Rob Laing
Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.
Latest articles by Rob Laing

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The hybrid model has been favoured by Billie Eilish's brother, co-writer and producer for some time, and he had some specific suggestions for this model

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"I played bass on most of Never Mind The Bollocks"

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The bonus track would eventually be sung by Noel Gallagher and the demo is part of the Definitely Maybe 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

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Intonation is about trusting a process on elimination with the factors that can affect the pitch of your instrument

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Who was shredding behind that mask? Now we know

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An annual showcase of alternative, progressive heavy musical talent, the UK festival has captured hearts and minds

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Printing technology allows for some elements of guitar design that wouldn't be possible with CNC routing

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Make them your own

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A sweet spot between Gibson spec and Epiphone accessibility?

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exclusive Check out this clip from the forthcoming documentary documentary Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

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"Police say that the cocaine and the meth that they found stuffed inside the equipment was never meant to show up at the business"

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A Multi-Generational Time Reflection Device that combines digital, analog and tape delay in a compact unit

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"You have to be resourceful"

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"I'd rather see a band play those same songs live and hear them be a little looser, and feel a little freer"

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"The Creed stuff has a lot more clean guitar parts than I remembered"

By Rob Laing Published
Gibson shows you how

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It's included on the new Synchronicity boxset

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"I wrote it some days after receiving this wonderful Baritone Guitar from Bacci"

By Rob Laing Published
"I want to say thank you for rescuing me from oblivion," he says in a candid video in tribute to his blues mentor, who has passed away at the age of 90

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If he's right, how did he get so good?

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"As a combination, I travelled the furthest and wasted the most in terms of the percentage of value on those two pedals, of any purchase I've ever made"
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