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Best budget guitar amps under $500 2026: cost-cutting amplifiers for every player
Get great sounds and features without blowing your budget – from affordable tube amps to wallet-friendly digital modeling amps and everything in between
California music store appealing for aid following the theft of four Fender Custom Shop Stratocasters
Wild West Guitars is pleading for help recovering the guitars, two of which were made to commemorate its 25th anniversary
Fender keeps the pace with Neural DSP and Line 6 with a bumper firmware upgrade that gives players 15 new reasons to try the Tone Master Pro
Fender has further strengthened its flagship modeler's position in a competitive market
The story of John Mayer’s Fender fallout – and how it gave birth to the Stratocaster’s biggest rival
Mayer left Fender after his wishes for an elevated S-style fell on deaf ears – and he found the perfect partner in PRS and the Silver Sky
Is Joe Bonamassa warming to modeling amps?
If a recent social media post is anything to go by, the tube amp traditionalist may be coming around to digital guitar tech
What two 1967 prototypes tell us about the evolution of the Telecaster Thinline
Dave Davidson of Well Strung Guitars describes how, during 1967, Fender got busy developing an alternative to heavy ash Telecaster bodies
Les Claypool’s bonkers one-string leads the biggest (and strangest) bass releases of the month
May saw the reissue of Fender's best-selling bass, a custom Rickenbacker for Geddy Lee, and a supersized version of the daddy of all fuzz
PRS has been hit by a cease-and-desist from Fender
This has now become the highest-profile case of the entire dispute, and could well be one of the most hotly contested
Fender is finally speaking out on its cease-and-desist strategy
Fender might not be declaring war after all – but if its legal campaign succeeds, the guitar market will change forever
6 reasons why Fender won’t win its Stratocaster legal campaign – according to the lawyer who beat them before
Ron Bienstock, the attorney who defeated Fender's previous attempt to trademark the Strat, has been hired to defend a firm hit by recent cease-and-desist letters – and Guitar World has seen a redacted response
