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Tonerider Vintage Plus through Ceriatone DC30 – Nice!
Nov 17, 2008 Tonerider Vintage Plus Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Australian guitarist, sound engineer and instructor Tim Dutton uses Vintage Plus pickups to good effect in this video. Enjoy!
Performing Musician (UK) Reviews
Aug 18, 2008 Tonerider News Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
The latest issue of Performing Musician Magazine in the UK features our hottest strats – Pure Vintage and Classic Blues. Performing musician says “The Tonerider range of pickups appears to offer similar build quality and performance to some of the high-end, US-made boutique pickups, but at a very affordable price.” Download the Full review (Adobe Acrobat required)
The Angels REUNITED!
Jun 20, 2008 Tonerider News Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Iconic Australian Rock Band The Angels have reunited as the original line-up of Doc Neeson (Lead Vocals), John Brewster (Rhythm Guitar, b/v), Rick Brewster (Lead guitar), Chris Bailey (Bass,) and Graham “Buzz” Bidstrup (Drums) … The Angels.
John is using a New Australian Made Redback F2 equipped with Tonerider Generator Pickups
Redback Guitars at the Brisbane Guitar Amp & Vintage Show
Jun 4, 2008 Tonerider News Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Redback Guitars Australia exhibited for the first time at the Brisbane Guitar Amp & Vintage show. The stand was popular with around 100 T-shirts given away and the chance to win a Redback F1, equipped with Tonerider Pickups. Stay tuned, the winner will be announced shortly. Check the pics.
Brisbane Guitar Show. May 31 – June 1.
May 19, 2008 Tonerider News Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Redback Guitars equipped with Tonerider Pickups will be on display and available for you to play at the Brisbane Guitar Amp and Vintage Show. May 31 and June 1, 2008. Brisbane City Hall.
So come a long and checkout Redback Guitars with Tonerider Generator, Rocksong, Rebel 90 and Classic Blues Pickups.
Truth Corroded releases ‘Upon the Warlords Crawl’
May 15, 2008 Tonerider News Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Truth Corrodeds new album ‘Upon The Warlords Crawl’ is available now in all good stores Australia wide, so if you thought that the bands first song to be posted on myspace ‘Decimate’ was devastating, then prepare for an onslaught!!
The bands strongest recording from its most formidable line up, ‘Warlords’ is dark and extreme thrash that will appeal to fans of late eighties/early nineties bands such as Slayer, Testament, Sepultura and Dark Angel as to fans of bands such as Lamb Of God and Chimaira.
From the neck snapping ‘Crown The Apocalypse’ and ‘We Are Failed’ to the Neurosis inspired darkness of ‘Buried Alive By Demons’ and ‘Despair Your Black Earth’, the album backs up its confronting lyrical stance with sheer devastating thrash that will slay your neck and declare total war on the sounds of the weak – Truth Corroded are ready to battle!
Guitarist Corey Grieve now using Tonerider Generator pickups in his Ibanez RGT42.
Tonerider Pickups now available on Whittaker Guitars
May 1, 2008 Tonerider News Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Whittaker Guitars build just a small number of guitars each year.
Each instrument is different, – no two are alike. Each is designed in collaboration with the customer, with a specific concept or theme in mind, with the aim of creating a guitar with a strong personality bound up in its appearance, materials, sound and feel. – An alternative to the ubiquitous production-line F’s and G’s. – An individual.
If you’re a player with a few guitars under your belt, there comes a time when you lust for a guitar that is special. Yours. It’s the one where everything is how you like it… just that little extra fretboard width to accommodate your fat fingertips… that honky flash of gold and abalone… that shape and colour that you just can’t get off the shelf.
Now Tonerider Pickups are an option on all custom designs.
Tonerider Launches Strat Pickups for Lefty’s
Apr 16, 2008 Tonerider News, Tonerider Pure Vintage Leave a comment
Posted by Steve
Building on the success of its vintage-improved Alnico pickup series for Strat-type guitars, Tonerider introduces a new left-handed version of its best-selling Pure Vintage (TRS1). Production of the LH pickup has commenced and will be available in dealer stores and distributors in mid-May. The list price is $135.00 US dollars per set.
Finding high-quality pickups with left-handed magnet staggers has always been hard, but the Pure Vintage LH goes further than just switching around the pole piece lengths. Andrew Cunningham, one of
Tonerider’s founders and its chief pickup designer explains more: “It’s necessary for us to introduce “lefty” models because we aren’t just putting different length pole pieces into the pickup and calling it a “stagger”. Across the range of positions (neck, mid and bridge), Tonerider magnets might be charged stronger in the bass position and demagnetized slightly in the treble position, and, in the case of the bridge pickup, use a mix of two different Alnico grades. Simply put, only with a full “Lefty” can you get 100% of the performance of the design into your tone.”
With the increasing visibility of the Tonerider brand within the pro-musician community, requests from left-handed players have been growing, reaching a groundswell after Tonerider’s launch in the UK market.
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