When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Q. I'm bored off the standard EADGBE tuning, what other tunings sound good? A. It's sometimes ...

When people talk about playing slide, the conversation often progresses on to open tunings, heavier strings, and a high action. It’s true that these can make things easier and, in some cases such as ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

I've been trying to get back into playing guitar and I've noticed one thing: Both the App Store and Google Play are replete with guitar-tuning apps that are full of either upsells or advertisements.

Taylor Guitars and musical polymath genius Jacob Collier have expanded their signature guitar collaboration with a pair of five-string acoustic guitars that are designed, built and priced to take his ...

The sound and feel of modern music was changed forever in the late 1990s when Antares launched its Auto-Tune pitch correction technology. As well as putting some life back into flat performances, the ...

GEAR 2021: The most fundamental necessity of playing is being in tune so investing in at least one guitar tuner is a no-brainer – and there's so much choice out there for pedals, clip-on tuners and ...

If you're a guitar player who likes to experiment with alternative tunings, you know what a hassle it can be to retune your guitar every time you switch from one tuning to another, especially if ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I took ...