Profiles

Marianne Faithfull | Photo: Hedi Slimane
Covered #8: Marianne Faithfull – As Tears Go By
what does your audience hear if you don't have a full-time, well-trained sound engineer with his own equipment? Are you sure that the gentleman behind the desk, who you met for the first time, knows what kind of sound you want out there? | Photo: Keagan Henman (Unsplash)
Tubes vs. Algorithms #3: Praxis and Future Development
Photo: Dena Flows
Covered #7: Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
Negative feedback also reduces gain of the amplifier. The well-known "Presence” is frequency-dependent feedback with the possibility of controlling its intensity by turning a knob. | Photo: Ross Papas (Unsplash)
Tube Amps vs. Algorithms #2: Equipment
The most famous version of Sweet Home Chicago is the one played by The Blues Brothers – Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, in the 1980 film of the same name. | Photo: The Hollywood Reporter
Covered #6: Robert Johnson/The Blues Brothers: Sweet Home Chicago
Tube or digital? This is the question that has split brothers, lovers, parents and children, and friends. | Photo: Markus Spiske (Unsplash)
Tube Amps vs. Algorithms #1: History
Louis Armstrong in 1953 | Photo: fotograf World-Telegram
Covered #5: Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World
The currently very successful cover version of the song "Blackbird" (with a slightly changed title "Blackbiird") was recorded by the American singer Beyoncé. | Photo: Raph_PH, by CCA 2.0
Covered #4: The Beatles – Blackbird
In Prague Wardruna are "among their fellows". | Photo: Jiří Platzer
Wardruna: Touring Europe with Music Rooted in Norse Mythology
Not only is this song one of the most beautiful on the Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul, but it's definitely one of their best | Photo: Roger (Flickr)
Covered #3: The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
This year marks forty years since Leonard Cohen first released "Hallelujah" on Various Positions. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Covered #2: Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Model Jazz 17' from Procházka workshop | Photo: Karel Pazderka
Legendary and Mythical Guitars #10: Procházka Custom Guitars
As for materials, the Touchstone guitars feature Alaskan Sitka spruce on the top and rosewood on the back and sides. | Photo: Facebook Bourgeois Guitars
Legendary and Mythical Guitars #9: Bourgeois Guitars
Legendary and Mythical Guitars #8: Rick Turner Guitars
Halabica Guitars primarily produces exclusive acoustic guitars, but it can also make high-precision electric guitars, both with its own design and in shapes that have become kind of an industry standard. | Photo: facebook Halabica Guitars
Legendary and Mythical Guitars #7: Halabica Guitars
"When Elton John glanced at Taupin's writing on the London Underground, he instantly realized he had found his songwriting partner." | Photo: Universal City Records (Public Domain, via Wikipedia)
Bernie Taupin: Songwriting Soulmate of Elton John