Guitarist
Swiss Things
Pedalboard management from the Swiss Army knife of stompboxes.
2 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Raising The Tone - Factory Fresh Tone
The Final Part Of Our Feature On Tone Sees Adrian Emsley Explaining How To Choose New Valves For Your Amp.
3 min |
March 2019
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Preamp Live
Mooer’s latest packs multiple-preamp power for your ’board.
2 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Mercury Rising
BluGuitar reboots its award-winning portable head with an extended range of sounds and a studio-worthy new reverb.
5 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Lenny Kravitz
Now 30 years into a multi-million-album-selling career, serial Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz credits his success with hits such as Are You Gonna Go My Way and Always On The Run to instinctive, from-the-gut riffing and a ‘first take’ recording philosophy. Here, he looks back on his lifelong love of guitar, the virtues of vintage Gibsons, being schoolmates with Slash and how his greatest riff was recorded with another band hammering on the studio door…
9 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Joanne Shaw Taylor
The first lady of British blues reflects upon Bulgarian kazoo players and the wisdom of keeping a corkscrew handy at all times…
3 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Grand Canyon
EHX’s latest goes deep to offer a comprehensive multi-function delay.
3 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Gas Supply
Our pick of the month’s most delectable, wallet-bothering new gear.
2 min |
March 2019
Guitarist
Barrie Cadogan
Squeezing us in between tour dates and many other musical commitments, the Little Barrie frontman drops by the Guitarist studios for a catch-up and to deliver a video masterclass…
8 min |
March 2019
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All White Now !
Neville Marten Revisits A Past Life To Upgrade A Modest Strat To Custom Spec.
1 min |
March 2019
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Longtermers
A few months’ gigging, recording and everything that goes with it – welcome to Guitarist ’s longterm test report
3 min |
February 2019
Guitarist
Brandy Row
If Ronnie Wood had joined The Clash he might have sounded something like Essex rebel-rouser Brandy Row. We join this tattooed neo-troubadour,who’s a veteran of Denmark Street’s Tin Pan Alley, to discuss taking on the world with a fistful of battered old guitars...
7 min |
February 2019
Guitarist
KT Tunstall
The singer-songwriter reflects on backstage cuisine and how finding the correct earplugs changed her life…
4 min |
February 2019
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Pickup Artist
We catch up with Fender’s pickup guru Tim Shaw in his Nashville lair to learn more about the process behind the American Performers
4 min |
February 2019
Guitarist
One For All
A complete kit of parts for putting your pedalboard together. Everything you need, bar the pedals
5 min |
February 2019
Guitarist
Graham Nash
From pop hitmaker in The Hollies to the Woodstock stage with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Graham Nash is one of the most successful – and thoughtful – British songwriters of all time. We met him to talk about Woodstock, Neil Young, old Martins and new songs
10+ min |
February 2019
Guitarist
Kings Of Country
We take a look at Gibson’s ‘king of the flat-tops’ with Walter Carter, author of the spec check bible Gruhn’s Guide To Vintage Guitars and proprietor of Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee
9 min |
February 2019
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Atkin Guitars
This month, we head to Canterbury and the workshops of one of the UK’s fastest growing acoustic guitar builders…
8 min |
February 2019
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Epiphone Zenith
Part of the Masterbilt series, the Zenith signalled a new era for Epiphone
2 min |
January 2019
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Telecaster Pickups
Joe Dobson, founder of London’s Joseph Kaye Guitars, explains the radical differences between Tele pickups old and new
3 min |
January 2019
Guitarist
Modern Art
In a celebration of great British amp building, Hamstead Soundworks releases a single-channel masterpiece to follow up its Artist 20RT – home-grown tone at its best
5 min |
January 2019
Guitarist
Hamstead Soundworks
A pair of unsuspecting Cambridgeshire-based industrial units play host to a rising force in British hand-built guitar amplification – Guitarist pops into Hamstead HQ for a cuppa…
8 min |
January 2019
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Pocket Rocket
The Helix family expands with its smallest member yet – a true stompbox that will easily fit on your pedalboard
6 min |
January 2019
Guitarist
Billy Gibbons
Following the rhythmic experimentation of 2015’s Perfectamundo, the Reverend Willy G has gone back to basics with an 11-track time machine that recalls the glory of 70s ’Top. Here, the man behind Pearly Gates talks influences, gear and recalls that time BB King told him to change his strings…
9 min |
January 2019
Guitarist
Oz Noy
He’s one of the most incisively inventive players working today, welding jazz to jagged blues with quicksilver deftness of touch. We join Oz for a rut-breaking lesson...
7 min |
January 2019
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Gear Of The Year
Welcome to another grand reckoning of the great and the good in gear that Guitarist has tested over the past year. Some years are more replete with interesting guitars than others and, happily, 2018 has been a vintage year.
4 min |
January 2019
Guitarist
Dave Davies
The Kinks guitarist recommends keeping your bandmates close and your audience happy…
4 min |
January 2019
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Back To The Beginning
With the launch of the CLF Research Skyhawk, G&L is revisiting its past to recall the pioneering spirit of Leo Fender and George Fullerton. Guitarist finds out more…
4 min |
January 2019
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After The Gold Rush
We join Dan Orkin of Reverb.com to find out more about the current state of the vintage-guitar market and hear his expert tips on how to get a great deal on your next second-hand or vintage guitar – and avoid expensive mistakes…
10+ min |
January 2019
Guitarist
Think Positive
From software to hardware, the Bias Amp concept is positively amazing – check out the colossal 600-watt Bias Head and its smaller sibling
4 min |