Whois & Analysis for theguitarworld.com

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since July 1980.

It contains original interviews, album and gear reviews, and guitar and bass tablature of approximately five songs each month.

The magazine is published 13 times per year (12 monthly issues and a holiday issue).

Formerly owned by Harris Publications, Future US bought the magazine in 2003.

In 2012, NewBay Media bought the Music division of Future US.

The latter company also published a spin-off title, Guitar Legends, each issue of which typically combined past articles from Guitar World under a specific theme.

An online music store is an online business which sells audio files over the Internet, usually sound recordings of music songs or classical pieces, in which the user pays on a per-song or subscription basis.

It may be differentiated from music streaming services in that the online music store sells the purchaser the actual digital music file, while streaming services offer the patron partial or full listening without the actually owning the source file.

However, online music stores generally offer partial streaming previews of songs, with some songs even available for full length listening.

Online music stores typically show a picture of the album art or of the performer or band for each song.

Some online music stores also sell recorded speech files, such as podcasts and video files of movies.

(founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories) is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners.

Under the Vox brand name, they also manufacture guitar amplifiers and electric guitars.

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki.

Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce the seven-string guitar and eight-string guitar.

An effects unit or pedal is an electronic or digital device that alters how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds.

In the 2010s, most effects use solid state electronics and/or computer chips.

Some vintage effects units from the 1930s to the 1970s and modern reissues of these effects use mechanical components as well (e.g., Leslie rotating speaker, spring reverb, and tape recorder-based echo effects) or vacuum tubes.

Some effects subtly "color" a sound, such as a reverb unit used on a low setting, while others transform it dramatically, such as a distortion pedal used with electric guitar, with the overdrive set to its maximum level.

Musicians, audio engineers and record producers use effects units during live performances or in the studio, typically with electric guitar, electronic keyboard, electric piano or electric bass.

While guitar effects are most frequently used with electric or electronic instruments, effects can also be used with acoustic instruments, drums and vocals.

Rackmounted or audio console-integrated reverb effects are commonly used with vocals in live sound and sound recording.

Examples of common effects units include wah-wah pedals, fuzzboxes and reverb units.