The jangly, chiming sound of acoustic and electric 12-string guitars have played a crucial role in popular music, from blues to rock, pop to folk. 12-string guitars feature six pairs of strings, known ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If you'd rather not use this automated tuning, or find that it doesn't quite work, you can tap a string to tune it ...

I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...

It’s an essential bit of kit, but it's hard to get really excited by the humble guitar tuner. Until recently, that is. Now, polyphonic is the new buzz word in the tuning world and we’ve been putting ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...

Finding your way around your guitar’s fretboard might seem like picking your way through a maze of letters and notes but, once your guitar is in tune, it's surprising how quickly you’ll pick up just ...

I took my custom champagne-sparkle Telecaster electric guitar to a party last weekend full of local musicians. I’m used to people ogling the paint job, but this time they were ogling the back of the ...

Necessary evils though they are, changing strings and tuning up have got to be two of the most boring and/or tiresome guitar-related tasks around. Band Industries offered a helping hand in November ...

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 ...