To celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, Gibson Guitar will be presenting the world leader and icon with an icon of its own - a custom made Gibson Les Paul Studio.  The guitar will be presented as part of the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Celebration concert at London’s Hyde Park on June 27.  The guitar itself [...]

I was trying to choose between two guitars the other day, each constructed of different woods.  Apart from providing unique looks, the types of wood used in guitar construction produces different tonal qualities as well, which will ultimately affect the sound your instrument produces.  
Given the choice between a rosewood or maple, and I went [...]

An Italian company, Manne Guitars, has taken an unusual bent on special guitar making project - this time making a limited run of 3 guitars made from old oak malt whiskey casks!  These casks come from the Lagavulin distillery in Scotland, which manufactures single malt whiskey.
So, one of these beautiful old casks arrived in our [...]

The Vox AC15CC, or AC15 Custom Classic is a nice amplifier - despite being manufactured in China, it has plenty of character and tone. Still, there are plenty of people on the internet willing to invest time into performing modifications on this amp to take it a step further. Having done quite a few modifications [...]

If you’re a rhythm player like me, solos usually consist of either (1) exact knock-offs of those on a track, (2) monotonous and repetitive melodies, interspersed very infrequently with (3) once off, never to be repeated patches of brilliance.
Thank heavens then for guitar teachers like Keith Moore, who share these tips on improving your guitar solos. [...]

The Variax 700 by Line 6 is a modelling guitar, which basically means that it is able to emulate the tone of 25 other guitars, including Fender, Gibson and many others.  The user is also able to “virtually” and instantly change parameters such as guitar types, number of strings, string types, positions, number of pickups [...]

According to GuitarSite, the VoiceTone Harmony-G, the vocal harmony and effects pedal is now shipping.  
VoiceTone Harmony-G is a studio-quality vocal harmony and effects pedal for singing guitarists that takes the programming completely out of the equation, since the guitar playing tells Harmony-G what notes to harmonize. Adaptive harmony arrangement algorithms follow the guitar and voice, [...]

Looking through the guitar auctions on eBay recently, I was astounded by the number of cheap guitars on offer. Most of these are copies of the most popular models out there, made as cheaply as possible (and some in the most garish of colours!), made mostly in China and at sold at prices too good [...]

I’m always on the lookout for an easy way to learn new chords - while I keep a chord book, I find the internet is the fastest way to lookup a particular chord and its variations.  Thanks to this post at redferret, I’ve found another favourite to add to my collection of musical links.
This chord [...]

Inventor, musician, and entrepreneur Les Paul “flipped the switch” at Marshall & Ilsley Corporation’s (M&I) corporate headquarters in downtown Milwaukee on Friday, June 20, lighting two sides of the 18-story corporate headquarters in the shape of Les Paul styled guitars.
To honor Les’s recent 93rd birthday, M&I also presented him with a birthday cake, which was [...]