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ELK, The Guitar Show & Ashdown Guitar Amps

Season 4, Ep. 6
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Hello dear listener,


I'll start this week with an apology. When editing this week's episode, I was mortified to find that our recording platform had defaulted to my internal Macbook mic instead of running through all my lovely preamps and mic setup, so apologies for the poor quality of my audio, I feel terrible about it.


The podcast has been running for a decade and I don't think I've ever made that mistake before!


Anyway, this week we have a rather lovely episode for you. Matt is back and we're talking all about our time rehearsing with ELK Live, my trip to Ashdown to check out some valve amps for guitarists, and all the exciting things happening at The Guitar Show this year!


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