R&M Tone Technology has developed a new line of patented active guitar cables to help players inject some life into their guitar sound. Each of the four PowerWire cables comes with a built-in preamp ...

[Bryan] sent in this old but excellent guitar cable hack. [J. Donald Tillman] managed to fit a fet based pre-amp inside the 1/4″ connector of a guitar cable. It’s phantom powered – so it’ll leach ...

This week, with a little help from a Roomba, [Dino] built a guitar pickup and preamp that sounds marvelous. A pickup takes vibrations from the guitar and turns them into an electrical signal which can ...

Depending on its design an electric guitar may have anything from one to six pickup elements. Classic (acoustic) guitars could also benefit from one or more retro-fitted pickups. Each pickup has a ...

Mathias Poets and Alex Poets have reimagined the analogue guitar pre-amp and have created the aptly named poets One. Which is taken to Kickstarter this week to raise the €20,000 the team require to go ...

Rocktron has announced the ValveSonic Plexi all-tube guitar preamp. Developed with LA Custom, the preamp aims to nail ‘Plexi’ tones spanning the ’60s to the ’80s and beyond. A bright control offers ...

With John Godsland, a local technology boffin, we have created a phantom powered mic, stand-mounted, mutable DI (Direct Injection) box incorporating an acoustic guitar pre-amp volume, tone controls ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With an already extensive list of album credits to his name including Siouxsie Sioux, Simple ...