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“Yes, we’re aware that an overdrive pedal this tiny is a bit ridiculous”: Olinthus has just made the world’s smallest stompbox and it’s a $99 TS clone that fits in the palm of your hand

Inspired by the Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer, this teeny, tiny pocket-sized pedal is Olinthus' first ever stompbox and is available exclusively from Reverb

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“It’s a beautiful instrument that suits many different styles of playing”: Lerxst celebrates 40 years of Rush’s Grace Under Pressure by unveiling Grace – a limited edition replica of Alex Lifeson’s Hentor Sportscaster

Built by Godin, Grace is red, has a mirrored pickguard, an HSS Mojotone pickup configuration, comes with the choice of tremolo systems and is a Reverb exclusive limited to 200 units worldwide

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“He knocked on the door of his girlfriend’s ex. The guy said, ‘No, man, not my guitar!’ ‘Yep, you’ve got to give it up’”: George Benson on how he got the Gibson that shaped his 1976 chart-topping record, Breezin’

Benson recalls how he bought his Breezin' Gibson Johnny Smith from someone he calls “one of the bravest guys I’d ever met”

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“People think of Prince and they think ‘vocalist, songwriter, guitarist'. But his bass playing: bar none”: Questlove on the Prince production with the ‘David Garibaldi LM-1 drum beat’ that he calls “one of the most daring funk songs of all time"

How Tower Of Power’s Squib Juice fuels the groove that drives The Time’s 777-9311

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Beatles for sale: new home sought for Abbey Road recording console

Current owners hope to attract musicians who want to work with desk used to make fab four’s celebrated album – after it previously failed to sell

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"Anybody who gets this console, it'll be the most famous studio in the world": The legendary mixing desk used on The Beatles’ Abbey Road is going up for sale

"It's one of the best albums that’s ever been made, and it sounds so good because of this recording console"

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“I worked on that crazy Fender Twin and never understood how it made such fabulous noise”: Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Twin Reverb amp, used in the recording of Texas Flood, Bowie sessions and live shows is up for sale... for over $600,000

The 1967 Twin is fitted with distinctive Electro Voice SRO 'coffee can' speakers, and was used by SRV during his Las Colinas rehearsals with David Bowie

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“It's tough for me to talk about giving them up... They came in my life at different times, but they all had meaning”: George Benson is selling his studio-and-tour-used rare and vintage guitars

The jazz icon's Reverb collection includes his Gibson Johnny Smith, which he played on the 1976 triple-platinum album Breezin'

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“The CCB-1 gives you access to the boost and tone-shaping capabilities of the Copicat preamp in a modern, convenient format”: Is the WEM Copicat the $79 tone sweetener you’ve been waiting for?

Made by Hiwatt, based on the Watkins Copicat, and available exclusively via Reverb, this two-knob boost is compact, affordable and could be the missing ingredient in your rig

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“There is a line there that you cross where you are just spending money for the sake of the name or the label”: Slash says you don’t need to spend “an arm and a leg” to get a guitar that’s as good as you’ll ever need

The Guns N' Roses guitarist has a formidable guitar collection but argues a lot of vintage guitars sound bad, and the same people who'd drop a million bucks on a guitar have a Rolls-Royce mentality

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“Offset guitarscan be really clumsy, but that makes me approach them differently. I kept hitting the kill switch mid-solo, thinking, ‘Why is this here?!’” Samantha Fish on how Kurt Cobain turned her onto the Fender Jaguar

It was on the cover of Guitar World's April 2024 issue, a Fender Classic Player Jaguar Special HH, but what made blues ace Samantha Fish choose this over her SG for the cover shoot?

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“We certainly achieved the ‘Blah-talkie’ sound, but what surprised us was how versatile this pedal turned out to be”: Alex Lifeson’s Lerxt Amps and Morley team up to bring you vocal and synth-like tones from the Blah Blah wah pedal

The Rush legend's gear brand expands its pedal lineup with a limited edition optical wah offering a wide range of expressive filtering sounds, available exclusively through Reverb

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“It’s more important than ever that the music-making community has access to affordable musical instruments”: Fender has launched its first-ever Certified Pre-Owned program on Reverb – and it will sell pro-inspected, Fender-backed used gear at a discount

New second-hand instruments will be added to the online store every week, and each item will be professionally checked, refurbished if necessary, and sold with a one-year warranty

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“Get the character and the affordability of pre-owned gear, plus Fender’s seal of approval”: Fender is now selling officially certified second-hand guitars and basses on Reverb

Professionally inspected, backed by a one-year warranty, cheaper than buying brand new, the Fender Certified Pre-Owned presents players with the chance of a bargain

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“We've played around with this idea, which people don't do very often”: Martin has teamed up with Reverb for a unique limited-edition Custom GP Blonde – priced at $7,999 apiece

The premium Martin guitar, available only on Reverb, offers a new twist on one of Martin's signature body shapes

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“There’s only maybe a half-dozen of those on the planet, if that”: Jason Newsted is selling dozens of stage-played basses and vintage guitars in his official Reverb shop – including a 3-string Music Man StingRay and a one-of-one 10-string Alembic

Newsted's garage sale re-revisited will be officially open online on 24 July

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“Just like anyone who plays, you find your favourites and the others need to go!” Metallica legend Jason Newsted is selling 60 of his guitars and basses

Newsted’s instruments, including the bass that recorded classic Metallica track Until It Sleeps, will be available from July 24

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“You'll have to be a straight badass just to carry it let alone play it – I want to see what someone can do with it”: Jason Newsted is selling the 10-string Alembic bass used on Metallica’s Black Album tour – and more than 60 other instruments

The musician has collected some rare, weird, and wonderful instruments over his 40-year career, now he’s teamed-up with Reverb to get them into the hands of new players

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“Some of the greatest sounds were created on junk!” Joe Bonamassa reveals the secret to getting great tones from affordable gear

Bonamassa is one of the world's highest-profile vintage guitar collectors but here the blues maestro assures us that affordable options from today's market past the taste test

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“I'm auctioning these for some wonderful charities”: Two of Steve Vai’s Ibanez JEMs found their way back to him after auction – so he’s selling them again to raise even more money for charity

The two guitars were originally auctioned off in 2022, but have been put up for sale once more to help raise funds for two charities

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“I know what I’m holding at this stage in my life, that I could tank that market”: Joe Bonamassa says it is not scarcity but the perception of scarcity that drives up prices for vintage gear

The blues superstar says he could see someone spending more than a million on a '59 Les Paul, but argues a guitar is only worth what you are willing to pay for it

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“I get a call at 2am from my neighbor saying, ‘The fire department’s here.’ It could’ve swept right up the side and took the whole thing out”: Joe Bonamassa’s mythical Nerdville gear haul was almost completely destroyed in a fire

Bonamassa opened the doors to Nerdville to Reverb for a 40-minute mini-documentary, in which he shows off some of the most valuable guitars in his world-renowned collection

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"This is where the ideas become physical things": Get a glimpse inside Korg Berlin's experimental synth-building workshop with Reverb

Watch Korg instrument designer Tatsuya "Tats" Takahashi demo the brand's Acoustic Synthesis phase_8 prototype

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“An insane synth buzz bazooka sound on the EarthQuaker side and a remorphinator of cosmic waves on the Death By Audio side”: EQD and Death By Audio revive their cult collaboration pedal, Time Shadows

The two firms’ original collaboration sold-out almost immediately in 2020, now it’s back as a full production run

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Reverb review – summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in a concrete basement!

This pounding show explores the magic of collaborations – between musicians and between the worlds of art and music. Our writer gets so deep in the groove he can’t get out

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