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Some minor tonewood and pickup tweaks help reduce the cost, but there’s still shredability aplenty, alongside push-push controls for coil splits and volume boosting

It's ChatGPT in an aluminium stompbox format, with a growing pool of user-made effects, and coding and coding-free creating on offer

Gibson's budget-friendly sister company is bringing bigger and better specs to lower price ranges for the first time

From ‘50s and ‘60s-inspired reissues to signature models for Mick Ronson, Michael Schenker, and Gary Clark Jr., it promises to be a big year for the historic firm

Now boasting Fishman undersaddle pickups and looking as sharp as ever, Ibanez is continuing its nylon-string guitar revolution

Walker's hand-wired head allows players to run either of its EL84 or 6L6 power sections individually, or combine them, and there's a tube-buffered effects loop too

It features High/Low gain voicings, a 12AX7 preamp tube, and a pair of NOS 6AQ5 power tubes... and Slash reckons it can punch well above its weight

There’s also the return of its short-scale OSO models, and T-types aplenty

We sat down with the unlikely retro-futuristic concept guitar and brand-new body shape

Available in Solo and Trio versions, the BandBox can also be connected to the JBL ONE app, from which players can access a number of amp models and effects