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D’Addario has been a long-time major player in the guitar string business. Chances are great that you have played a guitar with their strings on it, whether you've purchased the strings yourself or just tested out a guitar at a store and unknowingly made some music with them. I first started hearing about the D’Addario…

As you may have noticed lately we've been featuring a series of really practical articles. Our hope is that we can equip you with a range of tools to help you and meet you where you're at. So for this gear review I thought it'd be handy to cover the Guitar Maintenance Kit from D’Addario,…

In-ear monitors. Most of us have them by now, and they have become an indispensable part of many worship teams around the world. The ability to organize a team around a click track, cues, and even supplemental backing tracks is extraordinarily useful. I began using them a few years ago, and it has made me…

Matchless is a brand that needs no introduction, from big secular bands like Kings of Leon & Imagine Dragons, to Hillsong's Nigel Hendroff, these sparkling tones have been on numerous albums. I've been using my Matchless Lightning on tour, in church and in the studio for around 4 years, and I thought that it was…

I feel that I must start this article off by saying that normally I hate compression on guitar. Whether it is my ears or user error I have just never been able to dial in a compression pedal that didn't sound muddy and lacked attack and punch. Other guys like Jeffrey Kunde and some of…

In Spring of 2016, JHS announced that they upgraded their popular orange compressor The Pulp-n-Peel to V4 for with some awesome upgrades we have always wanted in the most popular 1st in chain pedal you can buy. I recently got one from JHS and its an amazing little box I knew I needed to share about.…

The Strymon Ojai is a powerful little power supply. It boasts 5 isolated outputs of 500mA each in a small little box that fits in the palm of your hand and weighs less than half a pound when combined with it’s power adapter cable. It’s also completely compatible and expandable so you can link multiple…

This guitar caught me by surprise. I have never been a huge fan of Gibson guitars and never tried an ES335 for that reason. I was at my favorite local guitar shop, Woodsy's Music playing through some Dr. Zs and saw this gorgeous red ES335 hanging on the wall. I thought to myself why on…

All over the internet theres this hype about a certain drive pedal that sells upwards of $1500 USD?? Are you kidding me? No not really... the Klon Centaur is the most coveted drive in history, showing up on eBay and Reverb at prices close to $1500 all the way to 2000 and sometimes more. Let's be…