While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...

What do you hear when someone strums a guitar? You might describe the sound as bright, or full, or warm. Maybe it's metallic or trebly, or maybe it's something else. All of that is, of course, pretty ...

There can be many possible reasons why your guitar isn't playing or sounding as good as it could be. A regular guitar setup can help with this, and central to that is something called intonation. When ...

Guitar synthesis has evolved from a complex, pickup-dependent technology to an accessible tool that any guitarist can use to expand their sonic palette. Today’s synth pedals eliminate the barriers ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — For years, one of the most coveted items for acoustic guitarists has been an old, rare Martin guitar, which sells for thousands of dollars online. As the wood on the guitar ages, ...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - “Are you playing through an amp?” my wife asked me the other day, when I was strumming an acoustic guitar in the living room. The answer was no. “Then why does it sound that ...

Are you ready to amp up your acoustic guitar to the MAXXXX? The ToneWoodAmp has got you covered. This surprisingly cool Kickstarter project is essentially a speaker that takes the sound coming in from ...

Guitarists who like to bring a little music to city streets and maybe make a bit of extra cash on the side face the problem of having their tunes drowned out by traffic noise or carried away on the ...

The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...

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