USA guitar magazine gear reviews.

[baron55]

Not the impression they gave me

Interesting. They went out of their way to give me editorial contacts who do reviews and specifically tell me I didn't need to be an advertiser to get a review.

Steve

They told me the exact same thing, about 4 different times.......



Have you sent your amp off for a review yet?

 

[Anonymous]

Not the impression they gave me

Interesting. They went out of their way to give me editorial contacts who do reviews and specifically tell me I didn't need to be an advertiser to get a review.

Steve

They told me the exact same thing, about 4 different times.......



Have you sent your amp off for a review yet?

Nah - and after this thread I'm not too psych'd to do it either. ;-)

I am going to advertise in PG in the Aug online Amp Buyers guide and the regular Aug issue though. Trying to get the amp out there a bit more...

Steve

 

[rlord1974]

Have you sent your amp off for a review yet?

Nah - and after this thread I'm not too psych'd to do it either. ;-)

I think you should. As worthless as the reviews can be, they are great exposure for the products. Plus, if I am reading your above banter correctly, it would cost you nothing - can't say the same for ad space in the magazine....

 

[Anonymous]

Have you sent your amp off for a review yet?

Nah - and after this thread I'm not too psych'd to do it either. ;-)

I think you should. As worthless as the reviews can be, they are great exposure for the products. Plus, if I am reading your above banter correctly, it would cost you nothing - can't say the same for ad space in the magazine....

Yeah, any exposure is good...

Steve

 

[PWE Amplification]

A myriad of exposure is even better!

 

[rlord1974]

 

[Steinmetzify]

You summed it up quite well. They're absolutely worthless. How about when Guitar Player does a "Top 10" style review, and then they assign 4 or 5 of the 10 items an "Editor's Pick' award. Give me a break. What a complete farce.

And, if Michael Molenda uses the word "myriad" one more time, I'm going to stop buying that magazine for good. The guy must use that word about 15 to 20 times in every magazine. Get a dictionary and thesaurus for the love of God!!!

Just pulled the new Guitar Player out of the mailbox....reading through Molenda's rant.....took until the last paragraph, but he said 'myriad' again.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't know about Guitar World, but Guitar Player seems to review quite a few (a myriad?) "boutique" products that aren't advertised in their rag.

Both of those mags are worth the price of admission for their theory lessons alone, although those probably aren't high up on the priority list for those who are more concerned about what gear they have rather than their ability to use it.

SO fuckin on the money dude.

i was gonna say, aside from a few interviews, i skip right to the lessons. but, even those, you rarely have to even dig on the internet to find something similiar, or the exact lesson.

i read them on the shitter, and work my way through them solfeging, or at least try to.

 

[rlord1974]

i read them on the shitter

Too....Much....Information.

Oh wait, maybe not.

Note to self: do not buy used guitar mags from Yeti when listed in the Classifieds.

 

[Anonymous]

who doesn't though!

 

[daver101]

A long time ago I read somewhere that the whole point of magazines is to get you to buy stuff. Any genre of magazine. After I read that, I pretty much found it to be true.

 

[wtdpblake]

Gear reviews will never be an adequate substitute for getting your own hands on the stuff... and while most try not to bias it one way or another, the reviewer is still a person and we all like what we like. One man's Klon is another man's Metal Zone, and so on... That said, magazine reviews can pose a slippery slope for a lot of the bigger print mags. Ultimately, they do want the ad dollars. One practice that I only recent confirmed surprised me a bit. At least one of the glossies will actually send a gear review back to the company prior to publication for... 'review'. It may be for factual errors only or what have you, but that just sounds like trouble waiting to happen. I do still like reading gear reviews, but nothing will ever beat spending time with the guitar/amp/pedal in the flesh and rendering your own opinion.

Blake

 

[snowdog]

I think we should bombard GW & GP in-boxes with this.


I have thought the same thing after reading tons of reviews where they find nothing wrong with anything GW is the worst, GP is a little more honest about it though...they have listed bad fretwork, neck alignment, sharp edges on hardware, intonation problems among other things.

 

[rlord1974]

I think we should bombard GW & GP in-boxes with this.


I have thought the same thing after reading tons of reviews where they find nothing wrong with anything GW is the worst, GP is a little more honest about it though...they have listed bad fretwork, neck alignment, sharp edges on hardware, intonation problems among other things.

I agree - GP's guitar reviews are usually a little more fullsome and honest. It's more that their amp reviews are sad. The most controversial negative comments they make about amps typically involve one or more of the following themes:

* does not come with a footswitch
* cleans might be too clean for some players
* a bit on the pricey side for some working musicians

Of course, there are a "myriad" of ways they communicate the same valuable information....

 

[dr.underhill]

i think ALL the reviews are just wonderful. i think ALL the reviewers are just wonderful. I think ALL the products are just wonderful. and those editor's picks, now those are just wonderful, wonderful.

in the little hokum town i live just outside of they have an annual Yam festival. can't have a festival without a queen, right? well they pick the yam queen based on how many tickets they sell for the festival. hell if i wanted to buy a couple of thousand tickets I could be the fucking yam queen.
don't have to look good (although some do), don't have to have any talent (other than selling tickets), no swimsuit competition- just who sells the most.

you can't support art, and artists by being a toadie to your advertisers. we're talking about folks that work hard for their money, and if you represent yourself as source of info on the tools to make music, and you can't give them the truth- just say so.

 

[dr.underhill]

I think we should bombard GW & GP in-boxes with this.


I have thought the same thing after reading tons of reviews where they find nothing wrong with anything GW is the worst, GP is a little more honest about it though...they have listed bad fretwork, neck alignment, sharp edges on hardware, intonation problems among other things.

I agree - GP's guitar reviews are usually a little more fullsome and honest. It's more that their amp reviews are sad. The most controversial negative comments they make about amps typically involve one or more of the following themes:

* does not come with a footswitch
* cleans might be too clean for some players
* a bit on the pricey side for some working musicians

Of course, there are a "myriad" of ways they communicate the same valuable information....

i'll see your "myriad" and raise you a "plethora"

 

[steve_k]

By the time they review an amp, chances are someone here has already bought and sold one.

Gear Review = FAIL

 

[rlord1974]

 

[snowdog]

Oh, and that Kirkland guy from GW reviews everything with such brown-noser enthusiasm in hopes they will just give him whatever the item for such a glorious review. He comes up with some seriously vague negatives.

 

[Hemi113]

I mainly get them for the myriad of interviews.