Love and Sockets Melvin Gibbs’ Sound: Brooklyn Meets Angry How a bass adventurer discovered his ideal tone with a Mesa/Boogie Big Block 750.Ted DrozdowskiDec 22, 2021
Love and Sockets Cedric Burnside Wins the Arms Race In a one-man battle for louder, a Fender Tone Master Twin and Ampeg Portaflex duplex rig triumphs.Ted DrozdowskiNov 07, 2021
Love and Sockets Practice Amp, My Ass! Nashville's Tim Carroll turns a mite of a Vox into a mighty rock 'n' roll dragon slayer. Ted DrozdowskiAug 22, 2021
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
Guitarists Loud, Fat, and Flat-Out Awesome How Indigenous’ Mato Nanji gets roaring Hendrix-inspired tones from his Fender 75s.Ted DrozdowskiJan 25, 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
