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Guitar World: July 2013 Videos

Posted 05/21/2013 at 2:01pm | by Guitar World Staff

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The following content is related to the July 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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Digital Subscriptions: Read Guitar World Magazine on Your Favorite Device

Posted 05/15/2013 at 7:43am | by Guitar World Staff

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Now you can read Guitar World magazine on your favorite device!

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Guitar World: June 2013 Videos

Posted 04/23/2013 at 2:20pm | by Guitar World Staff

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12 Days of Holiday Deals: Day 8 — 'Guitar World Presents the Best Instruction Book Ever' for $15

Posted 12/14/2012 at 11:50am | by Guitar World Staff

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Even if you’ve never picked up the guitar before, you can learn to play it in no time at all with Guitar World Presents The Best Instruction Book Ever.

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Photo Gallery: Outtakes from Guitar World's 2013 Review Guide Photo Shoot

Posted 11/29/2012 at 12:14pm | by Paul Riario

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We've been saying it for years: We need to shoot the next Review Guide on a beach. This year, we finally made it happen. With a truck full of the latest gear and some beautiful ladies by our side, we headed west to Malibu for sand, sun and fun.

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Excerpt from Brad Tolinski's 'Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page': Recording 'Led Zeppelin'

Posted 10/23/2012 at 2:05pm | by Brad Tolinski

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You shouldn’t really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement. The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.

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New Guitar World Book Collects Best "Dear Guitar Hero" Interviews in One Volume

Posted 10/22/2012 at 10:10am | by Guitar World Staff

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For nearly a decade, Dear Guitar Hero — where everyday fans get a chance to ask their hero a question — has remained one of Guitar World magazine’s most popular departments. Now the best of these interviews with rock’s most inspiring six-string icons are presented here in one volume.

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Eddie Van Halen Voted Greatest Guitarist of All Time in Guitar World Readers Poll

Posted 10/10/2012 at 10:51am | by Josh Hart

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After nearly half a million total votes were cast, Eddie Van Halen has been named the victor in Guitar World's first-ever Greatest Guitarist of All Time poll. The tournament-style readers poll began in April with 132 guitarists, including four — Malcolm Young, Nuno Bettencourt, Jake E. Lee and Chet Atkins — who were voted in by readers.

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Celebrate 30 Years of GW With 'The Complete History of Guitar World' Book

Posted 07/09/2012 at 10:37am | by Guitar World Staff

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Celebrate 30 years of music, magic and six-string mayhem with The Complete History of Guitar World, a new 300-plus page book from Backbeat Books detailing the entire history of Guitar World magazine.

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Interested in Writing a Blog for GuitarWorld.com or GuitarAficionado.com?

Posted 06/25/2012 at 5:07pm | by Damian Fanelli

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If you're a professional or semi-professional musician (session and/or touring), guitar builder, guitar teacher, guitar repairman (or woman), guitar shop owner or -- well, you get the idea -- and feel you have something interesting to say that might be helpful to guitarists, write to Online Managing Editor Damian Fanelli at damian@guitarworld.com.

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