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...
If you count yourself among the world’s vinylphiles, you’ve got to hand it to Rock ‘N’ Rolla and its mission to bring the joys of vinyl to a new generation of m...
Another company showing off a seemingly simple, but in fact game changing, new drum accessory was TripStick Pro, helmed by Pirate Pete Asarisi. As Pirate Pete d...
Wandering around Hall E, I couldn’t help but notice a huge crowd gathering around the uke section. So, I surveyed the scene and—shwing!—there was Tia Carrere. T...
Instrument cables are rarely head turners at a show like NAMM, but there was an awful lot of rubbernecking going on around the R&M Tone Technology booth. Th...
The 2016 Christmas Season (and, in retail terms, it’s hard to call it anything else) is in the books and, from my perspective, it was more positive than negativ...
Editor’s Note: Gabriel O’Brien’s regular column took a break last month so that he could write his cover story about Reverb.com.
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