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Gear Review • Apogee Digital: Symphony Desktop Interface

Gear Review • Apogee Digital: Symphony Desktop Interface

| March 29, 2022

The most basic function of Apogee Digital’s Symphony Desktop is its capability as a two-channel audio interface. Apogee has a range of portable interfaces available, but Symphony Desktop represents the company’s first offering of its top-quality converters in a desktop format that travels easily. Boasting a pair of Apogee’s flagship Symphony microphone preamps and analog […]

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Gear: March 2014

Gear: March 2014

| March 2, 2014 | 0 Comments

TR-8 State

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December 2013: Gear

December 2013: Gear

| December 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

Pick-up Lines

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Gear: October 2013

Gear: October 2013

| October 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

All aboard: the Night Train

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Gear: September 2013

Gear: September 2013

| September 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

SansAmp makes a better Blonde; Taylor revisits Mahogany…

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Gear: August 2013

Gear: August 2013

| July 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

Goodies from VOX and Seymour Duncan

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Gear: July 2013

Gear: July 2013

| July 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

The “Gotta Stock It” award-winning Peavey Vypyr VIP series

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Gear: June 2013

Gear: June 2013

| June 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

One of Gibson’s latest guitar mash-ups is a collaboration with Soundgarden and Audioslave guitarist/vocalist Chris Cornell.

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Gear: May 2013

Gear: May 2013

| May 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

The question on many musicians’ lips these days probably isn’t, “When is Steve Stevens coming out with a collector’s guitar?”

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Gear: April 2013

Gear: April 2013

| April 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

“I wonder how much I paid for it,” says Eric Clapton, struggling to remember, in a promotional video for Fender, the London shop where he first purchased the iconic guitar in May of 1967.

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Gear: March 2013

Gear: March 2013

| March 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Roland’s Studio-Capture USB 2.0 Audio Interface is the new flagship sequel in the Capture family of computer-based recording interfaces for home studios

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Gear: February 2013

Gear: February 2013

| February 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Fortunately, John Mayer is slightly more dedicated to his guitars than he is to his love life.

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Gear: January 2013

Gear: January 2013

| January 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

Yoko Ono honored John Lennon’s memory by choosing boutique amp manufacturer Fargen Amplification to produce a limited-edition line of John Lennon Guitar Amplifiers and effect pedals.

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Gear: December 2012

Gear: December 2012

| November 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

Gear takes a look at this year’s batch of “Made In The U.S.A.” musical gifts. While it’s easy to get enticed by cheaper-priced Asian-made wares, smaller U.S.-based manufacturers (two right here in Chicagoland!) are taking advantage of changing customer tastes and favorable exchange rates by offering higher quality domestic-made products. Here are a few of […]

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Gear: November 2012

Gear: November 2012

| October 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

Fender Guitars Jaguar 50th Anniversary The Fender Jaguar electric guitar is 50 years old. Wow. Unveiled in 1962, it was the last and arguably, most criticized of the guitar maker’s four signature electric guitars to be introduced, and, as it turned out, the last major “six-stringer” by Leo Fender whose name is still adorned on […]

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