Gear History

What Were the First Mass-Produced Electronic Instruments?

Studio Tales From Stankonia

Juan Atkins' MS-10 and the Dawn of Techno

The Most Unfashionable Guitar of the '80s

Synth French Connection: Ondioline and Ondes Martenot

The Origins of 6 Afro-Cuban Percussion Instruments

How the AMS RMX16 Defined a Generation of Drum Sounds

How the Clip-On Tuner Came to Be: The Intellitouch Story

10 Times Studio Mistakes Created Music Magic

Natal Drums: A Brief History of Jim Marshall's Drum Company

Video: Did Your Favorite Classic Rockers Use Samples?

The Stylophone: The Enduring Legacy of One of the World's Smallest Pocket Synths

The Synths That Got Away: Overlooked Greats From Yamaha, Sequential & More

When Sonic Youth, Beck & More Made an Album Honoring a Groovebox

6 Vintage British Amps Worth Tracking Down, Part 3

Dolly Jones, the First Recorded Female Jazz Trumpeter

How the Electric Bass Lost Its Head: A Brief History of the Headless Bass

How the SP-404 Came to Dominate the Global Beat Scene

The Synths and Studio Techniques of Devo

What The Beatles Played in Hamburg

Are Self-Painted Guitars Tacky?

The Samplers and Breakbeats Behind '90s Jungle/Drum & Bass

What Rudy Van Gelder Did "Wrong"

Electric Sitars of the Psychedelic Era