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We are happy to announce a Reviewer Of The Month (ROTM) contest as a way to thanking everyone contributing to Jemsite's Product Review Program by submitting all those great reviews!!!

The first ROTM will be elected for the month of October 2009 and will be announced on November 10th. The...

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Digitech Whammy

Fun to be had

Review By PrinceAlice

Ease Of Use:	Nothing complicated at all on this pedal, just turn the setting nob to what you want, turn it on, and go crazy! I've been borrowing a friends for the last few months and it's probably one of the easiest effects I've ever used. I don't think there is a real danger of over using this kind of effect
Sound:	The Sound from setting to setting varies a bit, the one octave up whammy sounds awesome, the two octave not so much...The the whammy down one and two octave are great, so is the divebomb! After that comes some more interesting sounds. There is the drop tune which brings your current tuning down one step (which I use more then most of the other effects), then the detune which is buest for a cool chorus kind of sound, and last a ton of harmony settings! To get a Hendrixy tone put the Whammy on the octave up harmony, in your effects chain before the distortion...Very sweet!
Reliability:	I would totally trust this for a gig...It's built like a tank! You just have to remember to turn it off when you're done using it.
Liked about it:	It sounds great, it's easy to use, it's one of the coolest guitar effects out there.
Didn't like:	You can't really chord with any of the settings...But that just comes with pitch altering effects anyway.
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Lace Sensor Gold Pickup Cream

Great pickup - different feel

Review By Spudman

Comments:	I first discovered the Lace pickups when I went to a John Jorgenson clinic in New Orleans. This was before he started playing with Sir Elton. I was floored with the sound from his Strat as I had been a Strat player since the mid 1970s. His guitar wasn't buzzing under the lights either and that got my attention. I had a chance to talk with him and he lined me out on the Lace pickups.
Liked about it:	What I really like about this pickup is many fold. First the fact that it's very quiet in adverse conditions. It doesn't pick up RF much at all so to compare it to a standard Strat pickup it's dead quiet. The next thing I liked was the look. No pole pieces gave the guitar a streamlined fast look and there wasn't tiny bits of metal clinging to the top of the pickup like you'd find with standard pole piece pickups. Probably the most interesting thing is the feel of the pickup. There is noticeably less string pull from the pickup. What that translates to is better string response and sustain....
Didn't like:	It's not that I don't like that sound it's just that it's different than traditional. Its great and awesome tones are had often but the high end shimmer associated with vintage type pickups isn't present with the Lace Gold. It has it's own sound and it's very good and versatile. I found the best pot value to be 500K ohm. It made the pickup come alive.
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Alfred Pantera Guitar Tab Songbook

Cowboys From Hell !!!!

Review By UV-7-BK

Comments:	Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for the onslaught that is PANTERA!!!! This book has a selection from their epic albums Cowboys From Hell and Vulgar Display Of Power. This book shows us why Dimebad Darrell is regarded as an iconic and influential guitarist. Tradgically Dimebag was taken from us, but will live forever in his music!! Nothing can be taken away from Vinnie Pauls solid percussion, Rex Browns underated bass playing and Phil Anselmos vocals or Pantera as a band.....the came, they conquered and they left a legacy of metal!!!
Liked about it:	1 - Any sheet music of Pantera will be of value..almost regardless of your tastes in music! 2 - Great selection of songs 3 - A finer appreciation of Dimebags playing once you have attempted the songs!!
Didn't like:	1 - Unfortunately, i believe the Hal Leonard tab books have the best and clearest print! 2 - Some of the tabs are not 100% correct, although its a great place to start if your a Dime nut!! 3 - The binding on these type of books will eventually deteriorate with heavy use! 4 - The only way a good product could be great would be to have a stack more colour photos!!!
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Ibanez RG1527 Prestige

Awesome(x7)

Review By Timbaline

Sound:	The guitar sounds great. The 7th string adds this really satanic, beautiful, warm tone (that's the only way I can describe it.) You can get a large variety of sounds, you can play anything from death metal to pop to jazz. I don't use any effects at the moment, so my guitar goes straight into my amp (line 6 spider 3) and it sounds beautiful. The stock pickups aren't that great though, I put a dimarzio d-activator set in the guitar and now it sings!
Action, Fit, & Finish:	The guitar was set up very well by Rich from Ibanezrules, I got the silver package. I can abuse the tremolo and it won't go out of tune.
Reliability & Durability:	The guitar holds it tuning very well. The finish is a bit thing, but I like it that way since a thick finish blocks the tone of the guitar.
Liked about it:	amazing neck warm sound looks stunning
Didn't like:	stock pickups
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Boss ML-2

Boss metal core is currently waking up the neighbo

Review By IbanezFreak777

Ease Of Use:	So easy to use even an metal head can figure it out. Low, High,& Dist knob settings need only be at 75% and level adjusted to suit your volume needs and your good to go really.. Hey its a pedal with 4 knobs, if your having issues read the manual or quit playing the guitar :P
Sound:	Obviously the designers of this pedal created it for the new style of metal letting loose on the scene, making use of the lower range of the guitar spectrum, due to 7 and 8 string guitars and the dropped tunings. I plugged into my Mesa Nomad and cranked right up, I could sit in my room and just crunch on all day long. Think of the nicely mastered sound of Disturbed, I can pretty much nail it sound wise, and the soloing capabilities of this pedal is also not to shabby. You can get softer distortion for a more rock blues sound, but in all honesty it doesn't do that job fantasticly. But...
Reliability:	I bought it second hand, and it worked straight out of the box, never had an issue with it, and like all boss pedals, its built like a sumo wrestler.
Liked about it:	Does exactly what its name says it does, built to last, and looks the part for metal.
Didn't like:	Rolling back the settings can give you different distorted tones, but dont buy this if your a rock/blues player, its not the tone for you. Its kinda like a one hit wonder, but it does it well.
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Boss TU-12 Chromatic Tuner

the only tuner you will ever need FOR HOME USE

Review By andrewsfury

Ease Of Use:	this is by far the easiest tuner to use.just slide the blue button to chromatic and the tuner does the rest . each string will be recognized by the tuner.i use it with cables to get more accuracy than the mic.it has lights to tell you if it is sharp or flat, and has a good readable sized gauge.also there is a light for each note to let you know how close you are to the desirable note.
Sound:	as this is a tuner there is no sound and since its not a pedal tuner i have not put it in my chain i use this to set up my guitars mainly.
Reliability:	well mine is about 10 years old i believe and it has never giving me any trouble.as youy may have figured out by now if its made in japan its about as relible as you can get.
Customer Support:	i have never had to deal with boss and should never have to their products speak for themselves japan products that is.
Liked about it:	first off the accuracy is superb the best ive ever used and by far the most compact compared to the huge strobe tuners that only rival the accuracy of this one.i also love the fact that its integrated in its own case that still allows acces to the power supply and the quarter inch jacks , which keeps it well protected at all times.im also loving that i only had to put a small amount of batteries in it due to the fact its not in my signal chain.
Didn't like:	maybe they could put a beeper in it that gets faster beats when your closer to tune so you dont have to look at it so much when setting up a guitar (like a heart beat).and it should hyave came with a power supply how can you sell something so good and have to use batteries instead of power man its 2009 come on they got batteries that last forever.
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