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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

Guitar World

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

Guitar World

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...

Guitar World

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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Steve Vai’s prototype Hamer JEM – one of many models built before the virtuoso partnered with Ibanez – goes up for auction

Before the JEM777 was launched in 1987, Vai was approached by numerous brands to build the model of his dreams. Hamer's own valiant attempt is estimated to sell for $60,000

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Yvette Young names the 10(+) guitarists who shaped her sound

Covet’s two-hand tapping math-rock mastermind reveals why she only just started listening to Van Halen, what it’s like to jam with Steve Vai and the guitar discovery that changed her life

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Paul Gilbert reveals the surprising guitars he used to emulate Ronnie James Dio's voice, the lead that took 100 takes and his grand guitar solo plans for Mr. Big's farewell tour

The much-loved virtuoso details his approach to tackling parts by Ritchie Blackmore, Tony Iommi and Vivian Campbell for The Dio Album, snapping up vintage Ibanez guitar bargains, and the younger players who are catching his ear

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Top Nashville session guitarist blind tests the most coveted overdrive pedals ever… and you might be surprised by what happens

Tom Bukovac knows what he likes – but also what he can use (and he's not a big fan of the Klon)

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NAMM 2023: Josh Smith and Seymour Duncan release the Flat V pickup set – an unorthodox blend of Tele-style single coils

The pickups – which first arrived in the blues titan's Ibanez signature model – feature a unique combination of Alnico 2, 3 and 4 magnets in order to facilitate dynamic, expressive playing

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Guitarist plays $90 acoustic for headline set at Guinness World Records’ largest-attended music festival

Bernth took to the stage at the Donauinselfest – which once reached a record-breaking attendance high of over 3.3 million people – and performed in front of 120,000 people armed with a humble $90 Ibanez

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