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The Best Guitar Effects Pedals 2020! These glorious boxes by crazy scientists of pedal design produced sonic magic that brightened up our year.
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The Best Guitar Amps of the year! These amps by Friedman, Soldano, Victory Amps, REVV, Bad Cat, EVH, VHT, Suhr, Dr Z and Supro had us hooked in 2020.
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Originally unveiled at Winter Namm 2020, the new Friedman Smallbox squeezes its popular amp head of the same name into a compact, pedal-sized enclosure.
We take an in-depth look at Fender's new flagship American Professional II Stratocaster! Has Fender created a must-have guitar for the modern player?
What's better than one Friedman Dirty Shirley? How about two? Meet the new Twin Sister, an all-tube amp head and combo, with bags of classic vintage Marshall-style boutique tones.
Manson Guitars and Matt Bellamy of Muse designed the MBM-1 to offer players an affordable, flexible guitar that doesn't skimp on quality. Have they hit the mark? Here's our in-depth review.
The new Cabaret 13 is boutique builder Balthazar Audio Systems' smallest combo to date. The 13 Watt amplifier comes loaded with a Celestion G10, and has built-in tremolo and reverb.
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The new Kaluna overdrive pedal from German brand Vahlbruch uses a 12AX7 tube at the heart of its design to give you a dynamic playing experience, with real valve tone.
The new Synergy Amps Steve Vai Signature preamp module is the company'e first artist signature product and extends its ever-expanding range of swappable preamps.
Plugin Alliance debuts the Friedman BE-100 and DS-40 plug-ins, emulating two classy tube amplifiers in turn inspired by some of the most famous British amps in rock history.
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Friedman has revealed the new Small Box in a pedal, based on the 50-watt amp of the same name format he boutique USA company. This pedal looks like it will be full of classic rock tones.
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Friedman Amplification has three new amp heads to drool over at this years Winter NAMM. A new Twin Sister, a new Jake E. Lee signature and an updated Steve Stevens model.
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The last 12 months has seen a slew of new guitar amplifiers, with loads of cool new valve, digital and hybrid gear released. Here are our picks from a packed field: The Best New Guitar Amps 2019!
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Boutique pedal companies around the world have released a series of blacked out limited edition models, following on from the huge social media campaign earlier this week. This is so cool.
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Have you been on Instagram today? Then you may have seen the huge #BLACKEDXOUT campaign involving lots of boutique guitar companies. But what does it all mean?
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The new Joyo Preamp House pedal manages to cram in nine amp models including classics from Fender, Vox and Marshall, plus more modern models like ENGL, Mesa and Friedman too.