Key Takeaways Modern guitar synth pedals no longer require special pickups and work with standard guitar inputs, making ...

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Joni’s music is one of stylistic turns, but her acoustic guitar playing reveals an affection for jazz even in her earliest ...

Magnets keep strings suspended without anchor points, and pushing a magnet piece bends notes, so you get expressive sounds with simple moves.

But when John Koeninger picks up a guitar, his brain goes into overdrive. Gears turning, he’s analyzing tension, vibration, resonance, the physics that transform energy into sound. In retirement, the ...

Back in my day, EQing instruments out of songs was a real pain in the ass—even if you got all your low and high filters just right, the results were far from perfect. Just ask every soul song I tried ...

Every January, NAMM (the National Association of Music Merchants) converges on Anaheim, drawing more than 75,000 attendees to ...

Do not sleep on Carson Chamberlain's talent. Oftentimes considered the "savior" of traditional country music, Zach Top seems ...

The Byrds built their signature, jangly sound with the help of a 1964 Beatles movie and a finicky studio engineer.

The Animal Collective member’s first solo album is a personal, psychedelic trip indulging his fascination with the hurdy-gurdy.

With his intense gaze fixed and his fingers poised above the strings of the zhongruan, he appeared to absorb the room's energy before releasing it in a single, sweeping gesture. The opening note hung ...

Later tonight, João Nicolau's "Providence and the Guitar" will play concurrently in five screening rooms across Rotterdam as the opening film at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam, an ...