From the show
Best guitar wireless systems 2025: Cut the cord and liberate your playing today
Invest in a transmitter/receiver and ditch trailing cables with our pick of the best wireless guitar systems from beginner to pro
Best guitar tuners 2025: From tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps
Keep your all-important tuning on point with the best strobe, polyphonic and chromatic tuners
Best pedalboards 2025: top choice 'boards for guitarists
Organise your guitar effects pedal collection with one of the best pedalboards available from Pedaltrain, D'Addario, Gator and more
Best fuzz pedals 2025: add some extra dirt to your guitar tone
From Fuzz Faces to Big Muffs, here’s our pick of the best fuzzboxes out there
Best metal guitars 2025: riff machines for any budget
When you want to thrash and burn these are the best guitars for metal, tailor-made for world-conquering heaviness
Best guitar amps 2025: Our pick of combos, heads and pedalboard amps for all budgets and abilities
Our expert pick of the best guitar amps for rock, metal, blues and more – including tube, solid-state and digital modelling amplifiers
Best pedalboard power supplies 2025: our choice of top power supplies for your effects
Unsure how best to power your guitar effects? Here are some of the best pedalboard power supplies from Truetone, Voodoo Lab, MXR and more
Best budget guitar amps under $500/£500 in 2025: top cheap amps for smaller budgets
We showcase some of the best cheap tube and digital modelling guitar amp heads and combos, for all playing styles
Best 12-string guitars 2025: 9 electric and acoustic 12-strings for all budgets
Buying advice and our top picks for the best 12-string guitars on the market right now
LR Baggs' founder Lloyd Baggs 40th anniversary interview: "I had no business experience, I was just a guitar-making hippy"
From building guitars for Ry Cooder to becoming a leading figure in acoustic sound – the incredible story of Lloyd Baggs
Joe Duplantier talks Charvel guitars, EVH amps and tone for the next Gojira album
Best of 2020: "Growing up, I started to become more and more fascinated by the Tele shape"
Bassist Charlie Jones on why a wedding gig is tougher than playing Black Dog with Page & Plant
An in-depth chat on composition, gear and everything in between with a UK session bass icon
Brent Mason on the story behind his famous triple-pickup Telecaster: "Being kinda broke... I couldn't afford two or three guitars at the same time"
Nashville session legend shows off two new signature models
Joe Satriani part 2: in-depth on his signature AmpliTube Collection
In the second part of our VGS video interview, Satch takes us on a deep-dive
IK's Davide Barbi on the state of the digital art: "Digital today can really beat analogue in most cases"
"Now, you have total control and the quality is not compromised anymore"
Walrus Audio at VGS 2020
Walrus Audio is a collective of artists, musicians, engineers, video game nerds, cyclists and cat owners coming together every day to create little boxes that inspire
Beetronics at VGS 2020
Effects pedals custom made by a Swarm of bees. Beetronics is a family beezness based in Los Angeles, focused on creating the most unique sounding and looking pedals available on the market today
