Melbourne's Guitar Store

The new IK Multimedia TONEX Board combines AI-captured amps, cabinets and pedals with a complete effects system, dual signal paths, flexible routing and serious live control. In other words, TONEX is no longer simply a way to carry your favourite amp sounds—it can now become the centre of your entire guitar or bass rig.

After years of playing through, comparing and selling real amplifiers and digital guitar gear, we don’t judge a modeller by how many amps appear in its menu.

We judge it by whether we stop noticing that it is a modeller.

What makes it interesting is that Gibson took one of the most traditional electric guitars ever made, kept almost everything players love about the ’60s Standard intact, and then finished it in a colour that completely changes its personality.

There is no shortage of electric guitar brands competing for space on a music-store wall. A new name has to do more than offer another familiar-looking guitar in a familiar colour. It needs to give players a genuine reason to pick it up.

That is exactly why Patina Guitars caught our attention at Colemans Music.