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    Author: guitarworld

    NAMM 2025: rumors, predictions and breaking news from the world’s biggest guitar gear show

    NAMM 2025 is rapidly approaching, and with it, a tidal wave of fresh guitar gear announcements, celebrity appearances and exhaustive reporting from Guitar World. The…

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    guitarworld December 12, 2024
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    “It blew my mind as a 12-year-old”: Dweezil Zappa shares the surprising beginner guitar lessons he learned from Eddie Van Halen

    As he has previously recounted, Dweezil Zappa first met Eddie Van Halen when he was just 12 years old following an unexpected phone call one…

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    guitarworld December 12, 2024
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    “You could describe it as an early ‘boutique’ pedal company… but its products were made in a damp, rat-infested basement”: Loved by Nuno Bettencourt, Jeff Beck and Kurt Cobain, the ProCo Rat graduated from dank basements to the world’s biggest albums

    Today’s guitarists are blessed with about 26,844 distortion pedals to choose from, give or take two. But back in the late ’70s the selection was…

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    guitarworld December 12, 2024
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    “A lot of the time it was about how we get the guitar to sound almost worse”: The Timothée Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, uses an array of top-of-the-line Gibsons. Its producers had to find a way to make them truer to Dylan's tone

    Gibson has revealed a stunning collection of acoustic guitars themed after A Complete Unknown, the forthcoming Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. In the process,…

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    guitarworld December 12, 2024
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    “The pick that makes guitar easier”: Introducing the PickTwist – a new 3D pick that will make you a better player… and never slip out your hand

    A Kickstarter campaign is set to launch for a brand new guitar pick, which has been boldly badged by its maker as “the pick that…

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    guitarworld December 11, 2024
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    “I used my P-Bass in the studio and my Jazz Bass live, because it projected a little louder”: Originally recorded as a B-side, this riff-driven blues became a Jimi Hendrix classic – and bassist Billy Cox played a pivotal role

    It’s difficult to imagine, but if Jimi Hendrix were alive today, he’d be pushing 85. But like many other notables who have departed the stage…

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    guitarworld December 11, 2024
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    “Match the tone of the short-pants rock God”: Crazy Tube Circuits bottles Angus Young’s tone in a pedal – including the secret sauce that shaped his guitar sounds (and Kiss, Pink Floyd and Metallica’s, too)

    Greek pedal maker Crazy Tube Circuits has unveiled the Heatseeker – a threefold amp-in-a-box pedal that promises to nail Angus Young’s guitar tone. But, to…

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    guitarworld December 11, 2024
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    “I went to Alexander Dumble’s home and plugged into all his amps. He let me play the first one he ever made”: Orianthi’s new signature Orange is inspired by a visit to the most coveted amp maker of them all

    Orianthi has had quite the career so far. She’s played with Michael Jackson and Alice Cooper, survived the rigors of the pop industry, and recently…

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    guitarworld December 11, 2024
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    “After leading our overall list for two years, it did not come in No. 1”: Reverb reveals its best-selling electric guitars of 2024 – and the previous top-seller has been toppled

    As 2024 draws to a close, online gear retailer Reverb has maintained tradition by announcing its best-selling electric guitars of the year. As always, three…

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    guitarworld December 11, 2024
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    “It can be whatever pedal you need it to be”: TC Electronic’s Plethora X1 takes the fight to the Line 6 HX One – and it costs over $100 less

    TC Electronic has unveiled the Plethora X1 – the latest addition to its Plethora family of multi-effects pedals, which finds the firm going toe-to-toe once…

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    guitarworld December 10, 2024
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