Heavy metal and Ernie Ball go together like two peas in a pod: the company's got a long and storied history of working with some of the top metal guitar players in the world. But did you know that ...

We pit steel-string guitars head-to-head with their nylon-string counterparts. What are the main differences, and which is best for you? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

D'Addario has announced new string offerings, expanding its Balanced Tension range to include Nickel Bronze acoustic strings, while pedal steel players can now get NYXLs. The coated string experts at ...

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Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t tend to ...

As a fan of electronic guitars — as opposed to plain-old electrics — the Jammy seems like a very interesting piece of kit. Designed to be played like a regular guitar, you fret on the top part of the ...

How often should guitar strings be changed? There isn’t a simple answer. Because strings wear out at different rates based on your environment, how you play and even your body chemistry, I can’t tell ...

Letritia Kandle had a dream, echoes of which are heard whenever a rock group plugs its guitars into loud amplifiers and runs an extension cord to an electrical outlet. The spark for that dream — a ...

Heavy metal and Ernie Ball go together like two peas in a pod: the company’s got a long and storied history of working with some of the top metal guitar players in the world. But did you know that ...