Guitarist

Guitarist is the longest established UK guitar magazine. You'll find authoritative gear reviews, artist interviews, technique lessons and advice. Plus, Guitarist's digital edition now includes all of the same audio and video content as the print edition; available to download from a special area of the Guitarist website!

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Return Of The Kraken • Victory’s compact high-gain monster is back, revamped and improved, and with a new Clean mode

Mystery Tour • As Canada’s foremost manufacturer of steel- and nylon-string acoustics and electros, not to mention an increasingly broad line of electrics, Godin combines its past into the G-Tour

Some Kind Of Monster • One of the most distinctive electric guitars is back as another replica, but this time it’s missing its main visual identifier. Double-cut eruption or paint job disruption?

Golden Goose • We have a gander as Electro-Harmonix debuts its enhanced take on Marshall’s Bluesbreaker overdrive sounds

Fab Four Fuzz • Following its Dr Robert pedal, Aclam revives a rare fuzz circuit from a vintage Vox amp used by The Beatles

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • Scott Henderson returns with a new instrumental album that fuses his rock, blues and jazz-influenced backgrounds seamlessly

Twist Or Stick? • Neville Marten ponders whether it’s best to switch between lots of guitars, or nurture one main instrument that you get to know intimately…

Team Building • This month Alex Bishop clears the decks to prepare the workshop for a three-week guitar-making extravaganza

Carry That Weight • Neville Marten asks, do lighter guitars sound better? And are older guitars better because they’re often lighter? Is it all in the pickups? Help!

Open Chords • Richard Barrett presents alternative voicings of commonly found chords using open strings

Feedback • Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

JOHN DIGGINS 27 July 1945 – 2 January 2024 • Master luthier John Diggins of Jaydee Custom Guitars dedicated over five decades to the craft of guitar building

TONY CLARKIN 24 November 1946 – 7 January 2024 • The Magnum guitarist died following diagnosis with a rare spinal condition, leaving behind a staggering body of work and huge affection amongst fans and industry peers

TOMMY EMMANUEL & MOLLY TUTTLE • It’s not often that you find two of the world’s greatest acoustic players on tour together in the UK, and we couldn’t resist the opportunity to invite both of them to the Guitarist studios for an interview and video masterclass…

IDLES • Savage, socially charged and allergic to cliché, Bristol’s Idles are less categorisable than ever on fifth album, Tangk. We meet square-peg guitar duo Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan to talk baritones, dog-bothering frequencies and why modelling is “wack”

THE RISE, FALL & RISE OF THE OFFSET • Fender’s Jazzmaster, which made its debut in 1958, and its shorter-scale sibling the Jaguar, launched four years later, failed to surpass the popularity and utility of the Strat and Tele that went before them. Only now, over 60 years on, is the offset-body electric truly becoming recognised as a guitar for all players. We trace the offset’s long journey...