The iconic instruments and equipment that shaped music history.
Gibson
The holy grail of electric guitars, featuring PAF humbuckers and a flame maple top.
Fender
The most copied electric guitar design ever, featuring three single-coil pickups and a tremolo system.
The first commercial semi-hollow electric guitar, offering warmth with feedback resistance.
The first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar, known for its twangy tone.
Marshall
The first Marshall amplifier, based on the Fender Bassman but with a British voice.
Vox
Chiming, jangly British tone with distinctive top boost circuit.
Clean, powerful American tone with legendary spring reverb.
Neumann
Large-diaphragm tube condenser microphone, the gold standard for vocals.
Shure
Indestructible dynamic microphone, the industry standard for snare drums and guitar cabs.
The world's most popular live vocal microphone with built-in pop filter.
Ludwig
Brass-shell snare drum with legendary crack and sensitivity.
Aluminum-shell snare with bright, cutting tone.
Hammond
Tonewheel organ with drawbars, the sound of soul, jazz, and rock.
Fender Rhodes
Electric piano with bell-like tones from struck tines.
Moog
The first portable synthesizer, with fat analog oscillators.
Ibanez
Overdrive pedal that shaped the sound of blues and rock guitar.
Electro-Harmonix
Fuzz/distortion pedal with massive sustain and harmonic richness.
Dunlop
Expression pedal that creates a vocal-like sweep effect.
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