Guitar Gear

I normally tell guitarists to skip the Amazon Big Spring Sale but this year I’m happy to be proven wrong – here’s 7 essential accessories to kickstart your year in guitar from just $6.49

This new 75th Anniversary Telecaster features a genuine Fender first – and it could change the face of Teles to come

Best guitar tuners 2026: my road-tested pick of chromatic, polyphonic and strobe options

This guitar has 64 pickups – and it could revolutionize guitar recording

Best guitar capos 2026: These are the tried & tested options I'd recommend for acoustic and electric players

Best guitar straps 2025: play in comfort and secure your guitar in style – top picks from a guitar salesman

Metallica has rolled out something special to help celebrate 50 years of EMG

Joe Satriani’s amp builder has released a potentially game-changing pickup system – which gives players the power to choose where their gain is created

Fishman brings Herman Li’s PRS Chleo Fluence pickups to the masses – but there’s a catch

Chibson and Acorn Amps team up for the definitely-not-Google Drive pedal

JHS Pedals pays tribute to mysterious pedal builder with the Coyote – a new fuzz based on one of the rarest pedals of all time

"I need to be honest about how well this pedal holds up for down-tuning against the newer competition it faces": DigiTech Drop Limited Black Edition review

Best compressor pedals 2026: control your tone with the must-have utility pedal

How EarthQuaker Devices went beyond the boutique pedal boom and took left-field tones mainstream

EarthQuaker Devices Towers review

Best chorus pedals 2026: My pick of choices for your 'board at every price point

“The best Big Muff there’s ever been for bass”: Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi 2 review

I’m rebuilding my pedalboard for my first gig of 2026 and these 9 essential items in the Amazon Big Spring Sale will ensure I’m gig-ready from just $4.49

“It can get loud enough to annoy my partner, which is good enough for home use”: Laney Prism-Mini review

“What happens when you do more with dramatically more?” Quilter Labs unveils The Vamp, a four-wheeled, 200,000-watt guitar amp

“It’s the same, loud, high headroom amp but with a more open-sounding clean tone that boasts a little extra life”: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 30th Anniversary review

The amp wizards who shaped the technology we use today, and gave the world great guitar tone

The ultimate guide to guitar amps: from vintage vacuum tubes to modeling marvels

10 sleeper guitar amps that deserve legendary status

How the Diezel VH4 conquered metal, won fans in Metallica, Tool and Muse – and impressed John Fogerty too

How an ’80s session guitar icon accidentally ended up with the ultimate Prince amp

All the ways the Positive Grid SPARK 2 could level up your practice experience – and get you gig-ready

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One of Slash's Guns N' Roses reunion tour Les Pauls expected to fetch up to $400k at auction

How a Swedish luthier used by Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton created the iconic ABBA star guitar

How a luthier built an acoustic guitar that celebrates Palestinian heritage – raising money for medical aid along the way

The world’s first generative AI guitar creates playable parts from user prompts

“A high-octane character that’s occasionally stubborn, but it stands out from the crowd”: Fender 75th Anniversary American Professional Classic Cabronita Telecaster review

Josh De La Victoria shows off new multi-scale 7-string S-type – and Misha Mansoor wants one

“It really has everything going for it”: Faith PJE Legacy FG4 Earth review

Have you ever regretted selling a guitar?

Following the record-breaking sale of Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger,” more Grateful Dead and Garcia guitar gear is coming up for auction

If you want to sound better live, three of our top-rated in-ear monitors just got some mega discounts in the Thomann In-Ear Days sale - save up to 30% on pro-level live sound

Best in-ear monitors for guitar players 2025: stay in tune and on time

“The best wireless headphones for musicians you can buy right now, despite a few flaws”: Yamaha YH-WL500 review

“Some of the finest sounding IEMs”: Ultimate Ears Pro UE 150, UE 250, UE 350 In-Ear Monitors review

“A handy addition to your pedalboard if you're playing shows with poor monitoring”: Cloudvocal EverSync Wireless IEM review

Best earplugs for musicians: guitarist-friendly plugs to suit every budget

CloudVocal’s EverSync wireless in-ear monitor system delivers high-quality, low-latency monitoring in a compact, pedalboard-friendly design

Audio Technica ATH-M50xBT2 review: the only headphones you need for guitar, studio and everyday use?

Save big on the Boss Waza-Air and a host of other guitar amp headphones solutions with these red-hot Cyber Monday deals

Fractal goes up against Neural DSP and IK Multimedia with ICONS – its first-ever plugin

“At long last, a DAW puts the guitar at the very heart of its operations”: Fender Studio Pro 8 review

Fender forges surprise Samsung partnership to bring Fender Play to home TV screens for the first time

“A utopia of modeled guitar tones that will suit pretty much any guitarist out there”: Universal Audio Paradise Guitar Studio review

“I just want to keep playing it” - Neural DSP Archetype: John Mayer X review

Neural DSP unveils Archetype: John Mayer X – a landmark signature plugin that brings the guitar great’s tones to the masses

Universal Audio’s amp-emulating pedals have been a huge success – now they’ve arrived in plugin form via the all-inclusive Paradise Guitar Studio

Universal Audio is giving away a free plugin for Black Friday but hurry, you've only got a few days to get yours – choose one of ten different plugins

Neural DSP Archetype: Misha Mansoor X review

Best guitar audio interfaces 2026: get better recorded guitar tones

Best FRFR speakers 2026: transparent tone for multi-effects and amp modelers

Best impulse responses: the secret sauce of great recorded guitar tone

Best microphones for recording guitar 2026: capture your acoustic or electric playing perfectly with these top-flight mics for every occasion

Why Fender just launched its own recording software – and what sets it apart for guitarists

These 5 audio interfaces came out on top in my testing gauntlet, and now they're all on sale with a hefty Black Friday discount – including $200 off a UA Apollo

"One of the best ways to quickly and easily record your music alongside your smartphone": Blackstar Polar Go review

“Affordable, professional-quality”: Warm Audio Fen-Tone WA-FT ribbon microphone review

Presonus Eris Pro 6 Review