5 Pedals or Less: How to sound like Sonic Youth Its funny what being branded a loser in high school has done for some of the most iconic Alt music in the game today, and the same can be said for...

Amplifiers: What do all the controls do? Amplifiers. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some have a variety of whizzes and bangs to play with on your quest for the perfect tone, others are fairly straight forward and opt to include a limited amount of features, instead relying...

Guilty Pleasures: a Brief History of Chorus Chorus. Is there a more polarizing word in the guitar pedal world? Maybe Ring Mod, but even then that’s a heavy seventy-thirty split against it. Its...

5 Pedals or Less: How to Sound Like Jimi Hendrix There are many things that make the musicians we idolize so special. We can be drawn in by their musicianship, their songwriting, or even something...

Live Lessons: 5 Tips for Better Tone Live There are endless ways to enjoy being a musician, from jamming with your friends to recording your music, even something as simple as playing by yourself...

Cheapest Possible Rig: Getting gig ready on a budget The Rig: It’s every guitar players dream. There’s an unexplainable sensation that comes with owning your own rig, a sonic freedom, a...

5 Tips for beginner guitarists! So you’ve just got your first guitar! Maybe you’re starting to...

Is there an Echo? A Brief History of Reverb Reverb, Verb, Echo. For a lot of music listeners reverb is an effect that is often overlooked, or in some cases unacknowledged. It can sit so sweetly...

Do I have to learn musical theory to play guitar? “Do I have...