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Vox Cooltron Duel Overdrive Effects Pedal Released

Press Release/Harmony Central
The Duel Overdrive provides foot switchable access to two sounds from a trunk-full of classic and modern tones. With separate Gain, Volume and Tone controls, you can set the pedal up with two totally independent overdrive sounds (aptly named OD1 and OD2!) to compliment a clean-bypassed tone. To make it even more flexible, Vox added an assignable (OD1/OD2/both) low-end bass boost function for fat-bottomed overdrive tones.

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Johnson Designs His Dream Strat

Astarnet
When Eric Johnson was offered the chance to create his own Fender Stratocaster guitar model, the longtime Austin musician was thrilled by the prospect. "It kind of blew my mind a little bit," said Johnson in a phone interview last week from his Texas home. "It was something I had never dreamed I would be doing."

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Larkin Not The Only Female Picker At Berklee

Boston Globe
When Patty Larkin went to study guitar at Berklee College of Music in the 1970s, she was the only female guitarist there — a situation that was both intimidating and a bit of a kick in the pants.

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RiffWorks 2 Include Cool New Features

Macworld
New features of RiffWorks 2 include RiffLink, which allows users to collaborate on songs online by downloading someone’s riff, adding to it and uploading the riff back to the repository, all within the application. Another new feature, RiffCaster, offers one-click podcasting capabilities.

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Gales Shows His Guitar Wings

Yes Weekly
People always compare me to Jimi,” Gales says by phone from his hometown of Memphis, “because I’m black and playing amped up music. I do like to let it be known that I am Eric Gales first and foremost. Second of all, it’s the highest compliment in the world being compared t o Jimi.”

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CreamWare Announces Dynatube Plug-ins at MESSE

Sonic Net
CreamWare introduced their Dynatube Guitar Amplifier Plug-Ins at the MESSE 06 show. Creamware says they are following a “quality , not quantity” approach, so the Dynatube package consists of just four amp models – the Dynatube JM (a Marshall JCMTM replica), the Dynatube FT (a Fender TwinTM replica), the Dynatube VX (a Vox AC30TM replica) and the Dynatube MB (a Mesa/Boogie TM Dual Rectifier TM replica).

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Gibson "Greats" At The Ponderosa Stomp

All About Jazz
The roster for the 2006 Ponderosa Stomp reads like a Gibson guitar dream team of rockabilly, blues, R&B, and soul greats.

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Have it Your Way With RKS Guitars

RKS Guitars has a neat little trick up their sleeve with the the Wave Guitar. The Wave guitar comes with interchangeable top shells and pick guards so you can customize your axe each day of the week.

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Summer School For Guitar Players

Mandolin Cafe
AMGuSS, the American Mandolin & Guitar Summer School announces their 21st annual session to be held June 26 to July 2, 2006 on the campus of Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

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Interview: Marc Ribot's Inside Line

All About Jazz
Guitarist/composer Marc Ribot’s played with Elvis Costello, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Wilson Pickett, Anthony Coleman, Don Byron and about a million other musicians. In this interview Mark gives his insight on the guitar life.

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