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Bastl Instruments' Kastle 2 Wave Bard is a cute, patchable and experimental groovebox that fits in your pocket
By Daniel Griffiths published
Get hands-on and let the Wave Bard’s pattern-generating brain take the creative strain

Don’t sleep on Catalinbread’s Wake if you’re looking for “dream pop” tones on your pedalboard
By Jonathan Horsley published
Wake is a chorus with a blendable clean sub-octave effect that can help you dream a little bigger and make one guitar sound huge

Super-songwriter Diane Warren on why she prefers to work alone
By Ben Rogerson published
"I’m like, Really? Wow. What did you guys do?”

Neuzeit Instruments drops Drop, a snapshot-based MIDI and CV controller that's designed for... drops
By Daniel Griffiths published
A master controller for all your live performance gear, Drop can schedule snapshot changes to trigger at the end of predetermined cycles, making it easy to perform dramatic build-ups and impactful transitions

“He stopped writing because he just ran out. He'd used that guitar neck up”: Sammy Hagar on Eddie Van Halen's lost years
By Paul Elliott published

PRS keeps the limited edition releases coming with the return of the classic CE22 bolt-on
By Jonathan Horsley published
Low turn pickups, coil split, top-shelf hardware and sweet finishes make this rare bolt-on a serious high-end option for all occasions

"You'll make so much bad music, and that's great": Tourist's advice for aspiring producers
By Matt Mullen published
We visited the electronic artist in the studio ahead of the release of his fifth album to learn his hard-won lessons for artists starting out
![Epiphone goes high-end with its Inspired By Gibson Custom 2025 collection: [from left] the '63 Firebird in Polaris White is joined by a 1959 Les Paul Standard, a '64 SG Standard, a 1960 Les Paul Special in TV Yellow and a 1962 ES-335 reissue.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3N4uVp3ezzrrhjCbY8KNfn.jpg)
Epiphone expands and upgrades Inspired By Gibson Custom range with 8 stunning "reissue" electrics
By Jonathan Horsley published
Gibson USA pickups, rosewood 'boards, Vintage Gloss finishes, 3D scanned neck profiles – the Les Pauls, Firebirds, ES-335 and SG of the Inspired By Gibson Custom range might be Epiphone's best yet
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