What You Need to Know About Buying Electric Guitar Strings. Nickel-plated steel round strings offer clear and vibrant tones. Others may prefer the warmer, more vintage sound of pure nickel, ...

Poke the string end safely into its hole or slot in the tuner post. Bend the string at the tuner post to create a sharp kink. This will help secure the string to the post, will stop string slippage as ...

Strings are a vital part of how a guitar can feel to play, as well as sound, but are also one of the most accessible ways to make a change. There are plenty of brands to fuel discussions about the ...

D’Addario EXL160 Nickel Wound Bass Guitar Strings The D’Addario family are string-making royalty, dating all the way back to 1600s Italy, when strings were painstakingly made with hog and ...

YouTuber Steve Terreberry has taken delivery of what he's calling the most metal guitar ever, a 20 string monster that takes the Djent battle straight to Jared Dines, who had an 18 string beast ...

Strings are made in the desert, while guitars are manufactured on the coast. The Paradigm packaging is a shift from a 1960s styled flower power logo that hasn't change in 50 years.

Last year, YouTube guitar wizard Jared Dines began a quest to find a skilled luthier who could make him a one-off 17-string guitar. After being let down by a US builder, Australia's Perry Ormsby ...

Tapped harmonics were among Eddie Van Halen's trademark techniques. Learn how to make your guitar scream and sing ...

String gauge plays a massive part in how a guitar plays and feels, and I often find it gets overlooked by guitar players who tend to stick with what they know. If you're finding an instrument ...