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When your unplugged tone is under the spotlight, there’s nowhere to hide – but there are ways to enhance your sound

Under-the-hood improvements and careful speaker selection can secure that sound you’ve been searching for

Featuring Hendrix, Townshend, Nigel Tufnel and more, this history of Marshall by numbers goes to 11 and beyond

Top-quality, pro-approved picks to give your playing the edge...

The Alter Bridge guitar man and vocalist recounts how sometimes you can strike gold when working in a music store – and there's money in horse manure…

The guitarist, composer and trailblazer opens up on first guitars, primary influences and the search for better gear

The virtuoso details his 'stunt guitar' days spent playing, transcribing and recording the most difficult compositions in Frank Zappa's oeuvre

The guitarist details how his stint with Frank Zappa's band in the late '80s was his “first professional music experience of any kind”

Wading through Zappa's exhaustive audio/video archive, Winter puts together a portrait of a visionary guitarist and artist at work

“We owe a lot to the body of musical work that’s been created on our instruments. We’ve gone from being timely to timeless”

From Fender to PRS, Taylor and beyond, these electrics can all deliver unplugged vibes on the fly

The ex-Catalinbread masterbrain talks vintage echo and reveals his new brand of guitar effects pedals…

The boutique pedal company's head chef serves up some tasty tone tips to expand your effects palate

With American guitars thin on the ground in the UK in the '50s, Hofner filled the thinline gap...

The founder of London-based pedal mavericks Rainger FX talks tone and explains why stompboxes are here to stay...

The head of old-school boutique builders Effectrode talks valves, Pink Floyd and Echorecs…

To help you perfect the feel and sound of your guitar rig, here’s a refresher on some key concepts…