NEWS + DEPARTMENTS
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Modern Builder Vault: Pheo Guitars
NEWS
30 iPhone MIDI, Satriani
and Marshall Amps, Obits
DEPARTMENTS
16 Opening Notes
Tom Morello, Elvin Bishop, Stevie Ray
Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt & John Abercrombie
24 Highlights from
The Gear Page
28 Reader Feedback
Gigging + Recording
38 Tone Tips From the Road
Peter Stroud
Recording Session Gear
40 On Track
Rich Tozzoli
Gearing up with Billy Squier
44 Shifting Gear
Rich Eckhardt
Television: the True Final Frontier
46 On Bass
Steve Cook
Live and Let DI
48 Guitar Tracks
Mitch Gallagher
Get Big or Go Home
Tech Tips
50 Acoustic Soundboard
Dick Boak
Size Matters
52 Ask Amp Man
Je; Bober
Tube Amp Troubleshooting 101
54 Mod Garage
Dirk Wacker
Stratocaster Auto-Split Mod
56 Speaker Tone Center
Kurt Prange
Magnetic Circuits
58 Stomp School
Tom Hughes
More Stomp School Q&A
On The
Cover:
‘ 59 burst: 1959 Les Paul sunburst, courtesy
Dave’s Guitar Shop. Photo by Tim Mullally.
Cover design Ben Otis.
36 August Media Preview
Such Hawks, Such Hounds and Woodstock:
3 Days of Peace & Music
168 New Products
Vintage + Upkeep
60 Trash or Treasure
Zachary Fjestad
Baldwin Model C1 Amplifier
62 Restoring an Original
John Brown
National Duolian Resonator, Part 2
64 The Low End
Kevin Borden
The Street: NYC’s Music Row, Part 2
68 Vintage Vault
Dave Rogers, Laun Braithwaite &Tim Mullally
1958 Rickenbacker 330
And Don’t Miss ...
70 The Jazz Box
Jane Miller
Metronome Practice: Tune of the Day
72 Fierce Guitar
Greg Howe
Punchy Legato
74 Signal Chain
Dean Farley
Let’s Get Small
76 Eclectic Guitar
Pat Smith
Your Door to Jazz Guitar?
176 Last Call
John Bohlinger
The Art of Dumb Guitar
Eye Candy
164 Modern Builder Vault
167 Guitar of the Month