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“There is a warmth to this pedal that is genuinely satisfying to play through”: Fender Hammertone Breakup Drive review
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Sterling by Music Man releases signature bass with two dummy knobs that do absolutely nothing for MxPx bassist Mike Herrera
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"If you’re after the building blocks of ’60s-style rock and roll, R&B and funk/soul, these will certainly get you a long way towards them.": Ernie Ball Pino Palladino Smoothies flatwound bass strings review
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Best Stratocasters 2025: The best Strats for every budget and playing style
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How Ibanez’s era-defining RG550 transformed high-performance guitar
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All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the crown jewel of PRS’ 40th Anniversary year
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Made famous by David Gilmour, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone
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"If you’re after the building blocks of ’60s-style rock and roll, R&B and funk/soul, these will certainly get you a long way towards them.": Ernie Ball Pino Palladino Smoothies flatwound bass strings review
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Ernie Ball fights battery waste with new rechargeable AA and 9V batteries that are tailored for effects pedals and active guitars
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Best bass strings 2025: Optimize tone, feel and lifespan
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Best electric guitar strings 2025: our top-rated strings for your electric
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Ella Feingold’s signature string set brings her wild inverted tuning to the masses
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This Japanese guitar maker is fashioning phone cases that make your mobile look like vintage instruments – and the internet is going crazy for them
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Best guitar cleaning kits and tools 2025: Keep your guitar looking and sounding sweet
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Best guitar picks 2025: My choice of tried-and-tested plectrums to upgrade your playing
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Seymour Duncan has retooled its Jeff Beck-backed JB pickup – and it might be your next Tele mod
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“There is a warmth to this pedal that is genuinely satisfying to play through”: Fender Hammertone Breakup Drive review
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Made famous by David Gilmour, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone
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“A shoo-in for completely natural drive sounds”: Nobels ODR-1X review
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“There’s plenty of scope to craft some unique ambient textures”: Crazy Tube Circuits Mirage review
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This innovation might have completely changed the way you dial in effects pedals forever
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Manson Guitar Works' debut fuzz pedal is here, but will Matt Bellamy’s high-end boutique stompbox be worth the wait?
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"Will it knock your socks off? For some, absolutely, but for me, I find it works admirably in a cranked rig and stacks nicely with other gain pedals": Warm Audio Tube Squealer overdrive pedal review
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The Adventure Box crams Tom DeLonge’s Angels & Airwaves sounds into a 2-in-1 stompbox
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“Boss’s claims of the pedal being artifact-free more than hold up”: Boss XS-1 Poly Shifter review
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Best guitar amps 2025: tube, solid-state and modeling amplifiers for all levels and budgets
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IK Multimedia takes on Fender and Boss with the TONEX Plug – its first-ever headphone amp
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Positive Grid’s $159 Spark NEO Core could be the headphone amp you’ve been waiting for
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“Can absolutely replace going the traditional route of a practice amp”: Positive Grid Spark Neo Core review
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“The standard-bearer against which to judge all small combo amps”: Fender Blues Junior IV 30th Anniversary review
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Best mini amps for guitar 2025: power up your practice with these tiny towers of tone – these are my top picks
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Reverb and Ashdown are selling bass amps used by Geezer Butler during rehearsals for Black Sabbath’s final show
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"Adding a few tweaks to the winning formula… The perfect pedal platforms": Victory V40 The Duchess Mark II review
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The Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ HRG was championed by John Petrucci and beyond – now it’s been brought back
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Sterling by Music Man releases signature bass with two dummy knobs that do absolutely nothing for MxPx bassist Mike Herrera
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Best Stratocasters 2025: The best Strats for every budget and playing style
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How Ibanez’s era-defining RG550 transformed high-performance guitar
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How Jim Root’s radical signature Telecaster updated a Fender mainstay for the 21st century
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The unexpected discovery in John Mayer’s iconic ’64 Fender Strat that helped shape the sound of the Silver Sky
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"Some might say this is far from a valid Oasis signature guitar, having only come into play earlier this year": Gibson Noel Gallagher Les Paul Standard review
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Musician’s Friend has just destroyed Black Friday before it’s even begun with up to 50% off guitars from Gretsch, PRS, Fender & more in their unmissable Holiday Sale
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Fender CBS guitars get a bad rep – but what actually changed?
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The one thing stopping headless guitars being embraced by traditional players, according to Ola Strandberg
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If you want to sound better live, three of our top-rated in-ear monitors just got some mega discounts in the Thomann In-Ear Days sale - save up to 30% on pro-level live sound
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Best in-ear monitors for guitar players 2025: stay in tune and on time
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“The best wireless headphones for musicians you can buy right now, despite a few flaws”: Yamaha YH-WL500 review
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“Some of the finest sounding IEMs”: Ultimate Ears Pro UE 150, UE 250, UE 350 In-Ear Monitors review
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“A handy addition to your pedalboard if you're playing shows with poor monitoring”: Cloudvocal EverSync Wireless IEM review
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Best earplugs for musicians 2025: guitarist-friendly plugs to suit every budget
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CloudVocal’s EverSync wireless in-ear monitor system delivers high-quality, low-latency monitoring in a compact, pedalboard-friendly design
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Audio Technica ATH-M50xBT2 review: the only headphones you need for guitar, studio and everyday use?
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Save big on the Boss Waza-Air and a host of other guitar amp headphones solutions with these red-hot Cyber Monday deals
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Neural DSP Archetype: Misha Mansoor X review
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5 of my go-to Universal Audio plugins just got heavily discounted in the monster Rocktober sale – glow up your recordings from as little as $24
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Universal Audio reimagines a classic Fender amp used by Keith Richards, The Beach Boys and beyond as a plugin – and it’s currently free to download
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Positive Grid embraces the age of AI with BIAS X – which responds to prompts and recreates the guitar tones of any reference song
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“Among the easiest modeling plugins to get to grips with – great results in very short order.”: Positive Grid BIAS X review
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Fender drops Fender Studio – a free DAW for mobile, desktop, and tablet devices
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Boss has brought 8 iconic effects pedals to the digital realm for the first time
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Meet the rePEDAL – an AI overdrive maker that generates digital stompboxes at the click of a button
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Best guitar plugins 2025: my top plugins to level up your recorded guitar tones
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Best FRFR speakers 2025: transparent tone for multi-effects and amp modelers
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"One of the best ways to quickly and easily record your music alongside your smartphone": Blackstar Polar Go review
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“Affordable, professional-quality”: Warm Audio Fen-Tone WA-FT ribbon microphone review
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Best guitar audio interfaces 2025: get better recorded guitar tones
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Presonus Eris Pro 6 Review
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“An affordable and extremely useful creative tool”: Shure MV7i Smart Microphone and Interface review
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A guitarist's ticket to easier home recording: PreSonus Quantum HD 2 review
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"Brilliantly precise monitoring headphones with wide open-back sound": Audio-Technica ATH-R70XA review
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The Les Paul Recording Studio opens in Hollywood – bringing the innovator’s revolutionary gear to a whole new generation of musicians
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Made famous by David Gilmour, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone
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“A shoo-in for completely natural drive sounds”: Nobels ODR-1X review
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Guitar World deals of the week: get the lowdown on the best early Black Friday deals, including a massive $670 off a signature Gretsch, and a limited edition Squier with a gigantic $218 reduction
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