Author: Trey Xavier

Written by Trey Xavier

As Editor-in-Chief of Gear Gods, I've been feeding your sick instrument fetishism and trying unsuccessfully to hide my own since 2013. I studied music on both coasts (Berklee and SSU) and now I'm just trying to put my degree to some use. That's a music degree, not an English one. I'm sure you noticed.

I wrote the theme song for the world’s BIGGEST metal cruise

And I only had a WEEK

by Trey Xavier

August 07

Gear News

How To Make Symphonic Metal with Only FREE Plugins

Epic on a budget!

by Trey Xavier

August 06

Gear News

How would 2024’s biggest hits sound if they were… SYMPHONIC METAL?

https://youtu.be/HU1APaEwASM I thought they might sound pretty cool, so I decided to try it out. Teddy Swims Lose Control and Benson Boone Beautiful Things were my 2 favorite pop songs this year, and so naturally I wondered to myself - can they be made better by adding

by Trey Xavier

June 27

Gear News

SWEETWATER Is Starting Black Friday EARLY

Gear deals galore have already started!

by Trey Xavier

November 08

Songwriting Tutorials

How To ACTUALLY Write Lyrics

A practical lyric writing method to get you started!

by Trey Xavier

October 11

Gear News

I Fix YOUR Lyrics!

I'm gonna be doing a special video soon where I fix YOUR lyrics! All I need from you is the following: a Dropbox link (let me say again: a DROPBOX link, not Google Drive or something else)containing audio files of: your song with the vocals on

by Trey Xavier

September 19

Songwriting Challenge