Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need to ...

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

Gizmag has been following the development of the Antares Auto-Tune for Guitar technology with great interest since it was first teased back in May 2011. In January 2012, it was launched in two guitars ...

December 24, 2005 For most people, tuning a guitar takes three to five minutes and when they have finished, the final result is not very good. These people will love the Transperformance self-tuning ...

Before you start playing those first chords or bashing out your first riff, you need to get your axe in tune. Here´s how! This diagram (right) shows the six strings as they´re laid out on the neck of ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

As a once and forever 15-year-old boy, I find few words in the English language provide me with quite the same frisson as robot. Sure there's rocket, monkey, explosion—all highly ranked in my stunted ...