Guitar World
Zakk Wylde
\"Maybe it'll come down to 'Let's just do \"Free Bird\" for two hours!\"
4 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
Warm Audio Fen-Tone WA-FT ribbon microphone
EVEN THE MOST modest home studio should have a decent variety of microphones at its disposal. The proliferation of high-quality, inexpensive condenser and dynamic mics introduced over the last few decades has helped aspiring engineers reach this goal somewhat. However, many studios still lack a ribbon microphone, which is a versatile mic for capturing great sounding recordings in numerous applications, particularly miking guitar cabinets.
2 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
"THE FISH (SCHINDLERIA PRAEMATURIS)"
CHRIS SQUIRE IS one of the most innovative and distinctive bassists in rock history, revered for crafting tasteful, intricate melodic lines that perfectly complemented Yes’ ambitious arrangements, and also for aggressively attacking his roundwound strings with a heavy pick and cranking an early-Sixties four-string Rickenbacker through a Marshall Super Bass tube amp to achieve a bright yet deep and growly tone.
1 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
LOST CLASSICS: Bob Marley & the Wailers
GUITARIST JUNIOR MARVIN TAKES US INSIDE THE MAKING OF MARLEY'S PERPETUALLY UNDER-THE-RADAR 1979 ALBUM, SURVIVAL
5 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
Blues Worth Keeping
WIDELY HAILED AS ONE OF IRELAND'S BRIGHTEST EMERGING STARS, 18-YEAR-OLD MUIREANN BRADLEY IS PROUD TO CHAMPION MUSIC THAT'S NEARLY A CENTURY OLD
4 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
Bill Kelliher
The Mastodon man's brief – but probably very helpful! – exchange with Tony Iommi
4 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
K.K. Downing
The former Judas Priest guitarist honors his fellow Brummies
5 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
SONGS FROM THE WOOD
Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre — who recently reconnected with his acoustic side — revisits some choice moments in Tull history, including his “Aqualung” solo, \"Steel Monkey\" and that weird Grammy win
10+ min |
August 2025
Guitar World
Jake E. Lee
\"Tom Morello said, 'I can't see this going on without Jake E. Lee in there somewhere'
5 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
Scott Holiday
Rival Sons, Sabbath’s 2026-17 tour openers, return to the scene of the crime
5 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
A Thing of Beauty
TETRARCH'S DIAMOND ROWE AND JOSH FORE TAKE YOU BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE VETERAN METALERS' LATEST, THE UGLY SIDE OF ME - AND WHY DIAMOND'S MOM'S OPINIONS WEIGH SO HEAVILY WITH THE BAND
8 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
CREED BRATTON
From living it up in the Summer of Love to starring in NBC's The Office, the former Grass Roots guitarist has had a career like no other.
9 min |
August 2025
Guitar World
Cort Sunset Nylectric DLX
EVERY GUITAR PLAYER should have at least one nylon-string guitar in their collection.
2 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
MY PEDALBOARD KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD
WHAT THE MODERN BLUES-ROCK ICON SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN
2 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Hamstead Redwing Analogue Stereo Modulator
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN modulation effects are often a simple matter of different delay ranges (for example, delay times for flanging effects typically range from 1 to 15ms, while chorus typically uses a 15 to 50ms delay), delay versus filtering (a split signal is delayed for flanging or filtered for phasing), or what is actually modulated (a phaser modulates phase while vibrato modulates pitch).
3 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
IBANEZ ICEMAN
1975-82, 1992-PRESENT CATEGORY: SOLIDBODY ELECTRIC GUITAR
2 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Black to the Future
The death of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in February 1980 looked like it might've also dealt a fatal blow to the band. But then they got a new singer and made a career-rejuvenating record that became the biggest-selling rock album of all time — Back in Black
10+ min |
July 2025
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A FABULOUS DISASTER
Exodus and Slayer mainstay Gary Holt reveals what compelled him to finally roll up his sleeves and unflinchingly tell his life story
10+ min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Ricky Warwick
HOW OLD FRIENDS (AND GUITARS) HELPED TURN THE THIN LIZZY SINGER'S NEW SOLO RECORD INTO A SONIC TOUR-DE-FORCE
2 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
RIFFER MADNESS
How Deafheaven brought back the heavy on Lonely People with Power
7 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
BRIAN RAY
From playing the “Monster Mash” with Bobby Pickett at17 to touring the world with Paul McCartney, Brian Ray has had a career like no other
8 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
SOUND CHECK
FOR MANY GUITARISTS, the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ ranks at the top of their Holy Grail, bucket list, unobtanium amps.
3 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
On-Stage Travel Guitar Amplifier
BEFORE YOU RIP my head off for reviewing the most basic of portable guitar amps — the On-Stage Travel Guitar Amplifier — allow me to point out that there’s more to this one than meets the eye.
2 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Winona Fighter
ON THE NASHVILLE BAND'S DEBUT ALBUM, GUITARISTS COCO KINNON AND DAN FUSON SPECIALIZE IN GRUNGY POP HOOKS AND BRASH LEADS
1 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Robin Nolan
HOW A GYPSY JAZZ BUSKER BECAME A FRIEND, INTERPRETER AND COLLABORATOR OF GEORGE HARRISON
2 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Fender Standard Series Stratocaster
AT THIS POINT, Fender's core instruments have become the equivalent of classic novels like Moby-Dick and On the Road, which are refreshed nearly every other year for new audiences to digest.
3 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
LIEBER GUITARS
The story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn't take no for an answer and ended up making prized instruments for the Grateful Dead
5 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
PERMANENT WAVZ
Envy of None guitarist Alex Lifeson brings his prodigious chops back to the forefront on the band's sophomore release, Stygian Wavz. Plus, a new Rush box set, hangin' with Geddy Lee, Lerxst gear and more
10+ min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Weapons of Mass Destruction
HOW ALIEN WEAPONRY CAME UP WITH THE CONCEPT OF MIXING THEIR MĀORI BACKGROUND WITH HARD-HITTING RIFFS
5 min |
July 2025
Guitar World
Dutch Interior
ON THEIR THIRD ALBUM, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-BASED INDIE ROCKERS REFINE THEIR SOUND WHILE HONORING THE MUSICAL BOND THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER
2 min |