Gear Expo 2024

“These special 50th anniversary guitars are a tribute to all the players who have made Taylor a part of their musical journey over the past half-century,” says Bob Taylor

This year's NAMM has been good for the modders already, and now the acoustic player has a top-quality non-invasive option for amplified performance from the latest in the Hi-Fi series

"Your performance becomes part of the sound effect"

It's a 'Variable Character Synthesizer' with plenty of digital tricks up its analogue sleeves

And it the newly resurrected brand has a new drive pedal out with the OCD V1.4 – “an exact part for part recreation of one of the most valuable and sought after guitar pedals ever made”

Sync the pedal to the Multiverse Designer plugin interface and you players can create and manage their own sounds, find tones from other developers, and set the Multiverse pedal up just how they like it

Its first foray into amplification is a powerful statement

The Muse Driver Full Range Overdrive can be used as a clean boost, a square-wave fuzz, and offers many different drive sounds between

Go, Shorty, it’s your birthday…

Available as 40W, 20W and 10W, the ID:CORE V4 combos feature upgraded control panels and USB connections, and pack six amp voices into its compact Super Wide Stereo format

Spark has become a fully-fledged live rig for guitarists, vocalists, bassists and more

Heavily modded, equipped with black hardware, uncovered T-type humbuckers and a piezo, Hammett's “blacked-out” Custom is one of the coolest guitars in Metallica history

Featuring Bill Kelliher's hefty new double-cut, thrash legend Gary Holt's red on black GH SV-200, a Junior-inspired singlecut with an ESP-exclusive Seymour Duncan humbucker and more

Enhanced version trumps the original Bridge Cast by featuring HDMI ports and assignable control pads

The limited edition lineup includes a beast of an 8-string Dinky, a typically weaponised King Kelly, a classy Floyd-equipped Rhoads and – holy moly – a Soloist with 27 frets

Brian May, Rory Gallagher and Tony Iommi fans, the Naga Viper MKII might well be the missing ingredient in your rig

The Black Friday special is now always on the menu, but owing to its more complicated build, it will be made in small batches of approximately 100 units at a time

This looks pretty much as ‘premium’ as stage pianos get

The Circles guitar is for all you 1981 Van Halen heads while the Shark remains one of the craziest experiments in guitar modding