Gear Reviews

There is nothing quite as soul-crushing for a musician as being in the middle of a perfect take…

For decades, the life of a gigging bassist was synonymous with back-breaking labor. We were the first to…

If you have been playing bass for more than a week, you already know the struggle. We are…

For decades, guitarists have faced a frustrating trade-off: you could have a massive, soul-stirring tube stack that sounded…

For years, the metal guitarist’s plight was a heavy one—literally. If you wanted that crushing, wall-of-sound distortion and…

For decades, guitarists and high-gain aficionados have been on a relentless quest for the “Brown Sound”—that elusive mix…

If you have been playing bass for more than a decade, you know the literal “pain” of the…

For decades, bass players have been forced to choose between two undesirable extremes: lugging a back-breaking 80-pound tube…

For years, bassists were caught between two difficult choices: lugging around a fifty-pound tube head to get that…

For decades, the image of a “real” guitar player was inseparable from a massive 100-watt head sitting atop…