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10 questions for Europe's John Norum: “Work on vibrato. It’s like a personality for a guitarist”
First guitars, string catastrophes and his beloved '65 Strat
Everything you need to know about DeArmond Gold Foil pickups
Foil-wrapped and still fresh
Tone makers - Denis Cornell: “I made loads of Fuzz Faces for Dallas Arbiter... they needed someone to test them”
On tone, transistors and trend-obsessed pedal buyers
Tone makers - Empress Effects‘ Steve Bragg: “I think we’re just about breaking even now on the amount of R&D that went into the Echosystem”
Thoughts on tone, pedals and his effects heroes
10 questions for Kee Marcello: “I played a festival and someone threw a hand grenade on stage!”
The super Swede and former Europe man on first guitars and setting the record straight
Tone makers - Strymon's Pete Celi: "Our philosophy has been to design pedals without compromise"
The pedal builder talks tone tips and making modern classics
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (November 2018)
All of the guitar goodness in one place!
10 questions for George Lynch: “I wasn’t wearing underwear. My guitar tech leapt into action with a roll of duct tape”
Campfire dousings and wardrobe nightmares
Everything you need to know about Fender Wide Range humbuckers
Telling the tale of Fender's tonal thickener
Tone makers - JHS Pedals' Josh Scott: "Put an effect on your ’board and see where it takes you"
The JHS main man reflects on 10 years of tone-making
Tone makers - Analog Man's Mike Piera: "Almost every great guitar hero of mine has used my pedals"
Tone tips, pedal facts and insight from AM's main man
30-day guitar challenge, day 17: Kenny Wayne Shepherd teaches you some slick blues licks
Kenny Wayne Shepherd on how to weave classic blues influences into your soloing and unlock the fretboard..
30-day guitar challenge, day 7: Expand your chordal knowledge with these frozen-note chords
You may well be familiar with the concept of a pedal note - one that remains static, often in the bass, while other notes and chords move as normal. Let’s turn this concept on its head
Tone makers - Dinosaural/Lovetone's Dan Coggins: “The whole thing was ‘art meets science’”
Dinosaural’s Dan Coggins reflects on the legend of Lovetone and his latest creative venture with ThorpyFX…
4 guitar tricks you can learn from Steve Howe
Learn the licks of the Yes prog master
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (August 2018)
Serious pedal power and great guitars
Tone makers - Chase Bliss Audio's Joel Korte: "There’s something about the way a pedal makes you feel that can never be emulated or replicated"
This time we talk to the digital brain and analogue heart of Chase Bliss Audio, Joel Korte…
6 iconic '80s shred guitars you can still buy today
The 80s metal scene would have looked very different if Eddie Van Halen hadn’t had his wicked way with a bunch of cheap parts and some spray paint
Pickup lines: the tonal secrets behind 1954 Strat pickups
In the first of a new series of features on pickup design, we take an in-depth look at the original 1954 ‘black bottom’ Stratocaster pickup…
Tone makers - Tim Webster: "Fredric Effects has a slightly oddball ethos and a willingness to take on some of the weirder stuff"
We hook up with hotshot fuzz-wright and oddball artificer Tim Webster of London’s Fredric Effects…
