Ernie Ball promotes Luke Noffke to Director of Global Marketing and E-Commerce By Guitar World Staff The company continues its history of innovative marketing with the appointment of this music industry veteran
Kemper finally releases its computer-based editor - meet the Rig Manager 3.0 By Richard Bienstock Updates include drag-and-drop usability, single-page viewing for settings and parameters
Rings of Saturn’s Lucas Mann responds to allegations he “mimed” guitar parts onstage By Richard Bienstock Mann is the latest player to be called out in the escalating guitar fakery wars
The best-selling pedals of 2019 have been revealed By Richard Bienstock The effects you wanted to stomp on most this year
Faith Guitars introduces the HiGloss Lyra, a nylon-string “designed with the non-classical player in mind” By Richard Bienstock British builder’s first nylon-string model boasts a slim neck, Fishman Sonitone electronics
Ozzy Osbourne offers $25,000 reward for information about stolen Randy Rhoads guitar gear By Richard Bienstock Rhoads' first-ever electric guitar and various amps taken
Beck: I used a $60 particle board guitar to record most of my albums By Richard Bienstock The alt-rock icon reveals the six-string that has been central to his sound for more than two decades
Ernie Ball promotes Luke Noffke to Director of Global Marketing and E-Commerce By Guitar World Staff The company continues its history of innovative marketing with the appointment of this music industry veteran
Kemper finally releases its computer-based editor - meet the Rig Manager 3.0 By Richard Bienstock Updates include drag-and-drop usability, single-page viewing for settings and parameters
Rings of Saturn’s Lucas Mann responds to allegations he “mimed” guitar parts onstage By Richard Bienstock Mann is the latest player to be called out in the escalating guitar fakery wars
The best-selling pedals of 2019 have been revealed By Richard Bienstock The effects you wanted to stomp on most this year
Faith Guitars introduces the HiGloss Lyra, a nylon-string “designed with the non-classical player in mind” By Richard Bienstock British builder’s first nylon-string model boasts a slim neck, Fishman Sonitone electronics
Ozzy Osbourne offers $25,000 reward for information about stolen Randy Rhoads guitar gear By Richard Bienstock Rhoads' first-ever electric guitar and various amps taken
Get your hands on a D'Angelico 12-String acoustic-electric for less than $300 right now at Guitar Center By Chris Barnes Save $200 off the stunning D'Angelico Premier CS Series Fulton Grand Auditorium
Catalinbread’s Dirty Little Secret overdrive pedal just got a little bit dirtier By Richard Bienstock New MKIII update is a “hot-rodded version” of the plexi-style unit
Review: Way Huge's Smalls Conspiracy Theory Professional Overdrive is a full-bodied and rich overdrive pedal By Paul Riario This pedal's smooth, mid-harmonic complexity sets it apart from other K-clones
Review: EarthQuaker Devices' Plumes will make even the industry’s best Screamer clones green with envy By Chris Gill The EarthQuaker Plumes provides outstanding dynamic, organic and natural-sounding overdrive tones, and has a $99 price that will make other stompbox companies scream
The 10 best amps for metal 2019: the loudest and proudest from Marshall, Blackstar and more By Guitar World Staff 10 powerhouse guitar amps for different budgets that will have you primed to seek and destroy straight out of the box
Review: The Gibson Les Paul Modern is the Les Paul you’ve been waiting for By Chris Gill This is a true modern update that delivers classic Les Paul sounds, a significantly expanded palette of tones and the fast playability that today’s players demand
The best chorus pedals 2019: top chorus effects for your pedalboard By Michael Astley-Brown From analog to digital, and shimmery to subtle, Guitar World scopes out the best chorus pedals on the market today
The best acoustic guitar strings in the world right now By Chris Corfield Find the right acoustic guitar strings to suit your sound, playing style and budget
The 8 best guitar amps under $500: top budget beginner and practice amps By Michael Astley-Brown Get great sounds and features without busting the bank, from affordable tube amps to cheap digital modeling amps
Review: MXR's Carbon Copy Mini is a sonic beast of an analog delay By Paul Riario The CC Mini is unparalleled if you need to nail wide slapback echo or sail on cascading waves of wet delay that spills over on each note
Review: Fender's American Performer Stratocaster HSS and Telecaster deliver iconic sounds and incredible attention to detail By Chris Gill The guitar giant's most affordable US-made models more than deliver
With the release of Fender’s American Ultra Series, has the Jazzmaster finally gone mainstream? By Michael Astley-Brown The resurgence of the offset guitar design that refused to die
Joanne Shaw Taylor: the mistakes I made while learning BB King formed my guitar-playing personality By Laura B. Whitmore The UK guitarist reveals how simplicity is the key to her gritty blues tone
The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before By Jeff Kitts The former Silvertide man discusses his new band, and how he learned to stop worrying and love a simple guitar rig
10 things you didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan By Damian Fanelli, Andy Aledort Think you know everything there is to know about the late, great SRV? Read on!
Tommy Emmanuel: "You don’t have to fill up every millisecond with sound and noises - I let the audience fill in the gaps" By Jonathan Horsley The Australian fingerstyle maestro on technique, leaving something to the imagination, and why the story is the most important thing
Scott Stapp guitarist Yiannis Papadopoulos: "When it’s time for the solo, I give my best to play things that justify the hours I put into the guitar" By John Katic The guitar virtuoso on why The Space Between the Shadows is Stapp's best album yet
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington shares the story behind Free Bird By Guitar World Staff Learn how the most requested song in live music was created
Rig tour: Caleb Miller reveals the gear behind King Calaway’s infectious country hits By Sam Roche The Ohio-born guitarist takes us through the guitars, amps and pedals that fuel his vocal playing style
Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins: "I used to study classical and jazz... then I was suddenly sleeping on floors and playing punk-rock" By Amit Sharma The founding frontman shares wisdom gained from a career spanning nearly three decades - and explains why he can't tear himself away from heavy-gauge strings
The Allman Betts Band: "This is really about our chapter, and we’re still writing it" By Alan Paul Devon Allman, Duane Betts and Johnny Stachela discuss how they carry the Allman Brothers torch, while forging their own impressive sonic path
Samantha Fish on her newfound studio confidence and how a wonky fret inspired a whole solo By Damon Orion The singer/guitarist dishes the dirt on raucous new album Kill or Be Kind
