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!

70 Years Young…

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Simple Pleasures • This latest release from Manson Guitar Works comes in two body shapes with uncompromised playability and sound at an aggressive price. Prepare to be impressed!

Top Tone • Victory joins forces with Peter ‘Danish Pete’ Honoré once again to produce a compact signature model loaded with classic sounds

Little Green Monster • With the pedalboard user in mind, Kemper has downsized for its compact new Profiler Player

Canyon Classic • A pedal designed by a teenager in the Hollywood Hills back in 1966 is revived for today’s players

Hot Fuzz • Walrus Audio puts a valve in a fuzz box for all to see, plus a special Harmonic mode, and invites you to dig into the Silt

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

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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 • LA Guns’ frontman Tracii Guns adds to his long list of collaborations as he teams up with hard rocker Jack Russell for new album Medusa

Pedal Poseur • Neville Marten asks why it’s fine to play multi-thousand pound guitars through multi-thousand pound amps but a snazzy ’board feels too showy

Comfort Zone • Alex Bishop discovers that ‘less’ turns out to be ‘more’ when it comes to making a comfort arm bevel

Gauge Against The Machine • Choosing strings can be a highly personal thing, as high-end string maker Curt Mangan explains to Jamie Dickson

Playing With Dissonance • Richard Barrett explains how dissonance within a chord can often be offset when careful attention is paid to the voicing…

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

WIN! A Fender Vintera II ’60s Stratocaster • Iconic in looks and feel, this Lake Placid Blue Strat could be yours!

TOP 40 • When Guitarist began in 1984, it’s doubtful the launch editors imagined readers would still be turning the pages well past the millennium. And yet here we are. Editor Jamie Dickson reflects, to paraphrase Pink Floyd, on all that is now, and all that is gone – and all that’s to come…

MDOU MOCTAR • As the Niger guitarist releases a bristling new collection of protest songs, he tells Guitarist about injustice, the fire in his fingers, and why he comes alive on the stage

The Strat At Seventy • AS LEO FENDER’S GREATEST CREATION CELEBRATES ITS SEVENTH DECADE, WE GATHER A REMARKABLE GROUP OF ARTISTS AND EXPERTS TO ASSESS ITS 70-YEAR IMPACT ON THE LANDSCAPE OF GUITAR MUSIC – KICKING OFF WITH SHADOWS PIONEER HANK MARVIN. WE ALSO ASK FENDER’S MASTER BUILDERS WHAT SEPARATES A GOOD STRAT FROM A GREAT ONE AND REVIEW THE NEW ANNIVERSARY MODEL FENDER HAS BUILT TO MARK THE BIG OCCASION...

The Soul Of A Strat • WHAT MAKES ONE STRAT ORDINARY AND ANOTHER OUT OF THIS WORLD? IT’S A QUESTION PLAYERS HAVE PONDERED FOR THE LAST SEVEN DECADES – AND WHO BETTER TO EXPLAIN THAN MASTER BUILDERS PAUL WALLER AND AUSTIN MACNUTT OF FENDER’S CUSTOM SHOP. WE JOIN THEM TO TALK VINTAGE TONE, MIRACLE MODS AND SANDING – LOTS OF SANDING…

Strat’s Life • MORE THAN 30 OF THE WORLD’S TOP STRATOCASTER PLAYERS JOIN US TO...