Tutorials

If there’s one hallmark of local metal or prog bands across the country, it’s running a click track. As cliche as it is to hear “yo, can you turn our bass drops up?” at a show, there’s certainly...

Treble boosters skyrocketed to fame in the 1960’s through their use by popular guitarists like Brian May and Tony Iommi. While modern guitarists often have the attitude that a treble booster is something...

If you’ve shopped for a guitar amp, headphone amp, or power amp you may have seen the specs list include an amplifier’s class. Class A, Class B, but what do these terms really mean? Do they impact...

Jazz. That’s what comes to mind when we think of improvisation. We think of two old guys with hollow body guitars playing some “diddly-doo-boop” kind of lines with a clean tone, and we all know how...

Ever since technology was developed there was a modding community not far behind it. The ability to personalize and customize a piece of tech to your individual tastes and needs helps you get more bang for...

Guitar feedback is typically an unwanted, uncontrollable mess of high pitched screaming and chaos. It can be great to create cool effects if you’re able to control it, but most of the time we’re trying to...

Sustain is an important part of a quality guitar tone. We tend to use it as a mark of quality: the longer a note last the nicer the guitar/amp etc. must be. Especially with guitars, it’s the mark of a...

This article is just for fun, and to show how incredible technology has gotten. Don’t take it too seriously. ;) Not sure how to play guitar, but want to write your technical death metal magnum opus? Want...

We place immense value in our instruments. We care for them, they are our pride and joy, they are what allow us to make music. But the music we created is unique, because we all have our own perspective and...

Music theory is a dirty word to anyone outside the circles of jazz and classical. But why? Is it too hard? Is it not relevant to the genre? There’s no simple answer to these things, but we’re going...