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Thirty-four pieces across five sections, listed in full. Each section page carries the same material with its photographs.
34 pieces · five sectionsThe Trade8 pieces
| Guitar Center's Chapter 11 and What Came Out the Other Side | The filing made headlines as a retail death notice. |
| The End of the Juszkiewicz Era | Gibson's 2018 bankruptcy, thirty years of accumulated strategy, and what KKR found when it arrived. |
| Fender's Best Two Years and What the Retention Numbers Said | A pandemic sales record collided with a dropout rate Fender had already measured.. |
| Reverb: Bought by Etsy, Sold Back, and What It Means for the Used Market | Two transactions, five years apart, frame everything the used-instrument trade learned about living inside a general platform.. |
| How Andertons Turned the Demo Into the Channel | A Guildford music retailer built a YouTube presence that made the in-store demo redundant — and then made the catalogue redundant too.. |
| The Two Channels That Took the Floor | One is in rural Indiana. |
| What the NAMM Floor Lost | Documents the contraction of the NAMM Show in Anaheim — exhibitor count, floor square footage, and the exit of major manufacturers from in-person debuts between 2018 and 2024 — and asks what the trade show format does that a product video on YouTube does not... |
| The Boutique Pedal Market and Its Particular Logic | Why small-run effects pedals hold prices that the Behringer clone economy cannot touch — and what keeps that floor in place.. |
What Sells Now8 pieces
| The Modeller Replaced the Stack — Here Is When | Amp modellers didn't win a debate. |
| The SM7B Was a Broadcast Microphone Until Podcasters Made It a Product | A studio workhorse spent decades in radio booths and on "Thriller." Then a photograph of Joe Rogan's desk changed its sales trajectory permanently.. |
| Why the Scarlett 2i2 Became the Default Interface | The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 did not win the entry-level interface market by accident — it won it by being consistently correct at every revision.. |
| Eurorack's Growth and the Module Economy | Traces the Eurorack format's expansion from its Doepfer A-100 origins (1995) to a module ecosystem spanning thousands of manufacturers, using ModularGrid registration data and Schneiders Büro sales commentary.. |
| The Used Synth Bubble: What Went Up and What Came Back Down | Reverb's sold-listings data tells a clean story: pandemic-era demand inflated vintage synth prices into territory that reissues and clones have since largely corrected.. |
| Roland Cloud and What an Instrument Subscription Actually Sells | Access, not ownership — and the Roland Cloud model makes that distinction structural.. |
| Behringer's Clone Programme and the Argument It Will Not Settle | Uli Behringer's Music Tribe has built a catalogue of hardware replicas that are, by and large, legal — and that fact alone does not end the conversation.. |
| Dante Quietly Rewired the Live Sound Rack | The analogue multicore is not dead, but the touring engineer who ordered one without thinking is now the exception.. |
Materials and Rules6 pieces
| CITES Appendix II, 2017: The Year Every Rosewood Guitar Needed a Certificate | A single CoP17 vote brought every Dalbergia species under international permit rules — and the instrument trade had roughly six months to figure out what that meant.. |
| Taylor's Crelicam Mill and the Ebony Question | When a guitar maker bought into the source, it found that the ideal it was chasing exists in only eight percent of the harvest.. |
| Sitka Spruce and the Harvest Horizon | The top wood the acoustic industry depends on is still there — but the old-growth portion is not coming back.. |
| The 2011 Gibson Raids and What the Lacey Act Actually Said | When federal agents walked into a guitar factory, the question wasn't whether the wood was real — it was whether the paperwork was.. |
| Torrefied, Roasted, Thermally Modified: What the Labels Mean and What They Do | Three terms, one process — and acoustic-physics research that partly supports the claims. |
| RoHS, Lead-Free Solder, and What It Cost the Repair Bench | A materials directive designed for consumer electronics reached the audio service bench in 2006 and never really left.. |
Working Order6 pieces
| What Fret Dressing Actually Involves | Fret dressing is diagnostic work before it is mechanical work — the tools tell a technician what the neck is doing, not what to do next.. |
| Valve Biasing: What a Technician Sets and Why It Drifts | The quiescent current in an output valve is a moving target — and getting it wrong degrades tone before it damages anything.. |
| Capstan and Pinch-Roller Wear in Tape Machines | Whether the drive train is serviceable decides the restoration quote before anything else does.. |
| What Humidity Does to a Solid-Top Instrument Over Time | Solid tops move. |
| The Right-to-Repair Argument Reaches Audio Hardware | Legislation written for washing machines is landing on mixing consoles, amp modellers, and audio interfaces — and the schematic question is now a policy question.. |
| Serial Numbers as Evidence: How a Register Dates an Instrument | A serial number is a starting point, not a verdict — but the right register makes it a precise one.. |
The Long Objects6 pieces
| The Telecaster and Stratocaster: Two Designs from One Decade | Two guitars born within four years of each other, both still in full production — and neither one improved upon.. |
| The Hammond B-3 and the Cabinet That Completed It | The organ Hammond built to sell churches ended up defining soul, gospel, and rock — and it needed a speaker its maker spent years trying to block.. |
| The SM57 and SM58: One Capsule, Two Jobs, Sixty Years | Two microphones, one transducer, and no fundamental revision since the Johnson administration.. |
| The Neve 1073: A Microphone Preamp That Became a Reference Point | A class-A transformer design from 1970 that still sets the terms for solid-state preamp benchmarking today.. |
| The UA 1176: What an FET Limiter Did That Tube Compressors Did Not | The 1176 arrived in 1967 and solved a speed problem. |
| The TR-808 Failed Commercially. Then It Became the Most Sampled Instrument Ever Made. | Roland pulled the TR-808 from production in 1983 after roughly 12,000 units. |