Jonathan Horsley
Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, playing them since 1990, and regularly contributes to MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitar World. He uses Jazz III nylon picks, 10s during the week, 9s at the weekend, and shamefully still struggles with rhythm figure one of Van Halen’s Panama.
Latest articles by Jonathan Horsley
“The perfect musical companion”: Gibson unveils the versatile and newly updated Les Paul Studio
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Studio arrives refreshed in a quartet of nitro finishes, with plain maple tops, coil-splits on Burstbucker Pro humbuckers and Ultra Modern weight relief
Fender and Jack White reimagine the Telecaster and Acoustasonic – and design an all-new tube amp
By Jonathan Horsley published
White says the collab blends the old with the new, all together in a package that would have made Leo Fender “very proud”. Meet the Jack White TripleCaster, TripleSonic and Pano Verb...
Sophie Lloyd announces debut US headlining show, shares blazing shred cover of Alice Cooper’s Poison
By Jonathan Horsley published
Lloyd will follow up her UK headlining debut with visit to Sunset Strip on 16 January and celebrates the occasion with a typically audacious reworking of a shock rock classic
Mythos unveils the Envy Pro Overdrive, adding low-end and spicy clipping options to the TS recipe
By Jonathan Horsley published
It's green, has three knobs, and is another TS-style drive, but with a wider range of gain, more output, and a switch for added low-end oomph, this might be the TS for all occasions
Mark Tremonti on amp addiction and how he bought one of his sweetest-sounding Dumbles at a swap meet
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist is the proud owner of four Dumbles, confessing that he now has a whole room dedicated to amps and he'll just go in there to look at them
Unmissable sequel? Mooer Audio unveils the Ocean Machine II, Devin Townsend’s upgraded reverb/delay
By Jonathan Horsley published
The deluxe delay and reverb has a new look, improved DSP algorithms, and once more presents a cornucopia of delay and reverb sounds with inventive ways to combine them
Noel Gallagher’s “Definitely Maybe” Epiphone Les Paul fetches more than $170,000 at at auction
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Sotheby's auction also saw Gallagher's Epiphone EA-250 hollowbody and Flying V exchange hands for big money
Fender unveils limited edition Blu DeTiger Player Plus Jazz Bass in Sky Burst Sparkle
By Jonathan Horsley published
The NYC bass phenom's signature model is funk-friendly but built for all styles with custom humbucker and a Noiseless Jazz single coil. And what about that mirrored pickguard!?
Cory Wong teams up with Hotone Audio for the Wong Press, a 3-in-1 volume, expression and wah pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
The funk maestro's new pedal is the very definition of a hard-working stompbox, and will save you pedalboard space. But will it help trigger a wah comeback? Wong says it's long overdue
Steve Vai’s guitar collection to be documented in upcoming book, and there’s a $25,350 Ultra Edition
By Jonathan Horsley published
Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai took Michael Mesker 5 years to finish, and features more than 1,000 pages
Gibson brings the Victory S-style back – new and improved with coil-splits and an Explorer headstock
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Victory returns with 80s Tribute humbuckers, coil-splits, revised body counters and improved balance and weight, and with the choice of a figured maple top or solid-colour satin finish
Slash says you don’t need to spend a fortune to get a guitar that’s “as good as you’ll ever need”
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Guns N' Roses guitarist has a formidable guitar collection but argues a lot of vintage guitars sound bad, and the same people who'd drop a million bucks on a guitar have a Rolls-Royce mentality
These sweet retro look is a Gibson exclusive, available online or in person at the Gibson Garages in Nashville and London
By Jonathan Horsley published
These sweet retro look is a Gibson exclusive, available online or in person at the Gibson Garages in Nashville and London
“Quite possibly the most versatile phaser ever designed”: Red Witch unveils the OTA-driven Solaria
By Jonathan Horsley published
It is another limited edition stunner from the New Zealand pedal company championed by the likes of Steve Vai, Richard Fortus and Andy Summers
Ashdown Engineering unveils smart new mid-priced SX tube amp series with matching speaker cabs
By Jonathan Horsley published
The SX line comprises a 50-watt head, and a five-watt head and combo, and you get three channels with each, speaker emulated output, and the promise of a wide range of tones
Linkin Park reunite, announce new lineup, live dates and album, livestream a show and share a single
By Jonathan Horsley published
That's a lot of stuff happening in one day but that's the music business for you, Colin Brittain joins on drums while Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara will front the band
Epiphone’s latest Gibson Custom Shop collab is the stunning Jimi Hendrix ‘Love Drops’ Flying V
By Jonathan Horsley published
This Inspired by Gibson Custom series Epiphone is equipped with Custombuckers and is a thing of beauty, based on Hendrix’s hand-painted Flying V of the late ‘60s
Seymour Duncan and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons team up for blazing new Tele and Les Paul pickups
By Jonathan Horsley published
There's a hotter-than-hell Hades humbucker set to soup-up your own Pearly Gates at home, and the Red Devil single-coil sized 'bucker for dropping into your Tele's bridge position
Harley Benton launches the DNAfx GiT Core – 55 amps, 151 effects, 80s looper and more for under $99
By Jonathan Horsley published
The latest amp modeller from the budget gear specialist promises realistic tube amp emulations, and is packed with 21st-century features
Jared James Nichols unearths another storm-ravaged Les Paul and it has a heck of a story to tell
By Jonathan Horsley published
Nichols has a lot of work to do to make this 1975 Les Paul Custom road-worthy but early signs are it will sound amazing and give him another vintage guitar with a legendary back story
“Competition is for sports”: Yngwie Malmsteen has an important message for anyone who plays guitar
By Jonathan Horsley published
The neoclassical shred virtuoso says leave competition to the athletes…
Gibson gives its SJ-200 and J-45 acoustics an exclusive (and exquisite) Blueberry Burst makeover
By Jonathan Horsley published
The King of the Flat-Tops wears Blueberry Burst well but you will only find it and its workhouse sibling direct from Gibson
Xotic Effects unveils the XW-2 – a wah with the wow factor and “beyond vintage” tones
By Jonathan Horsley published
It's metallic blue, smaller than your average wah, and a provider of talky, musical wah with a bit more oomph in the low-end
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