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The Guitar World reviews team's gear of the year 2025
Platinum Award-winners, forward-thinkers and new classics from our favourite guitars, amps, effects, plugins, bass gear and more
Neural DSP Archetype: Misha Mansoor X review
The Finnish firm’s new signature plugin for Periphery’s chief riffer is its most feature-packed to date, and it serves up utilitarianism and uncanny weirdness in equal measure
5 of my go-to Universal Audio plugins just got heavily discounted in the monster Rocktober sale – glow up your recordings from as little as $24
This plugin sale at Universal Audio is a great way to get ahead of the Prime Day plugin deals
Alex G is a guitar icon for Gen Z – and he gets some of his favorite tones from a stock Logic preset
Most of the guitar tones from Alex G’s latest record were created using a factory DAW preset
“Among the easiest modeling plugins to get to grips with – great results in very short order”: Positive Grid BIAS X review
Artificial intelligence has take care of your admin, now Positive Grid is utilizing it to help you create better guitar tones
Steven Wilson reveals his go-to guitar plugin – and why digital can successfully coexist with analog
The highly-coveted plugin prides itself in emulating the full range of cheap tape sounds
Best guitar plugins 2025: my top plugins to level up your recorded guitar tones
Get better guitar tones for recording and practice with my pick of the best guitar amp plugins
"I'm not a big amp plugin user beyond recording – but my time with these three changed my playing habits": Universal Audio UAD Dream '65 Reverb, Ruby '63 Top Boost and Lion '68 Super Lead Amplifier plugins review
UA's acclaimed amp modeling pedals are channeled into native plugins – is the recipe right for recording and more?
