A Very Happy New Year to one and all! With the plethora of new gear making its way to the marketplace, I felt it appropriate to share my personal thoughts/feelings about some of the tools I’ve come across that have made noticeable impressions on…
Fast forward (just a little bit) to 1965. I’m out of high school; I’m on the road a fair amount, but also playing in the NYC (and surrounds) nightclubs—six nights a week, and in many instances five-six shows a night. For a young aspiring musician, you couldn’t beat…
Part Two of the trilogy has been released. When Guitar Player Magazine asked me to start blogging for them, I thought I’d have some fun sharing the history of my guitars with you – the one very famous one …and an interesting array of others that I call ‘home’….
by Mike Beigel and Elliott Randall (MIX Magazine 1980) Over the last decade we have seen innumerable new pieces of sound-altering equipment hit the market, the studio, the stage, …the pocketbook. In the article that follows, we will discuss one of the…
In the mid-1980′s MARSHALL LAW magazine asked Elliott to share his miking technique with their readers. This article was written when tape was virtually the only medium used, so you may wish to substitute ‘medium of choice’ for the word ‘tape’, but the microphone…
Courtesy of Fred’s Music Shop Frequently, we have a lot of damage occurring to “better” acoustic guitars over the winter. Many of our customers have instruments that have developed cracks, etc. from lack of proper humidity over the winter. Having a heating system…
Al Pepiak interviews Elliott Randall for Guitar Digest AMP: Surfing the web is a strange pastime and yes, I have become addicted. The vast information available and the amount of music related websites are overwhelming. On one such visit to a news…