60 Cycle Hum: The Guitar Podcast!

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Interview with Union Tube and Transistor's Chris Young Oct 21, 2016

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Ryan sits down with Chris Young from Union Tube and Transistor. We talk about how their signature pedal for Jack White (The Bumble Buzz) came into existence as well as some of their other pedals. This interview took place at the Fretboard Summit put on by Fretboard Journal.

141 - Audio Envy Cables Oct 17, 2016

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This episode is brought to you by the fine folks over at Stringjoy. Located in Nashville, TN, Stringjoy is committed to bringing you a high quality string with a custom, handmade experience. Ryan and Steve sit down with the Audio Envy NV-10 cable. We take it through a few different pieces of equipment to see how this cable performs under different conditions. The instruments and amps used were a Titan by Kauer into a Fender Princeton Reverb RI, a Mitchell MD-100 with a GFS pre-amp system into a Polytone 101, and an Eastwood Classic IV Bass into the same Polytone 101. Here are the high quality versions of the audio demo from the show on the Audio Demos portion of the Audio Envy site. This week's song was sent by Neil Nation and was called "Tasty Licks".

AD WEEK - Thursday - Guitar Vests Oct 13, 2016

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AD WEEK - Wednesday - OHHHHHHHHH Take a breathe Oct 12, 2016

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AD WEEK - Tuesday - It's not a tuner Oct 11, 2016

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AD WEEK - Monday - The Christmas Tele Oct 10, 2016

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140 - 200% slower Oct 03, 2016

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This episode is brought to you by the fine folks over at Stringjoy. Located in Nashville, TN, Stringjoy is committed to bringing you a high quality string with a custom, handmade experience. Clocking in at almost 2 hours long, episode 140 is pretty much our longest (and possibly most intoxicated) episode ever. Please don't judge us for drinking on a Friday night, it had been a long week and we earned it, gosh darn it!!! Oh right. Here's the episode run down Ryan got his new Fender '63 RI Reverb We talked about a guy that pulled a knife on our friend We talked about the Wizard of Oz We talked about a local music store Then we did a grab bag of topics for everyone to enjoy that were taken from the Facebook group. This week's song is from Grant Andrews and the band The Red Factor. The song is called "Cyanide and Bubblegum".

139 - This is Triller (and other gimmicks) Sep 26, 2016

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This episode is brought to you by the fine folks over at Stringjoy. Located in Nashville, TN, Stringjoy is committed to bringing you a high quality string with a custom, handmade experience. In Episode 139 Ryan and Steve celebrate the weekend. Cheers to the weekend! Steve talks about his Godin Radiator and Ryan talks about the JHS Ruby Red. Then we get CRAZY GO NUTS with the ads: SG Relic (sorry we forgot to name drop you Aaron) Fret Exentze Japanese wah This week's topic is gimmicks. I don't remember how many we actually talked about, but we start off with something called the Kurv. We definitely talk about other gimmicky things, I just can't remember them all. Thanks to Chad King and his band, Lo Beggar, for this week's song, "Metal Boy".

138 - We are “On Air Personalities” Sep 19, 2016

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This episode was sponsored by Barefoot Buttons. They just received a restock of the Tallboy extra-tall button for those extra cramped pedals. Get yours before they run out again. This episode was also sponsored by Stringjoy. Stringjoy's strings are 100% handmade at their own facility in the good ol' USA. They build sets tailored to your individual needs so check them out today! Here's what you need to know about episode 138. Ryan is selling is Hamer. Steve is playing fantasy football. Here are the ads Acoustic BC Rich Warlock and Mockingbird Brownsville Choirboy Pedal Locamotive...Junior Then, Ryan and Steve discuss what they think are good things to know about being part of a jam session and being in good band mate. This week's song was sent in by Evan Pack for his band Indigo Plateau. The song is called "History Cutlass"

137 - Baseball Pizza Splatter Sep 12, 2016

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This episode was sponsored by Barefoot Buttons. They just received a restock of the Tallboy extra-tall button for those extra cramped pedals. Get yours before they run out again. This episode was also sponsored by Stringjoy. Stringjoy's strings are 100% handmade at their own facility in the good ol' USA. They build sets tailored to your individual needs so check them out today! In episode 137 of 60 Cycle Hum the boys talk about their newest purchases, a Fender reverb tank and a Godin Radiator. Then they get into the stuff you want, which is to say, Ads! Galaxy Finish Pizza time! Gibson baseball guitar (and the one that seems okay) This week's the guys talk about the new releases from Gibson, JHS and Paul Reed Smith The ending song was sent in by Reese Hight and is called "Losing Sight".