Before you start bashing out your first riff, your guitar must be in tune. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning ...

It’s understandable that professionals hire a stage guitar tech to tune up everything before they play. It’s not a job anyone enjoys. So we thought we’d run through some of the techniques used by a ...

Just about the first thing you learn when you start playing guitar is how to tune your instrument, but unless you’re a musical prodigy with perfect pitch, chances are you’ll need some assistance in ...

One of the oldest uses for smartphones was using the microphone to tune your guitar. Granted, it wasn’t all that great but it did work in a pinch. These days, guitar tuner apps are far better than ...

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 ...

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, ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

December 24, 2005 For most people, tuning a guitar takes three to five minutes and when they have finished, the final result is not very good. These people will love the Transperformance self-tuning ...