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“Heads will roll”: Synyster Gates’ headless Schecter signature is one of the most anticipated guitar launches of the year – and it’s finally been given a release date

Gates’ Synyster Custom signature has been one of Schecter's best-sellers since its launch. Now, at long last, the headless variant is right around the corner

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“We've taken the iconic pedal to new heights with hand-wired craftsmanship, premium components, and a boosted output”: Ibanez rolls out the upgrades on its flagship overdrive pedal for the launch of the TS808HW V2 Tube Screamer

Japanese-made, hand-wired with Mogami cables, and offering an extra 6dB of output… This is a beefed-up TS808 that promises a wider range of tones from a familiar looking green box

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“We sought to take the iconic Tube Screamer and push it further”: Ibanez reimagines its beloved overdrive pedal into its most high-end format yet – with a $300 hand-wired TS808

New components and a fresh lick of paint have helped Ibanez reboot the flagship TS808, but it comes at a hefty price

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“I started playing $150 Ibanez guitars because onstage I would take damage… Clown used to use metal bars. We were very unsafe”: Mick Thomson reflects on 25 years of Slipknot’s incendiary debut – and what it was like to see his solos erased

If Slipknot's debut remains a true face-ripper all these years later maybe it is because they brought the chaos of the stage show into the studio. Thomson can remember it vividly, the gear, the danger, the risk to his guitars from stray iron pipes, and he wouldn't have it any…

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“A lot of players don’t bother to learn how to fix their guitars – but it’s a necessary part of technique”: Cradle of Filth’s Donny Burbage hated guitar until he got bored of playing video games – and became a tech’ing shredder

The Ibanez fan, Aether Realm guitarist and former guitar tech explains the importance of mastering vibrato – and avoiding pyro at his very first Cradle of Filth show

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“My riff writing started to do well after I changed my perspective… I don’t listen to a bunch of heavy music anymore”: Meet Clayton King, the riff machine using EDM and nature shows to wring fresh savagery from his custom Ibanez monstrosity

The Nothing, Nowhere guitarist details his intriguingly tuned relic’d seven-string, and the riff-writing tricks he uses to get out of any creative rut in 15 minutes flat

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“He took it on tour, beat the heck out of it, then painted it. This is a family heirloom now”: Joe Satriani gifted Steve Vai his relic’d, custom-painted Ibanez signature – now it’s one of Vai’s most treasured guitars

The birthday gift – which is unlike any Satch signature you've ever seen before – ranks alongside the ‘Swiss Cheese’ guitar and Vai's first-ever Fender Strat as one of the virtuoso’s most prized instruments

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“Tailored for his percussive playing and highly technical style”: Ibanez finally honors prog guitar hero Manuel Gardner Fernandes with his first signature model – and it’s a radical reimagining of the firm’s most daring design

The percussive fingerstyle heavyweight has swapped AZ Superstrats for the ergonomics of the Quest range, resulting in Ibanez's finest headless guitar yet

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“Ibanez strives daily to be the cutting-edge guitar brand. This approach will never change”: How Ibanez is flipping the script on everything you think you know about acoustic guitar design

A commitment to innovation and a forward-thinking philosophy have helped Ibanez lead the way in a new era of high-performance mainstream acoustics

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He's the Grammy-winning Ibanez signature artist who has been setting the standard for jazz-fusion guitar since the mid-'70s – his style is so iconic, he even has a lick named after him. Learn how Pat Metheny's soloing approach can elevate your jazz game

In this deep dive into the fusion master's style, we’ll be exploring essential jazz concepts that will inject your solos with fresh ideas

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“You could sing along to the songs – including the solos. You can really mess a song up by playing the wrong solo. You can put people off”: Phil Collen on Def Leppard x Tom Morello, his love of thick guitar necks – and why Pyromania still blows him away

Taking five between packing out stadiums, Collen shares his philosophy on digital amps, what Mutt Lange taught him, and how Tom Morello found himself on a Def Leppard track

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“I didn’t realise how diverse,eclectic andinnovative my guitar collection was”: Steve Vai’s monster guitar collection to be documented in epic upcoming book – and there’s a $25,350 Ultra Edition that includes a super limited edition Ibanez JEM

Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai took Michael Mesker 5 years to finish, and features more than 1,000 pages

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“He scoured the globe to find these guitars. I had given many away or sold them through the years, but he tracked them down”: A 1,000-page book showcasing Steve Vai’s iconic guitars has been announced – and it will be joined by a super-limited Ibanez JEM

Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai took five years to complete, and tells the story of over 100 guitars in “exquisite detail”

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“It’s just amazing to see those legendary Keith Tuners ready-fitted on a guitar!”: Jon Gomm unveils revolutionary Ibanez signature model and it looks every inch the ultimate high-performance acoustic

With Gomm's signature triple-source Fishman electronics, locking banjo tuners and Passionflower inlay, is this to the acoustic guitar what Steve Vai's JEM was to the electric?

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“When you first pick up a Tele or a Jazzmaster, you’re not thinking about neoclassical scales or shredding. But the more you play them, it’s like, ‘Wow! They kinda rip!’” Jim Root on upsetting metalheads and Fender purists, and his amp modeling conversion

The Slipknot guitarist’s come to Jesus moment with the Quad Cortex doesn’t mean he’s selling his Orange amps just yet. He just likes to keep his options open. You might even see him shred on a Gretsch…

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Celebrating 20 years of guitarguitar: Behind the employee-owned gear retailer that’s revolutionizing the music industry

guitarguitar its celebrating its 20th anniversary in style with a dedicated “Ibanez Month”, complete with artist interviews, acoustic clinics, and a deep dive into the history of the greatest modern electric guitar

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“It’s ideal for players who prioritize comfort and offers a balanced tone”: This study claims to have identified the lightest tonewood of them all – and it’s not one you’d expect

This new research piece compared the weight of 466 solidbody guitars to found out which tonewood makes the lightest instruments

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“These 4 guitars were stolen in Frankfurt, Germany today”: Paul Gilbert has had guitars worth $12,000 stolen – now the shred icon needs your help to find them

The instruments, including three distinctive Ibanez signature models, were taken amid Mr. Big’s European tour dates

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“Stolen guitar alert!”: Paul Gilbert has had three Ibanez electrics and a Godin steel-string acoustic stolen in Frankfurt – issues plea for information

Thanks to Ibanez, the show in Germany will go on as planned, but Gilbert asks the public to keep their eyes open and help return the guitars to their rightful owner

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Ibanez doubles down on its quest to conquer the headless guitar market with four of its best-looking Q Series models to date

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“The new Ibanez guitar is exceptional, won’t be too expensive… I am pretty excited about it”: Pat Metheny’s new signature jazz box is out now – and the Charlie Christian-inspired pickup is star of the show

The Ibanez PM3C is a pro-quality, affordable, available in Natural Amber and Black "low-gloss" finishes, and has a single-coil based on the pickup from Christian's ES-150

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“World firsts, chunky rhythms and the lead tone of a generation”: Long-awaited Tim Henson 7-string headlines mega new Ibanez signature guitar drop – including a Paul Gilbert Fireman with a world-first mod

The Polyphia guitarist’s first extended-range signature guitar lines up alongside fresh models for Paul Gilbert, Andy Timmons, Pat Metheny and John Scofield

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“The beautiful thing about the Telecaster is there’s not a formula about how it’s supposed to sound”: Julien Baker explains why the Tele is the most usable electric guitar there is as she demos Fender’s new Player II model

Baker has previously described the Tele as her workhorse guitar, and she's used it heavily on both her solo projects as well as with boygenius

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“This is the stuff of dreams”: 11-year-old wows Kiko Loureiro with her solo skills at the ex-Megadeth shredder’s guitar camp

Kiko Loureiro even lent the young guitarist, Aanika Pai, his own Ibanez guitar and Neural DSP Quad Cortex

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Joe Satriani shreds and taps through Van Halen’s Poundcake in new Best Of All Words rehearsal footage – and it seems his Ibanez signatures still have a role to play after all

Sightings of Satch shredding on a modded EVH made fans think his Ibanez guitars would be taking a break on the upcoming tour, but new footage from Sammy Hagar seems to suggest otherwise

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