Nothing can bad can happen to your iPad down there on a stage floor. Nothing. Photo: IK Multimedia Electric guitar players have effects pedals. It’s an addiction, and a law of nature. We keep buying ...

If you’re a solo musician, you probably have lots of gear you’d like to control, but you don’t have enough hands. You can enlist your feet, but your gear might not have foot-suitable interfaces as ...

In his entry for the 2019 Hackaday Prize, Craig Hissett has a project to build an all-in-one multi-effects stomp box. At the center of the box is a Raspberry Pi with an AudioInjector stereo sound card ...

Though Milwaukee is a long way from being dubbed a hotspot of rock and roll gear innovation, there are a few businesses here creating great equipment for musicians near and far. One of them is Oak ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When hearing the name Dan Armstrong, most people think of that cool, clear Plexiglas guitar made ...

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The worst thing about being in a rock band is waiting for the guitarist to set up and adjust—and re-adjust, and then re-re-adjust—his interminable collection of effects boxes and pedals. But now ...

Electro-harmonix has just released a $220 guitar pedal that evokes the sound of the B-series Hammond organ. I was tipped off by my programmer consultant buddy Gil Garcia, who I met when we both worked ...

Polyend is a company that takes hardware very seriously. Its stable of innovative products delivers a focused selection of music-making devices including Synth, a pad-based multi-engine polysynth with ...

[Brian McNamara] fed the output of his guitar pedal back into its input creating a looped synthesizer. He started with an effects pedal he made but now we think he’s ended up with an electronic stomp ...