contents JANUARY 2012 ISSUE 106
in association with Elixir Strings
Extending your tone life like no other string.™
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INTRO 3 Editorial - VIDEO
Tim the Ed welcomes you. 4 Shopping List Shure headphones, Killswitch Engage Lick Library tution DVDs and plenty more… 8 Dr Demo
Touché Amoré
Dr Fonda, Bluehand, Peyton Place, Hot Vestry. 12 Competitions Win signed Metallica Merch!! 20 Win a Vintage Guitar Autoson snatch the prize this month…
REVIEWED 24 Vintage V4 Tony Butler Signature bass - VIDEO
26 Eventide Space Reverb - VIDEO 28 Tanglewood T6 Acoustic combo - VIDEO 30 Fender Modern Player Jaguar guitar - VIDEO 32 AKG WMS 40 wireless system 34 Blue Mics Yeti Pro USB microphone 36 Blackstar HT Club 50 amp 38 Boss RC-30 Loop Station - VIDEO 44 Plug-Ins: IK Multimedia iRig MIDI interface
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Fender Jaguar
ARTISTS 48 Frank Turner
The UK’s fast rising star on his first stadium headline show. 52 Touché Amoré Post-hardcore upstarts part the seas…
RIFFS
10 Music Apps that should exist How your smartphone could make you a star. 14 Licks & Tips - VIDEO
Hayden Hewitt demonstrates how to boost your picking prowess…
16 Outside the Box P.34 Blue Mics Yeti Pro USB
Country Licks Part 2. Build an arsenal of cool pickin’ licks. 18 Our Favourite Albums of 2011 Brad Barrett picks his recommended listening… 22 Classic Albums How Nirvana & Nevermind tore up the rock rule book… 40 Hot Mod Your Guitar Simon Croft whips out his soldering iron…this won’t hurt. 42 Playmusic Studio Do we still care about new Music? Tin Robot Records’ Pete Briley ponders whether the constant flow of new music stifles new talent?
46 Garageland P.44 6
3www.playmusicpickup.co.uk
The best unsigned talent: Remember you heard it here first!
IK Multimedia iRig MIDI
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