Guitar Gear

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

D’Addario just launched a glove to clean your guitar

Best guitar picks 2026: my choice of tried-and-tested plectrums to upgrade your playing

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

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

Seymour Duncan goes toe-to-toe with Fishman with its triple-voiced MortalCoil active pickups

Best acoustic guitar strings: our top-rated strings for your acoustic

“It’s a pedal I didn’t even know I needed”: EHX Effects Interface review

Best pedalboard power supplies 2026: juice your ‘board with my pick of pro-grade power for every budget and size of 'board, fully tested

I just discovered savings of up to 26% off Boss pedals in the Amazon Spring Deal Days sale – get big money off a Waza Craft Metal Zone, the versatile DD-8 digital delay, and the flagship GT-1000CORE multi-effects pedal

Amazon is the home of dirt-cheap pedals from brands you've never heard of, but their Spring Deal Days sale just brought stomps from Vox, Ibanez, Boss, MXR, and more into budget territory

“Amp and cab models that surpass some expensive units from bigger brands”: Blackstar ID:X Floor Three review

IK Multimedia models two vintage – and VERY expensive – Dumble amps for the $249 TONEX One Double Special

Kemper rolls out the latest evolution of its Profiling tech – and this update is free

Best delay pedals 2026: our pick of the coolest spacey pedals for your pedalboard

"A successful first foray into amp and effects modeler floorboards for the firm, which has a really bright future in the space": Blackstar ID:X Floor One review

Victory’s PowerValve 2000 offers 200-watts of air pushing for modelers, preamps, and pedalboards – and Neural DSP is blown away

“A cost-effective way of accurately amplifying your modeled tone, which is exactly what many guitar players need”: Blackstar Artist FR Special review

Laney unveils the Prism-Mini, a feature-packed modeling amp and Bluetooth speaker that looks to steal the Spark Mini's crown

Mesa/Boogie brings back the fire-breathing Triple Rectifier

Laney continues to redefine the competitive battery-powered amp market with its small footprint powerhouse, the PRISM-MINI

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“It may not have the same EQ options as other FRFRs, but the Laney LFR-110 amplifies your digital tone in a way that will easily get you heard on stage”: Laney LFR-110 review

“In a world where streaming is king and few people own the music they listen to, the BandBox Solo’s ability to conduct stem separation from a Bluetooth source is incredibly useful”: JBL BandBox Solo review

“A match for boutique offerings from smaller high-end manufacturers”: PRS DGT 15 Combo review

“It just floored me”: Inside Fender’s mission to bring the ’62 Super Amp back from the dead

The 16 most expensive guitars of all time

The Specials’ Ghost Town bass fetches thousands at auction – having been bought for just £200

World record for most expensive guitar shattered three times in one night as Jim Irsay auction sees David Gilmour's Black Strat fetch $14.5m

How the Gibson ES-5 paved the way for a new wave of electric blues (and maybe even the Strat, too)

What Kurt Cobain’s record-breaking 1969 ‘Competition’ Mustang tells us about Fender’s guitar building in the ’60s

“A lot of deceptively clever craft”: Duesenberg Starplayer CBR review

David Gilmour's Black Strat sells for record-shattering $14.5 million in the biggest guitar auction in history

The history and preservation of Eric Clapton’s The Fool SG

Gibson unearths the only known Kalamazoo factory footage from the ‘Golden Era’ of guitar building

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