While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...

According to many musicians, in order to have the best sound possible, an acoustic guitar has to be made from the "right" type of wood. Unfortunately, such wood often comes from endangered, ...

Musicians, it seems, have always wanted to alter the sounds of their instruments. Over the course of centuries, strings have been added to guitars for a fuller sound. The composition of those strings ...

Even bass players can use Tonebridge. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The iPad has many, many amazing effects apps for making music, and several high-level apps just for emulating guitar amplifiers ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

You don’t necessarily need a vintage Les Paul or a shiny Stratocaster to be a guitar hero. A Cape Town-based company is crafting eye-catching electric guitars out of re-purposed oil cans, striking a ...

Despite fears that drum machines and synthesizers would eclipse the guitar in pop music, the 1980s were an incredibly fertile time for guitar. Virtuoso soloists like Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson ...