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D'Addario Launches Jim's Corner YouTube Series​

D'Addario Launches Jim's Corner YouTube Series​
D'Addario's Beginnings: Pat Metheny & Phosphor Bronze | Jim's Corner Ep. #4

A brand-new YouTube series telling the 400-year-old story of the D’Addario family and how they created the world’s largest music accessories company.


This series features Jim D'Addario, Founder and Director of Innovation at D'Addario and Co., sharing his family's remarkable journey from 17th-century Italy to a 21st-century global enterprise.

In the first four episodes, available now, Jim D'Addario takes viewers back to the beginning, from making strings from animal guts, to knotting ukulele wire as a family around the television. Jim recounts the creation of strings that inspired legendary riffs, including one by The Who, the launch of Darco strings, the merger with Martin Guitars and the company’s humble beginnings with his wife, Janet and brother, John. Jim D'Addario's firsthand accounts provide an intimate and personal perspective on the milestones and challenges that shaped D'Addario into the brand it is today.

How D'Addario Invented The Modern Guitar String | Jim's Corner Ep. #1

Kemper and Zilla announce the immediate availability of Zilla 2x12“ guitar cabs loaded with the acclaimed Kemper Kone speaker.

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Featuring a preamp and Dynamic Expansion circuit for punch and attack, plus switchable amp simulations.

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Creed extend their sold-out Summer of ’99 Tour with 23 additional dates.

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A thick, varied take on the silicon Fuzz Face that spans punky, sparkling, and full-spectrum heavy.

Dimensional, thick variations on the silicon Fuzz Face voice. Surprisingly responsive to dynamics at most tube amp’s natural clean/dirty divide. Bass control lends range.

Thins out considerably at lower amp volumes.

$185

McGregor Pedals Classic Fuzz
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Compared to the dynamic germanium Fuzz Face, silicon versions sometimes come off as brutish. And even though they can be sonorously vicious, if dirty-to-clean range and sensitivity to guitar volume attenuation are top priorities, germanium is probably the way to go. The McGregor Classic Fuzz, however, offers ample reminders about the many ways silicon Fuzz Faces can be beastly, sensitive, and sound supreme.

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