Last year, I did one of my regular Google trawls for new MIDI devices and came up with a crowdfunding page for a hands free

Like most guitarists, my rig is in a steady state of development. My aims are twofold –  to have powerful control over the sound and

A musicians’ life is, for many, a constant stream of development – new gear moves in, old gear is left on the shelf. I’m no

Designed by Tim Orr (who also designed the Transcendent 2000 monophonic synthesiser and for the EMS company) in the late 70s, this delay was available as a

This is a highly flexible (and cheap) midi device controller – I’ve tried several other similar devices and none come close in terms of value

The Alesis airFX offers fifty of their well-established effects, with three (fixed) parameters that can be altered for any given patch. In this respect it’s

Here is some general info about gear I have used when I was using hardware solutions. The Lexicon Jamman was bought from a wonderful looping

I’ve always enjoyed listening to the smallest of guitar-like instruments, but never enough to actually spend hard cash on one.  Imagine my delight today when

Having worked on Travis picking for a couple of years, I’m making progress. However, I recently realised that I’m not consistently using 1 finger per