PLUGIN WEEK 2025: For the better part of five decades we have been wrestling with technology to try and get it to imitate the sound of the guitar – and all for one very good reason: it’s a damned hard ...

RECORDING WEEK 2024: They’re a stubborn old lot, guitarists. Though we live in a world where a salvo of superb software can grant access to some of the greatest amplifiers in history, virtual effects ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine strumming your favorite tune on an acoustic guitar, feeling each note resonate with a warmth and depth that seems almost magical. For many musicians, achieving that perfect sound often means ...