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January 2020
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- January 31
- January 30
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- Review: Focusrite's Scarlett 212 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface is a great choice for new and experienced recording enthusiasts alike
- Review: Framus's Devin Townsend Stormbender is packed with sounds that are as innovative, appealing and distinctive as Townsend’s music
- Anders Manga of Bloody Hammers: What's on My Playlist
- Laura Palmer: "I was a shy kid unable to perform, now I own my own label and front Screamin' Rebel Angels"
- Review: Gretsch's G5220 Electromatic Jet BT Single-Cut and G2622T Streamliner Center Block offer terrific tone, playability and style at amazingly low prices
- Michael Sweet on his star-studded solo album Ten, what's next for Stryper, and why he should have been a leftie
- January 29
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- Review: Fishman's TriplePlay Connect is the most affordable and easy-to-use guitar synth system around
- Dylan LeBlanc: "Certain guitar moments can sound like poetry if you get ’em right"
- The Circle: "We do Montrose, Van Halen, Hagar, Zeppelin and even Chickenfoot... I get to play all these great guitar parts from all these legendary players"
- Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender on being the face of Fender's Vintera series and why she plays a four-string guitar tuned to ECEG#
- January 28
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- Review: One Control's BJF-S66 offers amazing portability with the tone, volume output and features of amps many times its size
- Review: The Blackstar amPlug2 FLY Guitar's tones are unrivaled in its category
- The 50 best Iron Maiden songs of all time
- Steve Morse: "Guitarists need to create dynamics on their own and not rely on the sound guy"
- January 27
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- The 100 best bass players of all time
- Cutting-edge digital guitar amps - review round-up
- Own your tone: the guitar terms you need to know
- Inside Dweezil Zappa's mission impossible: performing his father's Hot Rats album live
- Rig tour: Live's resident "fuzz junkie", Chad Taylor
- Sheryl Crow: the bass is my muse
- January 8
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- Review: Danelectro's 59X12 is an affordable and widely versatile electric 12-string
- Submit your questions for Robert Cray
- Stephane Wrembel: "When you cut out string noise, you’re left without the physical aspect of what a musician does"
- Les Claypool's five favorite bass albums
- Nirvana's Krist Novoselic: "I'm never in any bass magazines"
- Too much is never enough: Muse’s Chris Wolstenholme reinvents art-rock bass for the 21st century
- Men in the mirror: the bassists of Michael Jackson
- Original Tool bassist Paul D'Amour on why he quit: "Their creative process is excruciating and tedious"
- Review round-up: semi-hollow and hollowbody basses
- Jeff Berlin names his 5 favorite bass albums
- A quick history of the fretless bass
- Bass effects pedals: top players and industry heavies reveal their favorite FX and pedal secrets
- 20 legendary players who shaped the sound of electric bass
- 9 of the best fretless bass performances
- Sam Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet on his bass influences and those Led Zeppelin comparisons
- The story behind Marcus Miller's 1977 Fender Jazz Bass
- Jean-Jacques Burnel names his 5 favorite bass albums
- Marcus Miller: keep 'em running
- Tool's Justin Chancellor gives an inside look at the band's next album
- Prince: requiem for a bass hero
- Review: Fender's Mustang Bass PJ is a must-see, must-play short-scale charmer
- Tony Levin: "Improvisation that has to fill in all the spaces with notes is pretty dreadful to listen to"
- Session bass legend Lee Sklar talks fan frets, beard maintenance and touring every year since 1970 in this classic interview
- Jack Casady's 10 best bass performances
- Penn Jillette: magic is easy, music is hard
- Glenn Hughes: "It’s been rumored that I’m the only pick bass player who sounds like he’s playing with his fingers"
- Juan Alderete's primer on pedal order
- Demystifying the preamp
- Lemmy: "I always wanted to be John Entwistle, but since that place was taken, I became a lesser version"
- Billy Cox: "Jimi and I were locked together spiritually... that doesn’t happen so much nowadays"
- Les Claypool: "I’ll go 20 years without changing my gear, and then I’ll say, 'This sucks - I’ve got to change everything!'"
- Review round-up: short-scale, semi-hollow basses
- Bobby Vega: "I wasn’t that consistent with my fingers, so I got dexterity and stamina from the pick"
- Joe Jackson bassist Graham Maby looks back at four decades of bass playing with the songwriting great
- Steve Harris names his 6 favorite Iron Maiden basslines
- Meet Eva Gardner, the bass phenom behind Gwen Stefani, Pink, Moby and Cher
- Geezer Butler on Black Sabbath's early days, the making of 13 and which album has the worst bass sound
- Alice In Chains' Mike Inez: "Picking very hard is part of my tone secret - I attribute that to Zakk Wylde!"
- Sean Hurley talks touring with John Mayer and how to succeed in the LA session scene
- The iconic Rickenbacker 4001: an appreciation
- The history of the legendary Ampeg B-15
- Cheap Trick's Tom Petersson: "I love string noise within the tone, and I love using both guitar amps and bass amps"
- Lemmy - the final interview: "I was born to play the bass"
- Robert DeLeo on the making of Stone Temple Pilots' Core
- Chris Squire 1948-2015: the story of the hugely influential Yes bassist
- Alex Webster: to the extreme
- Paz Lenchantin powers the Pixies
- Buying an upright bass
- Review: Fender Signature Flea Bass
- Royal Blood's Mike Kerr: “I don’t talk about my pedals, ever”
- Status Quo's Alan Lancaster: My favorite bass albums
- Sting: The secrets of steering a band from the low end
- Billy Sheehan: “Why have one bass neck when you can have two?”
- Rush's Geddy Lee: how we made Clockwork Angels
- Heart to Hartke: Talking speakers, Jaco Pastorius and Cellphones with Larry Hartke
- Krist Novoselic on his favorite basses, Nirvana's legacy and Giants in the Trees
- A brief history of bass amplification
- J Mascis: “I buy guitars for an album hoping they’ll have songs in them”
- Emily Wolfe: "Tone is like cooking... If you have too much gain it's like too much oregano"
- Tim Commerford: "My tone is always a work in progress, and the stage is my laboratory"
- AC/DC's Cliff Williams reflects on four decades at the top of rock's bottom-end
- Green Day's Mike Dirnt on making ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!, building a bass for Paul McCartney and his surprise encounter with Cliff Burton
- Thundercat: "I’ll try anything, even if I hear something I don’t like. I’ll go for it. There’s no wrong way"
- Bill Wyman on making The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St.
- Metallica's Robert Trujillo on the art of simplicity
- Vulfpeck's Joe Dart: "We intentionally keep things on edge and in the moment"
- Jaco Pastorius: in appreciation
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