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“I turn this thing on, I don’t want to stop playing”: Keeley Electronics has made Andy Timmons fall in love with reverb with his new signature Nocturne pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
Robert Keeley gives reverb the Halo treatment for an all-new signature reverb that has officially made a convert of Timmons

It’s official! Neural DSP’s John Mayer Archetype plugin suite is here – and with Dumble, Klon and Reverberator captures, it is the motherlode for boutique electric guitar tone
By Jonathan Horsley published
Neural DSP bags its most high-profile artist yet and present players with a cornucopia of gourmet tone options

Paul McCartney's favourite bass company is in trouble – Höfner's future uncertain as it files provisional insolvency proceedings
By Jonathan Horsley published
The German brand behind McCartney's iconic 500/1 Violin Bass has been in existence since its founding by Karl Höfner in 1887

Burned out recording vocals? Myles Kennedy shares his top for getting the perfect take
By Jonathan Horsley published
Kennedy says Alter Bridge producer Michael 'Elvis' Baskette knows his voice better than anyone and has worked out how to get it sounding 100 per cent on record

Olivia Rodrigo explains why she loves playing her custom Ernie Ball Music Man St Vincent Goldie signature model
By Ben Rogerson published
She also discusses her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance of a White Stripes song and duetting with The Cure’s Robert Smith at Glastonbury

Joe Walsh on the best guitar solo he ever recorded (and how it officially made the talk box a thing)
By Jonathan Horsley published
How a fateful night at a Nashville party gave Walsh the sound he was looking for, and an all-new sound for rock guitar

“For me, the amplifier is even more important than the guitar”: Joe Perry on the evolution of electric guitar tone
By Andrew Daly published
The Aerosmith guitarist is a self-confessed gear obsessive and makes the case that, historically, the speaker is the most vital component in your signal chain

Harley Benton just put a Vega-Trem on YouTuber Carlos Asensio's $700 signature guitar: is this the best-value S-style on the market?
By Jonathan Horsley published
HSS Tesla pickups with coil-split, roasted maple neck, rolled fingerboard edges, Luminlay side markers... this is on tricked-out S-style – and then you have the Vega-Trem

"It’s just the most emotive piece of music": Alter Bridge's Mark Tremonti on the greatest guitar solo of all time
By Jonathan Horsley published
Like what, 99.99 per cent of players, the Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist looks for patterns on the fretboard, but alternate tunings set him free from reaching for the same old notes when soloing
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