We all know Joe Satriani as a learned and expert guitar player – but he’s also sage in the field of guitar tone.
Frankfurt 2009: Latest blog posts
Video: Joe Satriani on his Vox Satchurator distortion
Frankfurt 09 gallery: Musikmesse in pictures
While much of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 was caught on video, sometimes it’s a single picture that can paint a thousand words. So here’s an entire book’s worth: a gallery of gear, rock stars and, er… pizza.
Frankfurt Musikmesse 09: day four highlights
Our Frankfurt-based reporters are back in Blighty, and they’ve brought back the highlights from the final day of Musikmesse 2009.
Frankfurt Musikmesse 09: day three highlights
Welcome to day three of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009! After a sleepless night of video editing and over-peppered pizza (don’t ask) we’ve managed another glorious lap of the show floor.
The sexiest Fender Custom Shop gear at Frankfurt Musikmesse 09
Despite new Fender products being somewhat thin on the ground at the show this year, the Custom Shop collection on display is as drool-worthy as ever. Earlier today, while I stood gazing in awe and wonder like the world’s poorest kid in an extremely voluminous confectionary emporium, Mike G got snappier than several crocodiles enjoying a rudimentary card game.
Exclusive video: Joe Satriani on Vox signature pedals and Chickenfoot
As some of you will hopefully have seen from our constant barrage of Tweets, Team Radar spent most of Day Three of Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 with our old friend, Mr Joe Satriani. The first part of the afternoon was alongside the rest of the baying press hoards, filming Joe’s extensive walkthrough of his new Vox signature pedal range.
Exclusive gear demo: Yamaha’s new NX series nylon string acoustics
As we reported earlier, Yamaha’s new NX range of nylon string acoustics is confounding more than a few people expecting a traditional approach. We hooked up with Guitar Product Manager Julian Ward to get a preview of the series, concentrating on the NTX900 and the NCX900 and came away massively impressed.
5 more unmissable gear demos from Frankfurt 09
MusicRadar’s Frankfurt-based colleagues have been up all night… editing video.
Video: Akai’s new MPD18 and Miniak synth in action at Frankfurt 09
Hall 5 here in extremely sunny Frankfurt is a treasure trove of tech goodness. We took the chance to hook up with the good folks at Akai who gave us the skinny on their hottest new products for Musikmesse 2009: the MPD18 USB pad controller and the Miniak virtual analogue synth. Check out the vocoder action on that!
BLOG: What year is it?
A few words on the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 from Guitarist magazine’s
reviews editor, Dave Burrluck.
Exclusive: Joe Satriani talks Vox signature pedals and Chickenfoot
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