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“Every time you put the capo on wrong, you pull the guitar out of tune”: Do you put your capo on ‘incorrectly’? Tommy Emmanuel says this is the correct way to do it - and it could save your tuning
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Do it the wrong way and your tuning will suffer, Emmanuel warns
“These guitars are not just for blues lawyers – you can rock with one of these”: Joe Bonamassa on the vintage Gibson that makes a great power chord guitar
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
What makes the Gibson ES-350 so good for rock? Bonamassa says they are a real live wire, with “a lot of pop” and no shortage of low-end
StewMac Introduces Valve Factory 18 Amp Kit
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Premier Guitar
StewMac has released the Valve Factory 18 Amp Kit, an original design inspired by the classic circuits of Fender, Supro, and even Electro-Harmonix. Compact yet powerful, the 18-watt DIY amp delivers the same warm, expressive dynamics that shaped the sound of legends like Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Joe Bonamassa, Pete Townshend, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.The Valve Factory 18 includes a key feature: interchangeable preamp tubes, allowing you to quickly and easily dial in your tone. This inn...
M-Audio BX5BT: A Versatile Bluetooth Monitor System
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Gear News
The M-Audio BX5BT is a compact active/passive studio monitor system with app-controlled 5-band EQ and room correction for your home studio. The post M-Audio BX5BT: A Versatile Bluetooth Monitor System appeared first on gearnews.com.
“I was like, ‘Joni, that’s gonna be terrible, we need an amp.’ She was like, ‘Would you just try it?’” Robben Ford on Joni Mitchell’s fuzz pedal experiments that shaped one of her most adventurous tracks
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Ford says the experience defines what “the ultimate creative artist” is like to work with – and it changed the way he played
“When I was 15, I was hustling it out in the juke joint clubs – and then along came Mr. Buddy Guy…” From teenage prodigy to modern guitar royalty, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is ushering in a new era for blues guitar
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Hard Road is the sound of an artist maturing, dealing with tragedy, life, and new ideas for putting a fresh twist one of electric guitar's foundational sounds
Michigan Synth Works MSW-820: Classic Roland Analog Synthesis With a 16-Mode Filter?!
🗓️ November 10, 2025 | Source: Gear News
Michigan Synth Works’ upcoming MSW-820 will combine two Roland-style oscillators with the Caveman Totem 16-mode filter. The post Michigan Synth Works MSW-820: Classic Roland Analog Synthesis With a 16-Mode Filter?! appeared first on gearnews.com.
Electro-Harmonix Swello Attack Envelope Review
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Premier Guitar
Attack—essentially the rate and intensity with which a note rises in volume from its point of creation—is one of the coolest musical expressions you can mess with. If you play an instrument from the violin family it’s a fundamental part of your vocabulary. It’s used frequently in synthesis to conjure spooky, low-gravity atmospherics, and it’s an essential tool for taking the front end off some psychotic Moog sound that might otherwise explode like a foghorn six inches from your ear. Guitar playe...
“Boldly established Ibanez as a new contender in the highly competitive Superstrat market”: How Ibanez’s era-defining RG550 transformed high-performance guitar
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
It had the tones, it had the super-stable floating vibrato for divebombs, and it had the fastest neck around. The RG550 pushed shred guitar further and faster – just ask Paul Gilbert
YouTube Advice: Can You Really Learn Music Production from YouTube?
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Gear News
In this article, we discuss the plausibility of learning music production based on YouTube advice and how to navigate the growing sea of channels. The post YouTube Advice: Can You Really Learn Music Production from YouTube? appeared first on gearnews.com.
“I wanted to write a Montrose album, and he wanted to write an album more like the Eagles – and I hate the Eagles”: Stevie Salas on being asked to join David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar’s bands – and why he turned them down
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
For a “Van Halen nut” like Salas, it was all too weird
Tighten Up! Optimize Your Guitar’s Tone
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Premier Guitar
Our world of guitars is peppered with cliches and theories about what physical attributes make an instrument special. I’ve always gravitated towards electric guitars whose sound not only blooms and holds on to a note or chord, but also leaps from your touch. This can be described as having great dynamic range and punchy transients as well as sustain. Whether we admit it or not, beyond the subjective matter of “good” tone, that’s the thing that we’re all looking for. You might describe it differe...
