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In Memory of... The SynthAxe

In Memory of... The SynthAxe
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...

The Fostex DCM100 and MixTab: MIDI Control for Analogue Mixing

The Fostex DCM100 and MixTab: MIDI Control for Analogue Mixing
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...

The Midiman SmartSync - How it Worked

The Midiman SmartSync - How it Worked
In the 1990s (particularly the early part of the decade), the Midiman brand cornered what must have been a very profitable area of the digit...

A Brief History of MIDI

A Brief History of MIDI
For just over a decade between the mid ‘eighties and the mid ‘nineties, MIDI was the be-all-and-end-all of so many amateur musicians’ cr...

1994 80486 PC MIDI Setup

1994 80486 PC MIDI Setup
On a typical August Wednesday in 1981, the arrival of the very first IBM Personal Computer was announced. The PC was designed as a busine...
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1980s Guitarist Magazines Malmsteen? Sickened by Vinnie Moore? Surely not?... Let's re-live the full, gossip-filled story of the UK guitar press, circa 1980s and 1990s. Nostalgia galore in The Rise of the British Guitar Magazine... Read article...

The Vintage Reissue Story

Vintage Reissue A trip back through time to discover how the vintage guitar market started, and when the vintage reissue concept was born... Read article...

Guitar Pickup Calibration

Guitar pickups What is pickup calibration, and do we really need it? ... Read article...

The Birth of the Relic

Fender Stratocaster Relic in Sea Foam Green The back-story behind Fender's Relic concept, from underground to mainstream... Read article...

Hidden Secret of the Fender Esquire

Fender Esquire in Butterscotch Blonde An article begins with the question of why a single-pickup Fender Esquire has a pickup selector., and ends with a profound secret from Fender history.. Read article...

Get Great Tone With Poor Pickups

Guitar strings Some long lost secrets from electric guitar string history, that explain why '70s guitarist got great tone with poor pickups... Read article...

Confusing History of Olympic White

Olympic White guitars Was Olympic White actually white, or cream? And what was "Vintage White"?... Here's an end to the confusion... Read article...

The Classic '80s Yamaha DX Synths

Vintage Reissue They put session musicians out of business, from bassists to harmonica players. Here's the story of the synths that changed the way music was made.. Read article...

Telecasters of the Late 1960s

Paisley Telecaster Fender didn't anticipate the 'Hendrix Effect', and opted to make the late 1960s all about the Telecaster. Here's how they pumped their innovation budget into the Tele, only to discover the world wanted Strats after all... Read article...

Free Tonewheel Organ VSTi

The Seductress tonewheel organ VSTi Direct download for this classic tonewheel organ simulator with built-in dual-spin rotor and twin-manual drawbar control - all splittable across a single input keyboard... Download page...

Stratocasters in the 1970s

1970s Stratocaster Firemist Gold Were 1970s Fender Strats good, bad or ugly? Here's an article that separates the truths from the myths... Read article...