Best Gear n Gigs Podcasts (2024)

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Our FAVOURITE Acoustic Songs - Guitar Smarts #97 1:01:30

1M ago1:01:30

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Summer is here! And what could be better on a sweet summers day, thank grabbing your acoustic and sitting outside to serenade the world with your favourite tunes. But, which tunes? This week Kiran and Matt reel off their go to acoustic hits to listen to and to play when the t…

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Kiran's Guitar Safari Part 2 - Guitar Smarts #96 54:51

2M ago54:51

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week we are looking at a couple of things, the most popular songs googled by guitarists around the world, and also Kiran takes us through the second part of his recent London Guitar Safari, where he falls for another Strat! Will he buy it? Find out in this …

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The Importance of Ear Training With Damo Lodrick - Guitar Smarts #95 1:00:36

3M ago1:00:36

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! On this episode of the Guitar Smarts podcast, Kiran has tagged in our good friend and previous guest Mr Damo Lodrick to provide some valuable insight on the importance of training your ears. Music is something we experience in many ways, and often we find oursel…

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NEW GEAR From Keeley, Line 6 and GIBSON - Guitar Smarts #94 56:32

4M ago56:32

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! This week we take a look at some of the finest new gear released by some of the biggest names in the industry. Line6 has released a new version of the POD, Keeley have once again innovated with their new drive pedals and Gibson have done exactly what Gibson do, rev…

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Kiran Visits The London GIBSON GARAGE - Guitar Smarts #93 56:19

4M ago56:19

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! On this week’s podcast Kiran recalls his recent visit to the brand new UK Gibson Garage, a guitar store built and operated by Gibson guitars in London’s West End. This new store has got all the Gibson products you could wish to see, and is not just meant to be a high quality …

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NAMM 2024 and Yamaha’s new PACIFICA - Guitar Smarts #92 1:06:00

5M ago1:06:00

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! On this week’s podcast Kiran and Matt are discussing some of the new releases from this years NAMM show in the US. What caught our eye though was Yamaha's re-release of the Pacifica model. Listeners of the show will know that we love the old Pacifica model, which was seminal …

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Celebrating 60 YEARS of Eric Clapton - Guitar Smarts #91 1:09:21

5M ago1:09:21

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are kicking off 2024 by celebrating 60 years of Eric Clapton. Back in October 2023, Eric celebrated 60 years as a professional musician and artist. Arguably one of if not the most celebrated and revered guitarists of all time, it’s hard not to understate his contribution t…

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Ending 2023 With 2 New Guitars! - Guitar Smarts #90 44:04

7M ago44:04

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we have our final episode of 2023. I want to start by thanking each and everyone of you who have joined us and listened to the show throughout the year, it’s really a great pleasure for Kiran and I to share these conversations with you and we have great plans to bri…

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Ian Edwards From Guitar Breaks - Guitar Smarts #89 23:39

7M ago23:39

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we have a short episode for you - shorter than usual at least. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Guitar Breaks founder, Ian Edwards, at the London International Guitar Show in late October. Guitar Breaks are a company that specialise in all-inclusive guitar w…

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The London International Guitar Show 2023 - Guitar Smarts #88 1:00:57

8M ago1:00:57

1:00:57

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Its been a while, but we are finally back! After a few weeks of downtime due to some illnesses, work trips and general business we are finally able to bring to you our first episode from the London International Guitar Show 2023. It was a fantastic show, we met many people, i…

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Kiran & Matt's Desert Island Discs - Guitar Smarts #87 57:19

9M ago57:19

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are here with another episode of the pod, this week Kiran and Matt are talking about their desert island discs. Each of them have chosen the 5 albums that they would be happy to listen to for the rest of eternity, knowing that they could listen to nothing else. Play along,…

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Jam Nights, Custom Guitars & MIDI Rigs - Guitar Smarts #86 46:15

9M ago46:15

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome! This week we dissect a great night playing at Damo Lodrick's local Jam night, where we let loose and rocked out in celebration of Damo's birthday. Matt can't make his mind up about a possible Esquire mod or a new guitar build whilst Kiran feels the need to buy a new …

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Tone Philosophy & The Rigs Of The GODS - Guitar Smarts #85 1:03:23

10M ago1:03:23

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we are grateful for the suggestions of our friends over on the Guitar Geek Hangout page on Facebook. We asked what you might like to hear us talk about, and you spoke! This week we are taking inspiration from our listeners Fred Simpson and Olly Browning who both ask…

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Gig Journeys, Fret Levelling & Lee Anderton - Guitar Smarts #84 1:08:18

