Muziker Blog

Getting tickets to popular events can be a real challenge, but if you've got the right tips and a bit of preparation, you can definitely do it, even if tickets usually sell out in minutes. Here are a few tricks that can help you get your hands on tickets before they sell out.

You hear a Precision Bass on most records of the last 70 years without realising it. Here is how it came about, who played one, and whether maple really sounds different from rosewood.

Eight vinyl releases that have just landed. Adéla's debut on Capitol Records, a Linkin Park live album from São Paulo, a new Anthrax record, the legendary Alice In Chains unplugged set, and anniversary editions from George Michael, Phil Collins and Beyoncé.

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock. Sir Psycho Sexy by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder. Behind that quacking sound sits one box that was left over from a dismantled synthesizer. In the first episode of StompStory, bass player Matej Krivánek explains where the envelope follower came from and plays you everything we have in stock at Muziker, from sixty-euro tiddlers to the Aguilar.

Punk was not born in a studio or at a conservatory. It was born in a dive bar on the Bowery and in London rehearsal rooms where nobody could really play. These are the ten albums that turned it into a genre.

You do not own as many microphones as your interface has inputs. You tracked drums at rehearsal on a couple of mics and on Monday morning the project sounds like pure sadness. Across three studio lab episodes, Jakub Hríbik of Pulp Studio takes it from the top: recording with one microphone, finishing the sound in your DAW, converting drums to MIDI and finally editing a multitrack to the grid.

The best pedalboard is a computer. We go through five steps, from setting the input on your interface and getting the effect order right to the parallel effect paths few people can afford in hardware.

The djembe is a West African hand drum you can play a first rhythm on straight out of the box. We go through the four decisions that drive both price and sound: size, head, shell material and tuning system.

Heavy metal was not born in America but in Birmingham. In 1965 a press in a sheet metal factory took the tips of two fingers off seventeen year old Tony Iommi's right hand. Doctors told him he was finished with the guitar. He made thimbles from a washing-up liquid bottle, strung banjo strings and tuned down. These are the ten albums British metal stands on.