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Your Drums Will Thank You for Choosing the Right Overhead Microphones

Let’s face it, we can’t all have microphone lockers filled to the brim with every modern and vintage mic option available. Most of us find a pair of decent overhead mics and stick with them forever, or at least until that sweet, sweet upgrade comes around. Today in studio we’ll be looking at three distinctly […]

V-Moda Rolling Stones Edition Crossfade 2 Wireless Headphones Review

Go Gaga for EQD’s Afterneath Reverb Effect Module!

Your Own Personal Gnarly Rodent: The JHS Packrat Distortion

J. Rockett Audio’s El Hombre Overdrive Takes Your Tone to Texas

1 month ago Music Features

Bridge The Gap: Bridge Writing Tips

When you listen to a song, you’re taken on a journey of ups, downs, twists, and turns. The bridge is a great place to make some of these twists and turns happen! This section is not necessary for every song, but it can help add narrative and/or color layers. Continuing in our songwriting series, we […]

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1 month ago Features

Part 3: State of the Guitar Industry

As we attempt to predict the electric guitar's future, let's place a stethoscope on the heart of the industry behind it. By parsing statistical sales data and trends, as well as the observations and opinions of experts and stakeholders, we will get a sales-driven view of how successful the electric guitar is today.

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1 month ago Gear Demos, Live Streams

Do It Live with Yamaha’s YC Series Keyboard (and Brother Paul Brown)

Don’t simulate – recreate all the essential instruments necessary for the gigging keyboardist. Yamaha YC series stage keyboards feature a proprietary VCM engine that captures all the subtleties of acoustic and electronic pianos, organs, and more, right down to their circuitry. Find out what it all means as Yamaha’s Brother Paul Brown (current member of […]

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1 month ago Features

Part 2: Guitar is Off the Charts

When the electric guitar was pronounced dead a few years back, would-be coroners were quick to identify one of the main causes: the languid state of American rock music. This was a bitter blow: the electric guitar and American rock music grew up together, each helping to influence and refine the other over time, as we saw in Part 1.

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1 month ago Guitar Workbench

This Breedlove Abides: Jeff Bridges Organic Concert is Sustainable and Resonant

When I first caught wind that there was going to be a collaboration between Breedlove and Jeff Bridges, it just made complete sense. With Bridges’ advocacy for sustainability and Breedlove’s push toward becoming one of the greenest guitar companies on the planet, it was a marriage made in heaven. Adorning a solid torrefied European spruce […]

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1 month ago Features

The Future of the Electric Guitar

You’ve probably heard that the electric guitar is dead, or at best, on life support. It’s true that the industry and culture behind it have seen plenty of challenges and changes in the last few years, but what does the future of this instrument look like?

This four-part series interprets the past, examines the present, and predicts The Future of the Electric Guitar.

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1 month ago Features

Part 1: The Electric Guitar is History

The Future of The Electric Guitar Part 1: The Electric Guitar is History Read the rest of the series:Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Before we can predict the electric guitar’s future, we must understand its past. Created to serve guitarists who needed more output than an acoustic guitar could provide, the electric […]

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1 month ago Live Streams

Your Delay Workstation Awaits in the Line 6 DL4 MkII

Line 6 made waves all the way back in 1999 when the DL4 delay and echo unit made its debut. Now, it’s time to party like it’s 1999 again with the DL4 MkII. An updated take on the original unit, the DL4 MkII is complete with 30 delay options (15 MKII patches + 15 legacy […]

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2 months ago Live Streams

Return of the King: Maestro Pedals are Back!

The recent return of Maestro rocked the pedal world with a modern line of potent effects. Effects like the Invader distortion, Fuzz-Tone, Comet chorus, Discoverer delay, and the Ranger overdrive fill out a family of vintage-inspired effects that not only look fantastic on a pedal board, but sound incredible as well. Not sure which effect […]

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