Now you can own an affordable GIBSON, so replace your GIBSUN now :)

A few days ago while visiting a department for work-related problem, a friend in that department hushing me to his workstation.

"Look at this..." he said. Pointing to a Japanese website selling music instruments.

"I just bought this a few minutes ago." He continued. The guitar below... Ain't that a beauty?

That is a GIBSON SGJ. Guitar cost with shipping from Japan and expecting 10% tax is about RM2,200 ONLY.

A GIBSUN (a fake GIBSON with GIBSON decal... I named it as GIBSUN) sells between RM1,000 to RM1,800 in Malaysia. And you will get all sorts of problem since they are cheapos selling just about RM300 in China.

Add a few hundreds and you'll have an authentic GIBSON. Of course la, it is an entry level GIBSON. It is still better than a fake Slash GIBSUN LP.

Look at this which is about the same total price... a GIBSON LPJ.

Replace your GIBSUN to an original USA-made GIBSON, now.

Go to this website to purchase http://www.kurosawagakki.com/

Gear Acquisition Syndrome: Buy original GIBSON

Somebody says not everybody can afford a RM15K guitar. Well, GIBSON has a full range of guitars up to the lowest stripped version at RM2K. BTW, it was NEVER the intention of GIBSON to sell a RM15K to everybody. It was intended for people who can afford it!

There are too many pirated/fake GIBSON around. While some of the sellers mentioned the guitar as a COPY (they don't have the guts to write it as PIRATED/FAKE), they are some others who deceivingly portrayed their guitars as original!

If you love the brand then support the brand. If you think it is too expensive, then plan your budget properly. Until you own the real stuff, fake/pirated GIBSON can never fully satisfy you.

Be careful with the fake/pirated out there. Hopefully this guide can assist you in owning your 1st GIBSON \m/. And to those sellers who intend to cheat you, may their business bring them eternal misery.

THE LINK http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/CounterfeitGibsons.aspx

Nocturno Culto in the studio with GIBSON Les Paul and Explorer. I hope you are not using counterfeit guitars (hehehe). - taken from the The Underground Resistance CD booklet.

Seiras? Persamaan? Kebetulan?

My kind of guitar playing. Londeh and Black GIBSON Les Paul.

Biarlah gambar sebagai bukti argumen.

Al Pitrelli

Al Bentarali

Sila click link pada caption gambar untuk sejarah menyeluruh.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome: GIBSON Les Paul

Semalam status FB saya berbunyi,

Tapi betul la... Les Paul (GIBSON) ini ada hantunya. Selepas pakai model-model GIBSON yang lain (Flying V, Explorer, SG kecuali Firebird), paling berhantu ialah Les Paul. Feelnya susah mau cerita. EDWARDS dan EPIPHONE LP sudah test tapi... isshhhh susah mau cakap. Padan ramai peminat GIBSON LP ni. Dan ramai antara mereka yang obses. Apabila obsesi itu datang, maka terpaksa la di let-go Explorer dan SG saya

Ada beberapa sahabat FB yang juga teruja atas status ini disebabkan adanya kemungkinan saya let-go gitar Explorer dan SG saya. Ada yang bertanya berapa harga mau tolak? Mereka tidak memahami perkataan "Apabila...". Maksudnya, belum lagi. Dan mungkin lama lagi.

Untuk obses dengan GIBSON LP anda memerlukan $$$$ kaching! yang bukan sikit.

Walaupun begitu, saya terus membeli-belah cermin (window shopping), seperti selalunya keadaan apabila perasaan obses itu datang. Saya mendapati LP berikut sangat menjejehkan air liur.

 Gibson Les Paul '70s Tribute Electric Guitar

Gibson Les Paul Studio Deluxe II '60s Neck Flame Top Electric Guitar Caramel Burst

Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro II '60s Neck Electric Guitar Alpine White Gold

Kemudian saya cepat ditegur oleh isteri. Kalau membeli-belah cermin pada waktu duit tiada, tidak mengapa. Kalau ada duit, itu yang bahaya.

