Kirk Hammett is by far one of the most influential guitar players of our time. As such, you can trust his gear choices to be the right ones. When it comes to effects pedals, Kirk is one of those guitarists who have a very fluid setup. In other words, their search for the optimal setup…
Summer is the perfect time to listen to country music and right now, there are so many amazing new country songs being released! In no particular order, check out our list of 10 country songs you should be listening to right now. “Babe” – Sugarland “Babe,” a midtempo pop-country song about a break-up, is written…
Chiptunes are a style of music that has seen somewhat of a resurgence in recent years, but in many ways it never really left the hearts of true fans. As video game music from the 1980's gets increasingly retro, the appreciation for the actual sound of this music has never really wavered. Fans that were…
There's a lot of bands out there trying to make it today - maybe now more than ever. Some of these artists are cognizant of their trajectory to where they would like to be in the scheme of things, whether it be becoming a solid live act with a local following that simply pays the…
Chiptunes are a fascinating genre of music that has been around since the early days of home PC gaming, using systems like the Commodore 64 and the Amiga, among others, to create tunes to accompany the games you'd play on such systems, using a specific kind of waveform to create the sounds themselves. The origins…
There are a growing number of people taking an interest in what are lovingly called chiptunes, which is a form of retro-sounding 8-bit style music that you might have heard in an old computer or console game back in the '80's or '90's. Home computers such as Commodore and Amiga, and even old Atari, NES,…
Once upon a time, there was in southeastern Europe a federal socialist republic called Yugoslavia. It was led by Tito, a decorated WWII resistance leader, a bon viveur benevolent dictator, who, just 3 years after the end of the war, had the balls to tell Stalin to fuck off. After all, Yugoslavia liberated itself from…
Riding the wave of reissues, Yamaha released the successful Reface series, a modern take on some of its classic keys of the past: The Reface DX revisits the ubiquitous in ‘80s MOR recordings, hotel discos and cruise ship piano bars DX7 digital synth, the Reface CP is based on the CP80 electric piano, the Reface…
When it comes to boutique guitar effects pedals, and guitar effects pedals in general, the rabbit hole goes deep. And the deeper you go, the more shiny new pedals you'll encounter, but, the thing is, they're not all gonna be good (obviously). On one hand, a boutique effects pedal might - and really should -…
EQ pedals are among those tools that aren't extremely popular with most guitar players. This is probably because an EQ pedal is designed to be noticed only if it is used wrong. When you have it dialed in right, your audience shouldn't even know that it is there. With that said, an EQ is…
