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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Iron Maiden • Another new wood joins the Taylor stable: let’s introduce red ironbark to the world of guitar tone! But what does it bring to the table? We take a look

Crown Tools • After releasing his career-defining album, Crown, earlier this year, the bar is set high for Eric’s new signature guitar

Green Machine • That famous green overdrive is the starting point for an ultra-responsive evolution from Origin Effects

Triple Treat • TC Electronic’s Plethora X3 presents the company’s TonePrint pedals flexibly arranged in one compact unit

Minor Royalty • Forgo the five-year waiting list for Analog Man’s elusive purple pedal and give this MXR collaboration a go instead

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 • Formed in 2020 after a decade of history together, Cardinal Black are finally ready to release their debut album to the world

Bad To The Bone • We guitarists talk a lot about tone in the electric realm. What, then, can we do to lift the acoustic to new realms of sonority, asks Neville Marten

Body Building • This month Alex Bishop sees his latest projects start to take shape as “overcomplicated boxes with holes in” become bona fide guitars

Telecaster Transformation • Jamie Dickson gets his refinished and aged Tele Custom back – so was it worth it? Let’s find out in part two of his Tele story

Moving Voices • Richard Barrett outlines a harmony using chord changes in small steps, which is great for use in a trio format

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

GORDON GILTRAP • What is good music? What is good guitar playing? Though the premise of such questions is simple, it can take a lifetime to arrive at meaningful answers, as acoustic master Gordon Giltrap reflects when we join him to discuss his powerful new album, Scattered Chapters

70 YEARS OF THE Les Paul

GOLD RUSH • Gibson’s Mat Koehler is a tireless archive-miner who’s spent countless hours tracing the history of the company’s iconic electrics. We join him to get a handle on the epochal first 10 years of the model’s history in which it transformed from elegant jazz guitar to the weapon of choice of the nascent rock ’n’ roll revolution

LATTER-DAY LESTERS • The development of the Les Paul after the 1970s may have been less radical, but it, too, has its landmarks. Here are three notable ones…

LP EVOLUTION • Below we chart the key changes the Les Paul and its variants went through in its seminal early years from 1952 to 1978

MAKING A SCENE • It’s arguable that the Les Paul might have become a footnote in guitar history if Clapton hadn’t sent its reputation rocketing in ’66 with that Bluesbreakers album. Here, Whitesnake legend Bernie Marsden recalls how the Lester entered the mainstream of British rock guitar in the early 70s

BÊTE NOIRE • Amen Corner frontman and longtime Clapton sideman Andy Fairweather Low on the Les Paul Custom he loved and lost early in his career

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