Cepat-cepat saya menutup notebook dan mengakhiri aktiviti membeli-belah cermin sambil beristighfar. Ini adalah ujian dunia.

Mana pilihan anda dari tiga di atas?

EDWARDS sudah pergi

Akhirnya terjual juga gitar EDWARDS. Dijual dengan hati yang berat kerana bukan saja kualiti gitar EDWARDS adalah tinggi tetapi gitar jenis Les Paul ini memang cantik!

Yang melegakan hati ialah pembelinya jenis yang cermat dan juga kawan lama. Abang Zahrul (SCUM).

Moga berbahagia dengan tuan baru. Muahss!

Spec gitar SINI. Tinggallah saya dan keluarga GIBSON saya.

SOLD: EDWARDS E-LP-92CD guitar & SPECTOR Legend 6 Bass

softcase included!

Please go to this link for more pix and info: SOLD!!!

hardcase included!

Please go to this link for more pix and info: SOLD!







Reason for sale?

Fund to buy THIS!!!

Les Paul Classic Custom

SPECTOR Legend 6 bass sudah sampai now FOR SALE!

Yeaaa... dapat (beli) gitar baru!

Stail entry nak ciplak style Dead Eye Guitars heheh...

Features

• NS body
• Quilted maple top
• 3-piece rock maple bolt-on neck
• 35" scale
• 24-fret rosewood fingerboard
• Deluxe cast bridge
• Black hardware
• High-impedance, passive, USA EMG-SSD pickups
• Spector Tone Pump Jr.
• 2 -band active tone circuit

From the moment that musicians first were introduced to the revolutionary design and unique sound of the SPECTOR NS-Bass® in 1977, the guitars and basses designed by Stuart Spector and his small band of talented craftsmen have set the standard for quality, comfort, playability and that distinctive tonal quality best described as "THE SPECTOR® TONE".

ELECTRONICS
TONE CIRCUIT:	SPECTOR® TonePump Jr.™
CIRCUIT TYPE:	9-Volt Active - bass and treble
BRIDGE PICKUP:	EMG SSD™
NECK PICKUPS:	EMG SSD™
PICKUP TYPE:	Passive - Dual Coil
Designed for us by EMG®, The SSD™ (for Stuart Spector Designs) Pickups have a little more midrange than EMG-HZ™ passive humbuckers.

The construction materials are professional quality, from three-piece maple necks.

NECK	HARDWARE
NECK CONSTRUCTION: 3-Piece Maple FINGERBOARD: Rosewood NUMBER OF FRETS: 24 SCALE LENGTH: 35" RADIUS: 16" NECK INLAYS: Pearl Dot WIDTH AT NUT: 2.18" STRING SPACING AT BRIDGE: 0.66" TRUSS HEX KEY SIZE: 4mm	COLOR: Black BRIDGE: SPECTOR® Die Cast Locking Bridge BRIDGE HEX KEY SIZE: 2mm

eature the NS-Bass™ Shape and have a slight body contour, but are not fully carved like the original NS-Body Basses™
BODY CONSTRUCTION:	Maple
TOP:	Genuine Quilt Maple
COLOR OPTIONS:	3 Stain Options
FINISH OPTIONS:	High Gloss

The Korean factory was opened in 1986.  Since that time our factory has done nothing but improve the quality and value of these, our entry-level basses.  Played by professional musicians everyday, these basses are incredibly well-made using quality materials and components

Backside view heheh...

Look at that wood!

6 strings bass for dummies anyone?

Ibanez PRESTIGE?

Terbeli juga. Apa nak buat. Dah kat US kan?

Ikut sejarah, semua instrumen tak pernah beli masa di Malaysia. Semua beli masa di overseas. GIBSON Flying V (sudah jual), GIBSON Explorer, SX P-bass copy (sudah jual) dan ESP MII (sedang dijual) dibeli semasa saya berada di Australia.

