Guides & News
Reviews, tutorials and buying advice from two decades of covering recording and instrument gear.
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Four Common Audio Cables For Musicians
Cables come in all shapes and sizes, featuring a wide variety of specs meant for specific situations. Luckily, you don’t have to…
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Flanging, Phasing, Doubling and More: Modulation Effects
The main differences between a flanger and a chorus is that the flanger uses a shorter delay. Flangers, phasers and choruses all…
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Five Ways To Make Money Online As A Musician
Being a musician is an exceedingly fun and fulfilling job for anyone out there who truly loves music. The ability to play,…
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Fishman ToneDEQ Preamp and Neo-Buster Pickup
Fishman has just announced that it will begin shipping their highly anticipated ToneDEQ Acoustic Instrument Preamp and Neo-Buster Soundhole pickup in January…
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Fender Unleashes the American Standard Jaguar Bass
Fender’s first U.S.-made Jaguar bass is a sleek and powerful beauty, upgraded with a versatile P/J pickup configuration, combination top-load/stringthrough-body high-mass vintage…
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Fender Pawn Shop Mustang Bass Review
Pawn Shop Mustang Bass @ $ 799.99 Way back in the early ‘70s during the peak of Fender’s creativity, this unique little…
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Fender Jazzmaster Electric Guitar Controls
Before we begin and talk about Jazzmaster controls, we should point out that this will be for the traditional layout as there…
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Fender Jaguar Electric Guitar Controls
The creation of the Jaguar began as Fender’s answer to the growing popularity of Gibson guitars. Although it was intended as a feature-heavy…
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Micro Sized Effects Pedals from Fender
Fender has just announced a quartet of brand new micro sized pedals. Check them all out below! Fender Micro ABY Expand…
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Effects Pedals: Choosing the Right One for the Job
Nowadays, guitarists have an innumerable amount of effects pedals they can add to their arsenal – many of which would have been…
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Earthworks M30 Microphone: Setting a New Standard
Having a device branded as an industry standard is immeasurably hard to come by. It doesn’t get there by simply winning numerous…
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Distortion and Overdrive Discussed
If you were to ask ten different musicians about distortion vs overdrive chances are you’ll get ten different answers but a common…