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 [...]

Review: Chris Brooks – The Axis Of All Things

Aussie guitar virtuoso Chris Brooks has followed up his debut solo album from 2002 “The Master Plan” with a monster release called “The Axis Of All Things“. The interesting thing about the recording of this album is that Chris crowd-sourced the project using an online resource called Indie GoGo, you can check out the project [...]

Review: The Aristocrats debut album – The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats were formed almost by accident when Guthrie Govan was called in as a late replacement for fusion-meister Greg Howe to play The Anaheim Bass Bash featuring Bryan Beller on bass and Marco Minnemann on drums, Guthrie said in a recent interview with Guitar Player Magazine that when they walked off stage they simultaneously [...]