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Lava Music has attempted to push the acoustic guitar into uncharted territory with the Me 2. Its smooth one-piece body and honeycomb-reinforced soundboard are made from super-strong, super-lightweight injection-molded carbon fiber, for starters, giving… Continue reading Review: Lava’s Me 2 carbon fiber guitar is a next-gen surprise package
There have been a number of attempts to add digital sound processing tech to analog guitars, to create all-in-one rockers, make mobile MIDI machines, or to give players numerous guitar tones in one instrument. The latest hybrid shredder comes from Shen… Continue reading Intelligent guitar brings digital and analog worlds together
Digital might be a four-letter word in the guitar world, but amp and effects emulation is nothing new; it’s been around for some time and it’s had a chance to get really good.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Guitar, Amplifiers, SmartAmp… Continue reading Positive Grid Spark review: A smart game-changer for guitarists
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
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
Players looking to tap into the sweet sounds of a vintage Vox AC30 amplifier while out and about might plug into one of the company’s excellent amPlug headphone amps and rock out. But now there’s another option, as Vox announces three new headphone var… Continue reading Vox puts a guitar/bass amp on your head with the VGH series headphones
This extraordinary hundred-buck headphone amp plugs straight into your electric guitar, giving you access to a dozen beautifully-made amp emulators and a swag of quality effects in about the most portable package we can imagine.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Fender Mustang Micro hangs 12 amps and 13 effects pedals off your guitar
Back in 2016, electrical engineer Chris Prendergast launched a Kickstarter project for the JamStack portable guitar amplifier that snapped onto a strap peg and blasted out tones generated by a smartphone. Now the bigger and better second generation has… Continue reading Snap-on guitar amp gets bigger, more featured and more powerful
There are guitar players who prefer pedalboards packed with floor stomps, and there are a good number of software suites and apps that allow players to tap into an almost infinite arsenal of digital effects. The Stratus is a combination of both, a kind… Continue reading Chaos Audio crams a virtual pedalboard into a single stomp
Musicians have a fantastic language to describe signals. A sound can be fat, dark, crunchy, punchy — the list goes on. These aren’t very technical terms, but they get the job done. After all, it’s much easier to ask to guitarist for a crisper sound than to ask them to …read more
Continue reading Rockin’ Out in LTSpice: Simulating Classic Guitar Pedals