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The 5 Best Acoustic Bass Guitars: Tone and Value Compared

Discovering the best acoustic bass guitars for rich tones, great playability and even better value. Here to inspire your unplugged sessions.

My Music Highlights of 2024: Musical Moments of the Year

If you're a music fan, 2024 was packed with releases, live shows, and interviews throughout the year. Here are some of my music highlights.

Best Synths of 2023: UDO, Roland, Behringer and More!

We look back at a phenomenal year and reveal our pick for the best synths of 2023 with Roland, UDO, Expressive E, Behringer and Groove Synthesis.

Best VST Plug-ins 2021: Our Top 10 Effects and Instruments this year!

Here, I present the 10 VST plug-ins and instruments that I felt most fond of in 2021. This list comes from the heart!

Best Eurorack filters: 8 filters you should have in your rack

There are many reasons for choosing a filter; price, sound, popularity, but why not start with what we think are the best filter modules for cutting tones and slicing frequencies in your Eurorack.

NAMM 2020: The Coolest New Guitars by Fender, Gretsch, Eastman, D’Angelico, Cort, Novo

The Winter NAMM Show had some stunning guitars on show - here are our Coolest New Guitars picks from the billions of new models announced. Some of these had us phoning our bank managers....

Top 7 Free Amp Sims: The best freeware virtual guitar amp plug-ins

Isn't it amazing how good the quality of amp sims and virtual guitar amplifiers has become? Here are 7 great-sounding free amp sims that won't cost you a thing - download 'em now!

Top 7 Free Reverbs: The best freeware plug-ins that sound as good as hardware

No matter what style of music you play or produce, reverb is an infinitely useful tool for any number of applications. Whether you need to add a little space to a dry track or throw on something to take your ...

Top 5 Hardware Synthesizers of 2018 by Moog, Behringer, Korg, Dreadbox, Arturia

Which hardware synthesizers really took us to new places in 2018? Were there any that really stood out above the crowd for you? But with so much awesome gear out there choosing 5 is a bit of a tall order.

Top 5 Guitars of 2018 by Fender, PRS, Ibanez, Reverend and Lucem

What a year it's been for guitars - so difficult to choose the 5 best! We had a go anyway: here are Jef's Top 5 guitars of 2018, chosen for their unique properties and interesting designs.

Jef’s Top 3 Bits of Guitar Gear and Gadgets at NAMM 2018

Our favourite three cool, exciting new guitar related products for 2018 all revealed at this year's Winter NAMM Show, with gear by Fender, Line 6 and Game Changer Audio.

Top 5 Best Condenser Microphones 2017

2017 saw microphone manufacturers of all sizes introducing new condensers of wildly different prices. The trend, though, is towards technology growing more affordable. Here are our top 5 favorite condenser ...

Top 5 Audio Interfaces for 2016

Choosing the best audio interface can be a really difficult decision. Here's our selection of the Top 5 Audio Interfaces out this year, that we recommend.