Tired of trying to remember where you put your pick? The Pick Stick is designed to hold up to 30 guitar picks.

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Steinberg has announced that it has released a set of updates for Cubase 5, Cubase Studio 5, MR816 CSX, MR816 X and CC121.

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Novation is now shipping the new SL Mk II range of Controller Keyboards featuring Automap 3 technology.

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discoDSP has released version 2.0 Beta of Vertigo for Mac OS X (for Intel ONLY).

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QuikQuak has released a new major version of Crowd Chamber and updated Glass Viper to v1.20.

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In my earlier post on guitar instruction methods I talk about why it is best to get private lessons from a good teacher. I still think this is the ideal approach for learning electric guitar, for the same reasons that I listed before.? That is to say, that having a teacher right there in front of

Read the review here: Learning Electric Guitar without a teacher

ESP was one of the first large shops to cater to the “Super Strat” customer. By focusing on the features most beloved by headbangers and setting fire to “vintage values,” they quickly established themselves as a first-class custom shop with the ability to translate the needs of heavy metal-influenced players into solid, yet glitzy instruments.

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Dressed in glossy black armor, this pedal doesn’t have a tone knob.

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Focusrite is now shipping the new Saffire PRO 24 DSP, a 16 Input / 8 Output FireWire audio interface that features VRM, in addition to real-time DSP-powered tracking plug-in.

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ePipes has announced the release of The Fred Morrison Sound, a virtual bagpipe system in the form of a VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

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