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Unless you’re successful enough to pay roadies, one of the great pains of being a gigging musician is lugging around heavy equipment like amps and cabs. Bruce Thigpen of Eminent Technology has come up with a guitar speaker design that lightens the load… Continue reading Flat-panel guitar speaker designed for clean tones and wide dispersion
Leo Fender might not have been a guitarist, but he was a hell of an inventor, and the guitars he designed in the early 50s have resonated through the years in ways that are hard to imagine happening in any other business. Telecaster, Stratocaster, Prec… Continue reading Review: Fender turns back the clock with American Vintage II 57 Strat
Startup Sensy has launched a guitar-shaped electronic instrument featuring a fretboard crammed with follow-me lights designed to get noobs playing tunes quickly, but can also be used by seasoned pros as a MIDI interface or eye-catching melody maker.Con… Continue reading LED-packed Sensy Guitar lights the way to easy music creation
Rocksmith is a popular video game that works like Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar. You have to play well and hit the right notes, or the game penalizes your score. [Lightwing] …read more Continue reading Electric Guitar Shocks You for Missing a Note
Anyone who’s ever played guitar to at least the skill level required to form a terrible garage band knows the names of the most legendary guitars. The driving sound of …read more Continue reading Building An Old Guitar From a New One
[Juan Nicola] has taken inspiration from the musician hackers of old and re-purposed a reel-to-reel tape recorder into a tape-echo for his guitar with a built-in valve amplifier (video in …read more Continue reading Making a Tape Echo the Traditional Way
Moore’s law might not be as immutable as we once though thought it was, as chip makers struggle to fit more and more transistors on a given area of silicon. …read more Continue reading ADSL Router As Effects Pedal
Last year, Roland rebranded its capable long-running combo amp for street musicians with the Boss logo. Now the companies continues the Boss Cube line with a pair of practice amps – one for guitarists and the other for bass players.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Boss gets in the practice zone with portable Cube amps for guitar and bass
Learning to play guitar is tough, and having small hands can make it even harder. Epiphone has launched the Power Players Collection to help young players take their important first steps to stardom using quality built 3/4-sized guitars.Continue Readin… Continue reading Epiphone Power Players Collection targets fretboard wizards of tomorrow
You can pursue your dreams of rock superstardom with any guitar, be it from an expensive luthier, a pawn shop, or a mail order catalog. But to join the ranks …read more Continue reading A Guitar From Scratch