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Dunlop Cry Baby Bass Wah: the most recognizable effects pedal ever made?
Classics don’t come much more heavyweight than the Cry Baby wah-wah and the 105Q Bass edition is no exception
Yvette Young names the 10(+) guitarists who shaped her sound
Covet’s two-hand tapping math-rock mastermind reveals why she only just started listening to Van Halen, what it’s like to jam with Steve Vai and the guitar discovery that changed her life
Paul Gilbert reveals the surprising guitars he used to emulate Ronnie James Dio's voice, the lead that took 100 takes and his grand guitar solo plans for Mr. Big's farewell tour
The much-loved virtuoso details his approach to tackling parts by Ritchie Blackmore, Tony Iommi and Vivian Campbell for The Dio Album, snapping up vintage Ibanez guitar bargains, and the younger players who are catching his ear
Braid's Bob Nanna and Chris Broach discuss how octave chords and unconventional rhythms helped shape their Midwest emo landmark, Frame & Canvas
On the eve of the album's 25th anniversary, Braid's guitarists untangle the spidery web of six-strings that defined Frame & Canvas, an album that informed the guitar approach of Yvette Young and countless others
Cory Wong on Jeff Beck: “I’m a diehard Strat guy. There are so many reasons why, but Jeff Beck was on that list of reasons”
In his own words, master of Strat funk Cory Wong remembers Jeff Beck and parses his genius approach to the guitar
Deerhoof share the story behind some of the zaniest guitar recording methods ever committed to tape: “It sounded like the world was ending!”
Mics on electric guitars? Running two guitars into one amp? Solos that sound like “malfunctioning fax machines”? It can only be the work of indie-rock lifers John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez
Meet The Curse of K.K. Hammond, the spooky resonator blues connoisseur who prefers modern guitars and gives them names like “Hell’s Belle” and “Swamp Bitch”
The Robert Johnson and Skip James enthusiast acknowledges there will be “some lovers of vintage Nationals out there who’ll be horrified”, but she thinks her heavily customized contemporary resonators “just sound better”
The Lowlist: Chic's C'est Chic was pure groove genius
We doff our caps to the uplifting grooves and funkalicious basslines of Chic's second album
