When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before you start playing those first chords or bashing out your first riff, you need to get your ...

The acoustic guitar remains one of the most popular instruments among singer-songwriters, as well as solo instrumentalists. Admittedly, this is probably in part due to it being so portable, but beyond ...

I think I’ve owned at least ten guitar tuners over the course of my lifetime. I guess technically I still own ten, because I haven’t officially gotten rid of any of them. I also couldn’t tell you ...

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 ...

Guitar players rejoice. With all of the applications being released on the App Store today, we have not been left out. Among the new applications is GuitarToolkit, which allows you to tune your guitar ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

Just for a second, let’s perform a little engineering-based thought experiment. Let’s design a guitar tuner. First up, you’ll need a 1/4″ input, and some op-amps to get that signal into a ...

Learn the most important lesson of all here! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The diagram above shows the six strings as they're ...

Before you can rock a guitar, you need to tune it. Guitar tuning is among the rudimentary tasks of maintaining and playing a guitar. Though not a very difficult task, it does takes a little bit of ...