This is a page dedicated to the sponsors who help make the Fifth Fret possible. I hand pick any and all sponsors based on quality of gear, customer service, or sheer awesomeness of their wares. Please visit their sites and check out their stuff because there’s a reason I’ve picked them and I’d like you to see what is so cool about each of them.
A small guitar shop in Ponca City, OK, but they’re able to order you anything from the companies they stock with popular names like Ibanez, Orange, Vox and others. They’re more known for their great Gretsch prices and offering the customer modified budget Gretsch guitars that are upgraded to reflect specs closer to the ones that cost close to $2,000.00 and up. They are also the sole manufacturer of the Shanghai 64/1, a modified Princeton Reverb clone that is built completely in-house, with point to point wiring and a truly awesome tone. You can see my review of the Shanghai 64/1 here and some videos of the amp being demonstrated here.
Mod Kits DIY achieved what I believed to be the impossible: They made me confident that I could build anything provided I had a kit with all the correct parts and a great set of instructions. After butchering an amp kit from another company and spending far more than you should be able to justify for a home-built 5 watt amp only to have it fail twice for different reasons, then get taken to a tech only to come back sounding awful, I thought I was done with building.
Mod Kits DIY sent me a boost to build though and it came out wonderfully. A little ugly on the inside but that's just my inexperience showing. They're also incredibly affordable. Check out my review here.
Flatline Guitars offer a classy twist on the classics, offering three shapes that are familiar to the eyes but packed with more tone and power than most. They're amazingly easy to play, amazingly versatile and are awe-inspiring guitars. The Flatline Delta 90 is quickly becoming my go-to electric guitar and is almost always what I use to test out recording software because it sounds so good to begin with. You can read more about the company, my feelings on them and a review for the Flatline Vistaglide Custom HERE. Check it out. Visit their website for some eye-candy, great photos and more information about their great guitars. You'll be glad you did!
I'm a huge fan of Pro Tone Pedals. I've been a fan ever since I heard an interview with owner Dennis Mollan and he expressed a little frustration at a short review he had received in a magazine. I had never heard a builder lash out at a major publication before and it was refreshing. After that I got in contact with Dennis and we hit it off pretty well. I did a review on my own Body Rot II (the craziest distortion I've ever used), and a bassist friend of mine's Monster Fuzz (my favorite fuzz). I also did an interview with Dennis that I think turned out pretty great. Pro Tone strives to give you investment-level pedals that are unique in sound and look. There's no mistaking a Pro Tone Pedal on a board visually and I've never heard a pedal that sounds like either the Body Rot or the Monster Fuzz. They're awesome. Check out the site and see the videos and sound samples and see for yourself what Pro Tone can offer you!
How weird is it to be advertising another blog? Not weird at all, honestly. Jon at Guitar Noize controls one of (if not THE) biggest guitar blog on the Internet and it's packed with news, reviews, videos, lessons, interviews and just about everything you could want when you look for things to read about guitar that can't be found here. Guitar Noize is active on both Facebook and Twitter and posts entertaining statuses and tweets and between those and the blog coming through my RSS reader, I'm never desperate for a guitar fix.
When Six Strings contacted me they informed me that in Germany there aren't very many guitar-instruction websites that used the German language to instruct and this was something they were aiming to correct with high-quality lessons aimed at a German audience. Personally, I think the more instructional outlets the better, especially when they're high quality ones. If someone could benefit from an instruction site taught in German more than they could any other language, I would hate for them to be deprived of lesson goodness.
Pick Punch
I've been a fan of the Pick Punch since I saw an ad for it, and then when I was able to do a review of it, I was sold! It belongs in every guitarist's gig-bag or guitar case. You'll never be without a pick again. You just keep a gift card (or better yet, buy some pick material from Pick Punch for an average of $3.00) in your wallet or with the Pick Punch and when that inevitable gig happens where you reach into your pocket to pull out a pick and instead come out with lint, you'll know your covered because your Pick Punch is in the bag. There are a lot of tools pitched to guitarists, but nothing more useful/valuable than the Pick Punch. AND they're low-cost at $25.00 each, available in both standard and jazz size!
God Box FX
Like I've said before on the Fifth Fret, I only advertise what I like and when I first laid eyes on their Tesla pedal, I was half-way sold (as a big fan of Nikola Tesla), but it was when I stepped on it that I was fully sold. Not only did I contact them offering advertising space, but I flat out told them that they probably weren't going to get this pedal back as I have become smitten with every part of it. They're a young company, offering some seriously stellar boxes with amazing tones, all as boutique as you want. They're actually built down the road a ways from me, so it's even more local than usual. Check them out, folks. They have some great stuff!
Pick Punch
I've been a fan of the Pick Punch since I saw an ad for it, and then when I was able to do a review of it, I was sold! It belongs in every guitarist's gig-bag or guitar case. You'll never be without a pick again. You just keep a gift card (or better yet, buy some pick material from Pick Punch for an average of $3.00) in your wallet or with the Pick Punch and when that inevitable gig happens where you reach into your pocket to pull out a pick and instead come out with lint, you'll know your covered because your Pick Punch is in the bag. There are a lot of tools pitched to guitarists, but nothing more useful/valuable than the Pick Punch. AND they're low-cost at $25.00 each, available in both standard and jazz size!
Like I've said before on the Fifth Fret, I only advertise what I like and when I first laid eyes on their Tesla pedal, I was half-way sold (as a big fan of Nikola Tesla), but it was when I stepped on it that I was fully sold. Not only did I contact them offering advertising space, but I flat out told them that they probably weren't going to get this pedal back as I have become smitten with every part of it. They're a young company, offering some seriously stellar boxes with amazing tones, all as boutique as you want. They're actually built down the road a ways from me, so it's even more local than usual. Check them out, folks. They have some great stuff!
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