Guitars, Amps, Reviews, Music from Tony Mckenzie

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Guitars, Amps, Amplifiers, Effects, Fender, Gibson, PRS, Ibanez, Mesa Boogie, Marshall, Egnater, Roland, Splawn, Ceriatone, Kemper, Divided by 13, Dumble, Ground Control, Music, Video and much more - Welcome to tonymckenzie.com

We have spent an inordinate of time updating Tony Mckenzie's website and now included more Reviews, Equipment, Video and advice for musicians than ever before.

NEW Roland GT-100 Review online now.

Check out two fabulous Fender Warmoth Strat combinations
Newest is called 'Blue'  and older is 'Brown'. We hope you like them...
Review of the 'Brown' strat is HERE and review of the 'Blue' strat is HERE

Guitar Amplifiers

Our Guitar Amp Reviews keep on Expanding

The section for guitar amps is growing exponentially and we are please to include reviews and tips on the Triple Rectifier and the Road King II from Mesa Boogie. Our TriAxis area has also had a little updating. There are now reviews of: Engl E670, Splawn Nitro, Egnater Tourmaster, Marshall JTM45 Reissue, Marshall JVM410H, JVM410HJS (Satriani Signature Amp), Ceriatone (Dumble) Clone HRM, Divided by 13, Kemper amp, Marshall 2061X Reissue and cab and more coming online all the time.

Marshall JVM410HJS Joe Satriani Signature amp Inside and Out Review

A new review of this long awaited amp that is used by Joe Satriani. Its the JVM, but not as you know it, with redesigned voicings and a number of major other changes... check it out - its probably what the original should have been.

AFD100 Full review and how to use it online now.
Comments within the review by Santiago Alvarez from Marshall Amplification PLC
I have offered a slight update in green on that review as of a later opinion on this amp.

Check out more on the new Marshall YJM100 review is NOW ONLINE

New REVIEW of the Kemper Profiler Amplifier. Check out this great new product from Kemper - is this a revolution in amplifier design but not as we know it? This amp is now available and reviewed inside and out as we usually look at most amps. Is it a good idea to buy one? Find out now. We're also developing a website where you can contribute and download 'profiles' of amps for general use called www.kemperampprofiles.com This site now has some profiles on there for the Kemper Amp users so if you have profiles you want to put on there then visit the site, see how we do things then email me and I'll put them up there for you.

Another NEW Review is of the Divided by 13 Tube Amp model FTR 37 which is (as you might guess) a 37 Watt handmade amp which is a top end amp. Check it out at Divided by 13 Review on this site.

Guest Reviews

We are developing a section where you can write a review about some equipment you own. Preferably new kit, but does not have to be, we want well written UNBIASED user views about their experiences with the piece of kit they choose. Was it good, bad or plain ugly? Would you buy it again etc. Our standard of review is high, and we may not publish your review, but if you think you have what it takes then contact us via our contact form.

Guitars

Our Guitar Section Includes:

Reviews of Ibanez 7VWH, Fender Custom Strat, an Ibanez Copy made in China, Gibson Spotlight Special Custom Shop, Gibson Les Paul Supreme, Gibson Les Paul Jimmy Page model, PRS Dragon III, Ibanez RG550 and more coming online as we get to write the reviews.

Review of Fender Custom Strat with Warmoth body Fender Custom 3 Body Brown

Review of Fender Custom Strat with Warmoth body Fender Custom 4 Blue Body

Review of Fender Custom Strat 'Blue' with Warmoth and Seymour Duncan 'Antiquity' pickups. Also included 'Super-V' 'Bladerunner' tremolo for the strat. Check this page regularly

Fender Custom Stratocaster 'Blue' review and overview of 'Blue'

Review of 'Bladerunner' tremolo from Super Vee for Fender Strat

Effects and Processors

We have expanded this Effects section too which now includes: Sanyo 'Pedal Juice', Lee Jacksons Fuzzy Finger, Roland GT-Pro, GT-8, GT-10, Digidesigns Eleven Rack, TC Electronics G-System, Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah, Vox 60's Cry Baby wah, Ibanez TS-808 Reissue, Ibanez TS-808 Hand Wired, Hardwire SC2 Tube Screamer, Hardwire DL-8 Delay and the Vox Satchurator with more coming online presently.

