by Lisa Sharken Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen is roused and ready to go. "Coffee is my life blood!" he exclaims as he savors the last few sips of a Starbucks while en route to rehearsal. Van Leeuwen and Queens...
Congrats to our good buddy Lyle Workman (Little ’59 for Tele®) who just got the call to play with Sting at Live Aid II on July 2 in a stripped down, four piece band: just Sting, two guitars—Lyle and...
Face it. Not everybody likes active pickups. That’s why the engineers at Basslines just released the Phase II Passive Soapbars for four- and five-string bass. These replacement pickups offer a passive alternative to battery-powered pickups. The tone is simple...
Museum of Making Music - Meet the Music Maker April 8 was a very special day for Seymour and for the music community. The Museum of Making Music, which is housed in NAMM’s Carlsbad, California building, inaugurated a new...
Following the wild success of the SFX-01 Pickup Booster™, we just released our second foot effects pedal, the SFX-02 Tweak Fuzz. The Tweak Fuzz features a six-position “Tweak” switch to voice your fuzz tone the way you want it....
Question: There seems to be a baffling array of onboard equalizers for bass guitar available in the marketplace. How do I choose what is right for me in terms of frequencies and bandwidths? Answer: First, ask yourself a few...
“Gentlemen, start your engines!” We can’t help but lapse into auto racing jargon as we get revved up for the Summer NAMM show, July 22 – 24 in Indianapolis. If you’re coming to the show, make sure to pull...
This letter comes from Southern California custom luthier Joe Till, of Till Guitars “My main goal when I started out building was to build a better guitar than I could ever afford to buy. That turned out to an...
