Recording guitar used to be such a simple affair – either use a 4-track at home or head to your local studio to crank up some amps. Fast forward 30 years and you have the power to record a pro-sounding album in your shed! There’s just one problem though –…
Enter before 30th May for a chance to win an ST-2 Power Stack! Recently we’ve been thrilled to spend time with Gallows’ guitarist and principle songwriter, Lags. Apart from filming some great videos with him, we also got Lags to kindly sign one of his favourite Boss pedals, a new…
Paul White, editor-in-chief of the esteemed Sound on Sound magazine looks at some practical applications of guitar synthesis (hint: it’s not about playing drums on your guitar) The GR-55 combines two of my favourite Roland guitar technologies in a pedal format specifically designed not to intimidate the musician and I…
It’s always great to see bands cross over when they really deserve it. And when Alt J won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize last year it catapulted them into the hearts of the public and made their dreamy synth-studded album, Awesome Wave, one of the essential records of 2012. Since then…
As he gears up for a summer of festivals, we hooked up with Justin Young from The Vaccines With a refreshingly raw garage punk sound, The Vaccines tore up the charts when their debut album, What Else Did You Expect From The Vaccines, was released in 2011. It was the…
We were recently lucky enough to catch up with Bernie Marsden of Whitesnake fame. Apart from interviewing Bernie for the next issue of Roland PowerOn magazine, we also got treated to seeing him jam with an array classic Boss pedals. He took a definite liking to the Boss BD-2 Blues…
If you own a LoopStation your plans for the future should look like this: Enter UK LoopStation Competition Win the UK final and get £750 of Boss and Roland gear Take the crown in the Worldwide Final in L.A and get $3,000 in Boss and Roland gear. Riding high on…
The living-legend on remastering old Smiths records, his favourite Boss pedals, why you should be in a band and the importance of white tea. Interview by Jamie Franklin. Hey Johnny. The first thing I was going to ask you about was The Smiths records that you’ve recently remastered. How did you…
PAUL WHITE, EDITOR IN CHIEF, SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE Despite all the wonderful hi-tech instruments currently available to the musician, the electric guitar still enjoys a unique position at the heart of rock and pop music. When you come to record it however, the problem is that there is no…
We’re inviting owners of Boss gear to take a pic of their beloved setup – the crazier the better – and post them for people to vote. Each month, the snapper with the most votes wins a Boss Compact Pedal of their choice! Click the link to submit a pic…
The Vaccines are the most exciting band in the UK at the moment: their album, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?, is riding high in the charts, their UK tour is sold out and they’re all set to support Arctic Monkeys in the USA. In the midst of all…
We caught up with The Plea in the studio for a one off acoustic performance of ‘Oh Ah Yay’ The band from Ballyliffin have been working with producer Chris Potter (U2, Blur, The Verve, The Rolling Stones), on debut record ‘The Dreamers Stadium’. It’s no wonder then that it sounds…