Guitar Technology

Is this the ultimate recording solution for fans of the classic Fender tube sound?

Blackstar HT series Tube Pedals and brief news of Waves iGTR.

With the massive strides software has made in recent years, there are now more ways to record the electric guitar...

• Line 6 Pocket POD• Setting up Stratocaster and similar Floating Tremolos

Fender have married Roland's VG technology with the timeless design of the Stratocaster. The result is a cutting-edge classic.

• Behringer iAxe393 USB Guitar • Digitech CF7 Chorus Factory

• Digitech RP250 Amp Modeller, Multi FX and Audio Interface • Tips: DIY Guitar Lube... plus news of TC Electronic's Classic Pedals.

• Kahler 2300 Series Locking Tremolos • IK Multimedia Stealthplug USB guitar interface

• Kinman No-solder Harness & Pickup Set• Haynes Fender Stratocaster Manual

• Graphtech Ghost piezo and MIDI pickup system • Intelli IMT 500 clip-on Chromatic Tuner • Guitar technology news

We test Exploraudio's Liveguitar H-clamp for fixing a conventional mic to an acoustic guitar, and explain ways to track down the source of guitar tuning problems, plus GT news...

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Nuts & Saddles

Many common tuning stability problems associated with...

I am a regular reader and consider myself fairly well informed, but I'm struggling to find the answer to a really simple...

Electrical noise — hiss, buzz and hum — is something that plagues every electric guitarist to some degree, but noise comes in a variety of forms and it is important to establish exactly which kind(s) you are experiencing in order to devise an appropriate solution.

• Marshall Regenerator, Echohead and Reflector effects pedals • Technique: tuners and tuning stability

• Can a Power Soak really give you 'loud tone' without volume? • ESI Pro Jam Mate UG1 USB electric guitar • Hughes & Kettner Switchblade • Guitar pedal news... •

• Ehrlund Acoustic Pickup • Compensating for Volume Control treble loss • Radial Engineering Plexitube, Hartke AC75/AC150, TC Electronic G Sharp, Zoom G7.1ut/G9.2tt

We feature the Vox AC30 Custom Classic amp and Fliptone v.25 Instrument amp with Flat-panel Speaker — plus Big Bends Nut Sauce, tips on miking up your Line 6 POD, and more...

We check out the Takamine Cool Tube acoustic preamp and offer a technique for successfully combining mics and pickups in acoustic guitar recording.

A recording amp with switchable choice of output tube type...

Expanding on the modelling technology used in their Variax and Variax Acoustic, Line 6 have dropped an octave and turned their attention to the bass guitar. The Variax Bass features 24 models of 'classic' instruments — is it all the bass you'll ever need?