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Flatwound vs roundwound bass strings: What’s the difference?

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Mellow and warm or bright and snappy? We look at the key differences between flatwound and roundwound bass strings ..read more

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“Three of those were made. I had one. Ry Cooder had one. Edward Van Halen had one”: Dweezil Zappa on the high-tech custom model that EVH dubbed “The Super Pluto Guitar”

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The tale of a truly distinctive instrument that was custom-made for a trio of rock’s most innovative players in the 1980s ..read more

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“An entire Friedman rig in a compact pedalboard-friendly package”: Friedman’s expanded IR-D puts a cult classic amp mod into a tube preamp pedal without breaking the bank

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Two independent channels, genuine tubes and state-of-the-art digital tech come together for another neat release from the boutique amp specialist ..read more

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“He’d got it down to a tee. He wore one of my jackets, a wig, a mustache and I’m playing behind him”: Tony Iommi once dressed his guitar tech up as himself and sent him onstage as a prank on Sabbath singer Tony Martin

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The real Tony Iommi played while hiding behind a stack, and the fake Iommi nearly got away with it ..read more

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John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Shepherd are two of the biggest names in modern blues – and boy, do they know how to introduce a guitar solo

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Learn how to phrase spellbending blues intro licks in the style of Kenny Wayne Shepherd and John Mayer ..read more

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“Ace Frehley is very good at creating a song within a song when it comes to solos, and I've always thought along those lines”: Rock City Machine Co. went from KISS Army to KISS collaborators. Now they're going it alone.

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Ryan Cook and Jeremy Asbrock have worked with Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons, but say it’s time for them to stand on their own, er, four feet ..read more

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“A domesticated drive with a broad range of fattened boost, crunchy speaker breakup and muscular distortion”: EarthQuaker Devices Zoar Dynamic Audio Grinder review

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EQD's latest dirt pedal offers amp-like drive and heaps of tone-shaping capabilities, but is above all a love letter to dynamics ..read more

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“Plenty of great functionality to make your life easier and assuage any fears of signal or battery loss”: Boss WL-50 review

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We put Boss’ pedalboard-friendly wireless guitar system to the test, seeing how it holds up to some stiff competition ..read more

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“I never learned any barre chords... all I’ve ever learned was ’oompah oompah’. It drove me to either give up guitar or start writing music”: Josh Homme reveals how learning polka as a kid developed his off-kilter guitar playing style

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Josh Homme reveals how learning polka in childhood gave way to his off-kilter guitar playing style ..read more

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“I use pedals for timbral changes on guitar – it’s like a horn where your breath affects the tone”: Meet Ava Mendoza the punk-reared jazz guitar maverick turning breath work to fretwork

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Echolocation is the sound of a player reared on punk taking what you might call jazz into a new place ..read more

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