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Album Reviews: How We Score Records and Why
What our rating measures, what it deliberately leaves out, and how to read it.
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Instruments, amps and pedals tested over weeks, and albums reviewed for the playing on them, each carrying a clear recommendation and its reasoning.
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How to Read a Music Review Like a Critic
Taste tells you what a writer likes. Substance tells you whether you should trust them. Here is how to tell the two apart.
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How to Test a Used Amp Before You Buy
A plain-spoken checklist for power tubes, pots, speakers, hum, and the red flags that should end the conversation.
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How to Choose a Guitar Humidifier: Specs, Prices, Trade-Offs
Two-way packets or a refillable soundhole tube? A buyer's primer built entirely from the makers' own documentation and published federal wood-moisture data.
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Electric-Acoustic Guitars: Sourced Guide
Four acoustic-electric guitars compared from manufacturer spec sheets, centered on Fishman and LR Baggs pickup systems.
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Capos Compared: A Sourced Guide
Four capo mechanisms compared from manufacturer documentation, with clamping specs, radii and dated street prices.