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Gear From The Road

by el jefe de la cucina on May 10, 2012

Another cool and unique guitar on the road. This one is at the Music Mill in Manchester, Massachusetts (holy alliteration, Batman) and Joe is the guy to call.

It’s a really cool limited run of the Charvel San Dimas models. It’s called “Primer Fear” and features a matte finished body in grey auto primer. The headstock logo and fretboard inlays are in right yellow.

- Posted from my iPhone.

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Answers to Reader Mail

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Cory, Love the work you do on the demo’s Great playing, Great info. My question is… When using the M13 are you using the compression built in? and if not, what is your choice of compression? My board is pretty small I am using a boutique OD and and M9 and Tuner. I like the [...]

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Christmas Music Anyone?

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If you’re a first time visitor here at The Tone Chef.com, feel free to cruise around at your leisure. If you’re not sure where to go, check: Here, here, and here for some video demos of guitars and amplifiers… Here, here, and here for tracks that I’ve recorded for commercials and such… Here, here, and [...]

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