Get Your Guitar Questions Answered
What are the actual notes of each natural harmonic? What do they mean by ‘This amp has alot of headroom’? What do you do when a string breaks or you drop your pick on stage? What did Petrucci mean? Guitarists have a lot of questions. And there’s tons of sites willing to try and […]
The Milwaukee Servoelectric Guitar Project
I think this looks like what would happen if the Borg assimilated a guitar. The string pitch is being changed by tightening and loosening the strings with servomotors in real time. The player hits keys on a keypad to choose the notes but still picks the strings with the right hand like an ordinary guitar. […]
Guitar Heroes & Picasso in NY
Just opening yesterday, February 9th, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – “Guitar Heroes – Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York”. The exhibit focuses on three talented and influential guitar builders of Italian heritage, John D’Angelico, James D’Aquisto, and John Monteleone. Along with dozens of stunning examples of these master luthiers, there will be […]
Win a Jack DeVille Electronics Dark Echo
Effects Bay is having another giveaway, this time for a Jack DeVille Electronics Dark Echo, provided by Fat Tone Guitars. I usually don’t get too excited about delay pedals but this one is pretty sweet. Besides echo and delay effects it throws in various forms of modulation, like Leslie, chorus and vibrato effects. Just listen […]
New Epiphones: Nighthawk Custom & Wilshire Tremotone
Epiphone has two really interesting guitars they are about to release. First is a reissue of the Nighthawk. Epiphone had a Nighthawk model back in the 90’s for a short time which was based on the Gibson model of the same name. It has a mahogany body, AAA flame maple veneer top and a 25.5″ […]