Showing the model code 10-0909, a Fender USA '62 Vintage Reissue Stratocaster inspection tag from March 2nd 1990. How obsessive are y...

If ever you find yourself staring at a seemingly bog-standard Korean Squier Telecaster with a CN5 or CN6 serial number, you may not realis...

The aesthetically-pleasing Fender Contemporary Stratocaster, introduced in 1994, sat at the epicentre of Mexico’s bid to capture the Japane...

"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...

Those cupboards you never look in… They’re full of stuff like this… Well, they are if you’re a beyond-help hoarder whose floorboards are s...

Before the market for music tuition was revolutionised by free options online, it was possible for many local and decidedly average musici...

Despite the love/hate reaction that Zoom effects tended to provoke when they stormed the market from the start of the 1990s, I think they’...

If you asked a guitarist to name an effects brand today, Vestax and Vesta Fire would probably be among the last answers you’d get. You’d ...

I feel that despite the numerous interesting points about this instrument, its dedicated post should begin with an old anecdote. It’s a quot...

Zoom’s very first commercial FX unit was way ahead of its time. Too far ahead in many ways. In late 1989 when the Zoom 9002 Guitar FX Proces...

The green one reminded me of a lawnmower for some reason… But let us not any further cheapen this reflection on what is, even with the benef...

If you recorded on a PC in the 1990s and used a Sound Blaster sound card, you’ll probably remember very well the joy of SoundFonts . Whilst ...

As was evident in my piece on the R8 and MTC1 combo , early on Fostex spotted the huge significance of MIDI not just in sequencing and inst...

Once upon a time, shock horror, there was no such thing as Google, and most people had no real concept of the Internet as it tentatively pro...

Lately I’ve been digging out a lot of my pre-digital recordings (pre-digital audio, that is, although some are even pre-MIDI!), and it’s pro...

Yamaha defined digital synthesis with products like the DX7 , so the brand was always going to be a big player in the world of electronic ke...

What a great roundup picture this is, coming from the summer 1993 edition of Fender Frontline – the brand’s own promotional magazine. It ...

Ah, Vester. What a blast from the past that is! In the early 1990s, the Vester brand not only gave Fender (and in particular the Squier wing...

If you know this site, you’ll be aware that there’s lots of stuff about the Squier Strats of the ‘80s and ‘90s (if not, you'll find it a...

There must have been some pretty frantic soul-searching at Fender in the mid 1990s, especially in relation to the low and mid point areas of...