The new GT-100 from Roland Boss is now online HERE

Check out the Line6 POD HD500 Review online now HERE

Theres a new kid on the block now reviewed from Roland Corp. called a GR-55 Guitar Synthesiser and that promised to be cool - but was it? - review now online HERE

The Axe-FX II - well we did take a look at that one. But we sold it quickly before we lost some money and were called more names. Check it out Axe-FX-II

Accessories

Our Accessories include the eBand JS-8, Bare Knuckle Pickups and a Metroamp PTP Board for a JTM45 Style amp. Theres a review of David White pickups (remember those?) and Seymour Duncan 'Antiquity' 54 hot pickups coming presently. Also a review of the new 'Bladerunner' tremolo for a strat. More items as we get them...

Video

We updated the video section and have new videos.

Tony also demonstrates many of the pieces of kit that we review here on this site.

Last Video updates were on 14th January 2012 or thereabouts. Theres a divided by 13 amp and Kemper profiling amp video, the YJM100 Marshall amp, The 'Blue' Strat from above and much more coming presently. Always check out the tonymckenzie.com video stuff on Youtube HERE

Marshall YJM100 Amplifier

The YJM100 Marshall amplifier has landed for review.

That's right! The new Marshall YJM100 landed with me on the 28th July 2011. I'm told its one of the first 25 units to be released by the factory (who knows that may well be wrong) and like many guys I was looking forward to reviewing that amp. Did I keep it?

Other input from Santiago Alvarez of Marshall Amplification. A really great contribution from a really great manufacturer - this is the way other manufacturers should do things. The right way!

 YJM100 Review

Marshall AFD100 Amplifier

The AFD100 from Marshall is now reviewed online and you might be surprised at the results... remember theres no bull***t in my reviews - I tell it the way it really is...

Actually this amp was so much anticipated by many guitarists, as well as a complete review, we have developed a complete section under the Marshall menu on the left which go in to many of the new features of this SLASH 'Apetite' Marshall Amp.  Read the review online, watch the videos on this site or at www.youtube.com/tonymckenziecom Comments within the review from Santiago Alvarez from Marshall Amplification PLC here in the UK.
Review updated to later comments by tonymckenzie.com in green.

JVM410H Marshall Amplifier Review online

The JVM410H is a well known Marshall head that's been around for a while and is now commonplace on the second user market. How do they stack up? Find out what we think in the JVM410H review HERE Its interesting to note that the JVM will be Joe Satriani's amp of choice from Marshall... I've already read about Joe hating those red channels... well fancy that - you read it here first! What's more, the new 'Satch' JVM is online reviewed.

Buy Tony Mckenzies Music Online

You can now buy Tony Mckenzie and Alan Bruce's music online from this website and yes we do ship the real deal CD, but may presently offer tracks for digital download from here. But you can buy the tracks from iTunes or on CDbaby or thousands of other places on the internet.

Tony Mckenzie

I would like to welcome you all to my latest offering on the internet for musicians and guitarists who want to be at the cutting edge of technology and I strive to offer the experiences that I have had over the years to help other musicians in the best way I can - short of actually paying you to visit my site :-)

I would like to thank all of the previous visitors that have visited my site over the years since 2000 and welcome you all once again to see what I have been up to. Use those reviews to determine whether a piece of gear is good or bad in my opinion - its likely you would agree with my views - especially after you have bought it - but then of course its too late if it was not what they said in other reviews or simply not for you.

Watch videos showing lots of equipment under review. So check back here and on tony's YouTube tonymckenziecom channel (note no dot).

And don't forget:

Play it LOUD - you KNOW it makes sense.....

Heres a link to Tony's myspace area: MYSPACE if you insist. Theres also a Farcebook (really) but I try and not use that at all because of the overly persistent advertizing in your Face - maybe THATS why its called by that name?

Iif you have a myspace thing going on, go there and make friends..with Tony..  thanks.