The ZEQD-Pre has an EF86 pentode just like Dr Z's sweet high-end amps, and it might just give your rig the analogue warmth, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synergy has unveiled the SYN-20IR, a tube amp head with a revolutionary design that allows players to swap preamp modules in and out, making for a fully customisable guitar amp – and this head has ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Dirty Boy has just pulled the ultimate power move for guitar effects pedals, striking a blow for analogue die hards in the process, as it has just unveiled a preamp pedal that is based on a digital ...

Audio Hertz has announced the release of a new plugin that promises to recreate the sought-after tones of Michael Todd Gordon, the artist better known as Mk.gee, known for using an unconventional ...

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 ...

The plugin promises to offer music-makers the same "musical tube warmth and character" heard on recordings by Ray Charles, ...