Mastodon riff master Bill Kelliher is a damn professor when it comes to tone. While chatting with us about Mastodon’s new album, Emperor of Sand, Kelliher went into such extreme detail about finding ...

Vacuum tubes, which rely on thermionic emissions to control current passing through a vacuum in a sealed (usually glass) container, have been around since 1910. In the first half of the 20th century, ...

The legend reveals how Marshall, Fender and even a tape deck helped shape his famously heavy — but barely distorted — sound ...

How much money have you poured down the endless rabbit hole of purchasing gear that’ll allegedly make your guitar tone better? And you never quite seem to get there, do you? Chasing the tone dragon, ...

Bruce Jacob had a few songs he wanted to record, tunes that had been jangling around in his head for years. He bought a guitar, but the notes he played never sounded as good as the music he had ...

Guitar tone is probably one of the most subjective—and important—components of a musician’s arsenal. Guitar players using the exact same equipment can come up with vastly different tone and the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. John Osborne is the guitar-slinging, outspoken, bearded half of Maryland-born country-rock stars ...

We recently had the pleasure of attending a Dream Theater listening party in New York City for the band's upcoming self-titled release. The members of Dream Theater and those in attendance all hung ...