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Fender Takes Sonic Innovation To New Heights With California-Made American Acoustasonic™ Series

Fender Takes Sonic Innovation To New Heights With California-Made American Acoustasonic™ Series

Hybrid Acoustic/Electric Telecaster® Transforms Live Performance Possibilities with Ten Guitars in One. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 22, 2019 -- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today unveiled the first in a new generation of American-made acoustic guitars - available for purchase beginning this week at dealers and on Fender.com. Dubbed

Best Fingerstyle Guitar Under $500

Best Fingerstyle Guitar Under $500

Modern fingerstyle guitar is typically played on a steel-string acoustic guitar. But acoustic guitars vary quite a bit in body shape (dreadnaught, jumbos, concerts, etc.) as well as features (cutaways, neck length, etc.). So which type is best for fingerstyle guitar? And can you find a good fingerstyle guitar for

Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Awesome Acoustic Guitar T-Shirts That You Need (To Give Someone)

Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Awesome Acoustic Guitar T-Shirts That You Need (To Give Someone)

Because Christmas is coming. Because a birthday is coming. Because it's Saturday morning and you realized that you're worth it. Ten amazing t-shirts that will let your inner acoustic animal breathe. Guitar Is the Bacon of Music Buy On Etsy Johnny Winter - Guitar Slinger Buy

7 Popular Finger Picks to Clarify Your Fingerpicking

7 Popular Finger Picks to Clarify Your Fingerpicking

Finger picks brighten and clarify your fingerpicking. Using the flesh of your fingers to individually pick the strings usually creates a muted and muddy sound. But by attaching a plectrum to the end of each picking finger, each note is picked with added power and brightness - cutting through more

Furch Guitars Lets You Build Your Dream Guitar Using 160 Data Points

Furch Guitars Lets You Build Your Dream Guitar Using 160 Data Points

You no longer have to be a stadium-headlining artist to have your own custom guitar. Furch Guitars (Furch), a world-leading manufacturer of acoustic guitars, has changed the game. Furch now offers each guitarist the chance to be their own guitar builder, creating exactly the acoustic guitar they desire. Choose from

Best Fingerstyle Guitar Under $1,000

Best Fingerstyle Guitar Under $1,000

Looking for an acoustic guitar made for fingerstyle guitar? Maybe even the best fingerstyle guitar possible? It's exciting, inspiring, ...aaand it can seem financially daunting. For example... * Do you want to play the Maton Custom Shop TE Personal 2017 Natural that Tommy Emmanuel plays? Well, that'll

What Is Digital Signal Processing (DSP)? And What Does It Mean For Music?

What Is Digital Signal Processing (DSP)? And What Does It Mean For Music?

Digital Signal Processing, or "DSP", is often referred to as a "feature" of modern audio equipment and music gear. Why is that important? Well, two reasons. One, it tells you how they're handling the audio signal - and the potential trade-offs which that implies.

Orange Amps Releases Teleport: A Pedal That Brings Your App To Your Board

Orange Amps Releases Teleport: A Pedal That Brings Your App To Your Board

Orange Amplification brings back their 1970’s OMEC brand with a new product: the OMEC Teleport. The Teleport is a soundcard with a twist – in addition to being a studio-quality USB recording interface, it fits inside a guitar pedal – perfect for a gigging musician. The innovative, new OMEC Teleport is

Classical vs Acoustic Guitar: Which is Easier to Learn for Beginners?

Classical vs Acoustic Guitar: Which is Easier to Learn for Beginners?

There are two opinions among people. One of them is that you should start with a steel-string acoustic guitar (the type you see commonly) first, because if you learn how to play acoustic guitar you will learn to play classical and other types of guitars faster. Some people think it