10M ago1:08:18

1:08:18

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are back...again! This week we discuss Matt's strange preference for relaxing after a long day gigging, we talk about the careful but accessible method that Matt took to finally level the frets of his much beloved Epiphone Les Paul that has been screaming out for this work…

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Guess the Bass -- Volume 5! 27:25

11M ago27:25

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It's a rare thing for us to have back to back episodes on the same topic, but we couldn't resist. It was time to put Reg through his guessing paces and see if he could get his overall GTB score up. He's been watching the other episodes, and honing his questioning skills. Can he do it this time? He really needs it to get his average up, and Jet's ea…

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Kiran's First Ever "In-Ears" Gig - Guitar Smarts #83 52:31

11M ago52:31

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, We talk about the use of in ear monitors without having a guitar amp on stage following Kirans first ever experience of this. This seems to be the way that a lot of pro gigs are these days so how does that experience play out for a guitarist like Kiran who is only …

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Guess the Bass 4 - Can Reg Do It This Time? 37:30

11M ago37:30

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Another day, another bass to for Reg to try to identify...without seeing it. 20 questions plus 5 guesses is all he gets, as always. Jet answers the questions and plays the bass for him, but can Reg come up with the right questions? Can he do it this time? He's 1 for 3 so far in the series, can he get his average up to 50%? A lovely dinette set, and…

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Gristle King VS D&M Drive . . . Which Is a Better Pedal? 53:44

12M ago53:44

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Overdrive and boost in the same pedal is really useful. Awesome in fact. Being able to switch the order of them is even better. Way better. Having some famous folks associated with the pedal is icing on the cake. Today Jet and Jason compare and contrast 2 different Signature drive/boost pedals, the D&M Drive from Keeley, co-designed and endorsed by…

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The £3000 Guitar Challenge - Guitar Smarts #82 56:19

12M ago56:19

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, we are asking the question, if you had 3000 pounds to spend on a new guitar, what would you buy? We asked our listeners on the Guitar Geek hangout what they would like us to talk about on the podcast, and we had a plethora of excellent suggestions, many of which we…

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All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter Review 1:02:56

12M ago1:02:56

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OK, this one is a trippy, drippy, does-more-than-you-would-think sorta guitar pedal. Jet and Reg take the All-Pedal Macrodose to task with a Huber Krautster II and an Amplified Nation Wonderland Overdrive amp, and the results are fanstastic! It's hard to believe one pedal can create all these sounds. Phasery, filtery, laser-fight goodness . . . the…

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Pedalboard Contenders, Episode 1 57:39

1y ago57:39

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Jet and Reg are at it again, this time with a new pedalboard in their sights. Question is, what to put on it? It's gonna take more than one show to figure that out! But they gotta start somewhere, so it was off to the pedal shelves to find some contenders. Two distortions, a phaser and a polyphonic octave machine with bonus goodies sounds like a gr…

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Are Sire BETTER than Gibson? - Guitar Smarts #81 50:20

1y ago50:20

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are once again back with you for another episode of the podcast. Thanks as always for listening in. This week, we discuss the meteoric rise of the brand Sire, whose star has been lifted by Marcus Miller and Larry Carlton, two of music’s most revered ever session musicians.…

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The BEST Songs with Guitar Effects - Guitar Smarts #80 53:20

1y ago53:20

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the show! This week, we look at some of the best songs in rock history that prominently used guitar effects to punctuate the guitar tone. This episode is accompanied by another great Spotify playlist that you can find in the links below! For links to all our i…

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The Car Collection for Guitar Players! 27:40

1y ago27:40

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The VVCO pedal reviews we've done on Gear 'n Gigs have been some of our favorites. Then Reg had an idea... A parking lot made from VVCO guitar pedals. It took a while, but Jet and his daughter managed to pull it off. A usable, practical floor board of sonic goodness that looks like a Hollywood vehicle reunion. . . the world's first pedal board park…

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Who Needs a Pedalboard? We Review a JAM Multipedal from their Custom Shop! 57:05

1y ago57:05

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If you're into guitar effects, you probably already know that JAM pedals are all hand built and painted in Greece, from top notch components. They are also all analog, with amazing quality and incredible capabilities. Jet and Reggie have a JAM Multipedal in the studio today, with 10...count them, 10 (!) ....of these supreme tone twisting machines b…

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Eric Bibb, Fretwork Anxiety & Luthier Dreams - Guitar Smarts #79 1:06:07

1y ago1:06:07

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! So, recent Eric Bibb gigs, Helix programming Skills for wedding gigs, Fret Dressing Anxiety, Luthiery dreams and much more, this week is a mixed bag conversation of many things but nothing in particular! Hope you enjoy it. For links to all our important stuff, check out our L…

