| Guytron Adds New GT20 Combo Guitar Amp to Its Family
Troy, MI, August 22, 2006 --(PR.COM)-- Guytron is pleased to announce the introduction of its new Guytron GT20 Amplifier System. This is not your grandfather's 20 watter, this is a totally new approach. The Guytron GT20 is a feature rich guitar amplifier, based upon the Guytron GT100’s proven, popular, and patented pre-amp technology. Along with some more ground breaking technology to boot. Designed to be a serious musician’s tool, it is perfectly at home anywhere from the Studio, to the big Stage, in the most stringent of stage environments. Naturally, just like its bigger brother, the Guytron GT 100 F/V, it delivers the true "Feel" and "Vibe", of a "cranked amp" so you can really have "Fun" with the GT20 in pretty much any setting, and at any volume from 0 to 20 watts. According to Guytron’s founder and Chief Designer, Guy Hedrick, "If you’re a person who ‘Plays the Amp’ like an instrument, and you're not just playing your guitar through an amp, then chances are you will love the new GT20 from Guytron! If that’s your thing, this amp will do wheelies!" The GT20 features: · Classic Vintage Styling with Versatile Modern Features · Includes "Highly Acclaimed" GT 100 F/V Channel Switching Pre-Amp with Gain, Tone, and Level Controls for Each Channel · Introducing Post Phase Master Volume "Cut" · Introducing all L.E.D.
An 'Idol'-ized songwriter
MELANIE CONNER/ Morgan Grace Practicing at home Move over, Kelly Clarkson: Oregonians have their own "American Idol." And ours actually writes music, plays instruments and sings. Late this summer, 29-year Portlander Morgan Grace won first place in the pop category of "American Idol Underground's" songwriting contest for "The Rules of Dating." The cash prize for her catchy pop tune? A cool $10,000. In her basement practice space, Grace recently spoke about the contest and performed the winning song. How did you hear about the contest? The contest sent a mailer to CD Baby (a Portland-based online music store) asking for independent artists, and I thought, "Oh, that might be cool," and then forgot all about it. A year later, I saw a link for it on MySpace and uploaded my song and forgot about it again.
'Friends of the band'
Narrow the process down to a simple checklist: gather four or five friends; spike their hair and encourage one to (try to) grow a beard; dim the lights and take photos of them in an alley; give the group a catchy name; and most importantly, create a MySpace page.Voila.A band - ready to lure fans, tour, sell merchandise and sign a recording contract - is born. .
Larry Martus | Transcendence
Solo recordings have to overcome extra hurdles in order to maintain listener interest. Single-line instruments like the saxophone tend to have the most difficulty because of their limited timbral range and inability to maintain an independent accompanying line. The piano is naturally the most flexible, allowing independent hands to work, but it also has timbral limitations. The guitar is in betweenit can fake true contrapuntal lines, but it also can change its sound through electronics. With Transcendence, Larry Martus has assembled a beautiful collection of original compositions for solo guitar. For the gearheads out there (meaning most electric guitar players of any stripe), a lot of different equipment was used in this recording. Martus lists a 1967 Gibson ES-335, a 1968 Fender Pro Reverb, and an old Fender Stratocaster (with modified electronics, of course) coupled with a 1956 (!) Fender Tremolux and a Roland JC-120 amplifier.
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