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Smart learning device sticks a personal teacher to your guitar
May 19, 2023Learning to play guitar is tough, and though there's no replacement for hard work and practice, technology can lend a helping hand. The mu6label is the latest gadget in the space, an AI-powered learning multitool that attaches to a guitar's upper edge . -
Review: EVH Wolfgang Special is a catalogue of Eddie's brilliant ideas
May 07, 2023Eddie Van Halen was more than just a keyboard player. He was also pretty good at guitar, and through endless brutal hacking of his instruments, became a pioneering innovator in design. The Wolfgang is the final, and greatest guitar he left the world. -
Powerful quad-DAC SR35 audio player joins Astell&Kern's entry level line
April 17, 2023Astell&Kern has announced an upgrade to 2021's "mass premium" A&norma SR25 MkII digital audio player. The SR35 comes with new amplifier technology, four DACs, a 20-hour battery life and a fresh new user interface. -
HyperSwitch allows players to reconfigure guitar pickups using a mobile app
April 13, 2023Tweaking guitar pickup configurations from maker presets can involve breaking out the soldering iron and lots of experimentation. The HyperSwitch uses the power of a smartphone and a Bluetooth connection to simplify the process. -
Ascender folding travel guitar embraces sought-after P90 tones
April 12, 2023Back at NAMM 2019, Ciari Guitars launched an interesting travel guitar that featured a beautifully engineered folding mechanism which allowed players to transport the instrument in a backpack. Now the company is back with a P90-packing edition. -
Apogee builds tone shaping into latest USB guitar interface
April 11, 2023There are numerous devices available to connect a guitar to a computer or smartphone for recording in music production software, and many allow access to digital effects. The Jam X includes an analog compressor for built-in tone shaping. -
Foiled again: We've been playing Fender's new gold-foil Telecaster
April 02, 2023Fender has released a whole range of guitars that come set up with quirky, 50s-style "gold foil" pickups – a nod to old-school pups you'd need to dig out of a vintage guitar or go to the aftermarket for. And they certainly have a unique vibe going on! -
Positive Grid takes guitar amp modeling portable with the Spark Go
March 22, 2023Back in 2019, Positive Grid launched an impressively flexible and affordable tone master called the Spark amp. The company downsized the format for the Mini last year, and has now done it again for the ultra-portable Spark Go. -
Single-fret Hanago makes a play for future tunesmiths
March 14, 2023A new 16-string, single-fret acoustic instrument called the Hanago has launched on Kickstarter, which is designed to combine the best aspects of piano and guitar to make learning to play easy, while also laying down the foundations of music theory. -
Zivix heads into familiar design territory with Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar
March 01, 2023Back in 2013, Zivix launched an ultra-portable MIDI guitar designed for noodling on the move. Then six years later the Jamstik was joined by a 24-fret headless bigger brother called the Studio. Now a S-type model rocking a headstock has launched. -
Music creation gets its game on at the Beat Machine arcade
February 24, 2023Collaborative music creation platform Endlesss has launched "the world's first beat-making arcade machine." The Beat Machine combines gamified music missions, live jamming online, social networking and powerful music creativity. -
IK wraps advanced AI-powered guitar tone modeling in a compact floor stomp
February 16, 2023Some 20 years ago, IK Multimedia gathered a complete guitar rig into a software platform and named it AmpliTube. After infusing it with AI power last year, the company has now launched an all-you-can-eat tone box called the ToneX Pedal. -
Top DJ deepfakes Eminem into a song, and it seems that's totally legal
February 12, 2023French DJ and music producer David Guetta has discovered AI tools, and thought it would be fun to use an unauthorized deepfake of Eminem's voice to rev up a huge crowd at a live show. It looks like it worked, but it raises legal and ethical questions. -
Condenser microphone and audio interface combined into one iRig
January 26, 2023IK Multimedia's iRig range has included microphones and audio interfaces in the past, but now the company is looking to make life easier for musicians, live bloggers, podcasters and creators with one device that combines the two. -
Roland makes flagship sound engine portable with FP-E50 digital piano
January 24, 2023Roland has announced the FP-E50, a portable piano and creativity workstation that's designed as an easy intro for beginners while including enough advanced features to keep the pros happy, including Roland's flagship synthesis engine.
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