The Electric Guitar Innovation Lab

12/02/2021

We're happy to share the video of a recent presentation luthier Rachel Rosenkranz gave for our students on guitar-making with unconventional organic materials including beehives, mushrooms, and more.

View full details at: http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/rachel Guitar-maker Rachel Rosenkrantz, gave a lecture and demonstration at WPI on Wednesday, No...

10/12/2021

We're excited to announce our new resources and tools for building digital effects pedals!

Guitar FX Development: resources and guides developed by the EGIL.

06/05/2020

EGIL is celebrating Les Paul’s 105th birthday on June 9th! Inspired by Les' "the Rail" experiments, students in our lab experimented making a guitar body made from vinyl records:

http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/lespaul

06/04/2020

EGIL is celebrating Les Paul’s 105th birthday on June 9th! Students in our lab working remotely recreated Les' "the Log" experiments with the support of the :

http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/lespaul

06/03/2020

EGIL is celebrating Les Paul’s 105th birthday on June 9th! Students in our lab working remotely adapted "the Les Paulverizer" into this Bluetooth MIDI control device:

http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/lespaul

Les Paul Foundation

More info on this and other Les Paul innovation recreations/adaptations at: http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/lespaul Students analyzing Les Paul's Les ...

06/02/2020

EGIL is celebrating Les Paul’s 105th birthday on June 9th! Students in our lab working remotely recreated Les' "the Rail" experiments with the support of the :

http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/lespaul

06/01/2020

EGIL is celebrating Les Paul’s 105th birthday on June 9th! This collection of student projects was inspired by Les Paul and advised by WPI music faculty with the support of the Les Paul Foundation:

http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/lespaul

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

01/17/2020

Video excerpts from our multichannel electric guitar event on 12/04/19; view the full video at http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/multi

Guitarist and pickup designer Bob Palmieri (http://dunelandlabs.com) performed a concert of solo electric guitar music through a multi-channel/multi-amplifier live setup. Following the concert, attendees were invited to play one of several guitars outfitted with these new, one-of-a-kind multi-channel T4RS audio jacks created by Fuse Audio (http://fuseaudio.com) in collaboration with EGIL.

12/07/2018

Photos and video from Ken Parker’s lecture for EGIL!

http://electricguitarinnovationlab.org/kenparker

Featuring performances by Carlos Odria and Vince Genella

Ken Parker lecture at WPI hosted by the EGIL

12/01/2018

Our lab successfully converted this six-string Parker Fly electric guitar into a 12-string electric guitar!

the EGIL converted this Parker Fly Mojo electric guitar into a unique 12-string electric guitar.