The Fretwire Podcast

Hi again!  Today's guest is Ben Hinz of Dwarfcraft Devices.  Ben is a fellow Wisconsinite who makes really weird, cool, crazy...  musical "Devices" that bend and break your sound in a musical way.

Ben is a your classic "Midwestern" I need something so I'll build it myself kind of person, but he took that idea and made it into an extremely cool little company with some awesome pedals and Eurorack devices.  

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This week we are talking to Dean Birdsong From Warehouse Guitar Speaker aka WGS.

Dean is a speaker industry veteran with a passion for helping guitarist find "their" speaker.  Dean even braves the guitar gear forums to learn and discuss speakers with guitarists even though he's not a player himself.

He share a vast amount of information about speakers and how they are manufactured and shared some details on a new "ala cart" custo...

The man, the myth...  The Doctor.  Not Who, but Z!

This is a super sized episode and is a lot of fun to listen to.

Mike was a really high energy guest, enthusiastic and fun.  He loves what he does and what he does is make great amps!

Mike also had a lot of stories about his friend, the legendary Ken Fisher, the designer of Trainwreck amps who passed away a few years ago, and how Ken collaborated with him to help create some o...

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Today we are talking with Steve Carr from Carr Amps.  Carr amps are one of the earlier boutique amp builders to hit the market and Steve shares a lot of information about his amps and about the character of classic amplifiers.

Steve has a fantastic website with A LOT of information, video links and demos of his products.  You can find it at http://www.carramps.com

He also has a Youtube channel loaded wit...

This episode is a in informative interview with Daniel Klein of Port City Amps.  Daniel and his staff make Amps, Pedals and highly engineered ported cabs that defy your expectations that so much great tone can come from such small rigs.  Daniel is a real gentleman and was a lot of fun to chat with before, during and after the recording.

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Welcome back for Episode 4, Chris Van Tassel of J Rocket Audio Designs.  Chris starts by announcing a charitable drive that he is starting for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and then we get into talking gear, covering an amazing amount of ground and learning about product design and development, how things change as company grows and how big a part collaboration plays in Rockett Pedals Designs.  (Hint... A lot.)

We also get into t...

Sorry about the delay but real life gets in the way sometimes.  We're back with a really fun episode focusing on one of the coolest small guitar companies out there, Ronin Guitars.  John and Izzy were a lot of fun to talk with, in fact we talked for a good hour without recording and I wish I had that on here too!

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Welcome back for another full episode of The Fretwire Podcast!  This episode is an interview with Joe Knaggs of Knaggs Guitars.  We cover Joe's views on what gives a guitar its character and sound, his years at PRS, guitars as works of art and guitars that just plain work too.

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