Latest articles by Jonathan Horsley
Don’t sleep on Catalinbread’s Wake if you’re looking for “dream pop” tones on your pedalboard
Wake is a chorus with a blendable clean sub-octave effect that can help you dream a little bigger and make one guitar sound huge
PRS keeps the limited edition releases coming with the return of the classic CE22 bolt-on
Low turn pickups, coil split, top-shelf hardware and sweet finishes make this rare bolt-on a serious high-end option for all occasions
![Epiphone goes high-end with its Inspired By Gibson Custom 2025 collection: [from left] the '63 Firebird in Polaris White is joined by a 1959 Les Paul Standard, a '64 SG Standard, a 1960 Les Paul Special in TV Yellow and a 1962 ES-335 reissue.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3N4uVp3ezzrrhjCbY8KNfn-840-80.jpg.webp)
Epiphone expands and upgrades Inspired By Gibson Custom range with 8 stunning "reissue" electrics
Gibson USA pickups, rosewood 'boards, Vintage Gloss finishes, 3D scanned neck profiles – the Les Pauls, Firebirds, ES-335 and SG of the Inspired By Gibson Custom range might be Epiphone's best yet
![YouTuber Aaron Rash [left] wears grey and an Adidas beanie and checked trousers as he poses with his Veleno-clone aluminium guitar. On the right, Kurt Cobain performs in 1993 with Nirvana at their MTV Live and Loud show in Seattle.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aqcaqZZK7FsRFWvoMPzMF9-840-80.jpg.webp)
Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves the final part of the mystery – Kurt Cobain's In Utero guitar
Rash’s many years down the rabbit hole have been rewarded as he finally gets his hands on the exact same model Cobain used and it’s an oddball offset with “absolutely wild” pickups
Devin Townsend is taking an indefinite break from touring but promises “dozens” of projects to come
Townsend’s forthcoming hiatus from the road will see him launch The Ruby Quaker YouTube series, allowing him to explore “dozens of creative ventures” he never had time for before
Joe Bonamassa announces new album, Breakthrough – listen to the title-track now
Is this a new direction for Bonamassa or an expansion of his style? Breakthrough drops on 18 July
“The EP635 delivers the unmistakable high-gain aggression and clarity that Engl fans love”: Engl packs its iconic Fireball head into a compact dual-channel stompbox with onboard noise gate and IR support
You wait months for two high-gain classic tube amps to be reimagined in pedal form then along come two in the same week
Steven Wilson on the challenges and opportunities of mixing Pink Floyd At Pompeii
Wilson was in conversation with former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason at a special BFI IMAX screening of Adrian Maben's recently restored and rereleased concert movie
Exquisite stompboxes, built to last a lifetime, meet Red Witch’s new Apothecary Series
The Apothecary Series includes fuzz, overdrive, phaser, chorus/vibrato and modulated delay, and designer Ben Fulton says they're so durable they might outlast us all
Linkin Park reveal secret weapon behind their From Zero guitar tone
Do you even have a nü-metal 2.0 pedalboard if it doesn’t have a Ball Buster?
Robert Plant is selling gear for charity, including totally unique John Birch-modded ‘62 Stratocaster
The 1990 Les Paul that Les Paul gave the former Led Zeppelin frontman has been sold but that Strat is one super-cool refin – so too the mandolin and resonator
Neural DSP gives the Nano Cortex an almighty power-up with free NanOS 2.0.0 system update
NanOS 2.0.0 adds 47 new effects and utilities plus expands the compact amp and effects capture pedal's functionality – it's a full rig in a box
![Gretsch Limited Edition Paisley Penguin [left] and Honey Dipper Resonator: the Penguin dresses the famous singlecut in gold sparkle with a Paisley Pattern graphic, while the 99 per cent aluminium Honey Dipper makes a welcome return to the lineup.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BgZycMYFMAgTErT4DdsgbG-840-80.jpg.webp)
Gretsch just unveiled one of the most decorative Penguins you'll see – and a super-cool resonator
Two classics of Gretsch design refreshed for a limited time only
Hold the Floyd: EVH reimagines Wolfgang Standard as a high-performance shredder with a TOM bridge
Shipping in Gloss Block, Cream White and Sea Foam Pearl Metallic, this a stripped-down speedster for those who can’t be fussed with a Floyd
“The soul – and snarl – of the original”: Jam Pedals resurrects the Octaurus octave-fuzz
Available in Standard and NOS editions, the Octaurus has switchable clipping and voicings, a super defined octave and wide-open dynamics
Darkglass unveils multi-effects for bass with neural amp model support and 7” touchscreen
Anagram has a hexacore DSP engine, Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) integration, dozens of onboard effects and preamps and offers comprehensive control of your signal chain
Blood Incantation on cosmic sounds, a near studio meltdown and the making of Absolute Elsewhere
Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky takes us back to “the craziest summer ever“, when the cosmic expansion of their sound yielded a landmark of prog death and an air con outage near destroyed it all
Serj Tankian and Gibson team up for limited edition Foundations Les Paul Modern Sublimation
They're only making 25 of these, each of them signed, and they come with a signed LP, signed art print, a copy of Tankian's memoir, plus VIP tickets to an upcoming System Of A Down show
The Fortin Meshuggah head is the amp every metal player wants – now you can get its crushing tones in a pedal
Designed by Mike Fortin, US-made, featuring an active 3-band EQ and noise gate, the Meshuggah preamp/distortion pedal could be the gain monster you need to destroy, erase, improve your tone
“I feel like that song had everything we needed to come back with”: Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia on Shadow Moses, its riff and the secrets behind its tone, and why it was the right anthem at the right time
How Terry Date, a killer riff and a videogame helped bring BMTH's major label debut into focus with a track that officially opened a new chapter – and the pit – for the Sheffield metal frontiersmen
Gamechanger Audio unveils the Motor Pedal – a real synth pedal with a “multi-modal gas pedal”
Forget synth emulation pedals, Gamechanger describes this mechanically powered stompbox as “the sound of a spinning brushed DC motor, pushed to the edge and tamed with precision control”
![PRS Archon Classic and Mark Tremonti MT 15 v2: the newly redesigned tube amps offer a host of new features and tones, with the Alter Bridge guitarist's new lunchbox head [right] featuring the Overdrive channel from his MT 100 head, and there's a half-power switch, too.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FD37q5pRLCQDhCpT8y94Zi-840-80.jpg.webp)
PRS refreshes tube amp range with the reworked Mark Tremonti MT 15 head and Archon Classic
One of the best low-wattage high-gain amps around just got an upgrade while the Archon Classic offers hot-rodded vintage tone
Jackson gives Misha Mansoor’s Juggernaut a new lick of paint and upgrades to stainless steel frets
Mansoor's arch-top Superstrat has never looked so good, and while it might be designed for crushing downtuned riffs but that five-way switching yields a lot of tones from the signature MM1 humbucker pairing