Sekarang Ibanez Prestige pula *sambil geleng kepala manja* (dan elak kena cubit wife). Ih ih ih... (ajuk keluhan Pendekar Mustar Pinang Sebatang Bujang Lapok).

Tak sabar menunggu sampai pakej hehehe...

Gitar JACKSON Signature untuk Scott Ian

Bentuk aku tak minat. Tapi untuk orang lain, mungkin meleleh air liur menengoknya.

Jackson now honors the longtime ANTHRAX axeman with the Jackson Select Series Scott Ian T-1000 Soloist model.

Designed by Ian himself and acclaimed master builder Mike Shannon, the neck-through-body guitar is based on Ian's '87 Soloist (the one with the New York Yankees logo on it). It has a super-sized mahogany Soloist body with 1/8-inch maple top and Quicksilver finish, and it comes in single and double humbucking pickup configurations.

Features include an oil-finished maple neck, compound radius ebony fingerboard (12- to 16-inch) with 24 jumbo frets and "High Boltage" lightning bolt inlays designed by Shepard Fairey, Ivoroid neck and headstock binding, Seymour Duncan Scott Ian El Diablo bridge pickup and Seymour Duncan '59 neck pickup (two-pickup model only), original Floyd Rose bridge (two-pickup model only) or TonePros Tunamatic bridge (single-pickup model only), black hardware, Schaller strap locks and G&G case.

[SUMBER]

Gear Acquisition Syndrome: SERIUS!

Epiphone Jeff Waters Annihilation-V Electric Guitar Features:

• Body material: mahogany
• Neck material: mahogany
• Neck shape: 1960s SlimTaper "D" profile
• Neck joint: deep-set, glued-in
• Scale length: 24-3/4"
• Fingerboard: phenolic (ebonol), with custom Annihilator Devil inlays
• Neck pickup: Gibson USA JWR Humbucker (4-wire)
• Bridge pickup: Gibson USA JWT Humbucker (4-wire)
• Controls: 3-way pickup selector, master volume with push/pull coil-splitting (both pickups), momentary killbutton
• Pickup selections:
• 1) Neck humbucker
• 2) Bridge humbucker
• 3) Neck/Bridge humbucker
• 4) Neck single-coil
• 5) Bridge single-coil
• 6) Neck/Bridge single-coil
• 7) Neck humbucker/Bridge single-coil
• 8) Neck single-coil/Bridge humbucker
• Frets: 24, medium-jumbo
• Bridge: LockTone Tune-O-Matic/stopbar
• Nut width: 1-11/16" (graphite)
• Hardware: Black
• Machine heads: Grover, 14:1 ratio

Gibson Vampire Blood Moon Explorer Electric Guitar Features:

• Explorer body style
• Swamp ash body
• Set mahogany neck with red Gibson headstock logo
• '50s rounded neck profile
• Rosewood fretboard with red blood drop inlays
• 22 frets
• Gibson Powerbucker active neck and bridge humbuckers
• 3-way pickup selector with red tip
• 2 Volume/1 Tone control
• Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo
• Black chrome tuners
• Black chrome hardware
• Explorer hardshell case

B.C. Rich Stealth Pro Electric Guitar Features:

• SC body
• Mahogany body
• 24-5/8" scale
• Neck-thru construction
• Maple neck
• Ebony fretboard
• Thin C neck shape
• 24 jumbo frets
• 1-11/16" nut width
• 16" fretboard radius
• Floyd Rose Original tremolo bridge
• EMG-81 bridge pickup
• EMG-85 neck pickup
• Grover Mini-Rotomatic tuners
• Black hardware
• 1 volume control
• 3-way pickup selector
• Satin finish

Signature guitars: MEGADETH vs METALLICA

Membeli gitar-gitar berikut tidak bermakna anda akan jadi hebat seperti gitaris itu. Cuma ia menandakan (pilih mana yang sesuai):

a. Anda banyak duit lebih

b. Anda suka berangan hendak menjadi seperti gitaris itu dan membelinya adalah pre-requisite untuk mencapai matlamat tersebut.

c. Anda membelinya dengan harapan satu hari nanti gitaris tersebut menjadi lagenda dunia dan gitar itu melonjak harganya sebanyak 5 kali ganda (investment).

d. Anda memang ada fetishm terhadap apa-apa yang dikeluarkan atas nama gitaris tersebut (hatta jika ada seluar dalam brand gitaris itu pun anda akan tetap membelinya).


