| Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting "Helping guitarists sound better ... one amp at a time" |
| Last Update 04 MAY 08 |
| Optimized for Internet Explorer |
| The GT Rating System |
| Feel free email me any technical questions you wish ... or just to say hello. When it works my myspace page is HERE You may email me directly by clicking here |
| Welcome to the Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting website. There are hundreds of pages on this site. I cannot even find some of the things I have placed here over the years. This site really does not sell anything. This is here for informational purposes for musicians, tech, and just for folks interested in these sorts of things. Since February of 2002 when I started this site there have been over 2,000,000 unique IP visitors. I stopped counting in March of 2006. I have my own ideas on who I feel are the best vendors, whose amps I feel are the finest out there, and other pieces of info on these sorts of things. I generally try not to "slam" anybody but I will make an exception at times if I feel they are not doing things in the best interest of the player or musician. Feel free to contact me directly if you have a question or if you feel I can help in any way. The information I have posted on this site is what I feel is "public domain". This is "the Internet" and if I put it on this site it is for you do with as you wish. Feel free to copy, paste, link to, post, plagiarize, take credit for, sell, publish, or whatever. There are three great forums where the folks really have helping each other as their top priority rather than bickering. You can find me on these - Dr Z Forum - Carl Verheyen Forum - Music Player (Guitar Player Magazine) Forum. Maybe I will see you over there. In each of these forums I answer questions directly and post various reviews, reports, and spotlight some of the cool new products as the become available. I am the moderator on each of these forums and in each there is a post to ask me technical questions. The posts are usually called either "Feel free to ask Myles" or "ask the experts" or something like that. Have a great day and happy playing! |
| Featured Cool Products - The best of the best This website is informational. I built this site a few years ago to assist musicians. This site is a place I post answers to questions, it is a reference resource, and a place I list products that cross my path which I feel are exceptional. Click on each of the thumbnails here. |
| The best of the best - Straps, Cables, DVD, Guitar Insurance, Distortion Pedals, amp book, Photographer Moody Straps - Which amp or guitar is the best? This is a matter of personal preference. But there are some items that one can qualify as the very best. I may not have the best guitar in the world but I feel I have the best strap. Guitar Magazine seems to agree too. Click on the Moody Leather logo for a lot more info. One of the best amp books I have ever seen - Dave Hunter's "The Guitar Amp Handbook has things of interest for the entry level reader as well as the most high level experts. Follow the link to Amazon where you can see some of the inside of this book. A real winner. CLICK HERE Cables - I will leave it to you to find a more flexible, more transparent sounding, or less physically microphonic cables anywhere. These are best instrument cables I have ever used. The PJB speaker cables will be a very big surprise for folks that think that all cables are "pretty much the same". The cables from Solid Cable are sonically terrific, have Amphenol ends that are beyond even the Neutrik standard, and many other great features. Click on the PJB cable at the left above for more and the Solid Cables logo above right for more on the two best cable folks on the globe. Best DVD - This is one of the best DVDs I have seen and heard. I guess I can also make the rash statement that the player on this DVD is the best guitarist I have ever heard. Period. Carl Verheyen. If you do not know who Carl Verheyen is, trust me, you hear him just about every day. Read his bio by clicking here. Back to the DVD ... Surprises at every turn in style and tone, tone and style changes in just every song. This is a MUST HAVE DVD for ANY player of guitar or people that want to hear one of the very best writers and performers to craft a song. Click on the DVD above and BUY this. You will thank me. His latest 2007 CD "Take One Step" is also a masterpiece. Tons of interactive bonus material and a workshop on the DVD. MORE HERE Insurance - Heritage is the place to go. The best rates you will find anywhere. Backed by a huge icon in the insurance business. If you can find an exclusion I will be amazed short of an act of war. Theft, damage, loss, and even loss or damage when your instrument is in somebody else's care or automobile. The rates are too low to consider being without this protection. Click on the icon for more. Killer Pedals - Zendrive! On this one if you click on the icon you just get a bigger photo to see things clearly. For more info CLICK HERE to hit their website. The best pedal I have ever used or heard. Use from a slight drive to pretty darn heavy overdrive. Even at no distortion setting you can shape tone and color. VERY quiet and a master of engineering, design and construction. All the folks in Brad Paisley's and Sara Evans' bands use these. Best Transformers on the planet whether you need a replacement for an original or an upgrade to an existing amp. If you are an amp builder and want the best these are also the folks. Mercury Magnetics Best Photographer - Implied Images - The bottom line here is .... simply "the finest phtographer I have seen". If you need some great shots, an ad campaign, CD artwork, shots for your bio or press kit, this is the guy to contact. For a very small sample of their work CLICK HERE. Best guitar store on the planet - Click on the Fretted Americana icon to the right. There is also more in my great guitar stores section by CLICKING HERE. |
| Ashley is the Director of Artist Relations for Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting More HERE |
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
| I know I will get email on this one. This video is actually the end of the award winning DVD Rumor Mill. The reason this is here is because in my mind Carl Verheyen is the best guitarist I have ever heard. More by CLICKING HERE |
| Promo Video for Barcelona double handed round the world race. There are a number of other videos on my myspace page that are more single handed oriented. There is a bit of an error in the narration here when they say the first solo sailing circumnavigation was in 1969. It was in the late 1890s and is explained on my myspace page. |
| Amp Show - 2005, 2006, 2007 www.ampshow.com for registration form, updates and information Produced by Loni Specter Productions To exhibit contact; Loni@ampshow.com (818) 992-0745 More info at www.ampshow.com |
| CLICK ON EITHER OF THE AMP SHOW LOGOS TO HIT THE AMP SHOW PAGE WITH MANY PHOTOS FROM THE 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 L.A. SHOWS and N.Y. SHOW |
| Last week's website activity Website traffic reports. Here you will find the top 50 most accessed pages on the GAB and SSM websites from the past week. You may also click within the PDF document to see what pages were the most active and go to those pages if desired. At times the top models from SSM have links in this document. CLICK HERE |
| The Pay Pal buttons here are to pay for amp work, consulting, music writing, labor, or just about any work that was done for you where you asked to pay via credit card. This is also the place to pay for my clients with monthly service contracts. Just click the button and then fill out the amount of payment due. You can also use this button if you wish to donate anything to help pay for this website. |
 | |  |
| Click on either the left button below to hit the Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting website or the right button to be directed to the Saunders Stewart Models website. At SSM there are 70 or so models that you might consider for music video work, CD artwork, or anywhere where a great model is required. |
| | |
| For anybody who has ever taken a stab at song writing this may be a bit of fun. Listen to the entire song. CLICK HERE |
| Simply the finest vintage fretted instruments available anywhere. Click on the icon above |
| Best straps on the planet |
| Amazing cables |
| Amazing Amp book for amp folks at every or any level |
| Amazing cables (left) and the world's best distortion pedal (right) |
| One of my favorite shots by Implied Images - one of the most impressive people I have ever met at any age with my favorite guitar |
| The best transformers on the planet |
| Covington Ultimate Tours & Catering Weekend tours to the wine country in Napa and Sonoma Very high end, all inclusive Click on the bottle at the left if you are interested in learning more |
| | |
| | |
| 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
| 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |