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“I was pretty concerned about the show. A few minutes later, we hear a knock… We answer the door to see Adam standing there”: Mike Sullivan of Russian Circles on the time Tool's Adam Jones saved him from rental amp hell with a random act of kindness

We've all been there, sweating with a borrowed backline that's not playing ball. Luckily, Sullivan had a guardian angel looking over him

“Right before he died I was reminded of what I’d noticed all those years ago – that the notes he didn’t play were more important than the notes he did play”: A salute from one great bass player to another

“Right before he died I was reminded of what I’d noticed all those years ago – that the notes he didn’t play were more important than the notes he did play”: A salute from one great bass player to another

Glenn Hughes pays tribute to the late, great Andy Fraser of Free

“Roxy insisted I have a white Strat – I bought that guitar off Brian Eno, who bought it off his milkman for 30 quid!” Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on how he found his bargain Firebird and why he has no regrets about rendering a ’51 Tele “valueless”

“Roxy insisted I have a white Strat – I bought that guitar off Brian Eno, who bought it off his milkman for 30 quid!” Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on how he found his bargain Firebird and why he has no regrets about rendering a ’51 Tele “valueless”

The Roxy Music guitarist invites us into his London studio to take a look at the guitars that he cut five decades of hits with, and tells us how a globe-trotting childhood led him to art-rock Shangri-La in ’70s London

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"Where the Foxgear units shine is being fully integrated, including the power stage": Foxgear 100W Series review

Foxgear wades into the integrated pedalboard amp fight with four pocket-sized offerings

“The CCB-1 gives you access to the boost and tone-shaping capabilities of the Copicat preamp in a modern, convenient format”: Is the WEM Copicat the $79 tone sweetener you’ve been waiting for?

Made by Hiwatt, based on the Watkins Copicat, and available exclusively via Reverb, this two-knob boost is compact, affordable and could be the missing ingredient in your rig

“It has an obvious appeal to Gilmour fans… authentic-sounding Hiwatt tones from clean to everything-on-10 crunch”: Crazy Tube Circuits Hi Power review

CTC's latest twofer seeks to harness David Gilmour's Wish You Were Here tones in a pedal that pairs a boost with a Hiwatt-inspired drive

"The almighty power boost meets the blistering high-headroom tube amp": Crazy Tube Circuits delivers the sound of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here in a pedal with the Hi Power

The amp-in-a-box overdrive pedal painstakingly replicates David Gilmour’s Hiwatt amp and Colorsound pedal combo, which shaped the tones of the classic Pink Floyd album

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Engineer Andy Johns on recording and mastering Led Zep IV: “I put the tape on and the first song goes by and sounds bloody awful. Then the second one comes along and that’s really horrid, too... Pagey should’ve fired me at that point"

Engineer Andy Johns on recording and mastering Led Zep IV: “I put the tape on and the first song goes by and sounds bloody awful. Then the second one comes along and that’s really horrid, too... Pagey should’ve fired me at that point"

"Pagey was going on about seeing ghosts on the stairs and we were like, ‘Oh yeah right, Jimmy!’"

10 all-time classic bass guitar tones - and how to recreate them

10 all-time classic bass guitar tones - and how to recreate them

Delving into some of the best low-end tones of all time

Crown Lands’ doubleneck devotee Kevin Comeau on his fearless guitar/bass multitasking, recording with Alex Lifeson’s acoustic and why Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream is a tonal benchmark

Crown Lands’ doubleneck devotee Kevin Comeau on his fearless guitar/bass multitasking, recording with Alex Lifeson’s acoustic and why Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream is a tonal benchmark

Comeau unpacks his multi-instrumentalist approach on the Rush disciples’ impossibly expansive sound, and explains just exactly where he got that super-cool doubleneck

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