LTD: Graphic series

The LTD Graphic Series guitars are in at Davis. I managed to get a closer look yesterday but there was no trying as the packed premises permits no such opportunities. Next time, I guess...

• LTD Graphic series
• Davis GMC
• $1,250 (List for all models)
  

Ibanez: RG2620

I came across this guitar yesterday at Swee Lee (BB showroom). It's a very fresh offering from the manufacturer, if you refer to the online Ibanez Singapore page, it has yet to be updated there. What interested me particularly was that:

• this year, Ibanez pays more attention to the headstock-body finish matching for selected models
• the pickups equipped in selected Prestige models are DiMarzio units, not the DiMarzio IBZ models. For the above-featured guitar, the Tone Zone (B) & Air Norton (N) take care of tonal proceedings
  

I managed to plug it in to hear the tonal offerings & those DiMarzios in there are quite the works for fans of smooth, driven tones.

What: Ibanez RG2620 (revived with revisions after being removed from the catalogues in 2008)
How much: $2,570 (list)
Where: Swee Lee Co.

NDP theme song 2009

WHAT DO YOU SEE (Electrico)

Here's this year's National Day theme song; I have my utmost dedication to my country but this number's rather forgetable... More importantly, this year, the song feature s a band (finally, we get to see some instruments being played...), as oppossed to some hyped up individual putting up a brave front to propel patriotism.

No chaining allowed!!

I was recently asked if it was true some pedals do not accommodate daisy-chain powering. A simple answer would be reading the label above. The pedal featured here is EHX's NANO Muff.

In addition to case-by-case considerations, pedals of different voltage requirements also do not accept this power source as well, for instance: Ibanez Tube King (12V)+ BOSS CS9 (9V) = NO!

Before some irreversible frying takes place on your pedal board, do check your pedals' voltage specs, ya?

Sarke: Vorunah

Sarke, is the drummer of TULUS/ KHOLD. Tulus, especially, is the forerunner of mid-paced black metal; no rushing necessary. Of late, the latter bands have been rather inactive & as it is with musicians in general, they possess this reservoir of ideas waiting to over-flow should the containment be unchecked. With the assistance of Dark Throne's Nocturno Culto, Vorunah was incarnated.

What can you expect from two of the most formidable minds in black metal? Nothing that refreshing, really, it's another serving of grizzly guitar-laden music with lots of doom overtones. This, to the BM purists, is essential listening. To the rest of us, we are glad this filler is there

as proof of the purist BM blood still flowing thick.

Emperor: Live at Wacken 2006

Emperor fans (or should I say, cult followers) would jump at every chance in owning the band's post-humous materials & I've gotten myself here the live coverage of the band's 2006 performance at Wacken.

Samoth was still toting his Jackson RR-V, if you need to hear how good the Duncan JB pickup is for distortion work, all you have to do is acquire any post-IX Equilibrium material to hear the tone in action. This also includes Samoth's coverage with Zyklon.

Back then, Ihsahn had already gotten his Ibanez endorsement, in this footage, he's seen playing his Prestige RGT model. I'm still amazed at his ability to sing & grind out the songs' riffs which were not elementary to say the least.