10 best compressor pedals 2021: Tame your tone's dynamics with compression By Jonathan Horsley With great options from Boss, Keeley, MXR and more, there has never been a better time to add one of the best compressor pedals to your pedalboard
Death Valley High's Reyka Osburn: “It’s hard for a guitar player to be a great frontman and really work the audience“ By Mark McStea Five questions with the Death Valley High frontman
Four Year Strong's Dan O'Connor: "You don’t have to have the most expensive gear to get the best tone" By Adam Kovac The guitarist/vocalist shares his tips for life on the road, and why band cohesion is more important than high-end equipment
Best distortion pedals 2021: the top 10 high-gain stompboxes for guitarists By Jonathan Horsley Crunch, filth, mayhem! Dive into our expert round-up of the best distortion pedals around today
How Grey Daze's Cristin Davis and an all-star line-up honored Chester Bennington's legacy with Amends By Amit Sharma Page Hamilton, Chris Traynor and Korn's Head and Munky pitched in to help Davis finish what the Linkin Park vocalist started
6 ways to improve the performance of your pedalboard By Chris Schwarten Want to get the best from your pedals? Here are 6 pedalboard hacks every guitarist should try
How Bill & Ted Face the Music became the most triumphant celebration of the electric guitar's past, present and future By Michael Astley-Brown Music supervisor Jonathan Leahy reveals how the movie’s bodacious soundtrack and resplendent Gibson electric guitars came to be
Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: ”I like my Strat to sound like someone losing their mind and clawing at the door” By Amit Sharma The guitar-toting frontman talks new gear discoveries, why the Boss Metal Zone continues to thrill, and the enduring influence of Soundgarden and Rush
Justin Hawkins on AC/DC: "There’s no left turn that leaves you disappointed. Every crescendo satisfies" By Amit Sharma The Darkness frontman shares his love for the most iconic fraternal guitar duo of all time - Angus and Malcolm Young - and hails “the ultimate rock riff” in Back In Black
Tom Morello: "Guitar playing has a different emphasis now – young people want to be producers before musicians" By Amit Sharma The Rage Against the Machine six-stringer and political activist talks the current landscape of guitardom, and his new Audible release, Tom Morello at Minetta Lane Theatre: Speaking Truth To Power Through Stories And Song
Built To Spill's Doug Martsch: “Music needs to be pleasant to the brain but also challenging“ By Mike Huguenor 20 years on, Built To Spill frontman and guitarist Doug Martsch reflects on Keep It Like A Secret
Malcolm Young's guitar gear: how the AC/DC rhythm machine perfected high-voltage rock 'n' roll tone By Total Guitar editors The late AC/DC great liked his rig simple and loud
Testament's Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson on creating turbulent music for turbulent times By Jeff Kitts The Testament guitarists on their gear philosophies, the evolution of their sound, and why Chuck Billy remains their toughest critic
Sacha Dunable: “I don’t want to just be making clones – I want to be making guitars that are our own design” By Adam Kovac Sacha Dunable on balancing building guitars and building prog-metal worlds with Intronaut
The 10 best King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard songs... so far By Stan Bull From jazz to folk to thrash and beyond, frontman Stu Mackenzie recalls some of the band's standout guitar tracks
Taylor Momsen: "Guitars are like people. The longer they've been in your life the better" By Amit Sharma The Pretty Reckless leader remembers Chris Cornell, and goes deep on the guitars, gear and creation of the band's star-studded upcoming album, Death By Rock And Roll
George Lynch: “There’s so much to say without playing endless streams of notes – I’m always aware of the value of subtlety and silence” By Mark McStea George Lynch discusses the fate of his classic-era guitars, his never-ending Led Zeppelin love and his new album with Dino Jelusick
The 8 best classical guitars 2021: nylon-string guitars for every budget By Chris Corfield From flamenco and hybrid, to acoustic-electric models and beyond, these are the best classical guitars around right now
Lukas Nelson: "I always think about finding the space and playing just what needs to be played" By Matt Parker The country-rocker and Neil Young collaborator goes deep on his new Gibson signature model, pedalboard minimalism and how meditation helps him play great solos
Curt Chambers: "I've always loved matching the energy in hip-hop with aggressive guitar playing" By Amit Sharma The sought-after session man on playing with Eminem, Dr. Dre and Travis Barker, and how a 50th Anniversary Fender Strat Reissue shaped new solo single, Good Thing
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