Guides & News
Reviews, tutorials and buying advice from two decades of covering recording and instrument gear.
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Vintage Style Guitar Humbuckers For Rock And Blues
Installing a set of replacement pickups is a great way to alter your instrument’s tone so that it better reflects your own personal taste…
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Video Demo: Earthquaker Hummingbird Tremolo
EarthQuaker Devices may be known as a small, boutique pedal manufacturer but their stompboxes – along with their unique sound and signature…
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How To Tune Your Guitar By Ear
Learning how to tune your guitar is likely to take time hence, it’s important that you train your ears. Tuning a guitar…
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TSVG Angry Jeff Fuzz Effects Pedal Review
The word “boutique” gets tossed around a lot these days in the world of music equipment. What used to mean pedals hand-crafted…
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Top Things Only Guitar Players Will Understand
Being a guitarist is awesome but like with anything, there are going to be some “issues” that only YOU will understand.…
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Top New Year’s Resolution Ideas For Musicians
Being a musician to the outside world looks like a career that is just fun and easy to handle when in fact…
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Tonal Differences Between Covered And Open Coil Humbuckers
You have probably noticed that humbuckers are often offered with covers and without. While a big part of that definitely has to…
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Tips On Learning To Play Classical Guitar
While the traditional steel string acoustic gets plenty of love in modern music, you can’t discount the unique and beautiful tone that is…
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Tips For Buying A New Bass
There’s a lot of work into finding the perfect bass. You just can’t go in there and get just any instrument. You…
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Things Singers Should Avoid Before A Performance
Singers have arguably the most important role in a band. While you can mask a few mistakes on guitar, bass or even…
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The Importance of a Bass Preamp Pedal
Here’s a question for all you bass players out there – do you own a preamp/DI pedal? If not, you really should. Not…
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TC Electronic Introduces New Line of Mini Pedals!
TC Electronic has just unveiled its new line of Mini Pedals which take all that you know and love about TC effects…