Latest articles by Rob Laing
Best guitar tuners 2024: From tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps
Keep your all-important tuning on point with the best strobe, polyphonic and chromatic tuners
Best guitar cables 2024: Leads and patch cables for all budgets
Quality cables make the difference, here's our top picks from Mogami, Ernie Ball, Fender and more
Thomann Cyber Monday deals 2024: The Cyberweek sale is over, but there are still a few ways to save
Thomann's massive 2024 Cyber Monday deals has ended with a bang. These re the bargains you can still get your hands on
I like this bargain pedalboard power supply so much I bought three of them: now it's even cheaper for Cyber Monday
Harley Benton's PowerPlant range is the dark horse of its catalogue, and the competition can't get close to it on value
Are Gibson guitars expensive? This surprising SG Standard Cyber Weekend deal suggests not always!
For those about to save (£430)… we salute you
Get a Dream acoustic before Cyber Monday ends: These stunning deals on USA Taylor guitars are lower than I could have expected
A Taylor American Dream AD22e that can deliver for decades – and there are travel-sized and left-handed bargains to be had too!
Did the Neural DSP Quad Cortex just hit its lowest-ever price for Black Friday weekend?
We think it might have, and this killer deal is still live
I wish I could have got it this cheap: You can still grab the analogue pedal powerhouse Boss DM-101 Delay Machine for under half the price it was at launch for Cyber Monday
When I reviewed this pedal, I knew I had to buy one – but now it's a bargain
Thomann Black Friday 2024 deals: You can still save up to 70% today in Thomann's massive Cyberweek sale
There's an incredible selection of discounted gear in the Thomann Cyberweek sale - from Harley Benton and Yamaha, to Universal Audio and Boss. We're rounding up all the best deals as they happen, including Daily Deals and new additions
"Universal Audio's Dream '65 Fender Deluxe plugin is so good I've started playing through it more than my amp": and it's still more than half-price this Black Friday weekend
We've found it cheaper than anywhere else and you still have time to grab this bargain
Don't be afraid of your electric and acoustic guitar's truss rod – we'll show you how to adjust it
Changing your neck curvature is not some mystic art, but it can make a lot of difference to your guitar and how playable its neck is
“I think that a specific drawback of this guitar could make it unsuitable for regular live use, but it’s still an inspiring acoustic for the home”: Yamaha TransAcoustic TAG3 C review
The second generation of Yamaha’s TransAcoustic flagship debuts looping, delay and Bluetooth features – but is something undermining the practicality for the stage?
KEN Mode’s Jesse Matthewson on the greatest reverb/delay ever what's on his “essentials” pedalboard
You, too, can travel light when meting out a punishing set of hardcore, metal and noise, so long as you choose your pedals of mass destruction carefully…
"This is a very impressive neck experience for a guitar at this price": Harley Benton TE-62DB
Double-bound for glory?
There's no need to suffer with high (or low) action anymore: How to adjust the string height on your electric guitar and bass
Get the guitar action you need
Neural DSP's Francisco Cresp on what its new Nano Cortex means for the innovative company
"One of the main drivers of that for me to start making hardware and software was that I couldn't get the sounds that I wanted to get"
Levelling and polishing your guitar frets might have just got a whole lot easier with the MusicNomad U File and Fret Polisher
The company has also launched its fret care hub to make it even easier to diagnose and work on your guitar frets
How to clean your guitar better
Finish, strings, hardware – it all needs a spruce now and again. Here's how to do it right
"Most dyed-in-the-wool Gibson people... their favourite pickup is a P-90": Joe Bonamassa introduces new Epiphone signature guitar with the 1955 Les Paul
"I can already tell you this one sounds better than one of my original '55s," says Joe. And there's a new Flying V too!
LR Baggs is making guitars now – can the pickup expert bring something unique to the market with its AEG-1?
An electro-acoustic with a HiFi Duet pickup offers pickup and mic settings to enhance versatility
Billie Eilish kicks off her tour and makes the switch to electric guitar with a Fender American Professional II Tele
A Dark Night Tele for a big opening night
Humanist's Rob Marshall on the 9 records that changed his life, and why he'll never switch to digital amp modelling
As he releases a triumphant second album with guest vocalists, the former Mark Lanegan collaborator remembers his friend and champion
It looks like Taylor Guitars and Pearl Jam will feature heavily in season 2 of The Last Of Us
The 314CE Taylor model inspired by the game appears in a trailer for the next HBO series
