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Line 6 Releases AMPLiFi

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1 part guitar amp, 1 part Bluetooth speaker. I’m intrigued.

AMPLiFi from Line 6:

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Jim Dalrymple has had a review model for a couple weeks and he likes it:

Overall, I loved AMPLIFi, both as a guitarist and from a technology standpoint. The 75 watt version costs $399 and the 150 watt model is $499. This is an amp I’ll be using a lot.

The sacrifice in tone to a cheaper DSP makes me worried about giving up my Marshall tube amp1 but the practical side of having a great Bluetooth speaker and amp in one package sure is tempting.

  1. …that I rarely, if ever, play. ↩

Guitar Teacher 2.0

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Anthony Stauffer, guitar teach to the masses over at StevieSnacks.com, has started a new blog called Guitar Teacher 2.0 where he’s planning to share his story of “running an accidentally successful business.”

In 2007 I started putting free guitar lessons on YouTube. In January 2008 I began selling longer videos. In 2009 I left my job to keep. Today StevieSnacks has been my fulltime job for over 3 years.

This blog is the place where I write about the day-to-day work and decisions involved with running an accidentally successful business.

My work at StevieSnacks is complicated, tedious and extremely nerdy. Sometimes when I have a nerd victory, I need to share it with someone.

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You Built This

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Anthony Stauffer, co-host of The Google Juice, the longest running (that’s not currently running) podcast about anti-internet marketing, is celebrating 4 years of running his online guitar training website Steviesnacks.com. 2 years ago he was able to quit his job and take it full-time. I consider the way he’s built his business to be the model for how to keep your integrity intact while providing for your family through your passions and interests.

I first came across Anthony via the excellent tech/gear/how to podcast he did with Dan Benjamin called The Mixdown. Anthony’s clearly a teacher at heart and his explanations of mic mechanics, audio software, compression, distortion and other topics gave what I’m attempting to do over at SSKTN.com a huge leap forward and it’s not over stating things to say that I wouldn’t be where I’m at with SSKTN if I hadn’t stumbled across The Mixdown and Anthony Stauffer.

When he agreed to be a guest on my interview show, Welcome to the Internet, I was shocked that he’d take the time to chat about his business with me – some random dude from Canada. But talk he did and it has since become the most downloaded episode I’ve recorded to date on SSKTN.com.

Anthony wrote a great article thanking all the people who helped him build Steviesnack.com.

Congratulations Anthony on 4 years of sweet guitar tones and melting people’s faces off.

I’m sure the inclusion of my name on his list of thanks was an administrative error and will be remedied shortly.

United Airlines Breaks Guitars

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This is one of the best parts of the internet. Maybe he won’t get any more help from United in replacing his guitar, but at least a whole bunch more people will hopefully not fly United as a result of writing a song and making a video that gets sent around to a whole bunch of popular websites. The video as currently been viewed over 200,000 times on youtube.

You can read the full story here on Dave Carroll’s website.

Via boingboint.net

It Might Get Loud

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It Might Get Loud

I really hope this will be in a local theatre. Trailer here on Apple’s trailer site.

Update June 22: The Lefsetz Letter reviews It Might Get Loud.

“It Might Get Loud” is a summit meeting between three legendary guitarists, Jack White, the Edge and the aforementioned Mr. Page. They ultimately unite for a confab on a soundstage in Burbank, where they ruminate on where they’re coming from and eventually play a great take on “In My Time Of Dying” and a superfluous, weak “The Weight”. And in between, we go into each of the three’s roots.

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