guitar

Fretlight Guitar: easy as LED

Crave The Fretlight guitar illuminates LEDs along its fretboard to indicate chord patterns and notes. You can plug the Fretlight into your laptop via USB, select the song of your choice, and play along as LEDs flash about the guitar.

Tags: led, guitar, leds, learning

30 March 2005, 15:50

Kiss axe: Gene Simmons Guitar Hero controller

Crave How about stand around in your living room clicking a plastic guitar? To make the whole thing a little more authentic, Kobian has made a fully equipped, axe-shaped guitar controller for PlayStation Guitar Hero and Rock Band games.The controller is...

Tags: bar, guitar, playstation, paint

29 October 2008, 10:02

Gibson Power Tour guitar: No strings attached

Crave Today, we we're annoying our co-workers with the Gibson Power Tour guitar from iwantoneofthose.com. It looks like it was designed for hobbits, and is completely devoid of strings, but it'll let you play anything you could on a real guitar.

Tags: guitar, tour, guitar hero, noise

8 November 2007, 10:20

Video: Rock Band 2 unboxed and ready to rock

Crave Both Rock Band and rival game Guitar Hero are banking on high-power Christmas entries, with competing set lists of classic and new rock, from The Who to Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix to Metallica. It's worth noting that in fact, it's the Guitar Hero...

15 September 2008, 10:26

Crave Talk: Scientists invent power without wires

Crave You've probably noticed that if you play music on a stereo system in the same room as an acoustic guitar, the guitar strings will occassionally vibrate when the music hits the same frequency as a string is tuned to.

Tags: television, air, frequency, rooms

15 November 2006, 12:03

Tech that's just wrong

Crave It's like playing the guitar. Guitar Hero: Shredding for dummies It's like playing the guitar in the same way that playing Gran Turismo is like driving a supercar around the streets of Monaco. And while most of us will never get the chance to drive...

3 March 2008, 7:23

iAxe 393: Shred face via USB

Crave Crave loves tech arguably as much as we do music, so we can be excused for nearly soiling ourselves when the iAxe 393 USB Guitar showed up. It is, as the name suggests, a guitar that connects to your PC via a USB cable.

Tags: usb, rock, guitar, vintage

26 April 2007, 11:36

Crave Talk: Pin-stripe rebel -- the PC at 25

Crave In this game you played a guitar, controlled by an active pick plugged into your parallel port, alongside animated figures representing the rest of your band. Guitar Hero, in other words, but ten years earlier and with a better sense of humour.

Tags: ibm, gaming, computing, playstation

18 August 2006, 13:55

i-Steroid iPod valve amplifer: Drugged up, or quick and nimble?

Crave By inserting a thin gauze in the gap between the elements and sending a weaker current through it (for example, the input from an electric guitar pickup), the stronger signal will pick up the characteristics of the weaker one.

Tags: equipment, electronic, elements, gap

14 September 2006, 11:59

Xbox 360 updates at E3: Rock, roll and Final Fantasy XIII

Crave Xbox 360 users will soon be blessed with Guitar Hero World Tour, in which musical wannabes can play against eight other teams to see who's the best at not playing music. Crave has always enjoyed having our sight spheres bathed in the luxuriant glow...

Tags: microsoft, deal, xbox, portal

15 July 2008, 11:14

State of Play: Xbox 360

Crave Later in its lifecycle it sold millions to casual gamers off the back of party games such as SingStar and Guitar Hero. The Xbox 360 has been hanging around for a year now, like the dork who got to the party too early.

Tags: microsoft, party, dvd player, care

22 November 2006, 10:23

Ears-on with the Denon AH-C351: Better than wrestling midgets

Crave But they're slightly less punchy in the mid-range and come with a brighter treble, meaning the V-moda Vibes offer a more balanced sound, making guitar rock a little more enjoyable. We're fond of many things at Crave -- wrestling naked with midgets...

Tags: denon, pair, dance, earphones

22 May 2008, 10:51

Hands-on with the Sennheiser PXC 350 headphones

Crave Listening to Dream Theater's Dark Eternal Night, with the gain-heavy hammering of twin bass drums, and the layers of complex keyboard and guitar instrumentation, there was no negative impact on the tone of the bright hi-hats, china cymbals or the...

Tags: sennheiser, noise, headphones, bass

14 November 2007, 10:47

Top ten girl geeks

Crave Simpson's greatest invention is the perpetual motion machine and she is also an expert piano, accordion, bass guitar and baritone saxophone player. Photographed numerous times clutching her PSP, and famous for having her Sidekick hacked, Hilton is...

21 November 2006, 15:54

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave Just strap it on, load up Guitar Hero III and prepare to rock! We can't do much about the first three, but we can help you out on the last one by providing you with some great gift ideas. So here, without further ado, is our festive run-down of the...

11 November 2008, 16:50