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    Author: guitarworld

    “There’s something about handling a Martin that’s about to celebrate its 100th birthday that is absolutely terrifying”: Getting up close and personal with a 1928 Martin 00-42 – a pre-war, small-bodied vintage unicorn of an acoustic guitar

    With Martin model designations, the digit before the hyphen corresponds to body size and the bigger the number the smaller the body. So, when the…

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    guitarworld February 27, 2025
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    “These songs were written by our drummer. It’s my sound, but they’re not my riffs”: Jinjer’s Roman Ibramkhalilov on why his drummer’s riffs hit harder, how to confuse people in 4/4, and why Blues Drivers beat Tube Screamers

    More often than not with metal bands, it’s one or two guitar players who oversee the lion’s share of the writing process, meticulously piecing together…

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    guitarworld February 27, 2025
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    “He brought technical skill mixed with soulful artistic delivery through his music”: Karl Cochran, longtime Kiss and Joe Lynn Turner collaborator, has died aged 61

    Guitarist Karl Cochran, who has toured and collaborated with Ace Frehley, Eric Singer, Joe Lynn Turner, and Bob Daisley, among many others, died on February…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “It might not be the ‘Marshall sound’ your grandad loves, but for those who revere the harder-edged sound Marshall brought us in the ’90s, the Studio 900 hits the spot”: Marshall Studio 900 head and combo review

    What is it? Once thought of as a ‘modern Marshall amp’, you might like to sit down as you realise that the JCM 900 celebrates…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “The 1980s was all about high performance. These models embody that spirit”: Gibson’s latest Certified Vintage drop offers a fascinating insight into the firm’s forgotten Superstrat era

    Gibson has unveiled its latest crop of Certified Vintage electric guitars – and it’s a time capsule that offers an unprecedented glimpse into the firm’s…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “It’s as if God convinced SRV and EVH to be reincarnated into one body”: Nuno Bettencourt says this 15-year-old blues player is in the league of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen

    Australian guitar wunderkind Taj Farrant may have made his tentative steps in the music industry on Australia’s Got Talent and The Ellen Show – but…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “Occasionally, you get to play something that makes you think in a totally different way”: The Circle Guitar is a wild “hyperinstrument” that’s revolutionizing the guitar – and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien has already bought one

    NAMM 2025 was, as ever, full of massive gear drops and absolutely ridiculous releases in equal measure. For every Marshall amp-in-a-box pedal, there was a…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “I don’t know of any Gibson guitars that possess that”: Joe Bonamassa, Gibson’s Tom Murphy and other all-star gear specialists on how to spot a fake Les Paul – and the tell-tale signs of counterfeit models

    After US Border Protection officers reported the biggest counterfeit instrument bust on record when it seized $18 million of fake Gibson guitars late last year,…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “I didn’t play guitar at all. The imposter syndrome was pretty rampant. It was incredibly challenging”: A Complete Unknown’s Monico Barbaro on how she went from never playing guitar to nailing Joan Baez's intricate fingerstyle technique

    Monica Barbaro’s nuanced approach to the role of folk music icon Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown was key not only to the movie’s story…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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    “The most inspiring tape echo ever crammed into a small form factor”: Strymon’s new EC-1 was modeled after an iconic delay unit – which had been modded by “one of the most storied gear techs of the last 50 years”

    Strymon has continued its assault on the compact stompbox market with the EC-1 – a tape echo delay pedal that takes inspiration from an iconic…

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    guitarworld February 26, 2025
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