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The Acoustasonic series started out as Fender’s moon shot at re-inventing the acoustic guitar for the modern age, but its ambitions quickly expanded to become much broader. Equipped with three different types of pickup and a built-in digital signal pro… Continue reading Acoustasonic Jazzmaster review: Fender walks the digital tightrope
I’d be surprised if you weren’t sitting within fifty feet of one of James Edward Maceo West’s most well-known inventions — the electret microphone. Although MEMS microphones have seen a dramatic rise as smartphone technology progresses, electret microphones still sit …read more
Continue reading James West Began 40 Years at Bell Labs with World-Changing Microphone Tech
French sound design firm HyVibe hit Indiegogo in late 2017 with an acoustic guitar infused with digital smarts. Now the company has announced a kit that can turn pretty much any acoustic into a hybrid smart guitar.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Techn… Continue reading HyVibe System brings digital smarts to any acoustic guitar
Fungus already shows promise as a “green” form of leather and protective packaging. Thanks to new research, it has now also found use in an environmentally-friendly sound-absorbing material.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Fraunhofer… Continue reading Fungus put to use in eco-friendly soundproofing material
Every so often we stumble across something truly awesome on platforms like Spotify, Bandcamp and YouTube. In this case it was a beautiful rendition of one of my favorite George Harrison compositions, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, on a custom acoustic w… Continue reading Clever attachment makes for melody, slide, bass and beats on one guitar
MIT scientists have developed an acoustic system that acts like an underwater GPS, yet doesn’t need batteries to operate. The Underwater Backscatter Localization (UBL) system is powered by reflecting modulated audio signals to generate binary impulses…. Continue reading Underwater GPS system powered by sound could open up ocean exploration
Yamaha mixed up the guitar amplifier space in 2013 when it released three portable modeling amps to the US market, which sat somewhere between performance and practice models. These desktop amps went wireless last year thanks to a built-in Line 6 recei… Continue reading Yamaha makes a desktop amp specifically for acoustic pickers
Taylor has introduced a new acoustic body shape with the launch of the Grand Theater model, with the body dimensions and scale length coming somewhere between the compact GS Mini and the smallest of the guitar maker’s full-size body shapes, the Grand C… Continue reading Taylor GT acoustic combines compact comfort with big sonic personality
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys flip through the index of great hacks. This week we learn of a co-existence attack on WiFi and Bluetooth radios called Spectra. The craftsmanship in a pneumatic drone is so awesome we don’t care that it doesn’t fly. Building a powerful TEA laser …read more
For continuously gathering information on ocean conditions, one thing that’s been proposed is a network of sensors that would transmit data from the sea floor. Changing their batteries, however, could be quite challenging. That’s where a new … Continue reading Undersea sensor is powered by sound waves from the surface