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Which of the Lightweight Bass Heads is the best? 39:35

1y ago39:35

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Jet and Reggie pit 3 heavy hitting but light weight bass amp heads against each other in this low frequency shootout to determine which one steals the show. Will it be the Mesa Boogie Subway D-800, the Aguilar Tone Hammer 500, or the Euphonic Audio iAmp Micro? Each has plenty of volume, with the wattage to move some serious air (the power range for…

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The BEST New Gear from NAMM - Guitar Smarts #78 1:08:22

1y ago1:08:22

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Bluetooth toggle switches and Fancy Pickups, Ibanez making the best guitars and T-Rex spending 8 years to create an echo unit that already existed? This week we are lining up the best in news from NAMM 2023 and telling you what we think about it all! Remember to come and tell…

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Can You Guess the Bass Jet is Playing Before Reggie Does? 24:41

1y ago24:41

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Can Reg finally do it? Can he guess the bass Jet is playing without seeing it in under 20 questions? He's tried a couple of times without any luck, he's listened to himself in frustration afterwards, wishing he'd asked the right questions. Is today the day he pulls it off? We bring another unusual bass guitar to the game for you to guess along with…

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The Big GnG Interview: Taylor Cox of Amplified Nation 1:11:50

1y ago1:11:50

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Jet gets the rare opportunity to interview his favorite amp designer, Taylor Cox, owner and founder of Amplified Nation. With 2 new AN amps in the studio, Jet is fired up about telling you, and showing you, why these are his new "go-go" guitar amplifiers. Taylor tells us about all the amps in his lineup, his build philosophies, his origins in the m…

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The BEST Female Guitarists - Guitar Smarts #77 58:36

1y ago58:36

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome Back! This week on the podcast we are celebrating everything female with a list of our favourite ever female guitarists. Some of the most important contributions in the guitar world have come from incredibly talented and capable women who continue to create and inspir…

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The LATEST Guitar News - Guitar Smarts #76 1:10:10

1y ago1:10:10

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we look at some of the pre-NAMM news nuggets dropped by manufacturers to see what exciting new products and developments are going to soon be available. We also discuss Matt's process upgrading and improving his Les Paul. What have you been up to in the last few wee…

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VVco Ratmobile, Klonmobile and Starsky & Hutch Fuzz Pedal Review 28:12

1+ y ago28:12

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Here comes the fuzz! (and the clean boost) It's a flashback 70's show for Jet and Reg as they check out three of VVco's pedals, all clad in die cast crime fighting costumes. Two Rat style fuzz circuits, one in the ever recognizable Starsky & Hutch Gran Torino, the other in the famous Batmobile from the animated series. As if that wasn't enough for …

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Do EXPENSIVE Guitars Make You PLAY BETTER? - Guitar Smarts #75 1:11:17

1+ y ago1:11:17

1:11:17

Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, we ask ourselves one of the most asked questions in the history of guitar playing - does an expensive guitar make you play better? This may not be as straightforward as you think, an inexpensive guitar setup perfectly will feel better to play than an expensive guit…

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A Big Interview: The Travis Larson Band Release a New Album! 1:53:14

1+ y ago1:53:14

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Our very first guest comes back for another visit, this time to tell us about his band's new album, "The New Exhibit". Three years ago, Travis Larson gave us the pleasure of an exclusive interview, and as it happened it was our very first YouTube video too! Now he returns to give us an update on what he and the band have been up to over those 3 yea…

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What are the BEST Selling Guitars? - Guitar Smarts #74 1:02:06

1+ y ago1:02:06

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, Kiran and Matt take a look at the recently released list of top selling guitars, amps and pedals as released by Reverb.com to see if we could see any interesting surprises. Turns out the list does indeed have some interesting conversation points, but many of us wil…

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Going for the Gold! TTC Electronic’s Limited Edition Chorus Flanger is a Winner! 49:40

1+ y ago49:40

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There is a reason why the TC SCF is a favorite effect for many famous players. It's candy for your ears! Jet and Reg find that it doesn't really sound like other pedals that produce these types of effects, it's definitely its own thing. The guys play a Strat and a Les Paul in stereo and show us what this limited gold edition unit can do. If you lik…

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Guitar Action Lesson #3 - Cutting the NUT - Guitar Smarts #73 1:20:17

1+ y ago1:20:17

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! The final episode of our 3 part journey to fine tuning your guitar action like a pro guitar tech! This week we take a look at what you can do to make sure your top nut is properly installed and setup, how to measure it and how to adjust it. For links to all our important stuf…

