The Egyptian Lover's interview skills rank up there with legends like Ric Flair and The Ultimate Warrior. His DJ credentials, however, are unlimited.  

I'm not sure which is cooler, an 8-bit percussion module for the original NES or powered macaroni. ElectroKraft makes one or the other. Read the article to find out which!  

Voice of Addiction's latest recording aims to be like the sun: big and warm. Ian (bass guitar / vocals) and Jeff (guitar) talk about recording onto tape at Engine Studios.  

PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2008.5 contains all of the features of Band-in-a-Box plus over 50 new ones. It's built to work faster and more efficiently.  

Gemini took their popular budget-line PS-626x mixer and dipped it in some caustic nuclear waste, just 'cause they were board. It seemed all in good fun, but soon the mixer started exhibiting strange. . . effects (flanger, filter, etc.).  

Joe Vortech ran into L.A's Drumcell at Movement 08 and chatted him up about the components of his live gear setup. Some DJs may be protective about the secrets of their trade, but Drumcell was happy to share his live philosophy with Gearwire.  

The new "Shred" V and Explorer guitars from Gibson are part of the manufacturer's "Guitar Of The Week" campaign, and will effortless slaughter any models in the Gibson "Guitar Of The Week" series.  

The key to most audiophiles' hearts is Mellotron, and AudioWarrior brings that to the table with Studio Tron Plugin. You can use the sampled and cleaned up versions of the instrument used by basically every stellar band over the last 40 years.  

Visual Sound, makers of home plate shaped effects pedals, endorses Spencer Gibb, and the pairing couldn't be more natural. Keeping their amps clean and letting their effects pedals do the dirtying work is exactly what Spencer Gibb of 54 Seconds was seeking.  

With the growing ease of recording decent sounding tracks at home, recording studios have to maintain quality to experience success. Voice of Addiction talks about experiencing success at Engine Studios whose client list is impressive in its diversity, featuring everyone from Modest Mouse to Three Inches of Blood to the legally entangled R. Kelly  

At Movement 08, Bill Holland caught up with Newcleus, a first wave electro group out of Brooklyn. They talked about how their setup has changed since back in the day and the benefits and drawbacks of marriage.  

If we've (Americans) learned anything from the movies, it's that Russian Soviets love nothing nothing more than willful destruction and techno. For example: Audio Damage Kombinat -- a mondo-distortion plugin with an old school USSR aesthetic.  

If you ever wanted to occasionally descend with trepidation into Dante's ninth circle, you should check out Galbanum's Piscis Rapture Expansion. Galbanum says that's just one of the things it can do.  

Ueberschall brings a Mediterranean feel to their catalog with the release of Balkan Lines. Featuring a wide range of influences and instruments, Balkan Lines plants the bulk of Southeastern Europe into one sample library.  

M-Audio turns 20 this year, and to celebrate this momentous anniversary, they're releasing some anniversary edition products. That means the MIDISPORT 4x4 and 2x2 get some new makeovers.  

As the saxophonist for experimental metal/jazz/psychedelic rock Yakuza, Bruce Lamont has tussled long and hard with the fiend we call feedback. For live performances, he's enlisted the help of a compact Mackie DFX-8 to help tame the recursive beast.  

Bill Holland and his trusty sidekicks Joe Vortech and Hilary Rawk stormed the Detroit Movement festival last week. Here's a sneak peek at what the team covered.  

If plugins were poker chips, Audio Ease knows it has a good hand with the release of their All In Bundle. It features nine of Audio Ease's solid plugins in one place, but it's only available for Mac.  

Nightmare of You, headlining the BANGTOUR!, stopped in Chicago where Gearwire's Bill Holland cornered them to talk gear. In this video, the band breaks down their philosophies on effects and tone.  

The final installment of our Notion walkthru had Bill Holland yelling at his phantom string section: "Hey, violinists, no more late nights carousing with the tympanist! Shape up those trills or ship outta my concert hall!" Sometimes Bill gets a little too into his fantasy philharmonic league.  

Maybe the Shure SM58 isn't the first mic you'd choose to mic a saxophone, but it's likely the mic your local sound guy will have to mic your saxophone (if not a 57). Bruce Lamont of Yakuza realizes this and has spent his own time getting to know the SM58's properties on his sax.  

We get a sneak peek at the inner-workings of Vince Lawrence's Slang Music Group as gloriously bearded facilitator Brian Gaynor describes Vince's remixing mindset and process.  

Gearwire catches some Movement 08 action at DEMF with Big Joe Hix, a banging house DJ from Detroit. Big Joe Hix talks about converting from a vinyl purist to a digital indulger.  

Joshua and Joe continue where Mountain and James left off in our last interview discussing their own gear. These gents have some powerful instrumentation in their corner including a brand spanking new Fender Jaguar and an upgraded Pearl Masters kit.  

The Distropia SK-Crooner recreates the sound that makes the Casio SK-1 such an enviable piece of retro-kitsch: the vocal patch. OK, maybe you think that the coolest thing about the SK-1 is the demo where your digitally-sampled profanity is turned into Loepold Mozart's Toy Symphony, but the vocal patch is still pretty awesome.  

In this first video with New York's Nightmare of You, Brandon, Joe, Michael and Ryan talk about all the gear that they use -- pretty much every piece they're bringing with them on the BANGTOUR!  

There is a lot of disparaging talk about the use of laminates in guitar construction. What is the truth? Gearwire begins a series on the use of laminate in guitar making with Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars  

Sanford Parker of Semaphore Studio talks a bit about recording with Steve Albini and how the famed producer engineer influenced his (Sanford's) decision to outfit his studio with a Neotek Series 3 mixing console. Plus: Spirograph psychedelia.  

Bill Holland continues his exploration of Notion and its ability to easily score orchestrations for strings. Here's one: what do violinists use for birth control?

Their personalities!*  

Vince Lawrence continues his sit down with GW's Bill Holland. In this third installment, Vince talks about the founding of TRAX Records, cutting tracks with Marshall Jefferson and the finer points of graphic design.