“He used seashells as a pick, that's where he gets all that squank from”: Brilliant players of all persuasions have earned their stripes in Lynyrd Skynyrd's three-guitar army. Rickey Medlocke takes us through all of them, and what made them each special
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Having served in Skynyrd as a pre-fame member and later as a crucial part of their reunion, Medlocke has more insight into the idiosyncrasies and genius of each of the band's six-string aces than just about anyone
“We weren’t allowed to talk about it at Guitar Summit, but the signature everyone was asking about is now here”: All the guitar gear that has caught me eye this week – including the crown jewel of PRS’ 40th Anniversary year
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Wylde Audio's most metal guitar ever, a new contender for Boss and Fender in the headphone amp space, and GNR bass tones in a pickup set. All that and more landed this week
Crypt, Transient Control, MidBoss: Free Plugins of the Week
🗓️ November 09, 2025 | Source: Gear News
Crypt is a hyper-unison synthesizer for super-fat trance and EDM sounds! This week’s round-up also brings you a transient shaper and a saturator. The post Crypt, Transient Control, MidBoss: Free Plugins of the Week appeared first on gearnews.com.
Synth Libraries: 5 of the Best Places to Check Out Synthesizers
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Gear News
You don’t always have to buy. These are the five best synth libraries to check out electronic musical instruments. The post Synth Libraries: 5 of the Best Places to Check Out Synthesizers appeared first on gearnews.com.
“It’s less significant than your guitar strap being an inch higher or lower”: John Mayer on why fretboard radius doesn’t actually make that much of a difference
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Before he developed his PRS Silver Sky signature guitar, Mayer didn't pay much attention to fretboard radius
How MTV Unplugged Saved the Acoustic Guitar
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Premier Guitar
On November 14, 2025, I’ll be giving a presentation at the Royal College of Music in London. It’s in conjunction with a unique guitar they have on display: Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E, the one he played on MTV Unplugged. To honor the occasion, we’ve built a modern reproduction of that particular guitar for my friend Craig Thatcher to play at the event—because I don’t think they’ll let him play the original. (Yes, that one … the guitar that sold for $6 million at auction in 2020.) MTV Unplugg...
“It's more than an effect. It's an instrument in itself”: Made famous by David Gilmour, and employed by Rory Gallagher and the Beatles, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
If you have even the most passing familiarity with Pink Floyd, you've heard an ethereal soundscape generated by the Binson Echorec. This is what it is, the unit's fascinating inner workings, and why it still matters
“A shoo-in for completely natural drive sounds”: Nobels ODR-1X review
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
The green pedal loved by Nashville session players gets a reboot with added versatility
“People that didn’t understand the situation wanted me to get out of the way and hear more of Joni”: Brandi Carlile was instrumental in bringing Joni Mitchell back on stage – but faced a lot of criticism for her efforts
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
In 2015, Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm that left her unable to walk, talk, sing or play guitar. Carlile took the initiative to support the legend and eventually helped her perform again at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival
Rodec Sherman Ministyler Filterbank Now Available!
🗓️ November 08, 2025 | Source: Gear News
The Rodec Ministyler mini version of the Sherman Filterbank is finally available. Get that sweet filter action in a tiny format. The post Rodec Sherman Ministyler Filterbank Now Available! appeared first on gearnews.com.
The Year in Gear 2025
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Premier Guitar
The gear that passed through our reviewer’s hands in 2025 was a thrillingly varied bunch. There were new takes on old friends, slimmed and shrunken evolutions of proven designs, and radical reinventions of the instrument we love and treasure so much. Join us as we review the guitars, pedals, amps, modelers and more that stood apart from the pack.Keeley ZomaKeeley chased one of the most perfect effect combinations—the tremolo and reverb from a black panel Fender amplifier—in the form of the Zoma....
The History of Oberheim Electronics: American Giant
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Gear News
Tom Oberheim went from designing guitar pedals to some of the most respected synthesizers ever made. This is the history of Oberheim. The post The History of Oberheim Electronics: American Giant appeared first on gearnews.com.
