Reviews
Reviews are a way of life on this website. Why? Well over the years we have picked up some really great music equipment, guitars, amps accessories and other stuff, but sometimes it just does not do or sound like it should. With costs ever spiraling out of control we check even more carefully and report on the bad stuff. we review and report on the good stuff too!
WhatsNew:
Review of GR-55 from Roland Corp.
6th April 2011
A review of the GR-55 Guitar Synth. Does this thing REALLY stack up where it
matters - on the fretboard? or is it just another revamp of the GR-20? Check it out
HERE its online right now.
Also the YJM100
new amp head from Marshall amps here in the UK... a no holds barred review from
Tony Mckenzie. Input also by Santiago Alvarez from Marshall Amplification.
CurrentNews:
Kemper Profiling Amp Review
1st January 2012
Updated 28th January 2012
I recently bought a Kemper Profiling Amplifier and have reviewed this unit inside and out on tonymckenzie.com - and right from the start this amp sounds good.
check out the review and do yourself a favour - the Kemper Profiling Amp really is something to behold and promises users a new era in guitar amps. But just how good is this amp? Find out on tonymckenzie.com right now.
Check out this review online now .. trust us to look at a revolutionary product in a way that others simply do not.
I updated the review at the end to show how I used the Kemper with an amp and 4 x 12 Marshall cab and include other new info on this great product.
LatestReviews:
Divided by 13 FTR37
January 2nd 2012
I
recently completed with Dan Kelly a review of the Divided by 13 FTR37 top end
tube power amp and it's matched speaker cab. Check that review out
Divided by 13.
Later we took the Divided by 13 amp and profiled it with a Kemper Profiling Amp - check the video out
I also reviewed recently some old favourite pickups and show a demo of David White pickups for the Stratocaster. David passed away some time ago but he left a fantastic legacy if you can find any... Click here for David White Pickups
Reviews
Reviews at tonymckenzie.com
These reviews on these pages can be a gold mine for you.
Often you can read reviews all over the show, in magazines, on websites, on YouTube and many more places. You, like me will get emailed with buckets of offers all the time.
Of course one of the problems is this - that these reviewers all have an ulterior motive for the review. They all get PAID to review equipment and they ALL in one way or another get advertising revenues from the companies they review products for.
One that sticks out a little in the UK is the Guitarist magazine. While its true they do some great reviews - its very rare that they review kit that they don't run advertisements for - check yourself... and they don't do bad reviews of advertisers - and that's a fact.
Well here its different.
On this site the reviews are all of equipment that Tony Mckenzie owns personally, that he has bought (no one gives him anything) and just like you, he has had many disappointing times when the kit simply is not what they said - a great case in point was the Roland GT-8.
If you read the review of something being reviewed on these pages we tell it the way it is - no hype, no lies, no bullsh*t, just the honest truth in a review that tries to cover most aspects of the item and to see if the product really is as good as the manufacturer and others say it is.
In this way these reviews can save you a lot of money - and a lot of time too.
So without messing about... go and read some...
I hope you like them.
PS. Not one manufacturer has ever contested anything written in these reviews... that alone must be telling you something.
