Collaborate Disseminate
For most of us, vacuum tubes haven’t appeared in any of our schematics or BOMs in — well, ever. Once mass-manufacturing made reliable transistors cheap enough for hobbyists, vacuum tubes …read more Continue reading Reshoring Vacuum Tube Manufacturing, One Tube at a Time
While the history of these things gets pretty murky, most folk seem to agree on a few things about gold foils: firstly, they hit the market around the middle of the 20th century, embedded in cheap guitars from Harmony and Teisco. Secondly, they’ve got … Continue reading Foiled again: We’ve been playing Fender’s new gold-foil Telecaster
Though guitar amp and effects modeling has been around for a while, Positive Grid shook things up in 2019 with the launch of the Spark – an impressively flexible and affordable tone master. The company downsized the format for the Mini last year, and h… Continue reading Positive Grid takes guitar amp modeling portable with the Spark Go
Back in 2013, a company called Zivix launched a successful Indiegogo for an ultra-portable MIDI guitar for iPhone for noodling on the move. Then six years later the Jamstik was joined by a 24-fret headless bigger brother called the Studio. Now a S-type… Continue reading Zivix heads into familiar design territory with Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar
Some 20 years ago, IK Multimedia gathered a complete guitar rig into a software platform and named it AmpliTube. After infusing it with AI power last year, the company has now launched an all-you-can-eat tone box called the ToneX Pedal that puts a dizz… Continue reading IK wraps advanced AI-powered guitar tone modeling in a compact floor stomp
Aluminium cans are all around us, and are one of readily recyclable. While you can turn them into more cans, [Burls Art] had other ideas. Instead, he turned roughly 1000 …read more Continue reading 1000 Aluminium Cans Cast Into A Guitar
The phrase “Lego Guitar” can be a stressful one to hear. You might imagine the idea of strings under tension and a subsequently exploding cloud of plastic shrapnel. This build …read more Continue reading Lego Guitar Is Really an Ultrasonically-Controlled Synth
If nothing else good came out of 2020, we can say that we at least have “Instrument of the People” — some 1967-era footage of Gibson Guitars’ “craftory”, which was …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Gibson Factory Tour, 1967-Style
One of the greatest things about this place is how y’all constantly feed off of each other. And while this isn’t exactly an example of that, it’s pretty darn close …read more Continue reading DIY Square Guitar Is Anything But
We kind of already knew this, but it seems that [Uri Tuchman] really can build absolutely anything. This fall, he was asked to compete in the Great Guitar Build-Off competition, …read more Continue reading There’s Nothing Square About this Rectangular Guitar