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Guitar Action Lesson #2, The BRIDGE - Guitar Smarts #72 1:19:31

1+ y ago1:19:31

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we continue our 3 part look at the best way to fine tune your action on your guitar. Last week Kiran took us on a deep dive through adjusting the truss rod, this is the device in the the guitar neck that allows us to set the relief, or curvature of the next, allowin…

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Cranking Out Classic Tone with the Special Cranker! 36:40

1+ y ago36:40

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Earthquaker always has something tasty up their sleeve. And fans of our show know we like a lot of Earthquaker pedals. Today's box of guitar goodness, the Special Cranker, offers more tone on the bone than you might think. Sure, it's a boost/overdrive sort of an effect...and yet the inspiration and joy that it put through the strings is extremely a…

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Unrecognizable as a Bass Guitar -- Can We Do It? 29:15

1+ y ago29:15

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Time for part three in the Trilogy of Twisting Tone. This time Reg takes the reins and drives his bass guitar into the land of the unknown. Using his newest pedalboard recipe, he's out to add atmosphere, gravitas, and a downright leviathan presence to his 4 string thing. Can he make Jet a believer in his newfound love for wild pedals like the Earth…

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How to Make Your Guitar NOT Sound Like a Guitar--Part 2, The Sequel! 48:34

1+ y ago48:34

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We had to do it! It was so much fun the first time, we had to do another dive into the deep end of tone twisting guitar pedals and techniques to see what atmospheric and amazing sounds we could make with our 6 string counterparts. If you're looking for ways to make your axe sound unearthly, unusual, or un-guitary (its a word), this is another show …

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The MOST Important Guitar Setup SKILL (Guitar Action Lesson #1) - Guitar Smarts #71 1:16:23

1+ y ago1:16:23

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week we discuss recent gigs, a pending rig change for Matt that will open up a plethora of new possibilities, Kiran's new pedal board configuration following his delivery from Santa, and most importantly, Kiran puts his Guitar Tech hat on and talks us throu…

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Love the Look, But the Sound is the Best Part! 34:30

1+ y ago34:30

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VVco, makers of the Delayrean, the Mystery Machine Chorus, and the Ghostbuster Reverb pedals has come through for us again! This time, it's a couple of real Action Heroes, the famous "A-Team" van, and the Bandit's Trans Am from "Smokey and the Bandit". Inside, we have an amazing optical vibe and a killer overdrive that truly take our tones to anoth…

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Guitar Inspiration Medication! Here Comes Something Completely Different... 44:01

1+ y ago44:01

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Guitar is really awesome. Except when you want something different. But you don't necessarily have to go to a another instrument, there are a lot of great ways to get more sounds from your axe! Take inspiration from our experimentation as we try all kinds of methods to change our tones to something more otherworldly, ways that you might be able to …

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The BEST Guitar Playing Habits for 2023 - Guitar Smarts #70 1:08:02

1+ y ago1:08:02

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! This week, we get together for the first time in 2023 to discus various things including what the man in the red jacket and white beard brought us, some near-miss Guitar Safari action from Kiran and of course we talk about the key habits we want to instil in our pl…

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Which is the Best Wah Pedal? 2:04:02

1+ y ago2:04:02

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So many wah pedals, so many choices. Which is our favorite, and which is yours? Jet, Tyler and Jason put 11 pedals to the test in our first ever bracketed competition to determine the best wah! Using a Strat, a Les Paul, and 2 Mesa Boogie amps, the guys take the time to carefully listen and test each pedal. They give 'em the beans, the biscuits, th…

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New Year's RESOLUTIONS - Guitar Smarts #69 1:05:23

1+ y ago1:05:23

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! Welcome to the final episode of the year 2022. This week we are talking about the past year gone by and the new year ahead of us. We think back and talk about he best new gear of 2022, money we have spent, new songs we have learned, Gigs we’ve been to and what we w…

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The Christmas Episode 2022 - Guitar Smarts #68 1:07:28

1+ y ago1:07:28

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Seasons Greetings! We are looking forward to a restful and cosy Christmas this year, and to kick it off we are discussing all the cool new things we want Santa to bring us this Christmas, and that maybe should be on your Christmas list this year too! For links to all our impo…

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Guitar Safari FAIL - Guitar Smarts #67 1:07:39

1+ y ago1:07:39

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Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we close out on our final thoughts from the London 2022 International Guitar show and Kiran laments on a missed opportunity to buy a guitar he connected with just moments before the show closed its doors! Also this week, Kiran gives us his field report, after finall…

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