From Aguilar to Ashdown and beyond, here’s a look at the new gear that had bassists abuzz at this year’s NAMM show ...

The ZEQD-Pre has an EF86 pentode just like Dr Z's sweet high-end amps, and it might just give your rig the analogue warmth, colour, and hifi sheen you've been waiting for ...

It’s an incredible time to be a guitarist who doesn’t want to own a bunch of $2,000 amps and an expensive pedalboard of gear. Amp and pedal simulators, which have been around for decades, have in the ...

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With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...

Laney broadens its pedal amp range with a nod to its modern classic - but how does it compare to the real deal?

Orange's Tour Baby, Gain Baby and Dual Baby squeeze its tonal flavour into a portable, lightweight 100-watt head ...

Excellent sounds. Easy-to-use interface. Excellent sound quality. Substantial customizability of signal flow. Works both in studio and on stage. Excellent footswitches that double as knobs. Compact.

Getting those precise tonal characteristics you're after for a guitar track is a tricky task. Whether you're a producer capturing tracks for a project or a hobbyist playing the guitar, you should know ...

The latest guitar amp simulators can give you pro-quality tones without the fuss of setting up heads, cabinets or microphones to capture your sound. And since they’re more affordable than even, ...