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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Best known as the Russian home of user-generated tab, Ultimate Guitar has taken strides into the ...

This one's for guitarists who enjoy messing with tones, but spend way too much time trying to lock in the perfect sound.

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 ...

Fender's free guitar-focused Studio recording app/amp sim (Studio) is handy indeed for quick takes and practice, though it ...

Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500 th attempt at the main riff from “Black Sunshine” I got frustrated. I was playing the right notes, but it ...

Access free YouTube tutorials for basic skills like chords and strumming techniques. Utilize guitar tabs and tab apps online to learn songs quickly without traditional sheet music. Consider paid apps ...

A little over 10 years ago, a Phoenix-based startup treated acoustic pickers to a bunch of effects directly through the sound hole courtesy of the smartphone-sized ToneWoodAmp. Now the much-improved ...