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How Jeff Beck sparked Fender’s first Graffiti Yellow finish – and the Strat Plus design that helped revive its ’90s fortunes

One of the Fender Custom Shop’s first ever builds, owned and played by Beck, is up for auction. With it comes a tale of the guitar legend’s influential role in the firm’s ’90s output

Guitar World

Catalinbread rethinks volume modulation with the Tremolo8 – eight trems in one pedal, with some reverb secret sauce too

The Tremolo8 covers classic and crazy alike, from vintage US-amp to weird robotic ring mod, and it even has parallel reverb pairings for dialling in ambience and spaced-out edsounds

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The worlds of reverb and tremolo come crashing together in Catalinbread's new Tremol8 pedal

The Portland, Oregon firm's answer to the Strymon Flint and Fender Tre-Verb was inspired by the Fender Showman, but also features a wide variety of other tremolo/'verb effects, with plenty of tweakability, to boot

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How a Tom Morello attitude and madcap Kemper experimentation shaped Enter Shikari’s genre-smashing tech-forward guitar sound

As the electro-rock quartet return with new album A Kiss For the Whole World, guitarist Rory Clewlow and frontman/production whiz Rou Reynolds unpack the synth-like guitar tones behind the tunes

Guitar World

Meet Fender’s latest Master Builder, who worked on its Game of Thrones guitars and some stunning signature models

Levi Perry joined the firm direct from high school and worked under the likes of Ron Thorn before his recent promotion

Guitar World

Was Eric Johnson's unreleased PRS prototype guitar the precursor to the Silver Sky?

It was on display at the Dallas International Guitar Festival

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"This is one of the best amps I've ever played" – new video investigates the Fender Twin Reverb Kurt Cobain used on Nirvana's Bleach

Jack Endino's modded Fender amp was Cobain's go-to for Nirvana's debut album

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Michael Landau recalls recording guitar in front of David Gilmour: “Playing for Pink Floyd was one of the most bizarre things ever”

The session heavyweight was once brought onboard to record a lead line that Gilmour “didn’t want to do”

Guitar World

Fender debuts the Steve Lacy “People Pleaser”, a signature Stratocaster with a built-in fuzz circuit

The pop/R&B guitarist and super-producer's Mexican-made signature model also boasts noiseless pickups and a host of striking visual appointments – including a unique Chaos Burst finish

Guitar World

Fender and Steve Lacy team up for the People Pleaser Stratocaster – a unique, hot-wired Strat with onboard fuzz

The People Pleaser is decked out in an all-new Chaos Burst finish and comes equipped with The Internet guitarist's Chaos Fuzz circuit, Noiseless pickups and vintage-style trem

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A Jimi Hendrix stage-used 1968 Fender Dual Showman cabinet is headed to the auction block

Acquired by Hendrix due to his need for more onstage firepower, the cab features a pair of 15-inch JBL 130 speakers, and was most prominently used for the guitar hero's performance at the 1969 Newport Pop Festival

Guitar World

The must-have guitar accessories for 2023

GEAR EXPO 2023: The essential extras you can look forward to for your guitar playing this year

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The hottest guitar amps and amp pedals for 2023

GEAR EXPO 2023: Amps of all shapes and sizes that you can take anywhere and plug into

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Mike Dirnt: “Even Flea told me he wanted to play a P-Bass live”

Green Day’s Mike Dirnt reveals why so many top bass players switch back to Fender

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What happened the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died - by those who were there

On August 27, 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan played the gig of his life. Just hours later he was killed when his helicopter crashed in thick fog. This is the inside story of that tragic day

Guitar World

A Kurt Cobain stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster is going up for auction

Signed by all three members of Nirvana, the Strat also features a note from Cobain addressed to the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan

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Kemper reveals Liquid Profiling: "It's the perfect marriage between modelling and profiling"

Christoph Kemper lays out the next (free) update stage in his grand ambitions for guitar tones - and there's more too!

Guitar World

Fender’s latest Tom DeLonge Starcaster features actual meteorite dust in its finish – a potential first for guitar building

A production-line version of the Blink-182 guitarist’s signature model is looking more likely than ever – minus the space dust

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How Jeff Beck passed the Telecaster torch to Jimmy Page and changed the course of rock history

A tale of Jeff Beck’s generosity, Jimmy Page’s enduring gratitude and a 1959 Fender Telecaster that helped define a whole generation of rock music

Newcastle Herald

Man stole $88,000 worth of guitars from Newcastle studio

Christopher Ralph Nash took a hoard of equipment ranging from a TV worth $2500 and a vacuum valued at $599 to 16 guitars worth a total of $88,000 - including a $22,000 Fender bass guitar.

Guitar World

11 ways to improve your tube amp tone

Under-the-hood improvements and careful speaker selection can secure that sound you’ve been searching for

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Johnny Marr has a new book coming out that documents his epic guitar collection and the most significant instruments from his career

Marr's Guitars available to pre-order in deluxe hardback, shipping October, and features the photography of Pat Graham and the stories behind the guitars from Marr himself

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Foo Fighter Chris Shiflett was using a Strymon Iridium pedal on his UK tour instead of an amp

It seems digital modelling is good enough for a Foo Fighter

Guitar World

We’re living in a new golden age for guitar pickups – here’s why

From multi-voice options to Bluetooth switching and a stream of signature sets – after decades of stagnant development, there has been a boom in pickup innovations

Guitar World

Meet UK ‘glock-rock’ collective Lakes: the triple-guitar band where the drummer writes most of the guitar parts

These three intrepid Midwest-by-way-of-Watford emo guitarists bend their sonic approaches around each other – and a glockenspiel – and avoid standard tuning (“the most awkward, horrible tuning imaginable”) at all costs

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