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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
MIDI has been a great tool for musicians and artists since its invention in the 1980s. It allows a standard way to interface musical instruments to computers for easy recording, …read more Continue reading Guitar Effects With No (Unwanted) Delay
Utah’s Klos Guitars has been making acoustics and ukuleles fashioned from carbon fiber for a number of years now, and while there have been instruments you can plug into an amp, the company hasn’t ventured into all electric guitar or bass territory, un… Continue reading Travel-friendly electrics combine tonewood body and carbon fiber neck
Nevada’s Fretlight has been making guitars with LEDs embedded in the neck for a good long while now, but all of its instruments so far have been full size electrics or acoustics. Now it’s going on the road with a travel version of its learning system.C… Continue reading Follow-the-lights learning system installed on travel guitar
With the release of the “Spark-O-Matic” Jazzmaster, Fender has completed its Parallel Universe II instrument line up, an eight model range of limited edition electric guitars that combine elements of different Fender icons to create some interesting od… Continue reading Spark-O-Matic Jazzmaster completes Fender’s trip into a Parallel Universe
After completing its third successful Kickstarter, Band Industries started shipping the Roadie 3 – a kind of electronic multi-tool for string pickers – out to backers in November 2020. As with the previous generations, we got sent one to try.Continue R… Continue reading Review: Roadie 3 motorized multi-tool for stringed instruments
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
Fender is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and is marking the occasion with special editions of its most popular models – the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass and Jazz Bass.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Fender, Fen… Continue reading Fender celebrates its 75th year with special edition guitars and basses
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