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John Lennon’s 1964 Framus 5/024 Hootenanny famously played on the title track of The Beatles’ 1965 album Help! – and believed lost for more than 50 years – is heading to auction next month, where it’s expected to break records.
Category: Music, Technology
Tags: Auction, Julien’s Auctions, The Beatles, Guitar, Acoustics, Collecting
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Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because …read more Continue reading Optical Guitar Pickup Works With Nylon Strings
Eminent Technology has announced the Model Twenty Two – the “world’s first flat panel active guitar speaker.” Super-lightweight and about the size of a chunky picture frame, this 120-decibel oddity can now be your guitar amp, cab and FRFR speaker.Conti… Continue reading Featherweight flat-panel guitar speaker now has a monster amp built in
Positive Grid launched one of our favorite modeling practice amps back in 2019, in the shape of the Spark. The family got smaller members in 2022 and 2023, and now the company is going gigging with the Spark Live smart amp and PA system.Continue Readin… Continue reading Positive Grid takes Spark guitar amp on the road
Back in 2012, Vox Amplification looked to its design history to launch a pair of travel guitars based on the classic 1960s Phantom and Teardrop shapes. With NAMM just around the corner, the company has refined the concept for the feature-packed APC-1.C… Continue reading Vox embraces classic ’60s vibe for APC-1 travel guitar
Though best known for its iconic electric guitars, Gibson also produced its own amplifiers from the mid 1930s until the late ’60s. A couple of years ago,company CEO Cesar Gueikian hinted at its return to tube amp manufacture, and now the first two comb… Continue reading Gibson returns to guitar amplification with vintage-inspired Falcon combos
Loop stations are neat things, able to replay one or more loops of audio over and over again while you perform over the top of them. Musicians like [Marc Rebillet], …read more Continue reading Building a Loop Station With An RP2040
Most guitarists buy their axes fully assembled from big names like Fender, Gibson, and… maybe Yamaha? Sure. But there are a dedicated set that relish in mixing and matching parts …read more Continue reading $30 Guitar Build Shows What You Can Do With Amazon Parts
At the end of the day, all it takes to make a guitar go to eleven is a new knob. Making the knob is another thing — that takes a …read more Continue reading Making a Guitar Go to Eleven, The Hard Way
IK Multimedia’s gorgeous ToneX pedal remains unrivaled at its price point as 2023 comes to a close, replacing your guitar amp with a cornucopia of tone profiles either captured directly from your own rig, or downloaded from thousands online.Continue Re… Continue reading Review: $399 ToneX pedal puts AI-captured guitar amps at your feet