Fender Musical Instruments Corp. and Mad Catz, the official third-party developer of Rock Band, peripherals and accessories, have come together to co-develop a full-scale, wooden Stratocaster replica controller to be used in Harmonix Music Systems’ wildly-successful Rock Band video games.
The controller will be the only wooden replica controller compatible with the Xbox gaming platform and [...]
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Fender have just showcased two brand new members of their ‘modified vintage’ series. Among the three matinees in this series is the Fender Deluxe VM…
This combo has arguably taken its influences from the Vibro Champ XD showing us how well a hybrid valve vs. solid state set-up can work. With two 12AX7 tubes in the [...]
Here we have another signature model, this time a collaboration between Fender and Jimmy Eat World’s axeman Jim Adkins was created after Adkins challenged Fender to build his perfect guitar, the result is a semi-hollow body telecaster model with soapbar P-90 pickups that has been called Fender Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster Thinline Guitar, so let’s [...]
If you are a surf fan and you are reading this you will probably know the California Series acoustic guitars of Fender, if you don’t know it you should take a look at some of the greatest California acoustic models, and you will probably want to know that 2 new models have been released of [...]
Fender is very active lately with its signature products having released models for David Gilmour, Billy Corgan and now Kenny Wayne Shepherd, who started playing a Stratocaster many years ago. The Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster Guitar is based on a 1961 Strato owned by Sheperd which can be heard in many of its recordings, [...]
This is not exactly a new product, although it will be, but I found interesting to see, specially for the Yngwie fans, that Fender has added more info than the coming soon label that is in the Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster micro-site.
This tribute guitar looks like an aged model, well looking deeply it [...]
Fender is very active lately and another product that has introduced is the Fender Princeton Reverb Amp a reissued all-tube model based on the Blackface version (the first one, introduced in 1964). A small amp, in size and power, which the main differences between this and the original version are the rectifier tube, the tube [...]
Another guitar today, this one from Fender that makes bigger its signature line with a model designed with Gilmour (and his guitar tech) and based on the Black Strat that the Pink Floyd guitar player has been using from 1970 and that appears in most of his albums. The Fender David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster Guitar [...]
We come back, after a long hiatus, with one of the most surprising models released during the Summer NAMM show is the Fender Billy Corgan Signature Stratocaster, developed by Fender and the frontman of the recently-regrouped Smashing Pumpkins. The guitar includes almost all the specifications of an American Fender but with some improvements made by [...]
Another artist that joins Fender with his own signature guitar and although there were some rumors in the past months, it was last week when the guitar was officially released, a model, the Fender Elvis Costello Jazzmaster, that I must say that looks really good, that has been based on the guitar once, at least [...]
