Four Ways to Rein in Your Powerful Tube Amp
Don’t get me wrong — I love loud amps as much as the next guy. I’ve got two tube heads at home that clip at about 120W each and more cabs than my back can handle carrying, but even I can admit that sometimes less is more. While you may be head-over-heels with the tone […]
Legends of Tone: Jack White
Jack White — man or myth? He is a guitar player’s player, with wailing leads and a raw tenacity that is harder and harder to come by these days. Did he sell his soul to the devil? Unlikely – White was actually going to be a priest before he discovered music, believe it or not. […]
Get to Know Pitch
Welcome to Beat Connection, a series dedicated to promoting modern and vintage dance styles the only way we know how…by providing you a musical starting point to help you create that beat. In our previous post, we outlined a very important concept to think about when composing music: musical meter. Today, we take another step […]
Understanding Peak, Continuous, RMS, and Program Power Ratings for Speakers
When you’re shopping for loudspeakers, you’ll see manufacturers using many different terms and numbers to describe their power handling, or wattage. Read on for help demystifying peak, continuous, RMS and program power ratings! Peak Power Ratings A speaker’s peak power rating is the maximum wattage that its voice coil can handle in very short, occasional […]
zZounds at Pitchfork Music Festival 2017
zZounds travelled three trains stops out of Chicago’s downtown skyline to catch the sights and sounds of from Pitchfork’s annual music festival. As eclectic and interesting as their vaunted website, the Pitchfork Festival — now in its 12th year — holds the distinction of keeping the same editorial eye in their own curated lineup, location, […]
Setting the Action on Your Acoustic Guitar
While changing the action on an acoustic guitar is not as simple as turning a screw like on an electric, it is no more difficult than adding or subtracting a little material. The trick is knowing how to measure ahead of time to save time and avoid any further complications later in the process. In […]
Summer NAMM 2017 Preview
With Summer NAMM 2017 drawing closer than ever — the show runs this Thursday through Saturday — we’ve been hearing about more and more awesome new gear being released. While many of these recent product launches are already out and available at zZounds, we’re excited to get out and see them in person at the […]
Episode 93 – Lukas Nelson
This Week On Walking The Floor Lukas Nelson, bandleader for Promise of the Real and son of Willie Nelson, joins host Chris Shiflett on this week’s Walking the Floor, to talk about surfing and eventually music! About The Guest Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real is an American rock group based in California.[1] The […]
Mojotone Pickup Designer David Shepherd
With a fascination for the playing techniques of Eddie Van Halen and an obsession with tinkering with guitars, David Shepherd was well on his way to a career in pickup design from an early age. Though he played in a few bands with friends in his native North Carolina, Shepherd said he wasn’t planning on […]
