Now, Fender is proud to unveil the Mustang GTX – a better, bolder version of its powerful predecessor. With unbeatable sound and style, new amp models and endless effects, the Mustang GTX50 and 100 are the ultimate stage-ready modeling amplifiers – designed for players who want cutting-edge tech matched with the mojo of Fender’s classic amps.

Amp manufacturers use intensely rigorous testing procedures to ensure this level of quality and compatibility, making blown instrument amp speakers a highly improbable occurrence. Nonetheless, it is in the nature of any technology to experience occasional problems, and speakers do blow once in a great while despite the best efforts of the ...

Similarly, how hard you drive your amp versus how hard it can be driven factor into its headroom. In the guitar world, headroom usually refers to how hard you can push an amp before it starts to distort. Some tube guitar amps are designed to be very loud and clean (the venerable Fender Twin Reverb being a great example). Such amps are said to ...

An acoustic guitar gives beginners a chance to hear the resonant sound of a guitar without distortion or amplification. For the more adventurous who want the best of both worlds, there are also acoustic-electric guitars that can be played au naturel, or plugged in through an amp to deliver concert hall-style sound.

The amp is plugged in. The amp is turned on. The amp is not in standby mode. The speaker mute switch is not engaged. The amp is properly connected to the speakers/enclosure. The amp volume is sufficiently up. The instrument is properly plugged in at both ends. The instrument volume is sufficiently up.

There are several options. You can use a tuning app, like Fender Tune for iPhone and Android. You can use a digital tuner. Or, you can even tune by ear using harmonics. To help get your acoustic guitar sounding great, Dreyer offered this acoustic tuning tutorial in which he utilizes the Fender Tune app on his PM-1 Standard Dreadnought.

In the 1970s, several Fender instrument models used a three-bolt design. Although all Fender instruments had reverted back to the four-bolt design by 1981, the three-bolt design was resurrected for several current Fender reissue models, including a handful of Classic and Classic Player series Telecaster guitar models, and the American Vintage ...

When the volume is “dimed”—that’s guitar speak for cranking the volume to 10—on a standard guitar, the amp gets the full signal from your pickup, providing the well-rounded tone that will give you the warm fuzzies.

It was a departure from the four-course guitar-like instruments (“course” in this sense meaning a pair of strings tuned in unison) dominant since the beginning of the Renaissance.

There are a great many direct boxes on the market, ranging from basic small-transformer-in-a-box units that start around $30 to highly sophisticated professional units costing several hundred dollars. Fender even offers the Micro DI pedal. Many working musicians and sound professionals consider a couple hundred dollars a worthwhile investment ...