Compressor Pedals and You
While it sounds pretty simple and is widely used by guitarists and bassists alike, compression is an effect…
Road-Friendly Recording
Build Your Tour Studio As much as you’d like it to be, sometimes a recording studio isn’t always…
EarthQuaker Devices Swiss Things
As you grow your pedalboard, keeping things tight and orderly can become a challenge. Maintaining your signal’s integrity…
zZounds Mark Knopfler Instagram Giveaway
Since the disbanding of his the genre-defying group Dire Straits in 1995, Mark Knopfler has had a prolific…
Orange Releases New Terror Bass Head and OBC112
The redesigned Orange Terror Bass has arrived — and it sounds better than ever. With a tube preamp…
D’Angelico Solidbody Series
We traveled out to New York City to visit the D’Angelico showroom and got the inside scoop on…
Origins of Fuzz with Mike Matthews of Electro-Harmonix
Founded in 1968 when the now legendary Mike Matthews quit his day job as an electrical engineer at…
The Trials and Tribulations of DIY Sound Treatment
My band and I have been rehearsing in the same building since 2014. It’s one of those “warehouse-turned-band-practice-space-compound”…
Line 6 PowerCab 112 & 112 Plus
The rise of guitar amp and effects modeling in recent years has been hard to deny. Modeling systems…
Maintaining Guitar Humidity
For the longest time, humidity never crossed my mind when it came to my guitars. I mainly play…
