Which type of acoustic guitar pickup is best for playing your acoustic on stage? We check out the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
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30 Mar in
We review the anniversary model Harley Benton ST-25th Firemist with its classy golden finish and its sound on a budget. How close does it get?
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Fishman Tim Henson & Scott Lepage custom signature humbucking active pickups announced. Each set has three voices per pickup.
We review the Harley Benton JA-60CC and ask: is this the best budget Jazzmaster you can get? It's one of the most beautiful ones, to say the least.
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Twang some life into your Eurorack with the combination of a real kalimba and a 3hp amp module and get your thumbs making music.
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YouTuber intheblues has done a blind test between the Fender Telecaster and Harley Benton TE-52 NA Vintage Series models. Can you tell which is which? Tell us in our poll.
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Relish Guitars' new Trinity makes the Swiss maker's pickup swapping system available in a more affordable solid body electric guitar - and there's a tempting early bird offer, too.
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The new Sheptone Wanker humbucker was designed for those that like to shred and show off their prowess on guitar fretboards. Is this the perfect pickup fir hair-metal shredders?
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Yikes! A Fender Limited Mahogany Blacktop Stratocaster with three humbuckers! Will this model be exclusive to the European market? Sure looks like it will add some grunt to the typical Strat tone....
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Soma Laboratories has come up with the simplest of classical stringed instruments where vibrations are captured with magnets, transformed, pre-amped, delayed and distorted in completely haunting ways.
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Ruokangas has announced the Valvebucker, an insane sounding valve pickup system for their guitars and yes, it uses tubes to get you tone! In the pickup! Count us in.
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It's one of the oldest controversies in the guitar world: Ceramic vs. Alnico. Many players believe that Alnico is "warmer", whereas Ceramic sounds "colder". True? All is finally revealed...
Cort has released the new CR300 Singlecut which blends classic American '50s styling with modern day active pickups that it claims give an authentic PAF tone yet at low impedance.
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The new Devin Townsend Artist Series model has been announced and it's just what you'd expect: A high-performance, well thought-out 'destroyer of all things' axe of a guitar!
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At times ethereal and ambient, at others dystopian and aggressive, Ed O’Brien’s contributions to Radiohead's music has been made on a guitar just like this
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When John Petrucci wants a special guitar to commemorate a Dream Theater album, you had better pull out all the stops and make something majestic!
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No tools, no damage, no mess. Just lots of cool extra pickup sounds for your favourite acoustic or electric six-stringed guitar. This new pickup system will give your instrument a split personality.
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These brand new signature pickups from Misha Mansoor of Periphery look set to take the modern humbucker into hitherto unknown realms. Ragnarok is coming!
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With rising prices in Europe and CITES regulations in place, will the 2018 Les Paul range be able to tempt you to buy one? And why oh why are G-Force robot tuners back?
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A hot-rodded muscle car-style, single-pickup tone machine? The brightly coloured SuperRev series is available for a limited time, are designed for the boy racers of the guitar world...
When Fender decides to do an FSR version of their back catalogue you sometimes get something really special. Of course, that also means sometimes you don't.
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Based upon one of Brad's own guitars, a refinished '63 Tele this new signature model has plenty of cool custom features and will certainly get you noticed on stage down the Dog and Duck!
Matt West, guitarist with Pop-Punk outfit Neck Deep, gets a brand new stripped-down, cool-looking signature model guitar that should give plenty of tonal options despite sporting only a single P90!
When someone with authority and no taste decides to release some high-end Custom Shop guitars, what could possibly go wrong? Well, luckily Gibson has decided to test this theory out for us...