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“My Suhr looks like it was dragged behind a school bus on lava rock, and that’s just fine by me”: Jennifer Batten shares her gear epiphanies – and how she felt letting go of the Washburn she used with Jeff Beck and Michael Jackson

Batten explains why Suhr changed everything, the midi system that was a letdown –and the gear advice she’s learned the hard way

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“Puts your amp or cab on casters without drilling or modification”: On-Stage AG5000 Amp Glider review

Putting the roll into rock 'n' roll, the Amp Glider is an ingenious device for transporting your amp, preserving that Tolex – and that lower back

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“A drum machine for dummies?” DigiTech SDRUM Strummable Drums review

DigiTech brings back the pedal that allows you to create drum sounds via your guitar

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“Yesterday was one of the craziest days in the life of our business”: Benson Amps narrowly avoids fire that threatened one of its warehouses

A fire erupted in a building close to where Benson conducts its upholstery and final assembly, and 100 firefighters were called to stop the fire from spreading

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“I stuck with Gibson basses because they’re so dense”: Krist Novoselic dons a Thunderbird as he debuts his new band in Kurt Cobain's hometown – and pays tribute with a rendition of Nirvana's debut single

Krist Novoselic and his new band, The Bona Fide Band, gave a nod to Kurt Cobain and Nirvana with their own rendition of Love Buzz

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“Our most powerful yet”: Harley Benton already has the best-value electric guitar of 2024. Now it might have done the same with amp modelers

It’s only $170, but the new DNAfx GiT Advanced offers serious multi-FX spec for the price

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“A wolf in sheep’s clothing”: Mesa/Boogie and John Petrucci celebrate 40 years of partnership with “the most aggressive” and modern Mark IIC+ ever made

The Dream Theater virtuoso's limited-edition signature amp looks to take the Holy Grail metal and rock combo to all-new heights

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Expensive vs cheap guitar cables: does spending more make a significant difference?

So, what makes a guitar cable great, and are they worth paying more for?

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Fender Japan continues its adventures in flamed-top guitars with new never-before-seen Hybrid Series II finishes

The firm continues to push the aesthetic boundaries of some of its most iconic guitar templates with Twilight and Sunset Orange Metallic colorways

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“He went straight for that Les Paul. He closes the lid and goes, ‘That’s my guitar now’”: Scott Gorham nearly lost his 'Holy Grail' 1957 Gibson Les Paul to a customs officer just after he bought it – and he had to go to court to get it back

The Thin Lizzy guitarist bought the vintage guitar while in Boston with the band, but ran into a few issues when trying to take it overseas

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“The other bands had a top-notch Yngwie-level player, and that’s what I was trying to be. If some awful gig already has two of those dudes, it doesn’t need a third”: Tom Morello on the throwaway club show that changed his guitar playing forever

Morello pinpointed the moment that encouraged him to adopt a new approach to the guitar, which would influence his trailblazing work in Rage Against the Machine and beyond

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“We were just looking for the right time to come back”: Nobody expected Fender to return to NAMM – but the guitar giant is finally coming home to the world’s biggest gear trade show

Fender last attended NAMM in 2020, and as recently as 2023 the firm's CEO Andy Mooney said a return looked unlikely

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“The koa version’s beauty is much more than skin deep – the upgrade is worth the price if you’re a discriminating fingerstyle player”: Taylor 222ce-K DLX review

Koa is a Goldilocks tonewood positioned between spruce and mahogany – and this all-koa grand concert is a truly exquisite acoustic that presents real value for fingerpickers

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“Most of the reactions have been one of surprise: ‘How could you make a Strandberg this affordable?’” Ola Strandberg brought headless guitars back from the dead. Now he wants to take them to the masses with his first sub-$1,000 electric

The Boden Essential makes the future-forward Boden ergonomics available to a wider demographic than ever before. Ola Strandberg walks us through its development

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“Enjoy thick and edgy P-90 tones without major surgery”: Seymour Duncan might have just changed P-90 pickups forever with its noiseless Phat Cat Silencers

The humbucker-sized pickups offer all the tonal qualities of P-90s without extraneous noise at high-gain settings

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“This guy was just up on stage playing guitar behind his neck and now he’s barely even talking to me”: Junior Marvin saw Jimi Hendrix blow away the Beatles at a London club show – but says the guitar hero was too shy to speak to him

The Bob Marley and The Wailers guitarist says Hendrix was “like two different people” on and offstage

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“No-one is handing out medals for owning a guitar by a prestige maker”: Guitar prices and the conundrum of high-priced budget electric vs entry-level big-name model – which to choose and why the decision is getting tougher

With top-of-the-line Epiphones challenging Gibson USA models for spec, and being priced accordingly, how do you decide which model is right for you?

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“The opportunity to design a pedal for him was a privilege I couldn't pass up”: Dawner Prince’s Boonar Tube Deluxe was built especially for David Gilmour – and it’s a high-end replica of a legendary echo unit

Gilmour got his hands on the flagship Boonar pedal, then began working with Dawner Prince on a new-and-improved unit that could better integrate with his stage and studio rig

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“The range of music I’ve had to play in the last year is so vast”: How Sophie Giuliani went from ballet dancer to Olivia Rodrigo’s guitarist – and what she learned from John Mayer

The Australian guitarist is now an LA native with a roll call of credits including Rodrigo, Empress Of and Mayer Hawthorne, and she runs her own masterclass out of Pickup Music

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“I'm auctioning these for some wonderful charities”: Two of Steve Vai’s Ibanez JEMs found their way back to him after auction – so he’s selling them again to raise even more money for charity

The two guitars were originally auctioned off in 2022, but have been put up for sale once more to help raise funds for two charities

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“Our contribution to a 90-year-old tradition of breaking the sound of the guitar”: JHS unveils its first-ever original distortion pedal, the Hard Drive

The new unit is not a clone of any previous pedal, but offers a huge variety of recognizable modern distortion tones

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“The crown jewel of my amplifier collection”: Joe Bonamassa has bought Lowell George’s Dumble Overdrive Special Reverb after a 15-year quest

The amp and its matching cab were last played on June 28, 1979 – the night before the Little Feat legend died at the age of 34

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“The idea is to be felt and not seen. A lot of that came from when I was in Jethro Tull”: Jonathan Noyce on how playing with Martin Barre and Gary Moore honed his “stealth bass” approach – and his final days with the late Irish guitar legend

The Yamaha and Fender fan has made use of his “art school” education in Tull and his loud and free times with late icon Moore

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