The 5 Best Acoustic Bass Guitars: Tone and Value Compared
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Gear News
Discovering the best acoustic bass guitars for rich tones, great playability and even better value. Here to inspire your unplugged sessions. The post The 5 Best Acoustic Bass Guitars: Tone and Value Compared appeared first on gearnews.com.
“I’ve had many people hand me their guitars, and I’m like, ‘No, thank you’”: Rick Beato was offered the chance to play guitars from Peter Frampton, Larry Carlton and more – here’s why he turned them down
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
What would you do if Frampton handed you his black Les Paul? Beato? He handed it right back
“I’ve seen people cover the tune, and one thing most get wrong about it is they’re not intentional about the sections in the way they should be”: Cory Wong on how to create a bigger, wider sound by layering baritone guitar parts
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Using a Fearless Flyers classic as a case study in baritone layering, the funk-master GW columnist peels away the onion to explain how these individual parts all stack up
Oberheim TEO-5 & TEO-5 Desktop: Poly Chain Update – 2 × 5 = 10!
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Gear News
Oberheim has released an update for the TEO-5 and TEO-5 Desktop synthesizers. These synthesizers now support Poly Chain with up to ten voices! The post Oberheim TEO-5 & TEO-5 Desktop: Poly Chain Update – 2 × 5 = 10! appeared first on gearnews.com.
“My vision closed up. I felt like I was gonna throw up. I started sweating profusely, but I was freezing”: Wolfgang Van Halen on the panic attack he suffered on the way to his Metallica support – and how it inspired his new album
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Flying out to Mexico City, Wolfgang felt his body betray him – a terrifying experience that turned out kinda useful when writing The End
Every year, Rob Scallon and Andrew Huang write and record an album in a day. For 2025, they did it in an open Guitar Center – and used any gear they wanted
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
The two YouTubers have taken their First of October recording project to the public domain
NUX Steel Singer Review
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Premier Guitar
Like most of you, I would guess, I’ve never had the pleasure of playing a Dumble amp. I have a fair idea of what they are supposed to sound like thanks to Stevie Ray Vaughan and, presumably, David Lindley and Henry Kaiser (I’m never sure what amp I’m hearing on records from those two mad geniuses). But I definitely don’t know how a Dumble feels, or how it sounds up close in a room. So, I have to take NUX’s word for it that they deliver on the Steel Singer—an overdrive inspired by the Dumble Stee...
Neumann RIME 1.5 Update: Improved Immersive Mixing Features
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Gear News
The Neumann RIME plugin lets you mix in multichannel audio formats from Neumann's NDH headphones. Let's see what's improved in version 1.5. The post Neumann RIME 1.5 Update: Improved Immersive Mixing Features appeared first on gearnews.com.
“I was going everywhere – on the toilet, the bath, the taxi, and walking down the street – going, ‘What do I hear coming in there after those chords?’” How Eric Bell wrote one of Thin Lizzy’s most iconic guitar solos
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
Originally an Irish traditional song, Whiskey in the Jar found new life in Thin Lizzy's – and, eventually, Metallica's – respective repertoires
“The longer it goes, the better the guitar is going to sound”: Jason Isbell has shared his bizarre method for breaking in new acoustics – and you’ll never guess what it is
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
There’s science behind the madness. We promise
Sequential Take 5 & Take 5 Desktop Update: Poly Chain Now Supports Up to 10 Voices
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Gear News
The Sequential Take 5 and Take 5 Desktop are receiving a significant update: a poly chain function! But that's not the only new feature! The post Sequential Take 5 & Take 5 Desktop Update: Poly Chain Now Supports Up to 10 Voices appeared first on gearnews.com.
“You never know what you're gonna get when you go to a Billy Strings concert”: Billy Strings shreds Bark at the Moon dressed as a werewolf – and nails Jake E. Lee and Ozzy Osbourne’s parts
🗓️ November 07, 2025 | Source: Guitar World
What better way to celebrate Halloween and pay homage to two metal greats?