Eamonn McCormack is a top Irish guitarist who has toured, recorded and played with Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter or Jan Akkerman just to name a few.

I think I have met Eamonn at the NAMM Show for the first time. He was watching a guitar demo where Deeflexx were used to spread the sound evenly for the present audience. I was standing next to him and he asked the guys who build the Deeflexx. They laughed: “It’s HooVi with the orange shirt on – and he is standing just behind you!”

“I have seen different guitar players shielding their speakers with all sorts of sound shields to block the beam etc. and for a while I was sceptical. I knew that so called Beam Blockers do change the sound of the amp and I figured those screens would mess with your tone and the control of feedback when you want it. I said I’d try them and with some research, the make that most people rave about is Deeflexx from Austria. So I started testing at the top and stopped there.