Suzanne D’Addario Brouder
Having been privileged to attend the NAMM Music Education Advocacy DC Fly-In three times in the past several years, I am acutely a...
Dawn Birr has spent the majority of her professional career with Sennheiser and Neumann, and she’s loved every minute of it. She has worked hard, overcome adver...
If anyone could be said to epitomize the best elements of the music business, Seymour Duncan’s Max Gutnik would have a strong case for the distinction. Not only...
Another NAMM Show has come and gone, but, somehow, the wonder never fades. It’s hard to be jaded about a show as massive as NAMM, with so many great products to...
Sometimes, the simplest products are the most innovative ones. Case in point: the SledgePad. It’s a bass drum damper that’s made of acoustic foam, providing dee...
Every bass player wants big, rump-thumping sound. But, for touring musicians, achieving that kind of sound often means lugging around a bunch of heavy bass cabs...
If you spend enough time wandering the NAMM Show floor, the odds are good that you’ll come across some unusual-looking guitars. Many times, such guitars are mor...
The one thing all the speaker companies at NAMM have in common is an appreciation of high-quality sound, because many of the companies are passion projects for ...
Fuzzrocious Pedals, another family-owned company that was showing off its full line of boutique effects pedals at NAMM, is run by the husband-and-wife team of R...
There were several boutique effects pedal companies on hand at NAMM, all of them hoping to ride effects pedals’ recent wave of popularity. One of those companie...
