When the original Boutique series synths were announced a few years back, the JX-8P was one of the...
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REVIEW: Maestro Original Collection Guitar Effect Pedals
Maestro is back, baby! Maestro started the whole pedal “thing” back in the 1960s; the original...
AKAI MPK Mini Play MK3 REVIEW
Akai’s MPK MIDI controller is basically the industry standard when it comes to MIDI input for home...
RAT Tail Distortion and Vcable Reviews
RapcoHorizon Vcable Review Simply plug in an instrument, and this extra volume control is easily accessible right on your cable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEuKF9cRh98 There are plenty of...
IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O 49 REVIEW
The IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O 49 is everything you need to jump-start a home studio, all in one affordable package. We recently sent one of these to Tiny Dinosaurs (aka musician Julie Jay) to...
AKAI Fire FL Studio Controller REVIEW
For beat makers and home studio enthusiasts, there is no shortage of great controllers on the market. Whether you’re crafting synth-based toplines or putting an entire EDM project together from...
Peavey Invective.120 Tube Head Review
Peavey’s Invective.120 has been designed with the help of Misha Mansoor of Periphery, and it’s brought some modern features that aren’t usually found in the usual tube guitar head. It’s knobs galore...
NEXI Alternative Starter Pedalboard REVIEW
Pedalboards are great; the modular concept makes things flexible. However, running signal and power cables means re-doing things every time the player wants to make a change, and now it’s not so...
Fender Player Series Jazzmaster Review
Offset guitars have made a comeback with a vengeance, however there are players that pick one up and get confused with the switches and the tonal offerings of the pickups. Fender has blended that...
Fender Player Jaguar Bass Review
There’s been a resurgence of the offset body shape in the last few years, guitar-wise. Basses with P and J style pickups, again nothing new. But melding the classic offset shape to the P&J...
Phred DockStar Koa Review
A few years back we had an opportunity to review the Phred Ernesto VH3, which was a hollow-body thinline guitar reminiscent of the instrument Trey Anastasio plays in Phish. While there’s a...
TOUR DIARY: Scarlet Canary’s 30-Day Elixir Strings Challenge
“In terms of brightness and clarity the Elixir OPTIWEB Coated strings are superb and unmatched…” Scarlet Canary usually plays DR strings and our bass player (Marcos) and I have been playing them for...
Yamaha TRBX604 Review
When the term “tonewood” gets thrown around, the price of an instrument usually increases, especially with basses. Thankfully, Yamaha’s got the ability to bring a bass to market with high-end...