Guides · Oct 30, 2026
Bass needs much more power than guitar to be heard: 15 to 30 watts for home, 100 to 200 watts to play with a drummer, 300 watts or more for gigs. Then choose between a combo and a head with a cabinet.
Stories · Oct 29, 2026
Four interface brands, four territories. Arturia wins the cheap USB boxes, Universal Audio Thunderbolt, RME PCIe cards and Focusrite networked audio. The world's best-known interface sits outside the top 10.
Guides · Oct 29, 2026
Every drummer needs three cymbals: 14-inch hi-hats, a 16 to 18-inch crash and a 20 to 22-inch ride. Then the alloy decides the sound and most of the price: brass for starting out, B8 for value, B20 for the long run.
Prices · Oct 29, 2026
Drums and percussion had 201 real price cuts at Thomann in October and 110 real rises. Electronic and mid-priced kits mostly got cheaper; cymbals split by brand.
Stories · Oct 29, 2026
Four amp brands, four territories. Fender owns tube combos, Marshall heads and big cabinets, Orange small heads and cabs, Boss modeling amps. And the #1 tube combo is none of them.
Guides · Oct 29, 2026
To start playing bass you need a 4-string bass, a small bass amp (a guitar amp won't do), a cable, a strap and a tuner. A complete Squier starter set with all of it costs about $420.
Guides · Oct 29, 2026
A French horn costs from $426 for a junior Bb horn to $11,926 for a professional double horn. Most serious students end up on a double horn, and those start at about $1,000 in plastic and $4,700 for a Yamaha.
Guides · Oct 29, 2026
Weighted (hammer action) keys feel like a piano and are for learning and playing piano. Semi-weighted keys add some resistance to a light synth key: the middle ground for producers who also play.
Guides · Oct 29, 2026
Most adults should start on a concert ukulele: the classic sound with a little more room for the fingers. Soprano is the smallest and cheapest, tenor is fuller, and baritone is tuned like a guitar.
Prices · Oct 29, 2026
Sennheiser moved 36 prices at Thomann in four days, 18 down and 18 up. Most of it happened inside one product line: Evolution Wireless Digital sets got cheaper in one frequency range and dearer in another, so identical microphones now differ by up to €91.
News · Oct 29, 2026
Zoom's new floor unit mixes 30 neural amp and pedal models with its usual effects, loads NAM captures and runs on its own battery. It is priced against IK's ToneX Pedal, a long way below the Neural DSP and Kemper stompboxes.
Stories · Oct 28, 2026
Three synth brands, three strategies. Korg dominates big keyboards, Roland the grooveboxes, and Behringer fills the budget end and Eurorack. The #1 general synthesizer belongs to none of them.
