If your guitar needs more distortion, lower audio fidelity, or another musical effect, you can always shell out some money to get a dedicated piece of hardware. For a less conventional route, though, ...

When it comes to music production and audio engineering, Linux isn’t the most common choice. This isn’t for lack of decent tools or other typical open source usability issues: Ardour as a highly ...

Though guitar amp and effects modeling has been around for a while, Positive Grid shook things up in 2019 with the launch of the Spark – an impressively flexible and affordable tone master. The ...

I’ve been playing guitar since I was eleven-years old, and I have seen my fair share of guitar tech come and go. The portable and desktop guitar amplifier isn’t anything new, we’ve always had small ...

The Line 6 AMPLIFi TT guitar effect processor is a groundbreaking product that allows any musician to connect to their home theater system or take a portable solution to their gigs. Read our review.

NAMM 2026: The GX-1 and GX-1B have hi-res displays, assignable footswitches, AIRD tech and the all-new Gear Suite feature for super-easy amp and effects settings When you purchase through links on our ...

A little over 10 years ago, a Phoenix-based startup treated acoustic pickers to a bunch of effects directly through the sound hole courtesy of the smartphone-sized ToneWoodAmp. Now the much-improved ...

Boss has expanded its Katana series with a take-anywhere 10-watt guitar amp that might be super-portable with a compact 5” speaker, but promises “full-bodied” electric guitar tones. We say electric ...

Boss has unveiled the GX-10, a typically feature-packed amp modeller and guitar multi-effects unit that packs all the processing power and sounds of the GX-100 into a smaller format – and it also has ...