"Don't touch it Mr Di Bergi... And don't point... No, don't even look at it!..." You may be surprised, given my sham...

Fender Japan's 1992 Aged Parts '62 Strat reissue in Sonic Blue. It also came in Sunburst, Black, Vintage White , Candy Apply Red, a...

If there's one element of the Fender company's history that can be described as romantic, it must surely be the brand's variet...

The Fender Broadcaster may have been a beautiful blonde bombshell, but for decades it sat at the centre of guitar history's greatest my...

Yesterday, I was discussing tight manufacturing budgets on low-priced 1970s guitars . Today I want to stay with that theme, but delve even...

In some ways, the 1980s ruined the Fender copy market . In the 1970s, even the sub-£100 guitars were made in Japan. And working on their o...

The wonderfully simple single-pickup Fender Esquire, in its early 1950s format with butterscotch blonde finish. Why did this one-pickup gui...

The late 1960s period was a fascinating one for Fender, and particularly the Telecaster. Heavy rock was emerging from the blues boom and t...

The Clonewheel VXK. Unbeatable simulation of that early 1980s analogue clonewheel sound. If you remember seeing a live Squeeze performance...

Neon Pink Cellophane was one of the standard finishes for DiMarzio Strat bodies and necks in 1987. The Shock Wave pickup set and active jac...

Inspired by some of the most sophisticated analogue combo organs and synth-organs of the 1970s, The Vintage Ultima is a freeware VSTi pack...

Problem... On an electric guitar with multiple pickups, the vibration of the strings is greater above the neck pickup than it is above th...

The Undercult is a VST organ model inspired by the Vox Continental Super II . It’s the first in a series of FREE public releases from a fo...

Above: an image of the very beautiful Yamaha E45 - an ultimate home organ from the analogue era. In 1980, what would it have cost to equ...

Recording and mixing a musical composition is often underestimated as a task, with the emphasis placed on the musicians rather than the re...

In the finest of music biz stories, there comes a point at which the hand of commerce takes over, the essence of the initial excitement go...

Any UK dwellers old enough to remember a mid 1980s alt comedy show called Who Dares Wins , may recall a clever and well played sketch in w...

Ah, that enduring slogan… How much can you remember? Was the BPI’s infamous anti-piracy campaign a ’70s thing? An ’80s thing? Was the slo...

Is there really something special about them? Does it actually matter, when you have two pickups directly sensing the vibration of metal ...

Last week, I took a look at the moderately retro Adobe PhotoDeluxe image editor of the late 1990s. But now it’s time to draw a deep breat...