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 ...

Picking a set of the best electric guitar strings should be easy, but with so wide a variety out there, it can be difficult to settle on your perfect match. As one of the crucial elements of your ...

How often should guitar strings be changed? There isn’t a simple answer. Because strings wear out at different rates based on your environment, how you play and even your body chemistry, I can’t tell ...

It's one thing to be good at playing the guitar, but it's another to come up with a new way of playing it and creating a whole new sound. Many famous guitarists created their characteristic sounds by ...

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 ...

Beneath the strings of every electric guitar sits a small component that carries enormous responsibility. The pickup transforms string vibrations into electrical signals, sending them through an ...

Inventor Paul Vo‘s latest crazy musical innovation is a hand-held wand that changes the sound of guitars like magic. Hold it up to a guitar string, and it’ll vibrate forever. Depending how you use the ...