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"One Year Out: Has Gibson Really Turned Over A New Leaf?"
Henry J. has been out for a year. What's happened with Gibson in the time since?

One Year Out: Has Gibson Really Turned Over A New Leaf? When I first started writing this article, I thought I was going to be rehashing some old material about Gibson (under owner Henry Juszkiewicz) and one particular completely crappy business practice: "The Bumblebee Capacitors". But while doing research for that article (the bumblebee capacitors deba...

What Happened to Rock Music?
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Republish of a great article we found on http://Quora.com . Discusses not only participants, but economics.

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The Epic Releases of Beastmaker Our reporting on this is way too late in coming... Well, not the release yesterday. Let's just say that Trevor Church, the organizing force around Beastmaker put together an incredible release campaign - In June. It seems to have culminated yesterday. Beastmaker just released EP #9:

Standard Tom Tom Sizing

Standard tom toms Here are the modern Standard tom tom sizes. Most new kits use these dimensions.

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DIY Drum Shells Being a woodworker of sorts, I have been itching lately to make my own drum kit. There are several options for making your own kit. You can buy shells already made and add the hardware and finish or you can attempt to make the shells yourself. A few months ago, I decided to order the shells already....

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M117R Flanger - Thermionic Studios The MXR M117R Flanger. This is a flanger that you've undoubtedly heard on all kinds of recordings; In most cases, you just not able recognize it. The artist who really made a unique sound associated with the MXR Flanger, and in turn made it famous was Eddie Van Halen. This effect can be and has been...

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"Warped Plywood", or "How to Build an Instrument Service Pad From Scrap", Part 2 Here's the 2nd half of our "how to make an instrument work pad from warped plywood" article. Candidly, we think it's a little boring, but we also think the information that's provided in the article, should you retain it(!) will help with your possible future musical performance endeavors. Dealing w...

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"Warped Plywood", or "How to Build an Instrument Service Pad From Scrap", Part 1 The impetus for this article came about from a scrap piece of s**g carpet that I'd collected and the happenstance of some pieces of plywood that were slightly bent but that were workable and that came my way in the past 30 days or so. "Huh?", is what I hear you saying in your head right now. Let's t...

Just finished our wiki entry on the Envelope Filter and Fixed Wah pedal:
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We hope musicians and gearheads find it helpful!

Envelope Filter Fixed Wah - Thermionic Studios The BYOC Envelope Filter Fixed Wah pedal is a pretty interesting beast. Its closest relative is probably the discontinued MXR Q-Zone. The Q-Zone replicates the signature Michael Schencker (and a few others) sound of a wah-wah pedal that's been turned on, but left with the treadle in a location on th...

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Just finished our wiki article on the (Build Your Own Clone) Armstrong Twin pedal. Check it out! :)

Armstrong Twin - Thermionic Studios

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Firefox Blocking Twitter Feed People (mostly us!) have been having a problem with Firefox blocking the Twitter feed on various websites (OURS!) that aren't "Twitter". We ran into a similar problem ourselves. This has to do with the tracking protection feature that's been updated on Firefox. It took some digging but we've figured...

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Just finished our wiki article on the (Build Your Own Clone) Armstrong Twin pedal. Check it out! :)

Armstrong Twin - Thermionic Studios The BYOC Armstrong Twin, as a pedal, is an homage to Dan Armstrong who created a line of color-coded and labeled effects in the 1970s. The Armstrong Twin combines two of the most popular effects of the Dan Armstrong line: