There is a specific frustration that comes with loving a guitar player's tone for thirty years. You buy the guitar. You buy the pedals. You learn the parts note for note. And it still does not sound like the record,...

Every few months, a guitarist walks into our showroom, plugs in, plays the opening of Plug In Baby, and then asks the same question: why doesn't it sound like that? The notes are right. The timing is right. The sound...

Walk into any jam, any studio, any church hall in the Klang Valley and look at what the bassist is holding. There is a very good chance it is a Precision, a Jazz, or something built to be one of...

Every studio conversation about microphones eventually arrives at the same place. Somebody names a mic, somebody else says it is overrated, and nobody in the room can explain what the thing actually does differently. Meanwhile the vocalist is standing there...

Most reviews of the Alesis Strata Prime cover the same ground: the BFD sound engine, the big touchscreen, the mesh heads, the 360-degree cymbals. All of that is worth knowing, and all of it is on the spec sheet. But...

There is a specific kind of frustration that only tube amp owners understand. You bought the amp because of how it sounds when the power section is working — that bloom, that compression, that feeling of the whole circuit leaning...

For about twenty years, the argument about digital amp tone went the same way. The companies with the biggest research budgets built the most convincing amp models, you paid a premium for their hardware and their proprietary formats, and if...

Every guitarist has had the same experience. You pick up a Custom Shop Strat in a shop, play it for ten minutes, and something about it just responds differently. Then you look at the price tag and quietly put it...

If you have spent any time in a studio, you have seen both kinds of headphones without necessarily knowing why there are two. Some seal tightly around your ears and block out the world. Others have visible grilles on the...