The Ottobit X is a serious piece of equipment for creating fun sounds that take you back to a less serious time ...

There can be many possible reasons why your guitar isn't playing or sounding as good as it could be. A regular guitar setup can help with this, and central to that is something called intonation. When ...

Touring musicians are embracing modelers as a cost-effective way to maximize their sounds. Touring musicians are embracing modelers as a cost-effective way to maximize their sounds. Around 2009, ...

“A lot of people are like me and stuck in a luxury apartment and it’s just really really difficult right now and you get bored of doing scales all day, so what you need is something else," says the ...

A version of this piece orginally appeared on The Week. Jimi Hendrix making his guitar "talk." Peter Tarnoff/Retna Ltd./Corbis The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, ...

Creating music is a perfect hobby for anyone into hacking, and the amount of musical hacks and self-made instruments we come across here makes that supremely evident. It’s just a great match: you can ...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - “Are you playing through an amp?” my wife asked me the other day, when I was strumming an acoustic guitar in the living room. The answer was no. “Then why does it sound that ...

The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...

Does painting an electric guitar change the sound? It's a question that's been on the mind of the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, who's been catching flak among gearheads on the internet for ...