboards this is your tool.

Simply connect EZmix to a channel strip in your sequencer like you would any [...]

Review: Stephan Forte – The Shadows Compendium

I had never heard of Stephan Forte until I was contacted recently about his new album but I can’t understand how he has flown under the radar with me despite recording 4 albums with the Progressive Metal band Adagio, an album with the band Red Circuit plus the fact he was on the bill for [...]

Review: Andy Timmons Band Plays Sgt Pepper

This album was always going to be a weird one for me, first of all I am a massive fan of Andy Timmons but then I really don’t like The Beatles all that much, yes I know I’m in the minority there but what can I do? I do like the odd track that The [...]

Review: Nick Johnston – Public Display Of Infection

Before I say anything about the music I have to say I love the artwork for this album with it’s retro Sci-Fi theme including a strange guitar playing Skeleton spaceman, angry robots and flying hot rod cars!

Anyway back to the music, this is a new instrumental guitar album by Nick Johnston released this month (Nov [...]

Review: Chimaira – The Age Of Hell

A lot has happened since I reviewed Chimaira’s last epic release The Infection, the band toured relentlessly all over the world and playing festivals such as Mayhem and then just as they were due to go into the studio to record this new album bass player Jim LaMarca left the band, this was quite a [...]

Review: Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 Pro

Native Instruments have been pretty quite when it comes to Guitar Rig since the release of version 4 2 years ago with only a minor update along the way but just as I thought NI had forgotten about us amp modelling loving guitarists they announce Guitar Rig 5 Pro which comes loaded with a couple [...]