There’s a story that goes something like this: Chet Atkins was playing his guitar when someone remarked, ‘that guitar sounds great!’ Mr. Atkins immediately stopped playing and asked, ‘how does it ...

Back in 2014, guitarist Andy Alt launched a Kickstarter for an electric guitar pickup that added a separate drop-octave signal to the instrument's lowest strings, The crowdfunding campaign was ...

After a bit of inspiration, [Pete] decided to build a solid body electric guitar for himself. Instead of assembling a conglomeration of off-the-shelf parts, he plans on building just about everything ...

The incredible guitar virtuosity from the likes of Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Stanley Jordan all rely on their string-picking proficiency being registered by the instrument's pickups. These ...

The HiFi system features dual bridge plate sensors and high-fidelity electronics for “exceptional balance, definition, dynamics, and good feedback resistance” When you purchase through links on our ...

Every electric guitar presents a problem. It’s the fascinating sort of problem that musicians delight in confronting, over and over again. But is it ever really solved? The problem is tone. How do you ...

ōPik is a new optical guitar pickup created by Light4Sound based in San Francisco, that can be programmed direct from your mobile phone using the companion application. Launched via Kickstarter this ...

A guitarist has created a wild 64-polyphonic pickup system for his master's thesis in electrical engineering, and if it were up to us, we’d give him top marks. Traditionally, as is likely not news to ...

As part of Radio 2's Guitar Season, we're proud to bring you the Guitar Pick Up - A series of online guitar lessons that aims to inspire beginners to pick up the instrument as well as those who ...

As part of Radio 2's Guitar Season, we're proud to bring you the Guitar Pick Up - A series of online guitar lessons that aims to inspire beginners to pick up the instrument as well as those who ...