… Since we’re on a serious Joe Bonamassa kick these days, today’s Friday Giveaway is a Way Huge Aqua Puss autographed by Joe himself.   The Aqua-Puss MkII is ready to bathe a tone-thirsty world in gorgeously smooth delay. One twist of the Delay knob takes you from a tight 20ms delay to a cavernous [...]

… This week’s Friday Giveaway is a real treat for blues fans and Cry Baby fans alike—a Buddy Guy Signature Cry Baby wah pedal, with a bottom plate signed by Buddy himself!   Buddy’s status as a legendary guitarist and a Cry Baby player was recognized earlier this month by the Experience Music Project in Seattle, [...]

… Bass player Paolo Gregoletto has been holding down the low end in Trivium since 2004. His galloping rhythms, and versatile and melodic approach to heavy rock bass provides the backbone for Trivium’s signature take on contemporary metal. Dunlop recently caught up with Paolo, who was kind of enough to take the Dunlop Strings 5 [...]

… Dunlop is proud to be involved with Seattle’s Experience Music Project, most recently contributing to the EMP’s 2011 Founders Award Celebration honoring blues guitar great Buddy Guy.   Company founder Jim Dunlop was in attendance at the Founds Awards Celebration Dinner on Wednesday December 7th in the EMP Museum’s Sky Church central hall, as [...]

  Whether he’s blazing through the blues on his own or rocking with Black Country Communion, Joe Bonamassa’s playing is fiery, deep, and powerful. And when he really wants to express himself in a solo, he steps on a Cry Baby.   “The first pedal I ever purchased was a Cry Baby, 25 years ago,” [...]

… In honor of ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, whose birthday is today, we’re giving away a collection of Dunlop’s Signature Reverend Willy gear—a Reverend Willy’s Mo-Jo Porcelain Guitar Slide, two sets of Reverend Willy Electric Guitar Strings and two Reverend Willy Pick Tins!*   Soulful, rich, articulate and smooth, Billy Gibbons’ big fat Texas tone has [...]

… We’re extremely proud to announce that Dunlop Manufacturing founder Jim Dunlop was presented with the GuitarGuitar Musical Instrument Award at the 2012 Scottish Music Awards, the Tartan Clefs, on November 19th. Jim traveled to Glasgow, his hometown, to take part in the show and accept the award. The annual event is a fundraiser for Nordoff-Robbins, [...]

… Today’s Friday Giveaway is as awesomely straightforward as it gets: a Way Huge Fat Sandwich distortion pedal!   This probably goes without saying, but we at Dunlop are big fans of distortion, and the Way Huge Fat Sandwich is one of our favorites. The Fat Sandwich delivers heaps of crunchy distortion goodness via its innovative multi-stage clipping circuit. [...]

Plays: Custom Heavy Core Guitar set, 0.13 – 0.66 … … Zoltan Bathory provides the tonal fuel that drives Five Finger Death Punch‘s hard driving sound. Zoltan took a few minutes out of his busy touring schedule to take the Dunlop Strings: 5 Questions challenge…   When you were young, what artist and or song inspired you [...]

… The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame has announced that iconic hard rock band Guns N’ Roses is among its 2012 inductees.   It’s been 25 years since the release of Guns’ groundbreaking debut release Appetite for Destruction, which, bolstered by subsequent critically acclaimed releases and scores of chart-topping hits, sent a shock wave through the [...]