Articles by Rob Laing, Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar. I've currently set aside any pipe dreams of getting anywhere with my own songs and I am enjoying playing covers in function bands.

Articles by: Rob Laing

Remi Harris interview: talking Peter Green tone and gypsy jazz with one of the UK's brightest guitar talents

By Rob Laing published 2 June 23

As Remi pays tribute to Peter Green with live shows, he gives us the inside perspective on the Greeny tone and more

A Jazzmaster 12-string?! Squier steals the limelight from Fender with its new Paranormal Series guitars

By Rob Laing published 1 June 23

The Jazzmaster XII joins the Nashville Strat, Strat-O-Sonic, Esquire Deluxe and a Rascal Bass HH

Pedalboard tour: how Petter Carlsen from the Norwegian duo Pil & Bue gets his juggernaut guitar tones

By Rob Laing published 31 May 23

My Pedalboard: the baritone player talks tone

What makes overdrive, distortion and fuzz pedals different?

By Rob Laing published 31 May 23

Capacitors, resistors, op-amp and transistors explained in this new Reverb video

Joe Bonamassa tries Peter Green's Gretsch White Falcon: "You can play blues on anything"

By Rob Laing published 31 May 23

"Bobby Parker showed up with a Dimebag Darrell Dean - he ripped into the blues and he didn't care"

This guitarist spent £100K on gear to learn valuable lessons so you don't have to

By Rob Laing published 31 May 23

UK musician John Nathan Cordy gets honest about GAS

On our radar: Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy – "Hearing Nebraska by Springsteen was a game changer for an indie kid growing up on a council estate"

By Rob Laing published 31 May 23

For fans of: Bob Dylan, The Black Keys, Father John Misty, The Lumineers, Rolling Stones… and The Boss

Funny Little Boxes has revealed its £99 follow-up to the 1991 overdrive pedal and QOTSA / Josh Homme fans are going to want one

By Rob Laing published 26 May 23

"There was no such key to easily unlock the QOTSA guitar sound – but there is now that we have made one", its designer says of Skeleton Key

Noel Gallagher reveals lost Oasis alternate Definitely Maybe recordings have been found and will be released

By Rob Laing published 26 May 23

He also wants to remix (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and gives his opinion on the AI Oasis songs doing the rounds

Kirk Hammett of Metallica performs onstage as Metallica Presents: The Helping Hands Concert (Paramount+) at Microsoft Theater on December 16, 2022 in Los Angeles, California

Kirk Hammett: "My favourite version of Greeny is probably the Epiphone"

By Rob Laing published 26 May 23

Metallica guitarist suggests the best is yet to come for the legacy of the Les Paul and explains why

Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore performing with British rock group Rainbow, USA, May 1978

The 1977 Rainbow gig when Ritchie Blackmore played one of his greatest performances – after two long nights in a police cell

By Rob Laing published 25 May 23

Remembering a Strat-wielding firebrand on peak form with his band in Munich

Kiesel Guitars Sophie Lloyd signature models

Sophie Lloyd becomes the first Kiesel Guitars female signature artist with the SL6

By Rob Laing published 25 May 23

See it in action on Lost – her new collaborative track with Canadian guitarist Cole Rolland

Steve Albini recalls the secrecy around the Nirvana In Utero sessions: "I had to do everything I could to keep it under wraps to make sure that we didn’t get overrun by fans and the added nonsense"

By Rob Laing published 25 May 23

He also reveals a young Cobain had kept a piece of the guitar he saw Albini smash onstage at Big Black's farewell gig in 1987

Guitarist creates a string-picking robot

By Rob Laing published 25 May 23

You need to see this to believe it!