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“People have said, ‘Oh, man, you gotta play the Gibson, that’s the real deal.’ But there’s something about the Ibanez… I prefer the evenness of it”: John Scofield on working with Miles Davis, covering Bob Dylan and the agony of writing music

The jazz improv virtuoso returns with Uncle John's Band, an album that finds him covering Bob Dylan, Neil Young and, of course, the Grateful Dead

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Ibanez rolls out the Twin Peaks wah pedal, doubling the fun with two frequency peaks for “enriched levels of sonic experimentation”

This wah pedal is not what it seems, and features a dual-inductor circuit to create high and low frequency peaks that can be blended for an all-new take on the effect

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“It didn’t tick his boxes. It didn’t give him what he wanted”: Before Fender, Jeff Beck worked with Ibanez to create a wild Telecaster/Les Paul hybrid – this is the never-before-told story of the signature model that almost was

In the 1980s, Beck sought out Ibanez to help his unique vision for a signature guitar become a reality. We trace the history of an instrument so elusive that few even knew it existed

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“I did a round on the solo, and Ric Ocasek goes, ‘That’s really nice.’ He begins humming, and in my mind, I’m going, ‘But I didn't play that!’ He’d edited what I just played in his head”: Session great Larry Mitchell reflects on his all-star resume

He recorded with Ric Ocasek and Nile Rodgers, toured with Tracy Chapman, and every time he jams with Steve Vai the playing reaches “another level of epic-ness” – Larry Mitchell looks back on his star-studded session career

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“Unlike anything before it”: Ibanez debuts the Twin Peaks – a two-mode wah pedal styled after John Frusciante’s favorite WH-10 unit

The TWP10 takes cues from Froosh's favored wah pedal, but uses dual-inductor circuitry for an “entirely new” sound

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“I never thought I could actually play a solo on this thing”: YouTuber creates a ‘neckless’ guitar – and even manages to record a song with it

Djenty-crunch, "extreme vibrato," whammy-like bends... Bernth Brodträger gets a surprising amount of range from his crazy Ibanez in this original composition

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“I think it's fairly impossible to be a guitarist without loving Steve Vai”: Nili Brosh names 10 guitarists who shaped her sound

The Ibanez-toting instrumental virtuoso shares her thoughts on “one of the best improvisers in the history of the instrument”, why Eddie Van Halen's rhythm playing is underrated and the shredder who “brought a new sound to the Shrapnel era”

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“The boys are back in town, baby”: Watch Polyphia pay tribute to Thin Lizzy – and their home state – during sublime pro-shot Texas performance

Live shows do not get better than this newly posted 65-minute Polyphia concert – an epic display of the band's onstage virtuosity and mind-melting technical skills

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An iconic pairing: Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Tube Screamer resurfaces for sale – and sells immediately

The heavily worn overdrive pedal has changed hands once more after coming up for sale via Chicago Music Exchange

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“Without tone, there really isn’t anything”: How to nail Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar sound on a budget

Short of cash but seeking Texas-sized blues tone? These affordable guitar rigs will get you started

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See an Ibanez Jem Jr. get hot-rodded to shred heaven courtesy of FU-Tone’s awesome guitar upgrades

A Brass Big Block, White Titanium Hardware, Noiseless Springs and more transform the axe from ordinary to extraordinary

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The Offspring's Noodles on why he picks Ibanez Talmans over Les Pauls – and that time he played James Hetfield's Explorer

One of punk-rock's most distinctive lead guitarists on why mistakes make the best riffs, the unlikely vintage guitar that's his no. 1 electric for recording, and how super-producer Bob Rock shook up the band's gear habits on Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

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Watch Nita Strauss rip Pantera's Cowboys From Hell as she kicks off her Summer Storm tour

It's not the first time the Ibanez-wielding virtuoso has tackled a tune by the Texas groove-metal legends, either...

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Godin just unveiled its best-appointed Session guitar yet – and it could give Fender and Ibanez a run for their money

With a Canadian build and choice Seymour Duncan pickups, the Superstrat-styled Session T-Pro has serious potential

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Nita Strauss and Yvette Young once traded signature guitars – but found each others’ designs damn-near unplayable

The swap may not have worked out for them but Strauss says it made her feel good about the health of the guitar industry

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What’s wrong with modern metal guitar? This guitarist explains all in a two-and-a-half-minute song

Still Shreds is the work of Austrian guitarist and composer Bernth, and is a tongue-in-cheek warning against what happens when you tune down and keep on tuning down

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Wait, Polyphia are using Marshall amps now?

Digital modeling enthusiasts Tim Henson and Scott LePage have been spotted with JCM800s – but is everything as it seems?

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Ibanez revives the Paul Gilbert PGM for 2023

The full-scale version of the virtuoso's classic signature has returned to the Ibanez lineup, and it's never looked better

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After BC Rich, Ibanez and Jackson, Slipknot's Mick Thomson moves to ESP for the development of new signature guitars

"It’s been taking longer than expected, as deciding on a model hasn’t been easy," says the Slipknot #7

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DiMarzio partners with Periphery’s Jake Bowen for Mirage signature pickups – a “super-saturated” set that has been tailored to his picking technique

The pickups were previously found in Bowen's Ibanez JBM9999 signature guitar, and are said to be the next step in his quest to “push his progressive metal sound forward”

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George Benson on the time he met Jimi Hendrix, how Peter Frampton changed the course of his career and what Paul McCartney made of his Beatles tribute

One of the all-time jazz guitar greats on upsetting guitar companies, receiving praise from Frank Sinatra, and what it was really like working with Miles Davis

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The essential new electric guitars you need to play in 2023

GEAR EXPO 2023: Classic ranges, signature editions, all-new designs and the Greeny is back… again

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NAMM 2023: the 11 biggest things we discovered at this year's show

The hits, the misses and the game-changing tech – 2023’s guitar gear extravaganza did not disappoint

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Thundercat: “People are telling me to turn down, and I’m like, No! I’m trying to burn down the stage!”

The 6-string superhero on his gigantic bass tone, and how he nearly set fire to the Sydney Opera House

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Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen and Mark Holcomb on how they lost sleep and cast aside some of the best riffs they’ve ever written to make Periphery V “as awesome as possible”

Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre finds progressive metal's most daring trailblazers rediscovering analog, rejecting perfection and producing their most ambitious album to date

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