Posts Tagged ‘fretbase’
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
You may have noticed something different about Fretbase lately. We’ve been working on some improvements to the website and we hope everyone is enjoying some of the new and improved features. Fretbase is a structured wiki of guitars, gears, artists and songs that can be edited by anyone. It’s meant to be a resource for guitar players looking to research guitars, gear or find out what they’re favorite artist uses to create their sound.
Here are some of the new features:
- Gear: We’ve added amplifiers, effects, strings and other related gear to the site
- Reviews: You can now write reviews of our guitars and gear - we want to hear what you think!
- Homepage: Highlights the most popular stuff in our database and shows stories from around the web
- New Logo: We have a really nice logo now :) (Thanks TJ!)
Our goal continues to be to create the best archive of guitars and guitar related information so that we can become your online resource for all things guitar-related. Please let us know what you think!
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Tags: fretbase, guitar, website
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
An artist representation of Dave and Brian
We were recently contacted by Ava over at Jemsite.com where they cover all things related to Ibanez and their famous JEM series guitars along with a lot of other guitar related news. The Jemsite is also very well known for it’s 11 year-old forum - so well known that even employees of Ibanez read, participate and monitor the board for feedback.
Ava contacted both Dave and myself for an interview to learn more about Fretbase, our backgrounds and where we’re planning on taking Fretbase in the future. We were very honored by the request and gladly accepted.
Check out the interview over at Jemsite’s blog.
Tags: fretbase, interview, jemsite
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
As you might have noticed Fretbase has expanded our site beyond the blog. We’ve built out what we’re calling a “structured wiki” of guitars, artists and songs. Our hope is to build a resource for guitarists interested in researching guitars or just learning how to play songs. Plus who doesn’t love looking at guitars all day, right?
Yesterday we had a few new additions to the site from users like you! Check ‘em out:
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Tags: fretbase, sheen CE240, structured wiki, Synyster Gates, Topcats, washburn idol WI66 pro, wiki
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
We’re writing to let you know about some big improvements on Fretbase.
In the beginning, we wanted to build a website and community for guitarists built on a database of important guitar-related info. In fact, the “base” in our name refers to that database. (And “Fret” refers to the frets in a guitar – not what our families have been doing since we started this venture.)
Today we launched the Fretbase database along with a number of other useful features. We’re fired up to tell you about them.
- Fretbase now has over 24,000 pages devoted to your favorite guitars, artists and songs. What this means is that you can now get detailed information and photos of the Gibson Les Paul and hundreds of other guitars. Or maybe you want more detailed information about the guitars and songs played by Eric Clapton. Fretbase has that too. Or perhaps you just want to see some bedroom rockstars play Stairway to Heaven. Check.
- The entire database was built on a wiki (user editable) platform. So if you notice a guitar, artist or song that is missing, you can add it to Fretbase in no time. It is O.K. if you don’t have all of the relevant info. Just add your item to Fretbase and our expert editors will do the rest.
- Fretbase now has tens of thousands of guitar tabs integrated into the site. If you are just looking for a good place to get tabs for the Beatles’ Blackbird, Fretbase is the place to go.
- As a consumer of guitar-related stuff, we wanted to make it easy for you to find the stuff you need. The site now has pages on great local retailers – like Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, links to latest promotions from online guitar stores (see the top right of our top page), and links to download the songs you are trying to play – like Sweet Home Alabama - from iTunes and Amazon.
- Most importantly, Fretbase has enabled comments and discussions on every guitar, artist and song on Fretbase. So if you want to talk to other people that have a Fender Stratocaster or if you want to get tips on how to play Hotel California, Fretbase is the place.
Most importantly, we want Fretbase to be useful for all guitarists. If you have feedback, we’re eager to get it. Just post in our comments.
Tags: blackbird beatles, Eric Clapton, fender stratocaster, fretbase, Gibson Guitar, gibson les paul, gryphon stringed instruments, hotel california, stairway to heaven
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Update: We’d like to give a special thanks to BobLefty61 for letting Fretbase use his YouTube video for this comparison. Thanks!
It’s Monday morning here at Fretbase and you know what that means. Let’s get ready to Rrrrrrrrrrrrumble! For the first time in the long and storied history of the Fretbase Face Off, we will have 3 guitars competing. Three guitars with three different shapes but all from the same great maker. Today’s match will be a battle royale between the Martin 00-15, Martin D-18 and the Martin OM-42 in the Fretbase Face off. Read on to meet the challengers.
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Tags: fretbase, guitar, martin 00-15, martin d-18, martin guitar, martin om-42
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