Latest articles by Guitarist
Best Strat-style guitars under $/£2,000 2023: top-quality S-style electrics you need to play
We take a look at six picks for S-style fans, from authentic Fender-branded gear to innovative alternatives
The best high-end Strat-style guitars 2023: top-end takes on the classic electric outline
The Strat design has long been imitated - and then some – with multiple options available at all manner of price points. Here we've gathered six high quality Strat-alikes from the upper echelons of guitar-making
10 questions for John Smith: "When you’re 11 and someone hands you a Stratocaster, you feel like you’ve been handed the key to a big shiny door"
One of the UK's finest folk guitarists tackles our top 10
Classic gear: Gibson Super 400CES
King of the archtops and the jewel in Gibson’s electric Spanish crown…
Tone makers - David Main: “I’ve never owned a pedalboard... I just use one fuzz pedal”
The Tone Bender guru and D*A*M man speaks
10 questions for Europe's John Norum: “Work on vibrato. It’s like a personality for a guitarist”
First guitars, string catastrophes and his beloved '65 Strat
Everything you need to know about DeArmond Gold Foil pickups
Foil-wrapped and still fresh
Tone makers - Denis Cornell: “I made loads of Fuzz Faces for Dallas Arbiter... they needed someone to test them”
On tone, transistors and trend-obsessed pedal buyers
Tone makers - Empress Effects‘ Steve Bragg: “I think we’re just about breaking even now on the amount of R&D that went into the Echosystem”
Thoughts on tone, pedals and his effects heroes
10 questions for Kee Marcello: “I played a festival and someone threw a hand grenade on stage!”
The super Swede and former Europe man on first guitars and setting the record straight
Tone makers - Strymon's Pete Celi: "Our philosophy has been to design pedals without compromise"
The pedal builder talks tone tips and making modern classics
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (November 2018)
All of the guitar goodness in one place!
10 questions for George Lynch: “I wasn’t wearing underwear. My guitar tech leapt into action with a roll of duct tape”
Campfire dousings and wardrobe nightmares
Everything you need to know about Fender Wide Range humbuckers
Telling the tale of Fender's tonal thickener
Tone makers - JHS Pedals' Josh Scott: "Put an effect on your ’board and see where it takes you"
The JHS main man reflects on 10 years of tone-making
Tone makers - Analog Man's Mike Piera: "Almost every great guitar hero of mine has used my pedals"
Tone tips, pedal facts and insight from AM's main man
30-day guitar challenge, day 17: Kenny Wayne Shepherd teaches you some slick blues licks
Kenny Wayne Shepherd on how to weave classic blues influences into your soloing and unlock the fretboard..
30-day guitar challenge, day 7: Expand your chordal knowledge with these frozen-note chords
You may well be familiar with the concept of a pedal note - one that remains static, often in the bass, while other notes and chords move as normal. Let’s turn this concept on its head
Tone makers - Dinosaural/Lovetone's Dan Coggins: “The whole thing was ‘art meets science’”
Dinosaural’s Dan Coggins reflects on the legend of Lovetone and his latest creative venture with ThorpyFX…
4 guitar tricks you can learn from Steve Howe
Learn the licks of the Yes prog master
