Chris Vinnicombe

Chris Vinnicombe worked with us here on the MusicRadar team from the site's initial launch way back in 2007, and also contributed to Guitarist magazine as Features Editor until 2014, as well as Total Guitar magazine, amongst others. These days he can be found at Gibson Guitars, where he is editor-in-chief.

Latest articles by Chris Vinnicombe

The '65 Jaguar is hugely more vintage-accurate and detailed than offshore interpretations or the current Classic Player Series in Fender's catalogue

Fender American Vintage '65 Jaguar

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Alongside new Strats and Teles, Leo's enfant terrible gets the vintage-correct treatment

Electric Guitars
Of all eight Vintage American instruments on recent test it was the Jazzmaster in Aztec Gold that turned the most heads in the office

Fender American Vintage '65 Jazzmaster

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Alongside new Strats and Teles, Leo's enfant terribles also get the vintage-correct treatment

Electric Guitars
Also available in a more flamboyant cream finish, our Fiorano Standard is relatively demure in Tobacco Sunburst

Italia Fiorano Standard

By Chris Vinnicombe published

A unique spin on a hollow body electric from Trev Wilkinson's Italia brand.

Electric Guitars
While there's an, ahem, familiar body outline and control layout, the Modulo Tipo 3 has a look that's utterly polarising

Italia Modulo Tipo 3

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Esoteric and fun, or just plain bonkers? Trev Wilkinson's latest Italia model seems to be purposefully designed to divide opinion

Electric Guitars
Resplendent in Jetglo with mirror-like chrome: it's a thoroughly handsome specimen

Rickenbacker 650C Colorado

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Rocky mountain high performance or a bucking Denver bronco?

Electric Guitars
The Game Changer promises automated access to "any order of pickup coils in series, parallel, in or out of phase", without digitising or modelling the audio signal

Music Man Reflex Game Changer HSH

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Fancy radically rewiring your guitar without touching a soldering iron?

Electric Guitars
The Orange Signature #4 Jim Root Terror's 'pics only' front.

Orange Signature #4 Jim Root Terror

By Chris Vinnicombe published

We get our mitts on the Slipknot guitarist's signature amp

Guitar Amps
The Micro Terror has headphone and auxiliary-input capabilities, but sounds best when cranked up on stage or in a studio.

Orange Micro Terror

By Chris Vinnicombe published

What can this tiniest of Terrors offer, beyond cuteness?

Guitar Amps
Three-piece sweeteners for a bigger live sound

5 tips for guitarists in power-trios

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Three-piece sweeteners for a bigger live sound

Guitar Lessons & Tutorials
The Kemper Profiling Amp: about the size of a hungry man's lunchbox.

Kemper Profiling Amp

By Chris Vinnicombe published

It's new and groundbreaking, but don't run for cover. Does Kemper's much-hyped Profiling Amp really take digital modelling to the next level?

Guitar Amps
Sell your body. Call a loan shark. Flog a kidney. Just get this guitar into your life

New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (April 2012)

By Chris Vinnicombe published

New guitars, amps and FX from Gibson, PRS, Vox and many more!

Acoustic Guitars
AddString: use it to... add a string.

Musikmesse 2012 video: AddString - fit an extra string to your acoustic guitar

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Make your 6-string acoustic sound like a 12-string

Acoustic Guitars
Hear the KPA in action and decide for yourself!

VIDEO: Kemper Profiling Amplifier hands-on review

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Hear our A/B test of this game-changing product

Guitar Amps
An elaborate desk toy or a real amp? You might be surprised by the TubeMeister 5

New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (March 2012)

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Premier Builders Guild, Hughes & Kettner, Blackstar and more

Acoustic Guitars
Aged to perfection

NAMM 2012: Gibson Guitar highlights in pictures

By Chris Vinnicombe, Stuart Williams published

Choice new instruments from the Gibson booth

Guitars
A new six-string that evokes the heyday of '80s rock guitar

New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (February 2012)

By Chris Vinnicombe published

New guitars, amps and FX from Ibanez, Guild, Strymon and more

Guitars
The genre-defining Rectifier Series gets its own Mini-Me. Enfant terrible or chip off the old block?

New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (January 2012)

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Killer new products from Mesa/Boogie, Fender, Framus, Orange and more!

Acoustic Guitars
The glittering highs and lows of strap length history

How high should I wear my guitar?

By Chris Vinnicombe published

The politics of guitar strap length examined

Guitar Lessons & Tutorials
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The best guitar gear of 2011: guitars, amps, FX and more!

By Chris Vinnicombe published

This year's essential guitar gear in pictures

Acoustic Guitars
Revolver (1966)

John Lennon's 10 greatest songs

By Chris Vinnicombe, Joe Bosso published

The Beatle's best compositions

Singles And Albums
As Gretsch launches its signature version of Beatle George's 'first real decent guitar', we ask the obvious question: what took so long?

New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (December 2011)

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Killer new products from Fender, MXR, Ampeg, Gretsch, Blackstar and more!

Acoustic Guitars
The THR10 has five electric guitar sounds, plus bass, acoustic and 'flat' (for keys, for example).

Yamaha THR10

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Does the new THR series provide the 'perfect third amp' for all your offstage needs?

Guitar Amps
Is this Whammy alternative even better than the real thing?

New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (November 2011)

By Chris Vinnicombe published

Axe-FX II, PRS Guitars, Schecter, Martin and more

Acoustic Guitars
The Club 50 brings the performance of the Club 40 combo to a head format

Blackstar Amplification announces new HT Club 50 amp head

By Chris Vinnicombe published

The latest addition to the HT Venue series revealed

Guitar Amps
Kurt onstage with his 1965 Jaguar at the Reading Festival in 1992

Fender introduces Kurt Cobain Jaguar

By Chris Vinnicombe published

PLUS: Win the guitar and Nirvana's Nevermind 20th anniversary vinyl

Electric Guitars
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