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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Atomic Fireball • It’s a Schecter, but not as you might know it. Nick Johnston’s distinctive dualhumbucker signature model proves that modern and vintage can co-exist

Enfant Terrible • Orange, creator of the lunchbox format, answers the question of ‘just how small can a fully fledged 20-watt amplifier get?’

Six-Course Banquet • The electric 12-string guitar can claim a long and illustrious history within pop music. But can this keenly priced 12 from Shergold uphold that pristine promise?

Make A Splash • Crazy Tube Circuits puts the three-spring reverb assembly from its White Whale V2 into an even smaller chassis

New Moon • As JHS Pedals resurrects an extremely elusive American fuzz, we take the ‘Wyllie’ Coyote for a run on the road

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 • The Proclaimers’ Charlie Reid on socially charged songs, the magic of tracking eyeball-to-eyeball and the trusty Taylors that will outlive him

Carrera (not Porsche!) • Neville Marten tells the tale of how his oldest friend owns an amp that was originally built for him, but bears the serial number suffix ‘NM’…

Setup For Success • This month Alex Bishop revisits the art of guitar setups and explains that it’s not so hard to do it yourself

Heart Of Glass • Ed Oleszko delves into the hot topic of valves to explore how utilising them in pedals can improve the feel and tone of any rig

Open G Tuning (PART 1) • Richard Barrett introduces you to the charms of this characterful open tuning, with familiar and surprising chords alike

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

ALLY VENABLE • The new face of Texas blues on her psychedelic Les Paul, tearing it up with Buddy Guy, and why unhealthy competition has no place on the music scene

MODERN ELECTRICS • The shape of things to come is, it turns out, the shape of things as they were – almost. For while familiar shapes and sounds still dominate how electric guitars are made, look closer and you’ll see evolutionary progression (and the odd genuine leap forward) everywhere in the best modern guitar design, where the wheel has been not reinvented but rebuilt better…

MODERN LOVE • Once it was thought that the future of electric guitar design would be led by tech – but the real evolution of the instrument is happening to its very DNA, not bolt-on gimmickry. We join expert luthiers from makers large and small to find out how the electric guitar is undergoing a quiet revolution – and it’s being led by you, the player, not technology

SUITS YOU • Finessed features on classic platforms used to be the preserve of the boutique builder, but today mainstream brands are offering much the same. So are they still relevant?

RETRO REIMAGINED • Models with an old-school bent yet all the modern conveniences under the hood

FLEXIBLE FRIENDS • These are modern guitars with feature-rich versatility, for true tonal freedom

HIGH PERFORMANCE • Advanced...