I’m not an expert on bass guitars so you can take my review with a grain of salt but I’m sure that of one thing at least, my new Hamer Velocity 2 bass is a big step up from my old Squire P-Bass. It was recommended to me as the best bass guitar in it’s [...]

I bought a Martin DX1 Acoustic Guitar after reading a lot about what a great deal they are (a Martin guitar without the Martin price) and reading a lot of really positive customer reviews (in fact out of the dozens of reviews I found for the guitar I don’t think I read a single negative [...]

I bought the Studiologic SL-990XP 88 Key MIDI Controller in December of ’08 because I wanted the full size (ie: 88 keys) and feel (ie: weighted keys) of a real piano for controlling my various synths and samplers I have on my computer. I’m happy to report that it’s definitely lived up to all of [...]

This isn’t exactly a “gear review” but that seems like a reasonable category to put this. I was just browsing Amazon looking at effects plug-ins for using in my home recording studio when I came across the Waves Mercery TDM Software bundle which costs over $10,000. I am familiar with some of Waves plugins and [...]

While everyone says you shouldn’t mix your music on headphones, if you decide that you want to do it that way anyway (or you at least want to get a rough mix down with headphones) then you should definitely consider Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones. They are widely known for being great mixing headphones (because they [...]

Are you in the market for an audio interface? With inputs for your mics, direct in guitars, and midi devices? If so then you should definitely consider the EMU 1616M because it will give you pro quality sound at a consumer price (around $400.) The 1616M actually uses the same audio converter chip as the [...]

For anyone and everyone that needs some musical equipment I wanted to share the current deal at GuitarCenter.com – You can get 10% off your order by using the discount code “TENOFF” at checkout through December 24th. If you’re not familiar with the Guitar Center store, it’s not just a guitar store. They pretty much [...]

The quality of your recordings depends on the quality of your microphone. You won’t be able to get a good sound on a recording of your voice or your acoustic guitar with a cheap low quality condenser microphone. But you also don’t have to shell out over $3000 for a Neumann U87. The Shure KSM44 [...]

Propellerhead’s Reason has been one of the premiere pieces of music making software for some time (it was first released in 2000) and Reason 4 is the latest version of that software. It was released on September 26, 2007. Reason 4 expands upon the capabilities of Reason 3 while adding some new ones as well. [...]

The DigiTech RP 200 guitar pedal is not intended to (or able to) mimic the tones of classic rock guitar. It’s a simple, easy to use, and cheap guitar pedal that’s great for beginners who just want to experiment with different sounds. It’s also able to create some pretty unusual rather interesting sounds if you [...]