And, What I Learned Welcome to this month's Trade Secret. And my goal is to sound like David Gilmour using only the plugins available in Logic Pro and my Dean Zelinsky Tagliare S-style guitar. There are a few reasons why I chose this topic: It's the 50th Anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd's "Dark […]
If you're into Metal guitar, you know that it requires, at times, a completely different set of skills and gear. While there's no set rule that defines what you should be playing the genre with, there's a limit to what an average mean-looking humbucker-packed guitar can do. As you progress and the stakes get higher, […]
Harley Benton is a brand owned and distributed by the reputable German Thomann music retailer. They sell guitars, basses, ukuleles, amplifiers effects, and accessories. Their products all have very reasonable prices and other brands might have a tough time competing with their price/quality ratio. Since Harley Benton imports their products directly from the manufacturer, they […]
Harry Styles is a British pop singer and songwriter and a former member of the boy band One Direction. He was born in Cheshire (UK) in 1994 and grew up with his mother and sister after his parents divorced. He soon became interested in music, eventually starting his own band. In 2010 he was selected […]
Martin makes some of the best acoustic guitars on the planet and has been doing so for over a century. It’s difficult to mention the words “acoustic guitar” or “dreadnought” without thinking of Martin, and the company practically invented the acoustic guitar as we know it today. Of course, with all this notoriety Martin guitars […]
"What kind of pickups do you use?" If you're like most guitarists, this is one of the most common questions we ask each other. Because we all know that, along with the guitar and amp, pickups are the primary source of the sound. Also, between humbuckers, single-coils, lipsticks, P90s, PAFs, Filter'Trons, etc., not to mention […]
All the modern-day Princeton amplifiers are vintage reissue models based on previous Fender blackface or silverface models made famous back in the '50s and '60s. In this Fender Princeton review, we'll look at the various models out there: Fender 65 Princeton Reverb Fender 64 Custom Princeton Reverb Fender 62 Princeton Chris Stapleton Fender 68 Custom […]
If you’re a guitarist who is not playing on stage, a mini amplifier can be a good choice. Even if you already have the main amplifier, the best mini amplifiers for guitar can work as your additional amplification support for performances that require lower volume or mere doodling around with the guitar. They’re especially a […]
I’m excited today to be reviewing and writing about the Epiphone Masterbilt DR 500MCE. The guitar world is full of big-name brands who have built a reputation for creating some truly classic instruments whilst pushing the boundaries of what is possible for musicians to achieve. Epiphone is one such brand. Having been established back in […]
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 […]