Love and Sockets Leni Stern’s Lightweight Workhorses Two combos are slimmed down for air travel, but beefy enough for a global musical adventurer. And for the ngoni.Ted DrozdowskiJul 06, 2021
Love and Sockets Love and Sockets: A Crush on an Orange Crush Pro 120 How blues firebrand Joanna Connor gets tube-like tone from a durable, solid-state combo.Ted DrozdowskiMay 11, 2021
Love and Sockets Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Tone How an old Silvertone 1484 became the foundation of this roots-guitar power player's sound.Ted DrozdowskiMay 03, 2021
Love and Sockets Tripping the Heavy Fantastic with a Hot Rod Deluxe With Public Enemy, guitarist Khari Wynn uses a Marshall, but a humble Fender workhorse helps carry his own transcendent compositions.Ted DrozdowskiDec 08, 2020
Guitarists "I Don't Have Any Regular Settings" Fantastic Negrito on the “freaky” Orange amp with as many moods as his Grammy-winning tunes.Ted DrozdowskiOct 16, 2020
Reviews A Rock ’n’ Roll Survivor Beats the Odds Again Time and a tornado can’t stop this 18-watt Gibson GA-20 Minuteman—or the little Nashville guitar shop that’s selling it.Ted DrozdowskiJul 12, 2020
Reviews A High Five for an Underappreciated Fender Handwired by amp guru Paul Rivera, this ’80s Concert rules for everything from blues to rock, and Americana.Ted DrozdowskiMar 20, 2020
Amps Peter Green's 1964 Marshall JTM45 Which also happened to be used by David Gilmour, Bob Marley, the Police, the Who, the Rolling Stones, and more!Ted DrozdowskiJan 29, 2020
Reviews Love and Sockets: A Busy Nashville Producer’s Solid-State Sound Dave Coleman’s Quilters and Pathfinders are the foundation of his hard-working tone.Ted DrozdowskiDec 06, 2019
Reviews Love and Sockets: The Dharma of Producer Dave Cobb’s Dumble Ultra-Phonix A much-recorded, highly coveted amp that speaks the language of legendary tone.Ted DrozdowskiOct 06, 2019
