Basses Loaded Electric Bass Guitar Review
Bass Guitars

Basses Loaded Electric Bass Guitar Review

While guitar players tend to stick to a handful of tried-and-true designs, bass players are far less cookie-cutter in their mentality. From body shapes to finishes, from active electronics to creative hardware, bass players and […]

Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer Review
Effects

Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer Review

When the word got out that we are reviewing Electro-Harmonix’s reissue of their Micro Synthesizer, reactions were decidedly mixed. Some exclaimed, “It’s about time they reissued it!” Others muttered quietly, “Yeah, I had one once, […]

Line 6 Pocket POD guitar amplifier review
Effects

Line 6 Pocket POD review

The world has never been the same since Line 6 unleashed the original POD in 1997. During that time just walking into a guitar shop, recording studio, or early adopter’s home resulted in one or […]

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Guitars

Counterfeit Guitars No-Mo!

Increasing reports and complaints from music stores and musicians about the explosion of counterfeit guitars spreading like plague, four of the top known names in the musical instrument business, Ibanez, Gretsch, Fender and Paul Reed […]

Xotic Robotalk 2
Effects

Xotic Robotalk 2

Xotic Effects will be unveiling their updated version of Robotalk 2 envelope filter pedal. The new Robotalk sports two distinctive envelope filter channels. Each of the Robotalk’s channel are independently voiced and can be adjusted […]

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Gear

Twenty-Bit Rock

Ask people who have owned 24-track, two-inch recording studios what they think of ADATs, and they’re likely to become extremely perturbed. Not because they’re offended by the notion that digital technology could ever sound as […]

Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave Distortion Pedal
Effects

Soundblox Multiwave Distortion Review

Source Audio Soundblox Multiwave Distortion Rock guitarists like distortion. How is that for an understatement? More specifically, rock guitar players eat, breathe, and sleep distortion. Many of them even have more than one on their […]

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Effects

DOD, BOSS, and KORG Delay Pedals

Whether it’s Eddie Cochran’s rockabilly slapback or the Edge’s autonomous counter-rhythms, listeners have always marveled at the shimmering textures and depth produced by delay units. And, just as guitarists have found new uses for delay […]

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Gear

Tube Microphones Review

Just as tube guitar amps provide warmer sound and more natural tone than solid state amps, tube microphones accomplish the same thing fir vocals and miked instruments. Classic mics like the Neumann U67 have been […]