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Bring It! - Guitar Sounds to Go and Getting Self-Contained

By Jon Chappell Last month we talked about getting a clean country sound: bright, tight, and spanky. This time, Ill detail just what can happen to your soundor any soundwhen its set up in isolation and brought out into the real world and offer caveat...

Square One: Recording from the Ground Up

Getting Your Music into the Computer Cheap & Simple By Jon Chappell If someone asked you, What was the simplest and least-expensive to get into computer recording? What would your response be? Would you immediately recommend your favorite DAW? Wo...

Add Percussion to Your Guitar Playing

  By Ben BlakesleyGeorges Music As a frequent solo guitar player, I'm always looking for ways to add more musical elements into my performance. This is a great little technique for doing just that at a very low cost and with virtually no learn...

Ibanez RG350MYE Electric Guitar

Product Review from Georges Music: Ibanez RG350MYE Electric Guitar Ibanez RG350MYE Buy Now! By Eric Lacovara Georges Music The RG350 is one killer axe! It's got a great look with a bright yellow finish, maple neck, and black pickups on a black pic...

Compressors Demystified

By Craig Anderton It's one of the most used, and most misunderstood, signal processors. While people use it to make a recording "punchier," it often ends up dulling the sound instead because the controls aren't set optimally. And it was supposed to g...

Washburn Rare Wood Guitars

Product Review from George's Music: Washburn D12S Rare Wood Series Guitars As beautiful to look at as they are fun to play!   First let me say that this series of guitars cannot be found at all music stores...  It's a George's Music E...

Planet Waves Instrument Tuner Review

Review: Planet Waves Instruments Tuners When it comes to tuners, one size doesnt always fit all Buy the Pedal Tuner Now at GeorgesMusicOnline.com! By Craig Anderton A tuner is a tunerright? Well, not really. One of the main tuner manufacturers is Pla...

Line 6 Pocket POD Review

Review: Line 6 Pocket POD Line 6 Pocket POD - $129.99 - Buy Now! By Jon Chappell The Line 6 POD, in all its various incarnations, is one of the best sounding and most successful guitar-based multi-effects processors on the market today. Its available...

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Review

Review: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe A workhorse amp, and a great investment! Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV - $1,049.99 - Buy Now!   A Brief History Leo Fender, founder of the Fender Electrical Instrument Company, created some of the most sonically and visua...