Latest articles by Richard Bienstock
Watch Paul Riario conjure a ‘new species of swirl’ with the Eventide TriceraChorus pedal
Innovative stompbox offers bucket brigade-style chorus with MicroPitch detuning, three chorus voices and much more
Watch Paul Riario rev up the 'next-level' Dean MD24 Floyd Roasted Maple electric
Streamlined shred machine boasts Floyd Rose tremolo, Seymour Duncan humbuckers and roasted maple neck and fingerboard for maximum playing impact
Watch Paul Riario get a big tone from Martin’s new 'crisp and loud' Grand J-16E 12-string acoustic
Full-sized jumbo boasts reduced body thickness, high-performance taper neck profile for easy playability
Watch guitar ace Nili Brosh crank it up with the new Blackstar Dept. 10 valve-loaded pedals
Dual Drive, Dual Distortion and Boost effects feature ECC83 triodes, over 200V of power, Cab Rig sim and more
Watch RJ Ronquillo conjure super-personalized tones with the OPFXS V-Uno Reprogrammable Guitar Pedal
"It’s like you get to design a pedal from the ground up yourself,” he says about the innovative multi-effects stompbox
Watch guitar ace Sophie Burrell try out the "mega-impressive" NUX Mighty Air wireless stereo modeling amp
Compact 10-watt powerhouse boasts two modes, seven channels, Bluetooth connectivity, a dedicated app for tone tweaking and much more
Robben Ford on why making an instrumental record was a good excuse to play a lot more music
The blues-rock-jazz ace’s latest album, Pure, is a tour de force of compositional imagination, and reminds us he should leave the guitar dojo more often
Get the holiday gear fires burning with the final installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into Gibson’s Generation Collection G-45 acoustic, Gator’s ICON gig bags and TASCAM’s Mixcast 4 Podcast Studio
Watch guitar phenom Nili Brosh smash sonic boundaries with the “powerful” new IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-Gear pedals
IK’s first-ever hardware effects line offers overdrive, reverb, modulation and delay pedals, each with 16 all-new algorithms and much more
Get the holiday gear fires burning with the third installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into Baldacci’s Bighorn electric, IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube X-GEAR pedals and Cort’s X-700 Mutility multi-scale guitar
Witherfall's Jake Dreyer: "We don't sit down and say, ‘We've got to make this the hardest thing to play ever.’ It just happens to sometimes come out that way"
The Witherfall guitarist on the eclectic range of influences that forge the band's new album, Curse of Autumn
Get the gear fires burning with the first installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into PRS’s SE P20E Lotus Pink acoustic, Eventide’s TriceraChorus pedal and Guitareo.com’s online instructional courses
Yngwie Malmsteen: “I’ve never practiced in the true meaning of the word. From the first time I picked up a guitar when I was 7, in my head I was a performer”
On this year's Parabellum, everyone’s favorite Ferrari-driving guitar legend tackles all the vocals and instruments (except drums). The result? An Yngwie-on-steroids shred extravaganza
Watch Molly Miller take the 'oh-so-sweet’ PRS Fiore out for a spin
New signature model from Snarky Puppy’s Mark Lettieri boasts brand-new body shape, custom pickups with expanded switching system and more
Tom Morello: “I’ve tried to create this alloy between two worlds – you don’t know where the guitar ends and the EDM begins. That feels like an exciting future for the electric guitar”
The Rage Against the Machine icon explains how recording big, gnarly guitar riffs into his iPhone became his "life raft for sanity" on new album, The Atlas Underground Fire
Watch a YouTube guitarist bring his Fender Player Series Tele to the next level with some quick and affordable upgrades from Allparts
Hunter Engel adds high-quality strap locks, locking tuners and new wiring, and then takes his kicked-up Tele for a spin
Watch Paul Riario try out the full IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-Gear range of guitar pedals, the “most versatile world-class tone machines for studio or stage”
IK Multimedia’s first-ever line of hardware pedals offers up overdrive, reverb, delay and modulation stompboxes, each with 16 all-new algorithms and much more
St. Vincent, Ghost, Royal Blood and Rodrigo y Gabriela discuss covering metal classics for the Metallica Blacklist
Exit light! Enter some of the biggest names in popular music, whose interpretations of their favorite Black Album tracks helped celebrate its 30th anniversary
Watch Steve Stine conjure incredible tones with the Maton EBG808TE acoustic and AP5 PRO pickup system
The guitar and pickup, designed in conjunction with virtuoso picker Tommy Emmanuel, offers “stunning” tones and ease of playing
Dave “The Snake” Sabo: “I said to Kramer, ‘How about something like a snake coming out of a grave, with my birth date on there?’”
The Skid Row six-stringer unpacks the design choices behind his serpentine signature Kramer Baretta
Tracii Guns: “When it came to doing a signature guitar, there was no point in doing something ordinary, you know what I mean?”
The LA Guns guitarist walks through the design of his super-shreddable signature Kramer Gunstar Voyager
Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett look back on 30 years of The Black Album: "It really was the master key to everything"
How shorter, simpler songs and a bold vision helped the thrash pioneers make the biggest metal album of all time
What’s the secret to incredible tone? Guitarist Ruben Wan has the answer
Here’s a hint – it starts with his Elixir Strings
