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5 ways to improve your acoustic guitar tone
When your unplugged tone is under the spotlight, there’s nowhere to hide – but there are ways to enhance your sound
11 ways to improve your tube amp tone
Under-the-hood improvements and careful speaker selection can secure that sound you’ve been searching for
20 milestone moments in Marshall’s 60-year quest for bigger, badder tone
Featuring Hendrix, Townshend, Nigel Tufnel and more, this history of Marshall by numbers goes to 11 and beyond
Raise your lead guitar game with this Jennifer Batten masterclass
The session great shares some stamina-building exercises to improve your phrasing and spice up your solos
6 signature and artist-favorite guitar picks you need to try
Top-quality, pro-approved picks to give your playing the edge...
Myles Kennedy on his greatest gear finds and regrets, and how a '53 Tele made him fall in love with guitar all over again
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…
Frank Zappa: ”I think my playing is probably more derived from folk music – Middle Eastern music, Indian music, stuff like that”
The guitarist, composer and trailblazer opens up on first guitars, primary influences and the search for better gear
Steve Vai reflects on working with Frank Zappa: "If you didn’t have the goods, you didn’t last. Frank expected everybody to rise to the occasion"
The virtuoso details his 'stunt guitar' days spent playing, transcribing and recording the most difficult compositions in Frank Zappa's oeuvre
Mike Keneally on working with Frank Zappa: “My mind was being blown on a daily basis”
The guitarist details how his stint with Frank Zappa's band in the late '80s was his “first professional music experience of any kind”
Alex Winter takes us behind the scenes of his extensive Frank Zappa documentary, Zappa
Wading through Zappa's exhaustive audio/video archive, Winter puts together a portrait of a visionary guitarist and artist at work
Justin Norvell on the past, present and future of guitar design at Fender
“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”
7 electric guitars that can also handle acoustic sounds
From Fender to PRS, Taylor and beyond, these electrics can all deliver unplugged vibes on the fly
Howard Gee: “I’m a big fan of the Echoplex EP-3, because that, to me, is the sound of '70s rock guitar”
The ex-Catalinbread masterbrain talks vintage echo and reveals his new brand of guitar effects pedals…
Blues maverick Jonathon Long shows you how to get more mileage from your guitar licks
The Baton Rouge bluesman shares his talent for transforming licks into a multitude of styles, from loping gospel sounds through Delta blues and slick country riffs
Audio Kitchen’s Steve Crow: "Distortion is something you can hide behind. When you dial it back, it forces you to up your game"
The boutique pedal company's head chef serves up some tasty tone tips to expand your effects palate
Classic gear: Hofner Verithin
With American guitars thin on the ground in the UK in the '50s, Hofner filled the thinline gap...
David Rainger: "Do things the ‘wrong’ way if you like - then you’ll come up with the best stuff creatively"
The founder of London-based pedal mavericks Rainger FX talks tone and explains why stompboxes are here to stay...
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Effectrode's Phil Taylor: "When I started making pedals, there were very few people building effects with tubes in them"
The head of old-school boutique builders Effectrode talks valves, Pink Floyd and Echorecs…
Diversify your playing with Greg Koch's red-hot hybrid-picking lesson
Koch serves up a little bit of country, a little bit of jazz and a little bit o’ blues on the side as he shares his 8 favorite licks
