Dan Sindel Proudly Plays Peterson Tuners

(Apr 23, 2007) An exciting day as Dan Sindel becomes part of the Peterson Tuners family of artists.



After yet another ground breaking introduction at the 07′ Winter NAMM show Dan was instantly inspired by the high quality, innovative use of technology and history of the company !

Dan states: "I am absolutely thrilled to be part of Peterson Tuners "family of artists"... They have an amazing legacy in the music industry and there is not one major act I can think of who throughout the years have not had a Peterson Tuners by their side! The craftsmanship and engineering that goes into their tuners is stunning. My recordings involve lots of different guitars and many different layered tracks and I need the "ultimate system" to keep everything in tune... this is what dreams are made of!"

Who's In Tune?
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Dan Landrum
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Dan Sindel on the "Visual Sound - Workhorse Pony Amp"

"I do not just say this due to the fact that I endorse the amp but this is one of the greatest amps I have ever owned..!
I just love this amp... It makes practicing fun all over again (LOL)!
30 watts of power, all tube/hand wired, beautiful tone, great articulation and very, very loud!!! I am using the Pony extensively on my upcoming CD 'Marching In - A tribute to John Philip Sousa' and the tones I get coupled with Visual Sound's foot pedals are just outstanding and completely inspiring."
Dan Sindel





With names like: Paul Jackson Jr., Steven Curtis Chapman, Earth Wind & Fire, Eric Johnson, Relient K, U2, Metallica, Phil Keaggy, Johnny Hiland, and a host of other amazing session players and musicians in Nashville, Los Angeles, New York, and around the world, Bob Weil and Visual Sound are synonymous with helping create the great sounds flooding the airwaves of today’s most innovative music.
Listen to mp3 samples of top players using Visual Sound

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Product Information:
A great sounding combo with unique features.
(from Musician's Friend)

The first question everyone asks about the Workhorse Pony amp is, "What's up with that Hubcap speaker grill?"
Well it's not there just to look different, cool, bling, etc It's actually a carefully designed, patent pending, sound dispersion speaker grill. Guitar speakers tend to be highly directional. Stand directly in front of any amp, with your ears at speaker level, and you'll get blasted by treble. Walk two steps to the right or left and it sounds like a blanket just got thrown over your amp. Not so with the Hubcap on Workhorse amps. The Hubcap blocks those nasty ice-pick highs from the center of guitar speakers, and takes all the good full range sound and spreads it out almost 180 degrees. Once you've tried it, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. If the brushed chrome look is a bit much for your more traditional tastes, take it off, spray paint it black (or any other color) and put it back on you can customize it any way you like.When you put new tubes in most amps, you have to bring it to an amp tech to have him bias the power tubes for you normally about a $75 job. With the Workhorse Pony amp, you can say goodbye to your amp tech.Once the amp is fully warmed up, you take the ceramic screwdriver provided with the amp (or any other Phillips screwdriver), put it through one of the lower holes on the back panel of the amp and turn the pot inside until the LED above it turns green. If it turns red, the tube is biased a bit too hot. If the LED is off, the tube is biased a bit too cold.That's all there is to it. You can bias your power tubes in about 10 seconds with no knowledge of electronics required.The Workhorse Pony comes with 6L6 power tubes stock. However, if you prefer EL34 power tubes, no problem. Under the chassis is a tube selector switch that you can set for 6L6, 6L6 Hot, EL34, or EL34 Hot. Just install your tubes, set the selector switch, and bias the tubes yourself with the easy user-biasing system.

Bob Weil and R.G. Keen put a huge amount of thought into the construction of the Workhorse Pony amp. They even visited amp techs and asked them, "What do you hate about the amps you work on?" With the boatload of information gained from asking that question, they made sure to design amps that didn't have any of the shortcomings of most amps made these days.

