This is the Yamaha Corporation [Musical Instrument Guide] website. This article contains information about the Electri guitar [How the Electric Guitar is Made:Even electric guitars are made from wood!]
Another important band in acoustic guitars is around 8 kHz and up. This area has a lot of sizzle that can compete with cymbals, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to alsolow-pass filter the high-endto create space for all this frequency content. Remember, guitars are midrange instruments! T...
Chapter 11 - EQ for Electric Bass, Guitars & Keyboards We've already got the drums sounding good, now we are going to move on to the electric bass, guitars and keyboards, the key instruments for most rock and pop bands. Learn More ...
This is one of the basic factors that affect a guitar’s wooden face. Depending on the wood material, it will be subjected to different effects, stretching or contracting when humidity changes if not adjusted. Guitars are susceptible to damage when the humidity is low, so it is essential to...
Channels are usually designed to accept microphones and/or line-level devices, such as amplifiers, preamps or signal processors. (Microphones, and instruments such as guitars and basses, output electronic signals that have a much lower level than line-level devices.)...
John McLaren became the new overall head of CBS Musical Instruments; Bill Schultz was the new president of CBS’s Fender/ Rogers/Rhodes division; Dan Smith became director of marketing electric guitars; and Roger Balmer came in from Music Man, though he, too, was ex-Yamaha, and he became ...
After all, what good are locking tuners if they’re poorly fastened? The right tools for the job (Image credit: Jack Ellis) You will need: Set of new tuners PH1 PZ1 Screw drivers Bradawl (pokey thing for marking drill holes!) Drill 2mm or 1.5mm drill bits Candle or bar of soap ...
If you want to connect your smart device wirelessly but your digital piano doesn’t have Bluetooth, there are tools out there that can help you do that. For digital pianos that have dedicated MIDI In/Out ports you can use Yamaha’s solution, the wireless MD-BT01 adapter. Yamaha MD-BT01...
When I put slightly overdriven guitars into the EMT 140, it just instantly takes me back to a specific place in my childhood. I think that must be why I keep coming back to it — it’s literally like time travel.Thorngren:“Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer was probably the biggest...
A quick note about drums. They are very different to some other instruments. Guitars seem to have a gage of which ones are good or bad. Drums are different, there is not exactly a good and bad. Of course, unless you buy a complete off-brand kit or a children’s kit. ...