Jonathan Horsley

One of the most iconic amps in the Fender lineup gets the Tone Master treatment and you know what that means: old-school tone in a lightweight format, with modern features like power scaling, effects loop and balanced XLR out with cab sims

Available as a six or seven-string, the Kaizen Gallium looks like an alien artefact, guitar design as a work of sci-fi, and we want one now. The bad news? They're only making 66 of them

Yes, this is the acoustic that has onboard effects and can play music streamed to it via your smartphone... It's also got an all-solid wood build of Sitka spruce on top, mahogany on the back and sides

The Dream ’65, Lion ’68 and Ruby ’63 brought golden age Fender, Marshall and Vox tube amp tones to our pedalboards – and are now available to run natively on Mac and Windows

Demoing these Tele-friendly single-coils on a Squier is a power move from Bonamassa as he compares and contrasts with a vintage original from Nerdville

Sculpted neck heels for upper-fret access? Check. Roasted maple necks? Check? Compound radius fingerboards? Yes. Flame maple veneers? Oh why not... These are grown-up looking electrics at beginner prices

Level up your busing with a four-channel powerhouse that can be used with acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keys, and vocals, with smart AI-assisted tone controls as standard

Eight new effects arrive for the TONEX and ToneX One pedals, plus two new effects blocks that players can configured pre or post-amp and cab.

A subtle refresh of the Les Paul range that yields some very nice single-cuts and that TV Yellow plain mahogany topped model could be a real cult classic in the making

The Blink-182 co-founder’s signature model is a real bespoke build with a Jazz Bass neck, a reverse-mounted Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound P Bass split coil and the choice of 3-Color Sunburst or Sea Foam Green finishes

The hollowbodied electric is back and looking fresh in four finish options – including Gibson exclusive Ebony – and comes complete with dog-ear P-90s, deep-set neck and a trapeze tailpiece

Martin says mahalo to the pioneers of steel-string guitar design with new player-friendly acoustic featuring a slope-shouldered dread-style body with a 000 depth

Guitarscape is the sound of the prog icon deploying his guitar collection in search of new sonic frontiers. The results are typically inventive, and here the Yes guitarist tells us how it came together

Celebrating 15 years of partnership, the stompbox specialist digs into its greatest hits for two deluxe effects units – with the Supreme a $2,190 featuring an onboard Wahcko wah

In a move that is sure to shake up the marketplace for beginner and under-$500 gear, Harley Benton has an official store serving the US via Reverb

Dan Cleary details the simmering disagreements that led to the fight at Boston, and alleges that Farrell even quit the band before their first US show in Las Vegas

Made by Hiwatt, based on the Watkins Copicat, and available exclusively via Reverb, this two-knob boost is compact, affordable and could be the missing ingredient in your rig

The much-loved four-string is alive once more to enjoy a second life with Epiphone, offering bassists a humbucker with a splittable coil, and an excuse to stick their tongue out like Gene

Player feedback has been at the heart of the design for the refreshed and upgraded Mako MkII ACS1 amp/cab sim, D1 delay, R1 reverb and M1 modulation

The Texan maestro is one of PRS's longest-standing signature artists and this limited edition variant of the DGT is finished in in McCarty Sunburst nitro

This limited edition semi-hollow is a Murphy Lab replica of the Walnut 355 that King used when playing at the legendary Muhammed Ali and George Foreman showdown in 1974

Are you looking for that one pedal to get nuts with? Robert Keeley has thrown “the kitchen sink” at this anarchic yet eminently usable fuzzbox with many inventive tricks up its sleeve

No prizes for guessing what these two stompboxes are emulating but if they are anything like the Centavo and Warmdrive players are in for a treat

Vintage guitars hard to come by? Over-priced? Back in the day you could find happy accidents, like when Donal Gallagher found his brother a red Corvette while shopping for a case

These are bold claims but Universal Audio has earned them with the success of its UAFX amp pedal lineup. And the Enigmatic ’82 might just be its most exciting release yet