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Best guitar amp headphones 2024: Top choices for covert practice sessions By Matt McCracken last updated 11 July 24 Play your guitar ear-responsibly with these superb headphones from Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser and more
Best pedal amps 2024: Power up your pedalboard with an amp in a box By Matt McCracken last updated 10 July 24 Save on visits to the chiropractor with our pick of the best pedalboard-friendly amp simulators
Best delay pedals 2024: Elevate your tone from subtle to stratospheric By Matt McCracken last updated 10 July 24 Make your tone massive with our pick of the best delay stompboxes from Line 6, Boss, Strymon and more
Best acoustic guitars 2024: Our pick of the very best beginner, intermediate and top-end acoustics By Daryl Robertson last updated 9 July 24 From high quality entry-level models, to top-of-the-range collector’s pieces, we look at the best acoustic guitars available today
Best Blues Guitars 2024: Play Away The Blues With Our Top Choices From Gibson, Fender, Duesenberg, PRS, And More By Daryl Robertson last updated 9 July 24 We hope you have your best pentatonic licks at the ready because with blues guitars this good, you're going to need them!
Klos co-founders Adam and Ian Klosowiak are all in on creating a unique array of carbon-fiber instruments fit for an adventurous lifestyle By Jimmy Leslie published 8 July 24 Klos co-founders Adam and Ian Klosowiak are all in on creating a unique array of carbon-fiber instruments fit for an adventurous lifestyle
Best acoustic guitar amps 2024: top acoustic amplifiers and preamp pedals By Rob Laing last updated 4 July 24 Boost and sweeten your instrument’s tone with the best acoustic guitar amps from likes of Boss, Fishman, AER, Orange and more
The 1964 Welson Kinton V3 – whack job or Italian beauty... or both? By Terry Carleton published 28 June 24 Add offset cutaways and an unusual body shape to all of the above features, and you’ve got a lot of weird in one guitar
Best guitar picks 2024: Get to grips with your playing with our top choice plectrums By Richard Blenkinsop last updated 28 June 24 Find the perfect fit with our selection of the guitar picks for electric, bass and acoustic guitars
How Ibanez turned a knockoff into a knockout with the Artist Model 2617 By Dave Hunter published 27 June 24 Forced to stop copying U.S. guitars, Ibanez launched the all-original Artist line and took America by storm
