Tips and How-To's

Dave’s Corner: Seek Your Own Tone

Trumpet Mouthpiece Primer: Finding the Best Match for Your Chops

6 Steps to Building Your Complete Custom Pedalboard Rig

Essential Tips For Buying a Cajón

How to Select Violin, Viola and Cello Strings

Rock this Tone: The Gear and Sound of Brian Setzer

Learn To Play: Riffs In The Key Of Slash

Solving Effect Pedal Power Issues

5 Essential Live Looping Tips

Pedal Tricks: Electrifying a Saxophone with Jonah Parzen-Johnson

Nailing It: Achieving the Tones of Jimi Hendrix

Dave’s Corner: Picking Your Pickups - Hotter Is Not Always Better

5 Steps to Playing Guitar with Precision

Pressing Vinyl: The Intersection of Band and Business

How to Build a Post-Rock Pedalboard

Copyright Basics for Musicians and Songwriters: The Limits of Copyright

How to Stream Music Throughout Your Home

5 Modern Tube Amps to Achieve Djent Tones

The Case for In-Ear Monitors

Gear to Consider When Building a Solo Rig

How to Become a Violin Maker

A Beginners’ Guide to Drum Mic’ing

Directionality Defined: Microphone Polar Patterns

Simple Boss Pedal Mods: Changing from Stock to Rock