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When people start learning to play guitar, a full-size electric can seem pretty daunting. For those looking for something just a little bit smaller, Fender has responded with a couple of electrics and a bass that can also serve as travel companions.Con… Continue reading Fender aims for beginners and travelers with cheap Mini series guitars
Generally speaking, if you fancy treating your guitar to a new color scheme you have to break out the sander, brushes, paint and more. This can take a while and involves a good deal of hands-on labor. The folks behind Bryan Guitars sought another way, … Continue reading Liquid-filled guitar promises custom color change in minutes
Fender may be best known for its iconic Stratocaster and Telecaster electric guitars, but it’s experimented with a number of different shapes and setups over the years. For the limited edition Parallel Universe series, the company has mashed up differe… Continue reading Junk pile electric reborn as the Fender Maverick Dorado
IK Multimedia’s Axe I/O guitar interface now has a baby brother. The Axe I/O Solo is a cheaper, more compact bus-powered version of its impressive sibling, with two inputs and three outputs, instrument tone shaping and music production software bundled… Continue reading IK rocks out compact tone-shaping USB interface for guitarists
IK Multimedia has drawn key tone-shaping features from its mighty Axe I/O instrument interface and put them into the Z-Tone Buffer Boost preamp pedal for gigging and Z-Tone DI active box for studio work.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: … Continue reading Z-Tone stomp and box let guitarists take control of their tone
Band Industries first came to our attention in 2013 when the first Roadie automatic tuner launched on Kickstarter. Now the company has returned to the crowdfunding platform with its latest iteration, the Roadie 3.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Techno… Continue reading Roadie 3 aims to autotune your guitar in double-quick time
If you like the look and feel of a Les Paul but would rather have the tone of a Strat, you could try messing around with the electronics, play pickup roulette or plug into digital emulations. But guitars that come with modularity built into the design … Continue reading Phoenix guitar will host pop-in tonewood modules
It’s no secret that we have a soft spot for musical instruments here at Hackaday, especially for the weird and unusual ones. An instrument that definitely fits the unusual category is the four-string tenor guitar, which — as legend has it — originated back in the 1920s by frankensteining a …read more
Continue reading Some Strings Attached: Electric Tenor Guitar Built From Scratch
Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping out the potential for novel instruments, but then again it’s not every day …read more
Continue reading Unique Musical Instrument Defies Description
Rather than use magnets and coils to convert string motion into an analog voltage for amplified output, the ōPik uses infrared light to capture the vibrations of the strings above it. It first appeared online in 2017, and after much tweaking, testing a… Continue reading Optical guitar pickup can be programmed with a smartphone app