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Strandberg Boden N2 Original
"A versatile, brilliantly engineered machine that will have your back, no matter what the gig": Strandberg Boden N2 Original review Strandberg makes key tweaks to its Boden blueprint, aiming to create an instrument to suit any genre - mission accomplished?
Kernom Ridge Overdrive shot on metal grate in photo studio
"The Ridge does something different, which makes it genuinely worthy of praise": Kernom Ridge Overdrive review A pedal that gives you all your favourite drives in one box, and then some
Epiphone Joe Bonamassa 1959 Les Paul Custom: a the dual-pickup Custom was a lesser-spotted model in the Gibson catalogue in the '50s – they didn't make many of them. But Bonamassa presents us with one and this 'Black Beauty' is equipped with a Bigsby.
Epiphone raids Joe Bonamassa’s Nerdville archive for another reproduction of a vintage unicorn The latest Joe Bonamassa x Epiphone signature model is a replica of his 1959 'Black Beauty' dual-pickup Les Paul Custom, with a Bigsby for wobble, Grover Imperials for that upscale touch...

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The Line 6 Powercab CL looks like the usual FRFR guitar speaker you might expect, but has switchable speaker voicings emulating classic drivers. It is pictured here onstage and in low-light situations.

Line 6 introduces multi-voicing for active guitar speakers as the Powercab CL offers ups the ante for amp modelling rigs

By Jonathan Horsley published

Available in 1x12 and 2x12 formats, the Powercab CL offers players the choice of six switchable virtual speakers based on classic drivers, and you can turn them all of if you prefer

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Strandberg Boden N2 Original

"A versatile, brilliantly engineered machine that will have your back, no matter what the gig": Strandberg Boden N2 Original review

By Pete Emery published

Strandberg makes key tweaks to its Boden blueprint, aiming to create an instrument to suit any genre - mission accomplished?

Electric Guitars
Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons tear it up as ZZ Top play the Aragon Ballroom at Chicago in 1980, with Gibbons playing his legendary Les Paul Standard, Pearly Gates

“"There is something magic in that instrument”: Billy Gibbons on why Pearly Gates is one of the greatest Les Pauls ever

By Jonathan Horsley published

All Gibson Les Paul Standards from 1959 are special but what is it about the ZZ Top frontman's Pearly Gates that makes it so unique? As Gibbons says, it might be something entirely supernatural

Artists
Gretsch Electromatic CVT Double-Cut in Wychwood greenburst finish

"For garage, punk, and rock styles, it’s got the tonal firepower on offer": Gretsch Electromatic CVT Double-Cut review

By Stuart Williams published

A revived classic returns to the Gretsch line-up as an affordable, two-humbucker rock machine

Electric Guitars

The guitar that Liam smashed the night Oasis split is one of over 100 Gallagher-related items up for auction

By Will Simpson published

It could fetch up to £500,000

Artists
Boss X-100 and XS-1 Poly Shifter: the treadle-equipped XS-100 and Compact Series XS-1 pedal are photographed against an industrial-looking floor.

With an eight-octave range, has Boss raised the standard for pitch-shifting pedals with the XS Poly Shifter range?

By Jonathan Horsley published

The XS-100 is a pitch-shifting workstation with integrated expression pedal, 30 memory slots, MIDI, and lots of range while the XS-1 presents a 6-octave range in compact format

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“His body of work is unparalleled in its quality”: Danny Thompson, acoustic bassist supreme, has died

By Will Simpson published

Tributes have come in from Tony Visconti, Graham Coxon and others

Bass Guitars
Greg Mackintosh of Paradise Lost plays his custom 7-string V live onstage with red and white stagelights behind him.

Greg Mackintosh on the secrets behind the Paradise Lost sound and why he is still trying to learn Trouble’s tone tricks

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Paradise Lost guitarist on how '80s nightclubs shaped his style, writing guitar as a vocals, and how an old overwound Ibanez Iceman pickup was the holy grail tone on new album Ascension

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James Hetfield of Metallica plays his iconic white V-style live onstage, wearing his trademark black T-shirt, and black leather vest.

“He wanted all that at an undoable selling price”: Mesa/Boogie founder Randall Smith confirms rumours that it built James Hetfield a signature model – and it combined three iconic amps in one

By Jonathan Horsley published

A Diezel, a JC-120 and a Mark IIC+ all in one? That would have cost a whack – and it would have, which is why the Metallica frontman's prototype never got released

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Way Huge Smalls Doom Hammer Fuzz

Players who deal in big gnarly riffs might need to add the Way Huge Smalls Doom Hammer to their ‘board ASAP

By Jonathan Horsley published

Inspired by a modded '78 op-amp fuzz, with tighter low-end, the awesomely named Doom Hammer Fuzz is a simple but versatile three-knob stompbox with a wide range of gain

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