With a strong focus on the Australian music scene, Australian Guitar is a rich source of information on playing techniques, styles, the wide range of instruments available and all the technology that guitarists have to consider in the 21st Century.
SOL Republic Amps Air Wireless Earbuds are headphones designed for truly wireless freedom, no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Even during the sweatiest of workouts and the busiest of days, your new Amps Air’s won’t miss a beat. Plus, you won’t pull the laptop off your desk next time you’re engaged in a late-night song-learning experience and throw in an enthusiastic headbang. Wireless audio has plenty of advantages, however very frustrating should a set fall out from your ears. Luckily, the Amps Air’s feature specially designed air grooves that comfortably grip the ear like treads on a tire and allow airflow to reduce sweat build up. With this, there is no need for complicated fit-pieces or ear-hooks that can hurt over time. These earbuds are designed for…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS AN INTERVIEW WITH KRIS PETERSEN Kris Petersen is a name that has become synonymous with the Australian music industry. Taking to stages everywhere from clubs to stadiums, Kris has performed on every continent in the world and shared the stage with some of the world’s greatest artists. With a degree from AIM (Australian Institute of Music) and over 20 years as a professional musician, Kris has toured nationally and internationally with some of the best original, cover and concept acts that Australia has to offer. He was also guitarist and a founding member of the rock band Syndicate and has recently designed a complete guitar tutorial series for the Lick Factory. AN INTERVIEW WITH REMCO MAYER In this video, Steve Flack talks to Remco Mayer about his custom…
It happens to the best of them: you’ll be ripping through the gnarliest solo of your life, dropping the jaws of anybody in a hundred-mile radius when a string snaps and sends the whole show sour. Well, that ends today. 55 years after launching the iconic Slinky range, Ernie Ball are once again revolutionising the guitar with their new Paradigm strings. They’re supposedly indestructible – so much so that even John Petrucci (Dream Theater) went as far as saying, “These are definitely the best-sounding and most durable strings I have ever played.” Sporting the most advanced string technology ever created – a fusion of Ernie Ball’s proprietary Everlast nano-treatment and a breakthrough plasma process that augments resistance to corrosion – Paradigm strings are the first ever to come with a…
With a retail price of $129.99, even the most amateur of local bands can experience premium quality sound reproduction with Audiofly’s AF100 in-ear monitors. Making its first debut at CES last year, the low-profile, high-tech device is finally out in the wild; “we spent a lot of time tweaking the response of this headphone to offer the same characteristics within the soundstage that our higher-spec products have,” says Audiofly CEO Dave Thompson. Ergonomically designed for optimal noise isolation, the AF100 is available in clear or black (as the AF100C) housing with a three-button mic and volume control compatible with iOS and Android-enabled smart devices. Amongst its other features is a state of the art single full-range Microdriver, which delivers sound that’s as clear as it is rich with detail.…
CURRENTLY PLAYING WITH? Simi Lacroix and These Guy. USUALLY FOUND PLAYING? The Foundry, Black Bear Lodge, and other such Fortitude Valley haunts. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PLAYING STYLE? It ranges from warped yacht-rock voice-leading chordal stuff, to overzealous and super pentatonic shredding. FIRST AXE? A Samick Les Paul copy. CURRENT AXE? A Suhr Classic Pro. RIG/PEDALS? Valvetone Concise (AC15 Clone), Xotic SP Compressor, Xotic EP Booster, Wonderlove Envelope Filter, Ibanez TS808 Reissue, Boss DC-2, Strymon El Capistan, and an EHX Holy Grail Neo. SECRET WEAPON? For pure stealth, I would have to say the Xotic EP Booster. It’s one of those pedals that emulates the preamp stage of an old Echoplex unit. It adds a nice, subtle girth to the sound and makes any amp sound better, helping me…
You’ve really gotta hand it to Victorian weather - nowhere else can you witness blistering 40-degree sunshine turn into a subarctic thunderstorm in the span of three minutes. Truly, it is an experience. And speaking of experiences, this year’s two-night, three-day UNIFY Gathering was chock full of them - from CJ McMahon’s return to Thy Art Is Murder (celebrated with a literal bible burning ceremony), to Violent Soho’s meteoric shredfest proving that grunge still has a shot at the mainstream. Pits were moshed, crowds were surfed, and many a tinny was slammed. Here are a few of the moments we treasured most at UNIFY ’17! 2017: A MOSH ODDYSEY As cliché as it feels to say, we feel confident in saying it: 2017 is the year of the small band…
