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Back in 2011, Christoph Kemper introduced guitarists to a powerful digital amplifier that could accurately recreate the sounds of any other amp and store loads of them in one place. Four years later, players were offered the ability to switch… Continue reading Kemper takes the Stage with combined Profiler amp and Remote
Five years ago, Fishman’s TriplePlay controller gave us the opportunity to wirelessly tap into an almost infinite world of digital sounds on our laptop. Now the company has unveiled a new version called the Connect that offers a similar exper… Continue reading Fishman reveals MIDI guitar controller for the iPad generation
There are a number of ways to change your guitar’s tone on-the-fly, such as using effects pedals, but if you want to change your pickups mid-song, that’s not so easy. France’s Wild Customs is introducing a novel system at Summer NAMM in Nashv… Continue reading Pickups on a carousel cater for quick change tone
Guitars are already pretty portable instruments. You just throw one in a gig bag and you’re all set. But those long necks can suffer much more than a ding on long journeys, particularly if air travel is involved. So for players who want to ke… Continue reading Novel travel guitar folds down to backpack size for transport
Wood. Specifically, certain types of tone woods; woods that impart a certain tone. That’s what guitars are made of. And occasionally, plastic, or metal, or fibreglass or, well, anything. [_forwardaudio_] built his out of noodles, because, why not?
Well, not completely out of noodles. Epoxy is used to give some …read more
Guitar players can amass quite a collection of instruments, each one offering something that the others don’t. Modular systems like those from Somnium and others let guitarists switch components in and out as they please, but most are still m… Continue reading Modular plastic guitar offers up to 50 different combinations
As well as being a noted singer, dancer and all-round great performer, Prince was also an accomplished guitarist. Many of his choice instruments perfectly reflected his flamboyant stage presence, but arguably his most famous is the curvy Cloud Guitar. And now you can play one of your very own courtesy of Schecter and the official Prince store.
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Continue Reading Official replicas of Prince’s most famous guitar now up for pre-order
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Continue reading Official replicas of Prince's most famous guitar now up for pre-order
Best known as Pink Floyd’s guitar virtuoso, Dave Gilmour converted his guitar god cred into money last week, donating it to the greater good. Just as Eric Clapton had done before him, Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection and gave the proceeds to a cause. Gilmour’s immense contribution to combating climate change, resulted in numerous smashed auction records along the way.
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Continue Reading Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour sells $21.5 million guitar collection and donates proceeds to fight global warming
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The neck on many guitars today is made up of some wood topped by some more wood that has strips of metal inserted at precise points along it. The Subfretboard system takes a different approach, laying a long metal plate on top of the main nec… Continue reading Subfretboard rethinks guitar neck construction
In January, 2019, Line 6 released a useful update to its excellent Relay G10 wireless system for electric pickers, where the receiver housing was reworked to fit on a pedalboard. Now Roland’s Boss brand has followed suit with the WL-60 Wirele… Continue reading Boss launches pedalboard-friendly wireless system for guitarists