Finding the best headphones under £25 sounds like a gamble, but at Thomann it’s one of the best value corners of the whole shop. For less than the price of a takeaway for two, you can get a pair that handles guitar practice through an amp, tracking vocals at home, quiet keyboard sessions and everyday
Fifty quid doesn’t stretch far in the earphone aisle, and the cheap end is packed with pairs that sound fine in the shop and then die in the gig bag a month later. If you’re a musician, you’ve got a second problem on top: most consumer earbuds aren’t built to block out a drum kit
Blues tone lives in the space between clean and broken up. Not fully clean, not fully driven, just that sweet spot where a note blooms and sustains on its own. Getting there depends more on the amp than the guitar, and after digging through specs, pricing, and player histories, these are what I believe are
Most players get talked into a cheap lap steel first and then spend years wondering why it never sounds like the records that got them interested in the instrument. Wood, pickups, and hardware matter more on a lap steel than on almost any other guitar, because the bar sits right on top of the strings
Thinking of Christmas gift ideas for musicians can feel like a minefield. They’re fussy about gear, and the obvious ideas are usually things they already own. For this list, every pick had to be something a player would use every week, and every one had to be in stock at Thomann UK when I put
