Gibson designed the Les Paul Junior to be the cheapest guitar in the catalogue. One pickup, no carved top, no binding, no fancy inlays — a student model for beginners who could not afford a real Les Paul. It was,...

If you love tube amps, you have probably had this conversation more than once. Someone tells you that amps are over, that everyone tours with a floor unit now, that you are being stubborn, and that you should just sell...

Every developing band has the same person in it. The one who owns the interface, learned the DAW, and ends up doing all the recording. They set up the mic, hit record, run back to their instrument, play the take,...

There is no shortage of people who know exactly what an MPC is, love the idea of owning one, and then stall completely when they look at the range. Right now Akai sells a compact battery-powered sampler, a grid-based performance...

You have probably seen one without knowing what it was. That long, thin microphone sitting on top of a camera, or dangling on a pole just above an actor's head, always pointed at whoever is talking. It is called a...

There is a moment every new record collector has. You bring the album home, slide it out of the sleeve, put it on, and the first note arrives with a physical weight that streaming somehow never manages. Then a few...

Somewhere in the last month, your band has probably had this conversation. There is a song you want to play, and it has an organ part, or a string pad, or a synth line running underneath the whole thing —...

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...