Gear Reviews

With the music industry moving quickly into the realm of DIY content creation, it is super important for you as a songwriter to be set with an arsenal of tools to keep up with the high-quality standards if you...

Fender debuted the Jimmy Page Mirror Telecaster in 2019 and the guitars are making the rounds in retailers now. The Fender replica is painstakingly modeled after the famous 1959 Fender® Telecaster Page received from Jeff Beck. The mirrored version of...

One of the more popular tech questions guitar players are asked is “what makes one guitar sound different than another?” Indeed, some players themselves don’t know the difference. They just go by whether it sounds good to them. Others are...

I’ve been recording/mixing/mastering on a pair of AKG 270 headphones for around 25 years.  The leather ear pads are beat to crap, but these cans are excellent for detailed reference monitoring, especially because I have become so...

Southern California’s songwriter’s companion, Taylor Guitars, is at it again in 2020 with four new models in their popular Builder’s Edition series. Our review model is the 324ce: a mahogany-top Grand Auditorium which showcases a new back...

Fender has been making guitars that adapt to the evolving player since they opened shop in the ’50s. The continuting innovations that were applied to the standard Stratocasters and Telecasters took the guitars to new levels, and...

The original Yamaha FG Red Label series of acoustic guitars were built in the 1960s and revered for their high-end Japanese craftsmanship and beautiful tone. Many players first started playing guitar on a Yamaha acoustic. If you’ve...

Performing songwriters, especially those that leverage acoustic instruments when they perform, should pay attention to this lightweight, all-in-one PA from Mackie. It has a great, full-range sound for such a small, easy-to-transport package.

I’ll get right to the point on my favorite feature of this system: You can set this system up, from protected in its heavy-duty bag to sound check, in about 30 seconds. No kidding.

Quite honestly, there isn’t much to be said for this Gibson acoustic that it doesn’t say for itself. It is nothing less than a fantastic instrument, and one of the absolute best signature models Gibson has produced.