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Min Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal on a wooden floor

Best wah pedals 2025: add an essential tone-shaping effect to your pedalboard

By Alex Lynham last updated

Get to know your Cry Baby from your Bad Horsie and choose the best wah pedal for you

Effects & Pedals
An IK Multimedia AXE guitar audio interface on top of a flight case, with headphones, guitar pick, and a guitar pedal

Best guitar audio interfaces 2025: our top picks for every budget

By Chris Schwarten last updated

Get recording your guitar today, regardless of your budget or experience

Studio & Recording Equipment
A close up of a Taylor GS Mini-e acoustic bass guitar leaning against a wall

Best acoustic bass guitars 2025: Unplug and play with our pick of top acoustic basses

By Chris Corfield last updated

Our expert guide to the best acoustic bass guitars will instantly boost your low-end game, and enable you to play at home or on the go

Bass Guitars
Old Boss NS-2 on a pedalboard

Best noise gate pedals 2025: clean up your signal with the best noise gate pedals for guitar

By Alex Lynham last updated

Unwanted noise in your chain? A noise gate pedal could be the solution

Effects & Pedals
An Orange Kongpressor bass compressor lying on a concrete floor with guitar cables

Best bass compressor pedals 2025: our pick of pedals to get your low-end in line

By Richard Blenkinsop last updated

We look at the best compressors for bass, from some of the biggest names around including Origin Effects, Empress Effects, Boss, and more

Electric Guitars
A Fender Villager 12-string acoustic on a guitar stand at a gig

Best 12-string guitars 2025: our pick of 12-string acoustic and electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley last updated

Our expert guide to the best 12-string guitars from Taylor, Rickenbacker, Fender, and others

Guitars
Close up of a Fishman acoustic pickup on a 12-string acoustic guitar

Best acoustic guitar pickups 2025: electrify your acoustic with our expert picks

By Jonathan Horsley last updated

Whether it be for performing live or recording at home, the best acoustic guitar pickups from LR Baggs, Fishman and others will help you enhance your tone

Guitar Pickups
A Yamaha Yamaha SA2200 semi-hollow electric guitar sitting in its hard case

Best high-end electric guitars 2025: the finest guitars money can buy

By Simon Fellows last updated

If money were no object, this is the all-star list of high-end axes from Gibson, PRS, Fender, and more that you’ll want in your collection

Electric Guitars
Man in pink shirt on train platform carrying a guitar in a case

Best guitar cases and gig bags 2025: from cost-effective protection, to indestructible travel companions

By Simon Fellows last updated

Our road-tested hard case and gig bag offerings for acoustic and electric guitar

Accessories
A Cordoba ukulele at an angle on a yellow background

Best ukuleles 2025: Acoustic and electric ukes for all budgets and playing styles

By Chris Corfield last updated

Get started with our pick of the best ukes from Mahalo, Martin and Cordoba, plus a cool Fender Jazzmaster ukulele

Ukuleles
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