All the jacks and pots are hand-wired to the circuit board. Speaking of circuit boards, those in the Workhorse amp are military-spec; double-thickness boards with triple-thickness copper. No big power resistors to step down voltage like you see in other amps. Those can heat up so much that the solder melts and the resistor can fall right out of the amp. Visual sound uses precision voltage regulators with heat-sinks instead you'll never have to worry about them falling out.

Horizontal metal ribs on the circuit board keep the circuit board absolutely stiff and un-flexible. One of the common causes of failure in many modern amps is circuit board flexing that causes solder pads and traces to break. That won't happen with the Workhorse. If anything ever does go wrong with a Workhorse, the back of the metal chassis opens up like the hood of a car for easy and fast servicing. That means less tech hours and less money to repair. There are fuses on all the transformer outputs, so if something goes really wrong in the amp you'll only need to replace a 5 cent fuse not a $250 transformer!

The Workhorse Pony is simple to use. There are only 5 knobs: Volume, Treble, Mid, Bass, and Reverb for controlling the on-board spring reverb. You don't need to read the manual to figure out how to get good tone. Most guitar players use an array of pedals to get different tones, from overdrive and distortion to chorus and delay.

The Workhorse Pony was created to make effects pedals sound the way they were designed to sound. As many players have done for years, you just run all the pedals into the front of the amp no effects loop required.

To prove the point, Visual Sound even includes a Jekyll & Hyde Overdrive/Distortion pedal to provide a "second and third channel" for the amp. While the Jekyll & Hyde is a great pedal to use with many amps, it really shines with the Workhorse. Whether you play blues or metal or anything in between, the Jekyll & Hyde will inspire you. Just think of it as a channel switcher with knobs!

All Workhorse amps have a Line Out jack on the control panel. Unlike the line out or direct out jacks found on many amps, the Line Out jack on Workhorse amps has a very good speaker simulator circuit behind it. So, if your sound engineer doesn't want to mic the amp, you can simply run a cable from the Line Out jack to a direct box connected to the mixer. A couple of tweaks at the mixer, and your Workhorse will sound just as good through the PA as it does on stage. You'll still be able to hear it through the speaker in the amp, which will simply add to the sound heard through the PA.

The Workhorse Pony combo amp has a 9VDC output jack with a 12 foot (4 meter) cable included with the amp for powering the Jekyll & Hyde pedal. Hook up a daisy-chain cable to the end of the 9V cable and you can power your pedalboard right from the amp. The 9VDC output can handle up to 200mA of current, so you can't plug in Line 6 modeling pedals like the DL4 or other high-current pedals, but the average pedalboard with a handful of pedals can be powered just fine.

Since the Workhorse Pony is the ideal amp for small gigs, there is a CD Input jack on the control panel. So, if you're playing along with tracks at a small gig (or even at home), just plug your CD or mp3 player into the CD Input jack. You can even plug in a POD or other modeling pre-amp into the CD Input jack if you want to bypass the Workhorse pre-amp, but take advantage of the all-tube power amp.

Some amps come with a cover, many do not. But a cover like the Workhorse amp cover is one of a kind. It's nicely padded and even has large pockets on both sides to hold the power cable, 9VDC cable, ceramic tube-biasing screwdriver, manual even the Jekyll & Hyde pedal will fit!

The Celestion Seventy 80 speaker has excellent, tight low-end response, nice glassy highs, and just the right amount of mid-range for a great clean tone and it complements effects pedals perfectly. It can stand up to the huge low-end put out by the Jekyll & Hyde, while still sounding pristine and warm with a chorus pedal like the H20.

Visual Sound Workhorse Pony Tube Guitar Combo Amp Features:

• Celestion Speaker


• 9VDC output & cable for powering effects pedals


• Hubcap sound dispersion speaker grill (Pat. Pending)


• Makes the amp sound great anywhere on the stage


• Protection circuitry throughout the amplifier to prevent failure of all critical components


• Revolutionary easy user-biasing Change Tubes without paying an amp tech!


