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Through a Dumble it sounds “like Madison Square Garden” and it’s totally unique – meet Tony Mottola’s 1968 Gibson ES-355TDR
Although similar to a Gibson Crest, Tony Mottola’s guitar is essentially a rosewood ES-355 with Les Paul’s low‑impedance pickups – and it is strictly one of one
Nicolas Meier was hand-picked by Jeff Beck. Now he’s honoring the late guitar icon with a sound that seeks new horizons
Meier on what he learned from Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, and how in Jeff Beck he found a kindred spirit for guitar sounds with no limits
How you can swap the notes in a chord to give it a different feel
A lesson in second inversions sounds like advanced physics but it's simply swapping the root note for the 5th, expanding your chord vocabulary with a minimum of fuss
Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string
Alienation finds Three Days Grace reinvented as a quintet, and exploring the destructive power of super-low tunings. Onstage, meanwhile, Stock has been having fun with a Porsche GT Silver-themed Ibanez...
“The standard-bearer against which to judge all small combo amps”: Fender Blues Junior IV 30th Anniversary review
Decked out in tooled western-style livery with a saddle bag’s worth of speaker and circuit upgrades, this anniversary edition stands strong in the lineage of the classic benchmark combo
The story of the Framus Hootenanny, the resurrected John Lennon favorite that was a key component of Beatles tone
Loved by the Animals, the Stones, and most famously John Lennon, what was it about this Framus 12-string that made it a staple of ’60s rock tone?
Meet Will Paquin, the polymath who is reluctantly stepping into the spotlight to give alt-rock and indie Brazilian flair
Paquin might have introduced himself already on TikTok but his bravura debut, Hahaha, is the sound of someone ready to welcome everyone to the party
How Robert Jon & the Wreck were living the dream – sleeping at the studio, firing up Holy Grail amps, and chasing tone
Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes is an old-school joint. Robert Jon Burrison and Henry James Schneekluth were holed up at Dave Cobb's studio, full immersion, and the results are clear to hear
The incredible story of Jimmy Page’s 1957 Gretsch that fetched over $130,000 at auction – 50 years after he gave it away for free
Gretsch 6120s from 1957 in such good condition are thin on the ground. And this one has the rare distinction of being the one that the Page gave away for a competition prize. The question is why?
