“A flexible vintage-flavoured asset for your signal chain”: Beetronics Larva Morphing Phaser review
What is it? Beetronics has been on a run of releasing dirt pedals recently, but its latest offers modulation (plus a modicum of dirt). The…
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“For the price, it’s pretty much unbeatable.”: Harley Benton JAMster Guitar review
What is it? A huge trend in the last few years has been the continued development of portable mini-amps. The Harley Benton JAMster joins the…
Mark Tremonti’s PRS signature amp is one of the best affordable high-gain heads on the market – and it just got one major upgrade
The MT 15 | Demo | PRS Guitars – YouTube Watch On PRS has rolled out two newly spec’d versions of its popular Archon and…
“These measures threaten the economic and cultural impact of U.S.-made musical instruments”: NAMM president responds to Trump's tariffs – urgently urging the administration to exempt the musical instrument market
As Donald Trump’s tariffs continue to trigger shockwaves in markets across the globe, the musical instrument market is requesting an exemption in an effort to…
“The Beyoncé effect is, in fact, real. I got a lot of traffic just from people checking the liner notes”: With three Grammy wins and plaudits from John Mayer, Justus West is one of modern session guitar’s MVPs – but it hasn’t been an easy ride
When Beyoncé collected the Album of the Year and Best Country Album statues for Cowboy Carter, they were actually Justus West’s second and third Grammy…
How to weave crosspicking and Carter picking into your acoustic guitar playing
In this lesson, we’ll be looking at an unaccompanied acoustic piece. The tempo marked is approximate as this was played ‘freehand’ without a metronome. Flatpicking…
“You might laugh a little. The post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root”: This metal fan ordered a new guitar from Sweetwater – but it ended up with the Slipknot guitarist
Ordering an electric guitar online will usually lead to a nervy few days at the best of times, but when this metal fan’s swanky new…
“I hope they never do one of Van Halen. I told Wolfie, ‘Make sure I’m dead’”: Eddie Van Halen's former wife, Valerie Bertinelli, rules out Van Halen biopic
With Bob Dylan’s biopic A Complete Unknown becoming a film critics’ darling, and The Beatles’ four-movie biopic officially confirmed – not to mention pop star…
“The hotshot guitar player at our gig said, ‘Your guitar sounds terrible. You should leave that thing on.’ So I turned on the Big Muff…” How a heckler helped J Mascis unlock his Dinosaur Jr. guitar tone
Through his work with Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis has curated one of the most instantly recognizable alternative guitar tones that many budding electric guitar players…
“I met Joe when he was 12. He picked up a vintage guitar in one store and they told him to leave. But someone said, ‘This guy called Norm will let you play his stuff’”: The unlikely rise of Norman’s Rare Guitars and the birth of the vintage guitar market
When Norman Harris founded Norman’s Rare Guitars in 1975, he had no idea that his little shop would become an institution in vintage guitars. And…