Musical Instruments

Give the musician in your life the ability to perform, or the ability to record their performances with these suggestions.

Roland always impresses at NAMM, and this year is no exception thanks to many different new products including keyboards, beat making tools, an awesome digital woodwind instrument, and lots of Boss items.

Learn about guitar strings and how to tune an acoustic, electric, and bass guitar with or without a guitar tuner.

Advances in technology have made it easier than ever before for the casual musician to write and record their own music. The iPad is a user friendly and portable addition to this.

The solo podcast interface Vocaster One from Focusrite features great sound and a simple design for new and experienced podcasters.

If, like most home or project studio owners, you’ve opted to use a computer as the center of your studio, then you’ll most likely be hearing a lot about audio interfaces.    For the typical home user, the sound card on your computer is just fine. Unfortunately, for a studio owner, you’ll very quickly find that the onboard sound system is inadequate for your needs. They’re typically noisy, they lack inputs and outputs you’ll most likely need and they can be inefficient in the way they translate analog and digital audio.   That’s where audio interfaces come into the picture. An audio interface is a piece of dedicated hardware that you connect to your computer. In the most basic sense, the interface is the audio middleman between you (the real world) and the computer. 

  The Fender FA-300CE Acoustic-Electric guitar package bundles together everything that you need to produce a great acoustic tone in a live setting and in a recorded format. The FA-300CE is a solid acoustic guitar with great tone and playability for those wanting to learn the guitar, just starting to learn, and also for those intermediate players wanting to take the next step. The included Slide interface and accompanying software makes it incredibly easy to learn thanks to the Rock Prodigy software and to record and edit your music via the AmpliTtube software.

The console piano market is very competitive. This is probably why we have such great choices as Roland's FP10.

2015 is a very exciting year in the guitar geek and gear-head musical community: Fender announced at NAMM 2015 that it will be releasing extremely limited editions of unique-looking and unique-sounding electric guitars.  And the “best” news? Best Buy will carry some of those beauties! Let’s take a closer look.

The Yamaha Gigmaker electric guitar essentials pack includes everything we need to discover the electric guitar. For beginners, it is a great place to start.