Monitoring the Situation: Reference Monitor Sales in 2017
The results of this month’s dealer survey – sent out to over 200 MI retailers – suggest that studio monitors represent a fairly steady slice of the overall musical gear…
Monitoring the Situation: Reference Monitor Sales in 2017
The results of this month’s dealer survey – sent out to over 200 MI retailers – suggest that studio monitors represent a fairly steady slice of the overall musical gear…
The Great Piano Pushback: How Vienna International’s Joe DeFio is Expanding the Presence of Hailun and Petrof in the U.S. Market
Adaptation and a solid expertise of your field have always been the keys to the longevity of a career or independent store, and after 50 years in the business of…
FEATURE: Ortega Guitars
Any given Ortega Guitar has seen more of the world than most people – perhaps even more than the person playing it. While rooted in Spain, Ortega Guitars are designed in…
Ortega Guitars: Putting a New, Global Spin on a Spanish Legacy
Any given Ortega Guitar has seen more of the world than most people – perhaps even more than the person playing it. While rooted in Spain, Ortega Guitars are designed in…
Q&A: Daisy Rock Guitars
MMR sits down with Daisy Rock Guitars’ Tish Ciravolo to discuss why she started the brand, how the company has evolved, her recent partnership with KMC Music, and why the…
Rebel Girl: Tish Ciravolo of Daisy Rock Guitars
MMR sits down with Daisy Rock Guitars’ Tish Ciravolo to discuss why she started the brand, how the company has evolved, her recent partnership with KMC Music, and why the…
Understanding the Power of Simplicity and the Empowerment of ‘No!’
It took a 9 lb. puppy to finally sober me into accepting and employing the tactic that every business book, self-help book, and dog training book puts as their first…
Museumification, A Newish Word: Fortunately, it’s not a Dirty One When it Comes to Guitars
We’re familiar with the stages of grief and the arc of the typical pop star career. At each of a number of by now well-defined points along the way, you…
Bring it on Home
“New York’s most storied recording studios have been vanishing, victims of more accessible digital recording techniques and escalating real estate prices,” noted a September 5, 2017 feature in The New…
Earthquaker signs Japanese Yamaha exclusive
Yamaha has become the exclusive distributor of EarthQuaker Devices effects pedals in Japan. EarthQuaker started in 2004 in Akron, Ohio, by musician and entrepreneur Jamie Stillman. Since then, EarthQuaker Devices pedals have been…
Hughes & Kettner launches acoustic amp
Now shipping across the UK an ROI, Hughes & Kettner has entered the acoustic world with the release of era 1 - a premium 250-watt acoustic amplifier built at the firm’s headquarters in Sankt…