DAVE MUSTAINE Signature Series Dean Guitars

 DEAN GUITARS

 METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD And KIRK HAMMETT Signature Guitars

ESP tapi takde jumpa pula dalam website ni.

Mana satu pilihan hati?

B. C. Rich Stealth

Semenjak dua menjak mendengar album DEATH, menulis artikel pendek tentang DEATH untuk buku tentang Metal (ooopss!)... DAN jamming lagu Spiritual Healing, bila tengok gitar Stealth ni je, jadi meleleh air liur.

Stealth Chuck Schuldiner Tribute

With great care, we have designed a Stealth that can proudly represent Chuck Schuldiner's legacy and indelible mark on guitarists. Now it's your turn to pay tribute to a legend.

Key Features

• Construction: Neck Through
• Body Wood: Alder
• Pickups: Dimarzio ® X2N

POD HD500 Metal sound samples

Hurriedly done.And I am no expert in sound technicality. I wish I could do better with the enhanced digital sound by Line6. Anyway, comments are appreciated!

The riffs are taken from the song Spiritual Healing (DEATH).




POD HD500 Metal sound 1 by Bentara

POD HD500 Metal sound 2 by Bentara

POD HD500 Metal sound 3 by Bentara

POD HD500 Metal sound 4 by Bentara

POD HD500 Metal sound 5 by Bentara

POD HD500 Metal sound 6 by Bentara

Kes TERBELI - Line 6 POD HD500

"Terbeli" ketika "terjalan" di CK Music.

EPIPHOHE Annihilation-V guitar... meleleh...

Meleleh...

Jeff Waters “Annihilation-V”

As one of the heaviest metal men ever to burst out of Canada and North America, and a major force in Europe and Asia for many years, Jeff Waters is not only the hot guitarist at the center of the band Annihilator, he virtually is Annihilator. Ranked an impressive #3 in Joel McCiver’s 2009 book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists, Waters also lays down the band’s bass parts (hiring pros to cover touring duties), is the band’s chief producer, and covered lead vocal duties between 1994-97. In short, Waters, lives, breathes and eats metal—and when he really wants to rock, he straps on an Epiphone, namely the new Jeff Waters “Annihilation-V” signature model, a guitar primed for total destruction.

Bred to Shred
It all starts with the wood, and the Jeff Waters “Annihilation-V” is born out of select mahogany, long tonewood of choice of countless metal players. Its body is made from solid mahogany in the radical Flying V shape that Jeff prefers, while its neck is carved from another piece of solid mahogany and glued in with a deep-set Flying V neck joint for unparalleled upper fret access. A “D” profiled SlimTaper™ neck combines comfort with the lightning fast speed, while a 24-fret phenolic fingerboard offers an ultra smooth, resonant and durable surface for all your shredding action.

p/s: Jeff Waters ni memang shredder hebat tapi entah kenapa band ANNIHILATOR dia tak berapa melekat dalam kepala.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome: GIBSON Firebird

Ataupun dipendekkan sebagai GAS.

Soalan yang selalu ditanya ialah WHAT ARE YOU GASSING FOR?

Well, below...

What a beaut!!! Nasib baik warna putih ada mass-produced. Kalau tak, pengsan la nak cari yang vintage.

There is no mistaking a Firebird V—with its unique "reversed" zig-zag body design and equally distinct headstock, it is simply one of the most recognizable of all guitar profiles. First introduced in 1963, the Gibson Firebird was the brainchild of legendary automotive designer and visionary Ray Dietrich (Lincoln, Packard), enlisted by Gibson to bolster the guitar lines of the early '60s and help solidify the company's eminent rank among solidbody electric guitar manufacturers. Dietrich's unconventional design was based loosely on both the legendary automobile tailfins of the 1950s and the Gibson Explorer, which had been introduced several years earlier.

