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Peavey Vypyr 75 Bought Musicians center Keighly £280

It features 12amp models, 11 stompboxes, and 11 effects. It's an open back and it's got a 12" blue marvel speaker. It also has a high quality usb port so you can record directly on to you computer and a studio headphone jack. It's the 35mm, so your mp3 headphones will fit. And of course it's got a volume knob which goes up to 13. There's also a power sponge but to my ears is invective at Low volumes.

It most be noted, I've never heard each of the amps themselves so I can't say if the models are spot on, but for what its worth they all sound good. Each amp model has a clean and dirty channel. There's pre-gain, post-gain, lows, mids, and highs. Very customizable.

With the stompboxes, you can tap the "effects" button and determine how much wah or overdrive you want in your sound. Again, very customizable.

The amp also has 12 preset channels, so if you find a sound you like you can save it.

According to my mate it as a pretty authentic tube sound, way closer than Line 6 pod Farm when put though powered speakers. I don't know how tube it sounds so I am relaying on mate for this information. 

The amp can be updated on-line, thought a MIDI? connection on the back. It does not update though the USB input which I find strange.

The only critizem I can find is the noise gate is a pain in the arse, although Peavey claim there is an update online which fixes this problem.

Overall, this is an excellent amp. I think it is a touch poor that Peavey do not provide a footcontroller or at least offer one at a cheaper price. There are features on the amp   like the looper and wah that can't be used w/o it. For the Sanpera foot controller you're looking at £65 for the Sanpera I and £135 for the Sanpera II

Please feel free to leave question or comments.

Gibson SG Standard, Bought from PMT Leeds Price Paid £880 with a Gibson Hard case.

First things first, the Price at the time of purchase was £1079, but the owner owed me a favor and discounted me £200. I thought I would mention if you went on to PMTs web site and saw the Guitar more expensive.

The body is mahogany slim and extremely comfortably. The paint work is black and the only way I could find to criticize the body is in certain light you can see the sanding marks though the paint. However, Gibson Claim to only use 6 lyres of paint as anything over affects the tonal quality of the guitar. The bridge stop Tail is of high quality along with the bridge. It has a Gibson Humbuker 498 at the bridge along with the Gibson 490 at the neck. It has a three way toggle and volume and tone for each.

The neck is mahogany with a rose wood finger board it has mother of pearl block inlays. It is glued into the body,  also it is bound in cream, the binding also covers the top and bottom of the frets making them ultra smooth, the frets are medium jumbo. The neck is a slim tapper and this along with position to the body makes it inc-readably easy to get around. However, the neck position for some may have drawbacks, which I will come to latter. The headstock is the standard Gibson open book with a mother of pearl logo. The tuners are vintage style tulip heads that are made by Gibson, and are very smooth. It is also well balanced and not  neck heavy, unlike the majority of it competitor's copies.

I play the Gibson through a modeling amp and the bridge is bright in fact at times it can be too bright, especially though a bright sounding amp. Although a rapid EQ adjustment can solve this problem. When it is on a Marshal model it is sublime. Both pick ups respond well, it has the ability to cover all types of music. The action is now set low, however, the set up from factory was astonishingly bad. When I bought the guitar it was part of the sale that it would be professionally set up. I had to book the guitar in with the in store tech. This meant I had it 4 days at home in a factory set up. The intonation was well out, the neck humbuker was loose and the action was just breaking the earth atmosphere. However, an afternoon with the tech and it came back a different guitar. It was near perfect.

Now back to the neck. The guitar has a standard Gibson Scale 24 3\4. The neck is fitted right at the end of the body which means it sticks out. I have had to adjust my playing style to compensate for this. This could I believe put certain people off. If I have played the SG for any amount of time them pick up my RL4 when I change to any thing around the 12th fret I find that I am on the 10th.

All in all the Gibson SG was my dream guitar and I have tried to be critical. There is just something about it, it has MOJO, and this makes me play the guitar better. I can't think of any guitar I could like it to, as there is no other in my opinion. You could gig this guitar no stop for a year and it would still be begging for more.

Comments and questions please.