Last winter I tried an odd experiment: a website where players were encouraged to post their best tone secrets — the kinds of tricks and techniques that are almost too good to share. But in order to get, you had to give: The site was password-protected, and the password was only sent to [...]
What could possibly go wrong?
There are two ways to approach amplifying an acoustic guitar: trying to duplicate the natural sound, only louder, and NOT trying to sound naturalistic at all. This post is about the second approach.
I love playing acoustic through an electric guitar amp (as opposed to a dedicated [...]
Well, um, the entires in our Mutant Beauty Contest are certainly . . . something. Click the MORE button to open the slideshow. New beauties added daily!
Post your images to comments via a photo-sharing site, or email them to me. I’ll add each new mutant to the slideshow so [...]
It’s time for another contest!
I hereby announce the first Tonefiend Mutant Beauty Pageant.
I know many deadbeats with too much time on their hands musicians, and most of them have a thing for weird gear. I’m talking real freak-show stuff, the items that make anyone who walks into your music room shriek, [...]
Here’s a little video I made yesterday using the looping setup I’ve been using live.
Any other looping geeks out there? I didn’t set out to be one—I just wanted to do a duo band with percussionist extraordinaire Dawn Richardson. Looping seemed, well, kind of ten years ago, but I got sucked [...]
Your guitar won't fall down. You might.
A lot of you know this trick already, but it bears repeating:
The rubber caps on Grolsch and some other Euro craft beers are the perfect size for strap locks.
Don’t get me wrong—proper strap locks are great, but the beer-bottle [...]
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