Siapa sama dengan aku kata "Ini gitar bentuk sangat YUMMY!"?

More info http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Firebird/Gibson-USA/Firebird-V/Overview.aspx

Gear Acquisition Syndrome: Main pijak-pijak

VOX Tonelab LE

DIGITECH RP1000




BOSS GT10

Kasi komen sikit kalau ada pengalaman...


selingan... juara video gitar untuk Facebook Gitaris Nusantara

Gitar CAPARISON Dellinger II SE

eh... ada kawan review gitar dia baru beli. Read on!

Nak gambar lagi besar, kasi klik kat gambar!

Brand: Caparison
Model: Dellinger II SE

Body: Mahogany
Neck: Maple
Fretboard: Ebony
Neck grip: Caparison
Bridge: Schaller FRT II (floating)
Pickups: Caparison PH.
Others: Push-push switch on Tone knob (no... it is not typo... it is really push-push switch)

Playbility:

walaupun aku suka neck yg nipis2 mcm wizard neck Ibanez... tapi aku masih lagi selesa dengan neck ni. neck dia tebal... tapi ada flat skit kat blakang tu. tapi flat tu bukan sepanjang2 neck... kat depan (fret 1) mmg lebih flat dari tpt lain... tapi bila kat higher fret... dia akan bulat mcm biasa. tapi kalo diberi pilihan... aku masih lagi suka wizard neck heheee.

fretboard.... ebony... licin... hampir takde urat langsung. memang sedap la running kat fretboard. tak sticky mcm maple & tak kasar mcm rosewood.

gitar ni agak ringan berbanding gtr2 aku yg lain. so... live show mmg best lah. nak hayun2 mcm metal core pun senang.

Soundwise:

aku suka sound yg berat... tapi dlm masa yang sama nak ada bright. so... inilah gitar yg sesuai dgn citarasa tu. bagi aku... mahogany body dia dpt deliver sound yg berat. ebony fretboard dia plak deliver sound yang bright & percussive. berbeza dgn maple fretboard... sound dia bright. ebony punya bright tapi berisi. mid tone gitar ni pun cun... secukup rasa. sebelum ni aku ada jgak try gitar ebony fretboard... mahogany body... tapi caparison ni special lah. maybe gred kayu dia best skit kot. especially ebony... kadang2 cakap ebony tapi rupa mcm rosewood... tone pun rosewood jgak... maybe ebony low grade.

pickup dia plak... hi gain. walaupun clarity dia kurang skit... tapi acceptable. aku tak penah jumpa lagi pickup passive hi gain... dlm masa sama clarity dia best. active pickup lain lah... mcm EMG tu. kalo nak dibandingkan dgn EMG... pickup Caparison PH ni clarity dia tak mcm EMG tapi dia punya creamy / body lagi best dari EMG. push-push switch tu bleh select utk paralel / series. bila switch to paralel... sound dia tak bright sgt mcm pickup2 lain yg aku penah buat paralel. clean sound... mmg best gila la bila pakai paralel... bright + lemak berkrim. bila paralel pun... gain dia takde la drop sgt sampai mcm single coil punya gain.

aduh... malas plak aku nak taip... kalo rajin aku taip lagi lah & review maple neck punya gitar plak... Killer.

Harga:

pasal harga.... ramai plak yg tanya pasal ni. honestly... market price... rm8k tak termasuk shipping. tapi kalo kat jepun... bleh dpt rm6k. malangnya... gitar ni tak dijual direct dari jepun. hanya dijual melalui dealer yg telah dilesenkan sahaja. paling dekat... ostolia... bmusic.com. dia nak kasi gitar ni elit skit... pasal org jepun lebih mengagungkan gitar luar... mcm US, UK...

oleh: aloymetal (VOCIFERATION ETERNITY)