PG contributor Tom Butwin explores the versatile Pulze Mini from Hotone. The size of a smartphone, the Pulze mini sports full-featured modeling engine, extensive app control, and even a built-in USB audio interface. With 52 amp models, 48 cabinet simulations, 20 user-loaded IR slots, 7-slot effects chains, and up to 11.5 hours of battery life on headphones, you can practice anywhere, anytime.
PG contributor Tom Butwin explores the versatile Pulze Mini from Hotone. The size of a smartphone, the Pulze mini sports full-featured modeling engine, extensive app control, and even a built-in USB audio interface. With 52 amp models, 48 cabinet simulations, 20 user-loaded IR slots, 7-slot effects chains, and up to 11.5 hours of battery life on headphones, you can practice anywhere, anytime.
Larkin Poe’s Rebecca and Megan Lovell join Axe Lords to talk guitars, their new album Bloom, their blood-harmony superpowers, and how building a recording studio with your spouse is a terrific way to test the structural integrity of a relationship—not to mention your credit card limit.
Rebecca walks us through how she became the reluctant lead singer, why she mostly relies on the bridge humbucker in her Strat, and how open tunings both elevate your riffs and ruin your life onstage. Meanwhile, Megan traces her lap-steel journey from a back-breaking vintage Rickenbacker to her signature model Electro-Liege. Warning: You may think you suck at music after she rips an improvised episode outro for us!
Axe Lords is presented in partnership with Premier Guitar. Hosted by Dave Hill, Cindy Hulej and Tom Beaujour. Produced by Studio Kairos. Executive Producer is Kirsten Cluthe. Edited by Justin Thomas at Revoice Media. Engineered by Patrick Samaha. Recorded at Kensaltown East. Artwork by Mark Dowd. Theme music by Valley Lodge.
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She's already earned Mandolin Player of the Year six times. She's been nominated for five Grammys (including four praising her 2025 album A Tip Toe High Wire). And now she's earned a pair of fantastic F-style Gibson mandolins. What else could be on the horizon?
Well, in this performance and interview filmed at the Gibson Garage Nashville, host John Bohlinger goes back to Sierra's East Tennessee roots, getting to know the bonafide badass bluegrasser through her musical upbringing (performing and learning in circles, not classrooms. Then they explore her connection to a special 2009 Gibson Master Model mandolin that's logged thousands of hours and was the inspiration for her signature mandos. Finally, the positive, upbeat, inspiring musician concludes with gratitude for her independent success and overwhelming acceptance into the bluegrass community before encouraging fans (new and old) to join along for the ride.
