We get asked for all kinds of things over at the Stringjoy HQ, and we'd love to be able to flip a switch make all of that possible. Since we have to carefully evaluate a huge variety of factors for each and every line we come out with... These things…

Most of us musicians have a giant pile of various types of cables all over the place. Nothing is worse than your microphone cables getting wrapped around your instrument cable and turning what should be a quick setup into a hair pulling nightmare! Fortunately, there is a simple solution! Check…

Just because I’m not a particularly good metal/hardcore vocalist doesn’t mean I’m not going to give it the ole college try anyhow! This is Death Whistle. It’s a collaboration between Electrofaustus and Fuzzrocious Pedals. Death Whistle is a microphone/delay circuit that is designed to be played and manipulated in real…

We all know that Leo Fender sold his company to CBS in 1965. And we’ve all heard about the problems that possibly came from that particular decision. But we never really discuss how much money Fender received from his namesake company, Fender Guitars and what that might look like today.…

My Co-worker at Halton Caterpillar here in Portland gave me this in 2008 and this is the first time I ever plugged it in to my interface direct. This little Marshall amplifier is a pretty surprising thing when you feed it big, chunky chords!

The Benson Amps Chimera Plug-in suite by Mixwave totally changed how I thought about amp sims. I’ve been playing with it for months now and it is by far the most inspiring plug-in that I have. If you’ve ever been curious about the Benson sound, but hesitant to take that…

What’s a day without a bit of random riffage amirite? I was just messing around with my Les Paul and some plug-ins and figured “Why not record it?” So here ya go. Just me practicing some noodles. Hope you enjoy!

System Of A Down were one of the most massive influences on me. Their records changed everything I thought I understood about heavy music. Toxicity did not leave my Discman for over a year. So the fact that I got to sit down with SOAD bassist/songwriter Shavo Odadjian for 30…

When I got back from Sweetwater's Gearfest I posted a short teaser video on Instagram of me making a bunch of racket through their massive wall of Marshall amplifiers that they had set up for the event. That apparently was the ringing of the dinner bell for every internet "know-it-all"…

I think I found some magic here! The Origin Effects Halcyon pushing the 1981 DRV with the Universal Audio Golden in stereo is just doom/shoegaze madness in the best way. Crank your speakers, or put on your headphones And let the seven strings of destruction fill your ear cavities with…

Or at least, I usually do! Origin Effects pulled off some fun tricks here that I really enjoyed! They also taught me a few things that bug me about the OG version. I will be going over those in the full video that I’ll be publishing later. If you’d like…

I was randomly ill with some weird thing last week. The first sign I was on the mend was when I picked up my Grez Mendocino and felt well enough to noodle around. Here I’m running into the Wampler Pedals Velvet Fuzz and the Benson Chimera Plugin (with a little…

James Santiago is a super cool dude who is absolutely instrumental in so many facets of this crazy industry. There is a very good chance that you have put your hands (or feet) on products that James has had a hand in. Seriously. This dude has been AROUND! This is…

Here we go good people! I am back from Gearfest with a whole pile of content to hand over to you! On this episode of the podcast, I sat down with Jason Mays from @Working Class Music, Emily Harris from @Get Offset, and Zach Broyles from @Dipped In Tone. We…

A while back I had Big K.O. on an episode of The Tone Mob Podcast where we talked about his life, musical career and of course, his gear. Through that conversation I learned that he was having a custom amp built by my friend Chris of Benson Amps. (Listeners of…