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...

On 11 February 1964, The Beatles played their first proper concert in the United States at the Washington Coliseum. Eighteen months later, on 15 August 1965, they walked onto a stage at Shea Stadium in New York in front of...

Think about the last live set you watched that really landed. Chances are there was more going on than four musicians playing their instruments. A sub-drop that hit you in the chest before the final chorus. A reversed cymbal swelling...

Walk into any showroom to buy studio monitors and the first question you will be asked is what size you want. Five-inch? Seven? Eight? And almost immediately, someone will tell you that if your room is small, you must buy...

Dalam sejarah muzik rock Malaysia, ada satu gitar yang statusnya sudah melangkaui sekadar alat muzik. Bagi peminat Wings dan Barbarik, gitar Gibson Les Paul Custom hitam milik Jo Branko — yang digelar "Black Beauty" — adalah sebuah instrumen yang hampir...