• Hand wired controls and jacks


• Toroidal power transformer


• All wood cabinet


• Volume, Bass, Mid, Treble, & Reverb controls


• 5 knobs simple!

Visual Sound Workhorse Pony Tube Guitar Combo Amp Specifications:

• 42lbs. (19.1K)


• 18.25" x 17" x 12"base/11" top (46cm x 43cm x 30 cm base/28 cm top)

Dan Sindel Proudly Plays GHS/Rocktron!

Dan Sindel Proudly Plays GHS/Rocktron!



(Apr 04, 2007) Yet again an exciting day as Dan Sindel becomes part of the GHS Strings/Rocktron Technology family of artists.

After another ground breaking introduction at the 07′ Winter NAMM show Dan was immediately impressed by the business philosophy and professionalism of the company!

Dan states: "This is what dreams are made of..! I have been playing GHS Boomers forever and refuse to accept any substitutions... Becoming part of the GHS Family is a dream come true and I am completely honored that they believe in me as an artist and I truly look forward to a very exciting working relationship with GHS"



About GHS:
Since 1964 GHS has manufactured the highest quality guitar strings available. GHS strings are used by professional musicians and amateur hobbyists who want the best sound from their strings possible. Whatever your tastes, from bright crunching rock to a mellow, bluesy sound, we have the right strings for you. Our famous "Brightness Bar" found on select packages of strings, will show you what strings produce which kinds of tone.

GHSstrings.com is more than a place to just surf around, it's a place to get expert information about strings, calculate string tensions,read technical documentation about strings, find a local dealer, read product information, check out artists who play GHS Strings, and more!

GHS produces a full line of strings for fretted instruments - electric, acoustic and classical guitar; electric bass; banjo; mandolin; pedal and steel guitar and much more. All GHS products are manufactured with one objective - to provide players around the world with products that continually exceed their expectations.

The founders of GHS had a wealth of string making experience when they started the small family-owned business in 1964. Now - after thirty-five years, GHS has grown to one of the leading manufacturers in this music specialty. GHS is staffed with dedicated personnel trained and experienced in string technology. By combining its years of experience and its reputation for quality GHS will continue to provide strings for players everywhere for many years to come. When looking for performance from your strings - look to GHS - the Strings Specialists.
http://www.ghsstrings.com/

About Rocktron:
THE ROCKTRON STORY

The concept behind Rocktron has always been to deliver quality sound to the guitar player through exciting and often very innovating products. Many of the Rocktron products seek to marry a vintage style to modern technology and bear the mark of actual longtime musicians who understand and appreciate the needs of guitar players and then design and develop products accordingly

Rocktron launched in 1983 when founder, Bob Waller, along with co-hort Jim Chowning and others stepped back from a long musical career that included stints on the Hollywood club circuit and the Detroit to Toronto circuit. Using their background from years of club and concert appearances with their rock bands (The Blame, and originally Wildwood), the boys decided to launch a company aimed at producing top quality signal processing, amplification and effects.

Rocktron’s first hit product was the HUSH® noise reduction lineup. The HUSH technology was the first single-ended noise reduction designed specifically for guitar. Over twenty years later, HUSH stands as the industry standard and has been used by an amazing plethora of guitar greats spanning 80s rockers to today’s extreme metal. To list the famous users of this outstanding noise reduction technology would require pages and pages of names.

In fact, over the years Rocktron products of all types have been used by professional guitarists. A small sampling of those include Dave Mustaine, Brian May, Diamond Darrell, George Lynch, Prince, Neil Schon, Slash, Steve Stevens, Eddie Van Halen, John Petrucci, Viv Campbell, Steve Vai, Gary Moore, Gary Hoey. The list of bands that have used Rocktron products include Disturbed, Lamb of God, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Papa Roach, Black Sabbath, Queen, Taproot, Pearl Jam, U2, Bon Jovi, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, and the Deftones. Again, this is just a small sampling of the long list of professionals who have taken Rocktron products on the road and into the studio.
http://www.rocktron.com/