Tips and How-To's

How to Shop for a Fiddle

10 Tips for Recording the Old School Way

How to Reamp Your Guitar Signal in Your Recording Rig

Easy Upgrades to Get the Best from Your Bass

What to Consider When Buying a Saxophone Neck

How to Record Band Practice on Any Budget

How to Build a Guitar Collection

Pedal Tricks: Crafting Different Guitar Voices with Gilad Hekselman

Pedal Tricks: Electrifying and Expanding Your Violin Sound with Pedals

On Tracks: What Is a Loudness Meter?

Dave’s Corner: Basic Low-Gain and High-Gain Preamp Circuits Explained

Next Step Home Studio Moves: 5 Ways to Improve Your Tracking and Mixing

Wet/Dry vs. Stereo: an Introduction

Eurotrip: A Guitarist's Journey Down the Eurorack Rabbit Hole

6 Tips for a More Manageable Drum Set

5 Truly Trippy Tremolos

Integrating Analog Recording Gear with DAWs

6 DIY Audio Mastering Tips

Nailing it: Achieving the Tones of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante

Dave’s Corner: Don’t Ignore The Speaker Cab

The Cassette Comeback: Digital Disillusionment Gives Tape New Life

On Tracks: Why Do Meters Matter?

Synth Basics 101: Getting Started With Your Synthesizer

A Brief Introduction to Swapping Guitar Pickups