EMG pickups founder Rob Turner has said that working with James Hetfield forced the firm to completely reinvent its ...

The best metal guitars cover a huge array of sub-genres, styles and overall vibes, but they've all got one thing in common - they're all made for world-ending amounts of heaviness. From thrash and ...

Bold guitarists looking to push boundaries can go down the digital processing rabbit hole, but Verso's latest oddball build takes a more mechanical approach to shaping tones. The Sine guitar rocks ...

To the uninitiated an electric guitar seems fairly simple: you pluck a string and the electronics send the corresponding audio signal on the 6.3 mm jack output, all ready for for the amplifier to work ...

In a recent interview with Kris Barocsi and Guillaume Chenin from Thomann, EMG founder Rob Turner said the company benefitted ...

Rather than use magnets and coils to convert string motion into an analog voltage for amplified output, the ōPik uses infrared light to capture the vibrations of the strings above it. It first ...

Everybody’s heard of coil splitting as an electric guitar wiring mod but the lesser known series/parallel wiring mod holds a key advantage. When you coil-split a double-coil humbucker you create a ...

If you're a guitarist, your favorite artists' signature axes are almost as identifiable as the music they create. The look, fit, finish and feel are expressly designed to make an undeniable statement ...

Even if you've never held one of his namesake instruments, you may know that Les Paul designed one of the first solid-body electric guitars. Astonishingly, Gibson, which manufactured the guitar, was ...