Guitar Gear

Prime Day is the place to upgrade your guitar cable game, with up to 66% off leads and patch cable bundles – but the savings will end tonight

Time is ticking on Prime Day, so this is your last chance to stockpile accessories – I've hunted down 11 affordable guitar essentials, starting from as low as $4.99

Everything you need to know about 1950s Telecaster pickups – and how to build your own replicas

The most advanced gig bag ever created? D’Addario has launched climate-controlled guitar cases with integrated humidity control

Best guitar straps 2026: play in comfort and secure your guitar in style – budget-spanning choices from a guitar salesman

Best single coil pickups 2026: from trailblazing designs to vintage traditionalists

The mystery of Gibson’s first Patent Applied For humbuckers

You can now get an official Ibanez Tube Screamer watch

Best guitar cleaning kits and tools 2026: Keep your guitar looking and sounding sweet

Boss stompbox prices just dropped even further for the final day of Prime Day – you've got less than 24 hours to pick up one of 13 iconic Boss pedals still on sale

We bought, tested, and ranked 8 dirt-cheap Amazon pedals – now 7 of them have hit a new low price in the Prime Day sale, but hurry, you only have a few hours to grab one!

A massive 35% Prime Day discount just took this already affordable multi-effects pedal into a completely different territory - find out why 200+ guitar players picked up this Mooer pedal in the last month on Amazon

This reverb pedal blew my mind last year, and now it's 20% off for Prime Day – thanks to its dual-engine and intuitive layout, this is a serious and capable reverb, and a no-brainer at this price

Mad Professor Little Green Wonder review

“A much more versatile pedal than you might think”: Strymon Canoga Vintage Silicon Fuzz review

This magnetic modular pedalboard could change the way you use your pedals – and it’s undergone the most extreme demo

Flattley The Joker review

Alex Lifeson’s Rush reunion live rig has been revealed – and there’s not an amp in sight on the Fifty Something tour

“A no-nonsense digital amplifier”: Kustom Amplification Carbon 100 review

He played bass with Robert Plant, gave Tony Iommi his sound and created an iconic British amp brand – the life and times of Lyndon Laney

Marshall x Jimi Hendrix 60th Anniversary JMH Half Stack review

EVH 5150 III Hypersonic 6L6 2x12 review

Best amps for metal 2026: my top picks for high-gain heroes

How Joe Satriani found the amp builder for his dream Eddie Van Halen tone

Ed Sheeran launches signature Orange amp range - could it topple the Roland Cube as the busking combos to beat?

Best budget guitar amps under $500 2026: cost-cutting amplifiers for every player

Ed Sheeran is about to launch another piece of signature gear – and he’s already gifted it to a young fan

A 1960 Les Paul Custom in Cherry? This vintage stunner was once owned by Neal Schon – and it might be a true unicorn

Kramer goes for gold with its 50th Anniversary models

$600 off a Strandberg, $200 off a Bonamassa favorite, and a slew of wallet-friendly beginner models – these are the Prime Day electric guitar deals worth considering before the sale ends at midnight

This unbelievable Squier Strat Prime Day deal sold out in one day – now I've tracked down an alternative that's even better value. But you'll need to be quick as the deals end tonight!

Eric Clapton's ‘Summersburst’ Les Paul – used on Cream's debut album – has finally been unearthed after 60 years

How a friendly rivalry with Jake Kiszka helped Chris Turpin bag this stunning double-cut

The last G&L guitars ever made are popping up in the stores of independent retailers

Fender vs Everyone: what you need to know as the world’s largest guitar firm takes on, er... the world

Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth collaborator Jon Jourdan joins forces with PRS on a no-frills, single-pickup guitar

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

John Mayer has been using his plugin in the studio, and he doesn’t think you’ll notice

Yvette Young has a new piece of signature gear – and it might be the one stop shop for all the ambient prog rock tones you’ve been waiting for

Best guitar plugins 2026: my top plugins to level up your recorded guitar tones

"Who thought we’d look to the kings of gritty bass for silky neo-soul tones?" Neural DSP Darkglass Ultimate review

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

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