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"It sounds good; you’re not getting superb clarity or a broad, rich frequency range – you get the sound of your guitar’s pickup amplified": Harley Benton TableAmp V2 Bluetooth review

An affordable, Bluetooth-equipped desktop amp designed with electro-acoustic instruments and vocalists in mind – but with scope for amp modelers too

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"The Layers is a subtle and unique pedal, with a lot of expressive depth": MXR Layers review

MXR's soundscaping pedal will sample, modulate, pitch-shift and stack your sound for lush, rich textures

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"While sound quality was once something that held modelers back, it is now a big reason to buy": Five reasons you’re better off with an amp modeler than a tube amp

The top reasons why it might be time to make the switch to amp modelers

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"The tone these amps produce is classic Orange": Orange Baby 100 Series review

Orange's Tour Baby, Gain Baby and Dual Baby squeeze its tonal flavour into a portable, lightweight 100-watt head

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“A less idiosyncratic, more intuitive but still distinctly handsome machine. It plays and feels like a much more modern proposition”: Gretsch Professional Series Hollow Body Tennessean review

The working musician’s hollowbody designed to handle most popular styles but retaining that unmistakably cool Gretsch vibe

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"Throw your Cantrell staples at the Dirt, and you’re rewarded with authenticity": Funny Little Boxes Dirt pedal review

Funny little Boxes' tone quest continues with an attempt to recreate Jerry Cantrell's guitar tones from Alice in Chains' Dirt, but it's really a great all-rounder

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"It costs too much and we don't need it but, yes, we really do want one": Teenage Engineering OP-XY review

It's a mobile music-making and performing wonder, but two grand can get you an awful lot other studio gear

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Fingerboard care basics: 6 things you need you need know about how to clean and condition your guitar fretboard

A string change is the ideal opportunity to get your 'board back to its best

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“How long will Shergold be one of the unknown pleasures of electric guitar if it carries on making guitars as good as this?”: Shergold Masquerader Standard SM11 review

Another home run from Patrick James Eggle? This Masquerader could be the real deal for those seeking an affordable doublecut with a difference

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“The asking price represents a sizable outlay, but it’s justified by the sheer range of quality effects”: Fractal Audio VP4 review

Fractal Audio puts its Axe-Fx III effects in a conveniently sized stage-ready floor unit – could it be the only effects unit you need?

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“You might want to play on the cleaner side of the tracks, buttry cranking it up a little – it damn-near takes off”: Why Gibson’s B.B. King ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ 1974 ES-355 is a technical knockout

Gibson and B.B. King have had many Lucilles over the years but it is this one commemorating the King of the Blues' legendary Zaire the heavy-hitter we've been waiting for?

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"This could well be Harley Benton's most impressive electric guitar platform yet when it comes to value": Harley Benton ST-Modern HSS review

Can a more affordable version of its 2024 success story raise the bar for Benton?

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“Open your mind and heart to this delightful instrument and you’ll discover a faithful musical pal for almost any occasion”: Gibson ES-330 review

One of the most practical and versatile electric guitars for pop, blues, jazz, and light rock makes a welcome return to the Gibson lineup

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Music technology gear of the year 2024: The 10 best new synths, samplers and drum machines

We count down our favourite music tech hardware from the past 12 months

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“You could write your own Stairway to Heaven on an instrument like this”: The hottest guitar gear launches of 2024 – from Wolfgang Van Halen’s long-awaited semi-hollow signature to UAFX’s Dumble-in-a-pedal

There was an onslaught of new guitar products released over the past 12 months. Here are the ones that had us all talking (and checking our bank balance)

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“Simply a very good sounding Les Paul irrelevant of its name or price”: Gibson Les Paul Studio review

Gibson hasn’t forgotten the working musician with this refreshed version of the classic Les Paul Studio for 2024

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“If this is your first guitar, you’ll be keeping it for a long time to come”: Harley Benton Pro Series ST-Modern HSS review

Beggars can apparently also be choosers, according to Harley Benton and its sub-£150 versatile doublecut

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"If your guitar isn't in tune you'll never sound good": 4 causes of your strings going out of tune and how to solve them

The biggest cause of frustration for guitar players? The struggle to stay in tune is real, but there are ways to make things easier

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“This is the guitar you turn to when it is time to become death, the destroyer of worlds, for adventures on the frontier of extreme guitar tone”: Jackson Pro Series DR24MG EVTN6 Diamond Rowe Signature review

The Tetrarch riffer-in-chief drops a gem on ‘em with a heavyweight single-cut for super-heavy sounds

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"With a unit this affordable, are the effects any good? Yes! They really are": Zoom MS-50G+ Multistomp review

A compact and functional multi-effects pedal that knocks it out of the park for value where it matters

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"Plugging in, you’re met with a rich, lush-sounding overdrive. Being completely honest, I was pleasantly surprised": Zoom MS-200D+ Multistomp review

How many overdrives are too many, or is there even such a thing?

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“There is a difference in the tone compared with just the simple wrapover bridge, which resonates more in your body”: Why Rory Gallagher’s “Kid Gloves and Walkin’ Wounded” Gibson Les Paul Juniors were two of his best-sounding guitars

They may be among Rory Gallagher’s lesser-known electrics, but these Les Paul Juniors are unquestionably among the finest-sounding he owned

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“The effects from the Axe-FX III are so good that simply putting them in a standalone box is already a knockout product”: Fractal Audio Systems VP4 Virtual Pedalboard review

Four effects from the Axe-FX III? Okay, we're listening...

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“We love it when Gibson gets it right”: Gibson ES-330 and Les Paul Studio review

Along with its high-profile limited-edition releases, Gibson continues to consider the working musician, as this pair illustrates: two new additions that couldn’t be more different!

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“This pickup could have come out of a late-’50s Gibson. If you had a guitar from that era with these pickups, everyone would be like, ‘Wow. That’s a badass-sounding Les Paul’”: How Adam “Nolly” Getgood and Bare Knuckle reinvented the PAF for a new era

Gibson’s PAF has to be the most-cloned pickup of all time, but what if it was used as a launching pad for a humbucker with more oomph? Getgood and Tim Mills of Bare Knuckle might just have the answer with the PolyPaf

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