if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

Watch or read anything about guitar amps and pedals, and you will come away with the impression that to get that juicy edge-of-breakup tone,...

And it turns out we're not done with Katanas yet... Roland / BOSS have a thing called Tube Logic. I'd forgotten about it. It's ...

Classical players do not have to deal with tone. Almost all acoustic guitars of the same size with the same strings sound almost the same. P...

It's been a long time since I've written about my Hunt For Tone. I know, you've been missing it. I'm after tones that make ...

(Ingredients: a BOSS Katana, a 10-band EQ pedal or 10-band EQ effect in a digital effects board (DEB), guitar of your choice. Has been teste...

Yep, it’s tech time again. There are numerous explanations of these two features of an amplifier, and all those I have seen don’t explain it...

Regular readers will remember the problems I, and everyone else with a Katana, had with recording and playback through the thing. I gave up ...

I bought an HX Effects at the end of March, from those nice people at GuitarGuitar Camden, where you can buy any guitar you like as long as ...

Recently I visited a friend from back in working days. He has a number of Real Guitars and three Real Amps: a Fender Deluxe Reverb, a Fender...

(Now updated with sound file) Plug one end of a guitar (or other male-male) cable into the Katana input. Connect the other end to the Headph...

I've spent a couple of months thinking that I'd gone as far as I could with the Katana and the Les Paul, and needed some new gear to...

(Updated at publication date) The Guitar Flat-wound 10's and liking it.  The base setting for the dials is "all the 7's", ...

It's time to think about recording. Because this is the +CurrentYear and just playing for your own ears is not enough. And listening to ...

Everyone says tone is in the fingers . Here's an experiment. Take your guitar with your favourite schredmeister tone. Play My Favo...

Okay. Les Pauls are a touch zaftig . All electric guitars are heavy , but Les Pauls are the king of heavy. There's a Rhett Schul video...

Yep. I am now a two-guitar household. I've been noodling on that steel-string acoustic since about 1972. I bought it from a music shop...