Electric Sound Products (ESP) was founded in 1975 by Hisatake Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan as a guitar part replacement company. Word spread quickly, however, of the high quality of ESP’s parts, labor, and installation, and the company soon had an excellent reputation and was well on its way to becoming the obvious choice for many […]
Its worth a quick review on Ibanez itself, now known widely and used by highly skilled guitarists like Joe Satriani, Herman Li, Pual Stanley, and Tosin Abasi. The company was founded in 1957 by Hoshino Gakki in Nagoya, Japan—although its origins reach all the way back to 1908 when the Hoshino Gakki Company was the […]
Since the dawn of digital audio production, plenty of musicians have taken it upon themselves to h availado what they could witble technology to record their own music. There are plenty of benefits: You keep control of the audio recording process You don’t have to pay an engineer or producer for editing and production You […]
The purpose of a bass guitar is to add flavor via sound to the rhythm in music genres; basically, all music genres have a bass line of some sort. An experienced bass guitar layer can help add harmony to music, while also adding moderate solos that are commonly played by electric bass guitars. If you’re […]
What is a boost pedal? A boost pedal is a pedal that increases the gain of the signal that your guitar produces; out of all of the types of pedals on the market today, boost pedals affect your guitar’s tone the least. Booster pre-amp stages were created to boost the signal of the guitar before […]
A lot of experienced guitar players that participate in online discussions will have you lead to believe that it’s impossible to find a cheaply priced semi-hollow guitar. While this may be true for the most part, there has been a larger influx of cheaper semi-hollow body guitars on the market in the past recent years. […]
The main difference between these two learning guitar platforms is that one is an application, which is Yousician. Guitar Tricks is a website that requires membership for users to be able to use. This is the biggest difference between the two guitar apps, besides the quality difference. Yousician is a fun app to play- the […]
So, maybe you just ended up purchasing the guitar of your dreams and you’re unsure of how to choose the best guitar case for your instrument. Keeping your instrument safe is the most important function of your guitar case, but sadly, too many guitar cases on the market don’t protect the instrument properly. Today, you’re […]
Jackson Dinky Guitars is one of the newer guitar manufacturers on the market today, with origins that reach back only to the late 1970s rather than the late 1800s, like some modern-day guitar manufacturers. The company was started by Grover Jackson, who obtained a California-based company called Charvel’s Guitar Repair in 1978. In 1980, Randy […]
The V was one of the original designs Dean Zelinsky introduced when he launched Dean Guitars in 1977, and it’s had a consistent presence in their catalog ever since. The Stealth version of the V has been out for a little while, and was designed to offer players as high a quality V as possible, […]