Understanding: gain staging

Michael Watts explores solutions to the challenge of amplifying acoustic guitars over the decades – are we nearly there yet?

If your music system includes a turntable, then no other component is as important to the sound of your vinyl as the humble phono stage, aka phono preamplifier. This vital part of the chain is what ma

Become absorbed in the journey, not the destination

The quality of your astro images isn’t just down to your processing skills. Key is the relationship between your telescope’s optics, your camera’s imaging chip and your local atmospheric ‘seeing’ cond

OUR TEST BLONDE version of the Tone Master Deluxe Reverb features the modelling combo series’ first major new software with the IR Manager via the v2 firmware update. It promises to add extra function

WHEN THE NAME was announced for the first piece of signature gear from Deftones guitarist Chino Moreno, we couldn’t have been the only ones who thought “chorus pedal for an effect named after ‘Digital