I didn’t know what to expect when I unpacked my new Variax 700 digital modeling guitar from Line 6. I was afraid that it would end up being a technological freak: a half-assed attempt at a guitar with ...

Amp Week 2026: Despite the rise of digital modeling, the humble guitar amp remains a popular option for players all over the globe, myself included. Your amp is the core of your guitar tone, and in my ...

Native Instruments (NI) released an update for Guitar Rig this week, which uses a new algorithm to model its guitar amplifiers. According to NI, Guitar Rig 3.1’s new algorithm leads to significantly ...

IK Multimedia has been in the guitar rig emulation game for a long time. It released the first version of AmpliTube way back in 2002. And while the company has branched out quite a bit since then into ...