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“I thought I was fully content with my ampless rig, but this pedal has me thinking otherwise”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including an alternate reality Ibanez that’s set to shake up the prog rock guitar market

NAMM is only days away and the gear avalanche has started in fine form, with new drops from Ibanez, Faith, Victory, Fender Audio and more

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NAMM 2026: rumors, predictions and breaking news from the world's biggest guitar gear show

All the latest and greatest gear drops coming out of the largest music trade show in the world – with new launches from Ibanez, Taylor, EVH, Marshall and more

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Stylistically radical, Ibanez’s multi-scale Alpha series might just be the 21st-century prog-metal player’s favourite new guitar – but do you get the 7-string or the 8?

The Alpha series has everything you'd need form a high-performance guitar, with stainless steel frets, Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers, locking tuners and more

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“Engineered from the ground up”: Ibanez issues its answer to Ernie Ball and Abasi Concepts with the Alpha Series – its most progressive guitar design to date

The shred and metal expert leans into the contemporary design trends currently dominating the prog guitar scene for a landmark launch

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“I sold my first guitar to my drummer. He paid me $50, put SpongeBob stickers on it, then lit it on fire”: Kiki Wong reveals her Smashing Pumpkins live rig, gear regrets and how a Line 6 amp made her the player she is today

Kiki Wong might be the only guitar player alive today who can recall from memory Ibanez S series model numbers. Here's what the S40DXQM means to her...

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“Gibson wasn’t the only company to lose its mind in thrall to technology”: The 21st century gear trends that never caught on

Because not all innovations stand the test of time

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“My friend told me I couldn’t even play a 6-string bass – so I had to learn it to prove him wrong!” Meet 7-string bass wizard Dylan Desmond, whose accidental two-handed tapping powers doom’s most adventurous low-end

Inspired by Michael Hedges, the Bell Witch doom merchant splits his signal between guitar and bass amps, and fills up the entire frequency spectrum. He reveals the surprise influences that inspired his latest effort with Stygian Bough

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“It’s incredibly light, almost like a toy. But it’s not a toy – it’s an incredible instrument I’m about to use to play to 50,000 people”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson on making his game-changing Ibanez that started a nylon-string revolution

Presenting electric guitar playability on a nylon-string platform, Henson’s TOD10N changed the world after he used it on Playing God

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“When people throw around the Lennon/McCartney comparison to Bob Mould and Grant Hart, I think that’s fair”: Greg Norton believes Hüsker Dü were always going to break up, but it happened too soon

The current Ultrabomb bassist discusses the instruments that led to his custom Reverend, how a 1985 concert video got lost, and how easy it was to learn from bandmate Mould

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“It’s not every day you get to work for a player rightfully belonging on the pantheon of rock gods”: Steve Vai has reimagined Brian May’s Red Special in his own vision with the help of a UK boutique guitar builder

The 'Vai Special' puts a distinct spin on May's legendary guitar, and was meticulously spec'd by Vai himself – with a few Ibanez JEM inspirations to boot

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“Just another Tube Screamer clone, or something more?”: Warm Audio Tube Squealer review

Adding options to a tried-and-tested circuit, Warm Audio releases its take on an iconic overdrive pedal

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“This guitar represents a whole year of my life”: This insane Jaws guitar was made using thousands of tiny pieces of paper from Guitar World magazines – now it’s going up for auction

The intricately decorated Ibanez was featured in Guitar World back in 2013 after Trey Xavier spent hours putting it together

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The Tube Screamer is one of the most iconic overdrives ever. It’s just been reinvented by the pedal pioneer who first developed it

The TWA Source Code is a "next-gen" TS-style drive that looks to level up the original design

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“Boldly established Ibanez as a new contender in the highly competitive Superstrat market”: How Ibanez’s era-defining RG550 transformed high-performance guitar

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

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“This guitar has changed my playing on stage so much”: Ibanez has dropped a stunning seven-string signature for metal shredder Hazuki – but it’s a Japan exclusive

The well-equipped axe is one of the best-looking Ibanez signatures in years, but its limited availability is tragic news

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From the shred heroics of Joe Satriani to the melodic mastery of George Benson and fascinating phrasing of Yvette Young, we chart 25 game-changing Ibanez guitarists

While it’s easy to think of Ibanez as a company that’s solely at the cutting edge of metal machines for the modern age, they’ve also innovated much further afield, producing timeless acoustics, semi-hollows, and hollowbodies

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“It reminds me of Batman and the Joker. It’s just so cool”: Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch and James ‘Munky’ Schaffer on their Yin and Yang signature Ibanez 7-strings – and how it all comes back to Steve Vai

The K7YIN and K7YANG, one dark, one light, both state-of-the-art extended range S-styles built to the nu-metal kingpins' specifications – and yes, that's a U-Bar on Munky's vibrato

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“Sweet Child O’ Mine is a terrible song. I don’t like Slash’s playing, but it stands the test of time. That was my inspiration – to write something timeless”: Lorna Shore return with new music, brash Ibanez customs, and a fresh kind of death metal energy

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me confirms their crossover to the mainstream, even if they don’t understand it, as Andrew O’Connor and Adam De Micco take influence from guitarists they don’t even like

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“I grew up with the myth, the thinner the neck, the faster you can play. For me, that didn't work”: Bernth on why thinner necks don’t always result in speedier soloing – and how switching helped improve his playing

The prolific prog virtuoso recently unveiled his first signature Ibanez, which features a few choice specs

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“At this upper mid-range price point, it's hard to think of a guitar to rival it”: Strandberg Boden N2 Standard review

The second model in the progressive Swedish company's new Boden N2 series more than holds its own

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“Ibanez has broken the rules of conventional guitar design. Pick it up and break the rules of guitar playing”: Ibanez Q54W review

It's like all the cool kids are saying, if you want to get ahead, get a headless guitar

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“Never did I actually expect to get the chance to see one up close, let alone play one”: Everything that caught my eye at Guitar Summit 2025 – from the grand unveiling of a brand-new guitar company to the year’s most anticipated amp modeler

Rosengarten Mannheim became a scorching-hot cauldron of all things guitar for three days – and there were plenty of highlights

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“A shut-up-and-take-my-money fuzz pedal if ever there was one”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week, featuring Manson, Martin, Ibanez, Positive Grid, and more – plus, will Boss' XS-100 Poly Shifter steal the DigiTech Whammy’s crown?

PRS, Boss, a trio of sweet, sweet fuzz boxes, and the guitar plugin that gets AI to do the tone seeking for you? It's just another week in gear

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“We were side of stage every night, salivating and looking at their pedalboards”: Paradise Lost's Greg Mackintosh on channelling Radiohead, covering the Smiths, Trouble’s elusive tone tricks – plus the '80s Ibanez pickup behind his epic sound

The Paradise Lost guitarist on how '80s nightclubs shaped his style, writing guitar as a vocals, and how an old overwound Ibanez Iceman pickup was the holy grail tone on new album Ascension

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“There’s a whammy dive riff that’s diabolically tricky. I’m already panicking about the day I play it live”: BTBAM have always fused metal and the unexpected. Now the band’s sole guitarist, Paul Waggoner has to live up to fans’ lofty expectations

The first album since Dustie Waring’s departure, The Blue Nowhere presents a more mature version of Between the Buried and Me. Waggoner reveals how he has changed as a player – and why, despite being a minimalist, he’s adding another Ibanez to his touring rig

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