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Ace Frehley’s ‘Smoker’ Les Pauls were spectacular but dangerous – now one from his final Kiss tour heads to auction
By Jonathan Horsley published
You might want to crack a window open before playing this custom Les Paul. It is equipped with the late Spaceman's onboard smoke machine

Great Eastern FX finds stash of NOS germanium diodes and makes a distortion with a cocked-wah twist
By Jonathan Horsley published
Take three rare Soviet-era germanium diodes, add a band-pass filter, and there you have it, the recipe for a limited edition hard-clipping distortion like no other, the Distortion Filter D312A

Gretsch teams up with Abbey Road for the Studiomatic – a hollowbody with a filter circuit inspired by actual tech from the studio
By Jonathan Horsley published
The limited edition Abbey Road RS201 Studiomatic redefines the studio guitar and has an onboard version of Abbey Road's ‘Rumble Filter’ from the 1950s integrated into its wiring

Epiphone unveils signature G-3 Grabber with Gibson USA pickups for Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Grabber was Dirnt's first Gibson bass and he says his Epiphone performs just as well, and he has tested it in front of 180,000 people

"You never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul": Legendary $1 billion Jim Irsay Collection to be auctioned in 2026, including Kurt Cobain's Teen Spirit Fender Mustang
By Harry Bowden-Ford published
Auctions will begin in March next year

Gibson cooks up “holy grail” PAF mojo with the 1959 Humbucker Collector’s Edition Series 3 – the ultimate Les Paul tone hack?
By Jonathan Horsley published
Limited to 1,000 units, available exclusively direct from Gibson, this PAF humbucker set has been reverse engineered to give you golden era tone – and they even ship in a brown Lifton case

Fender just launched its Black Friday sale and I can't believe the Player II Stratocaster is this cheap - save up to 30% off a range of Squier and Fender guitars
By Matt McCracken published
The Fender sale has some amazing deals on guitars - here's 7 of the best for you

Alex Skolnick on the time he was on standby for Megadeth – and what to do when you can’t match a player lick for lick
By Jonathan Horsley published
With Kiko Loureiro's wife pregnant, Megadeth needed an understudy for emergency cover. The Testament guitarist answered the call but admits Loureiro's solos were impossible

I’ve seen a lot of Black Friday sales, but this one’s next level - Sweetwater just dropped thousands of discounts of up to 80% off guitars, drums, keys, and more
By Matt McCracken published
The Black Friday guitar deals start here with one of the biggest sales of the year over at Sweetwater

EHX expands its Pico series with the Atomic Cluster Spectral Decomposer – a mini-pedal that sounds so wrong its right
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Atomic Cluster might be teeny tiny but it's packing transformative energy for your guitar tone, with celestial synth sounds that soundscapists and adventurous players will love
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