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Thursday January 1, 2026. 04:00 PM
In late 2015, I basically quit playing bass and spent a year traveling with the Bryan Brothers as their fitness coach. For those not familiar with the tennis world, they’re the most successful doubles team of all time, with 119 titles as a team, 16 Grand Slams, an Olympic...
Tuesday December 30, 2025. 08:36 PM
This year was a big one for the Rig Rundown crew! John, Perry, and Chris traveled to Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, and even a cave in Tennessee, while, of course, foraging in their home base of Music City to gather the biggest and brightest (and loudest) setups...
Revoicing flat-top steel-string guitars is something I’ve practiced for decades. In the early days, once I discovered what scalloping was and how it affected tone, I began reaching inside instruments and carving braces in hopes of improving their sound. The problem was...
Win a Maynoes Duvell Dt-7, a 7-string built around clarity, control, and directed tone. Enter by January 30,2026. Mayones Duvell DT 7 String Giveaway Mayones Duvell DT-7 Duvell DT was created with the “Directed Tone” concept in mind. It’s about mastering...
Monday December 29, 2025. 08:00 PM
Question: Is expensive vintage gear really worth the price?Guest PickerIyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, a.k.a. Sadam (Imarhan)A: In terms of music gear, I’m not a big collector. But I’ll always pick vintage over newer stuff. I’m a fan of old Gibson guitars—I actually own ...
When he was 10 years old, Graeme McKinnon walked into a pawn shop near his home in Edmonton, Alberta, and bought his first guitar for $50. It was a sharp-angled, all-black axe made by the Japanese company Profile as a low-cost imitation of a Jackson, with a knife-like...
Sunday December 28, 2025. 07:41 PM
Reverb and delay. What two effects are better suited to live side-by-side in one pedal? Source Audio’s new Encounter reverb and delay is a mirror image of the company’s Collider, which explores the reverb/delay combo via a vintage lens. The mirror by which Encounter...
There is an element of time travel in opening up an amp to find original circuitry from decades prior. As an amp repair technician, there are few things better than finding that circuit untouched. And that feeling is enhanced when the amp has sentimental value. In this case, ...
Saturday December 27, 2025. 06:33 PM
When you get into the history of the development of the electric guitar, you encounter a lot of famous names: Les Paul creating his “Log” from a 4x4 block and a Gibson neck, Paul Bigsby fashioning his ultra-modern solidbody for country legend Merle Travis. Go deeper and...
Gibson Certified Vintage isn’t just a place for the lucky few to buy a vintage guitar; it's a portal into the DNA of some of the most important instruments in history. Every level of the program is composed of people obsessed with acoustics, electrics, and basses. For a...
Friday December 26, 2025. 07:27 PM
Most amp kits are Fender flavored, typically recreating historic 5F1 Champ, 5F2-A Princeton, or 5E3 Deluxe tweed-style circuits. And since an actual late-’50s Princeton, for example, costs about $3,000, at well less than a third of that price a DIY kit is an affordable...
Connecticut builder Josh Forest’s TreeTone Guitars specializes in retro-inspired designs with hip offset bodies, classic inspired color combos, and an array of electronic options. He’s teamed up with Orangewood to offer an imported version of his Del Sol model—which he ...
Wednesday December 24, 2025. 08:42 PM
The country legend’s bandmates bring a range of low- to high-end gear to Nashville’s Basement East.Ahead of Lucinda Williams’ fundraiser show on December 15 at Nashville’s Basement East, PG’s John Bohlinger spent some time with guitarists Marc Ford and Doug...
Hello! Welcome back to Mod Garage, and our “Tonewood Teardown” series. After finishing our work on the body of our Telecaster, let’s move on to the hardware and electronics, starting with the pickguard.The factory-stock pickguard on this guitar is a 3-ply mint green...
Rhythm guitar is arguably the most important aspect of guitar playing, and it’s also one of the most challenging skills to develop. The discouragement many players feel when working on rhythms forces too many of them to oversimplify the nuances, and this can reduce a...
Tuesday December 23, 2025. 10:15 PM
Slash’s tone is often regarded in gear circles like buried treasure—elusive, highly coveted, and shrouded in the mystique of modified vintage Marshalls and “Holy Grail” '59 Les Pauls. For most aspiring players, achieving that sound feels unattainable due to the...
Want to sound like Slash? Grab your chance with the Slash Blueprints Giveaway! Slash Blue Prints Giveaway See it in action!Welcome to our new video series, Blueprints. In the first episode, PG contributor Tom Butwin features Slash and explores the architectural DNA of the...
Among the many fuzz pedals to carry the Tone Bender name, the MkII might be the one that rips the most. And though not as common as the Vox Tone Benders that American psych-punk fans wrestled with for decades—which were generally Mk1.5 or MkIII versions—it might have...
Hello, and welcome back to Mod Garage. In this month’s edition of our ongoing tonewood teardown, we’ll continue working on our guitar’s body and hardware. That means we’ll be spending a chunk of the $305 remaining in our $500 budget to make some worthwhile...
Monday December 22, 2025. 09:55 PM
Just the other day, I was thinking, “Diver Down gets no respect.” (You have to imagine Rodney saying it.)This lesson is a lighthearted look at one of the David Lee Roth era’s most maligned albums. Does it have too many covers? Probably. Does it seem kinda just thrown...
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