Guides & News
Reviews, tutorials and buying advice from two decades of covering recording and instrument gear.
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Using A Guitar Fuzz Pedal On A Bass
Can you use a guitar fuzz pedal on a bass? This question came up not too long ago during a weekend jam…
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Using A Looper To Improve Your Guitar Skills
Most of us learned the basics of guitar by playing alone in the privacy of our rooms. This allowed us to progress…
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Top Five Common Microphone Mistakes
We recently wrote an article dedicated to giving our readers microphone tips and techniques, but we’ve yet to cover another equally important…
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Tone Characteristics Of Four Common Power Tubes
While the construction and design philosophy behind tube amplifiers is a complicated business, the way they work to make music is fairly…
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Tips on Minimizing Hand and Finger Pain for New Guitarists
Learning how to play the guitar requires time, commitment, determination and lots and lots of practice. A new guitarist will often…
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Are Fender Squier Electric Guitars Any Good?
If you’re a new player searching for your first instrument or simply looking for a new electric at an affordable price, you’ve…
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Some of our Favorite Telecaster Replacement Pickups
The Telecaster isn’t just one of Fender’s most popular models, it’s also one of the most well-known guitars ever created, period. It’s…
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Simple But Effective Bass Tone Upgrades – Part 2
Last week, we began our multi-part feature on worthwhile bass upgrades for improved tone, taking a look at various pickups made to…
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Microphones 101: Part III, Radio Frequency Interference
This week, we here at Soundaria have been focusing on the ins and outs of the microphone. We began by discussing the…
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Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive PCB Review
While there’s no denying that a hand-wired pedal offers a certain unmistakeable quality that’s extremely hard to reproduce by mass-production means, they don’t…
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Is a 7-String Guitar Worth It?
The 7-String Regarded by many as the greatest instrument of all time, the guitar is becoming increasingly more popular. The popularity of…
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Guitar Wood: All About Ash
One of the first thing you’ll notice when it comes to electric guitar bodies is that they come in two main flavors:…