Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I took ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

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 ...

In a perfect world, guitars would never go out of tune and their owners would never have to stop in the middle of a performance to retune them. However, a number of factors, such as humidity and ...

I’ve played guitar as a hobby since I was in junior high. While the instrument hasn’t changed, the tools I use to make it possible have — sort of. In addition to the built-in GarageBand app, these are ...

The Roadie 3 ($129) is the latest automatic guitar tuner from Band Industries, makers of the original Roadie tuner that we reviewed back in 2016, as well as its successor the Roadie 2, which we ...