IK Multimedia's AmpliTube is one of the best-known guitar amp simulation applications on the market, and IK has previously responded to users' interfacing needs with the budget StealthPlug and high...
Review of IK Multimedia StealthPedal 
Guitar Terminology - The Basics 
Guitar terminology, now there's a topic that we all seem to know something about. But, I have found that sometimes people get confused about what a certain part is, or what it does.
Review of G&L Legacy Special 
The G&L guitar company was founded by original Fender legends Leo Fender and George Fullerton, along with Dale Hyatt, in the late 1970s.
Review of Eventide TimeFactor 
Eventide effects have always been something to aspire to for me.
Review of Fretlight Guitar FG-400 Series 
The Fretlight guitar provides a unique approach to both learning and playing the instrument that combines visual, audio and memory-based learning techniques that provide players with a fully-functi...
Review of Epiphone ES-335 Dot 
Epiphone's 'plenty of guitar for sensible money' philosophy means you can get your hands on a well-constructed, professional instrument without selling your vital organs for medical research.
Review of Hagstrom Swede Tremar 
Since Hagstrom electric guitars reappeared in 2007, the company has mainly concentrated on models that hark back to the brand's best-known originals.
Review of Schecter C-1 BlackJack ATX with Seymour Duncan Blackouts 
Just as there are many different schools of metal – heavy metal, stoner metal, death metal, thrash, death-thrash, grindcore, gore-grind, industrial metal, black metal, TRUE black metal - there ar...
Review of Line 6 Spider Valve 
Line 6 has been at the forefront of a lot of sound modeling innovations %u2013 desktop units, modeling amps, and the revolutionary Variax guitar.
The best electric guitars under £300 
Ask MusicRadar has one, simple mission: to uncover the very best music-making gear in existence.
Review of Blackstar Series 1 S1-100 head 
It's only been around two years since its first products hit the shelves, yet Blackstar is already seen as one of the UK's top amp builders.
Review of Lag Arkane AM100 and AM1000 
For something a little different, I thought I'd post a review of two versions of the Lag Arkane: the budget-priced LM100 and the more expensive LM1000.
Myth Busters: Jimmy Page's Recording Secrets 
There's no greater icon of late 60s and early 70s British blues-rock tone than Jimmy Page, the legendary guitarist with Led Zeppelin...
Review of DigiTech TimeBender delay 
DigiTech has a long history of innovative pedals (in the mid 90s they released various stompers which added compression or delay to distortion, and let’s not forget how the Whammy Pedal revolutio...
Demo Video for the Electro-Harmonix Riddle 
Jack Conte put together this very nice demo video for the Electro-Harmonix Riddle, an effects pedal that brings synth-sculpting filtering goodness to the guitar.
How to play fingerstyle blues guitar: part 2 
A tab and audio lesson on self-accompaniment
Flash Carbon Fiber Graphite Composite Guitar Demo 1 
Flash carbon fiber composite guitars are handmade in Israel by a patented process known only to the craftsman.
How To Improve Your Guitar Technique - Part 1 
Do you want to improve your guitar technique, play guitar cleaner, eliminate sloppy playing and unwanted string noise? Sloppy guitar technique is a very common problem.
Home recording for the frugal guitarist 
The purpose of this article is to give you a bit of an idea how someone who doesn’t really profess to be an audio engineering whiz goes about getting their ideas down in listenable form.
Review of Carvin V3 amp and 412VT cabinet 
If you’ve scrolled through the menu of a digital modelling amp or processor lately, you would see the same amps namechecked again and again - Classic American and British combos, hot-rodded fireb...
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