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In a retrospective, Premier Guitar described the MT-2 as "literally the hottest piece of gear in the guitar world" upon its 1991 release. [3] For its October 1992 issue, Guitar Player conducted a "shoot-out" of 29 distortion pedals and concluded the MT-2 was the standout model for metal players. Demand was so high, however, the magazine could ...
John Christ (born 1965) is a musician best known as the original guitarist for the metal band Danzig. He played Ibanez guitars during the 1990s. Greg Christian (born 1966), the bassist for thrash metal band Testament, was an Ibanez Road Bass endorser during the band's early career. He was pictured with a Road Bass in the Ibanez catalog for 5 ...
Guitars under the Godin brand are primarily mid-range to top-of the-line electrics that are made of high quality wood from the northeastern part of North America. They have many models that feature synth hex pickups ( MIDI -equipped [ 7 ] ) and some with piezo pickup-equipped bridges.
The Kramer Baretta was the flagship of the Kramer line and helped popularize the single-pickup 1980s superstrat guitar design. By late 1985, Kramer began installing Seymour Duncan pickups in its guitars, in preference to the more vintage-sounding Schaller pickups. When the sales figures came in, Kramer was the best-selling guitar brand of 1985.
Zemaitis Guitar is a guitar brand owned by Japanese Kanda Shokai Corporation, [2] which manufactures the instruments in Tokyo. Kanda Shokai is also owner of Greco , another guitar brand. Zemaitis's guitars are based on designs by British luthier Tony Zemaitis , who died in 2002.
Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980. Guitar World, the best-selling guitar magazine in the United States, [2] contains original artist interviews and profiles, plus lessons/columns (with tablature and associated audio files or videos), gear reviews, news and exclusive tablature (for ...
A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar (often erroneously called a "Dobro" [1]) is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones , instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than regular acoustic guitars ...
In the early 1960s, retail store The Chicago Guitar Gallery hired Rudolf "Rudy" Schlacher, a young German violin builder, as a repair technician. A few years later, Schlacher opened The Sound Post [ 7 ] [ 8 ] in Evanston, Illinois, to focus on guitars.