Christmas Present of the Year

At Christmas I got one of the best gifts ever! Since the end of 2010 I’ve been a bit obsessed with Nevermore, so I guess it was inevitable that I would start looking for a seven string. One night in december I was halfheartedly browsing some ads on Sweden’s least serious guitar forum (although the best at […]

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Another New Pickup

I bought an SD59 to put in the neck of my Cort a few months ago. To much other stuff to do, so I haven’t mounted it yet. I saw a comment on a forum where someone said it’s a bit bassy and rumbling… We’ll see. Right now I’m actually more into buying another Duncan […]

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Blown Away by AmpKit

AmpKit is an iPhone-app for amp simulation and effects. In short, all you need (short of a chord) to transform you phone into a full-feature digital guitar rig like a POD or Boss GT. You connect your guitar using an adapter that fits into the headset port, like the iRig eller AmpKit Link, and you’re ready […]

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Riffs and the Unconscious

I came up with an awesome riff the other day. Today I recorded it and added some drums and stuff. I suddenly got that feeling, that you’ve heard something before… And it only got stronger. I finally realized the riff was extremely similar to the start of the main riff of Bark at the Moon. […]

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New Pickup

During my vacation it suddenly dawned on me what I should do to reinvigorate my guitars – new pickups of course! Both the Cort and the Ibanez have been equipped with stock pickups all along. I started with the Cort since it presumably has the worst pickups. It’s also the one I’m tuning down so […]

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New Monitors

After playing almost exclusively on headphones I connected my POD to the computer speakers. Not the  most metal setup in the world, but damn it’s more fun playing with the sound into the room. So I got a used pair of these: What a difference! I’ve now realized that my headphones have way to much […]

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A Video!

Involuntary hiatus – again. And when I finally had some free time yesterday the high E string broke, and unfortunately changing strings was a bit too much work to fit into the practice session (ZR bridge). So I’m posting a video a made a month ago instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdKEgYB2MA My first video! I’ve decided I’m going to […]

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Furniture Guitars – Literally

Two months since the last post – busy, me? Oh well: With two kitchen countertops from the IKEA bargain department for about $10 you can build great guitars: More about the project: http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2010/05/numerar-guitars.html Notes: this is not my project, just found it on IKEA Hacker. Also, the term “furniture guitar” is used on Swedish guitar […]

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