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Heaven help the young guitarist who wants a new Strat in 2023; searching the Fender USA website today gives you no less than 74 different options, some coming in as many as nine different colors. There are Player Strats and Player Plus Strats, Made in … Continue reading Fender Vintera II 70s Strat review: Big vintage tone, accessible price
For more than 35 years the NS-2 stomp has been an effective set-and-forget solution to background noise in an electric guitarist’s signal chain. Now it’s being joined by a “highly tunable” next-gen noise suppressor and gate called the NS-1X.Continue Re… Continue reading Boss looks to silence background noise with NS-1X for electric guitar
Guitarists will do just about anything to get just the right sound out of their setup, including purposely introducing all manner of distortion into the signal. It seems counter-intuitive, but …read more Continue reading Guitar Distortion with Diodes in Code, Not Hardware
Guitar effects have come a long way from the jangly, unaltered sounds of the 1950s when rock and roll started picking up steam. Starting in large part with [Jimi Hendrix] …read more Continue reading Modeling A Guitar for Circuit Simulation
Boss has added an interesting new amplifier to its acoustic range. The AC-22LX battery-powered compact amplifier for acoustic instruments rocks Air Feel processing for faithful natural tones at performance volumes.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Techn… Continue reading In the air tonight: Boss acoustic guitar amp showcases Air Feel tech
Shenzhen’s Natasha Guitars has launched a Kickstarter for a bamboo smart guitar called the NBSG that comes with sound processing brains offering different tone presets, onboard effects, app control, and wireless output.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, … Continue reading Bamboo smart guitar cuts the cord with onboard wireless transmission
Having finally accepted that I’m destined for singer/songwriter territory rather than shredville, I’ve been feeling a little Gretsch-curious lately. So I decided to spend some time with the Rolls-Royce of the range and something more affordable.Continu… Continue reading Review: One cheap Gretsch guitar and one really fancy one
For more than 10 years, Loog Guitars has been making learning to play a guitar a less daunting task for youngsters. Now the company has teamed up with Fender for a pint-sized Telecaster and Stratocaster – each rocking three strings, a single pickup and… Continue reading Fender and Loog partner to get kids rocking a 3-stringed Strat or Tele
To mark what would have been the 100th birthday of the Father of Loud, Marshall has introduced the Studio JTM series, an amp head with matching speaker cabinets plus a combo amp – all looking like they might have stepped straight out of 1960s.Continue … Continue reading Marshall pays tribute to its founder with beautiful retro amps and cabs
Learning to play guitar is now much easier thanks to a wealth of online tutorials, but many find mirroring onscreen chops tough going. With Fret Zealot, students follow lights on the neck to learn fretting positions for chords, scales and songs.Continu… Continue reading Fret Zealot 2 lights up the fretboard for easier learning