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UNBELIEVABLE: 2 - The Untold Story

The best new guitar gear of 2023: our favourite guitars, amps and pedals that we played this year

The year of the amp pedal, Fender's new horizons, Boss being bosses and more effects than we knew what to do with

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The Strymon Cloudburst is the top-selling new pedal on Reverb in 2023, but overall Boss is still… the boss!

An old-timer distortion pedal comes out fighting this year

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“You can have all the pedals you want, but the guitar/amp combination makes the sound. Pedals are just some extra paprika”: Rich Robinson reveals what’s on his pedalboard

Why a Black Crowe seeks the company of a Red Lama and an Angry Troll but finds the meaning of life (tone-wise) lies in the magic that happens between guitar and a vintage tube amp

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Strymon UltraViolet Vintage Vibe Pedal review

Purple reign?

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There’s no beating the Boss: Reverb reveals its best-selling guitar pedals of 2023

From an orange classic to Josh Scott’s fake-it-til-they-make-it hit, here are the stompboxes that shifted over the last year

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“The sounds of classic tube amps and mic’d speaker cabinets in a standard stompbox”: Boss takes the fight to Universal Audio and Strymon with its smallest amp and IR pedal to date, the IR-2

11 factory amp and cab pairings – including Fender, Soldano, Marshall and Mesa/Boogie-inspired amp models – and third-party IR compatibility head up the new unit

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“I showed the Strymon BigSky to Lana, and she was like, ‘Oh, we need that.’ I plugged into a 100-watt Marshall, and the riff came out in 10 seconds”: Lana Del Rey guitarist Blake Lee thrives on making his Strat sound like anything but a guitar

The boundary-breaking guitarist – aka Blake Stranathan – had an unlikely route to session guitar success. He reveals how gear shaped his collaborations with one of the biggest singer-songwriters of our age, his theory on how “the less paint or lacquer on the guitar, the better it will sound” and…

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“I got the call saying there was a band looking for a player. I said yes before even asking which band it was. Then I got told it was Ghost”: Former Nameless Ghoul Chris Catalyst breaks cover about his time in Tobias Forge’s epic metal project

The UK session guitarist went from marathon tours with Sisters of Mercy and Ugly Kid Joe to massive arena shows with Ghost. He reveals what it takes to cut it in one of metal’s biggest bands, why Noel Gallagher has one of his all-time favorite guitar tones, and how a…

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Strymon releases a plugin version of its Deco pedal, giving DAW users the processing power of two tape machines

Create flanging, chorus, echo and double-tracking effects using an old-school workflow

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“Instead of the toy store, I wanted to go to the guitar store and play all the expensive guitars”: Steve Lukather shares his biggest gear hits and misses

The top sessioneer and Toto stringsman recounts his early six-string experiences, an epic deal on a rare Vox 12-string and why he hasn’t bought a guitar in 30 years…

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Strymon's push towards compact pedals continues with its most affordable delay unit yet – the Brig dBucket Delay

Three delay modes headline the Brigadier's spiritual successor, which retains the brand's new streamlined form factor and wallet-friendlier price tag

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Strymon reveals its new compact delay pedal Brig: and it's all about celebrating the analogue Bucket Brigade sound

Take it to the Brig – the Brigadier's smaller sibling reports for duty with three BBD delay pedals in one green machine

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Noel Gallagher talks guitars, amps and pedals: "I love presets and I love nicking other people's settings" – including Pete Townshend's

"I'm forever trying to nick people's vibes" admits the Oasis icon in a new in-depth interview

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Session guitar legend Michael Landau reveals what it takes to play with the biggest artists of all time and explains why “Strats are the ultimate couch guitar”

As Fender releases two signature Stratocasters for the session guitar hero, he reflects on recording with the likes of Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell – and what it’s like to play on a Pink Floyd track in front of David Gilmour

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The winner of the new Andertons blind reverb pedal shootout is not surprising

BlueSky thinking

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Foo Fighter Chris Shiflett was using a Strymon Iridium pedal on his UK tour instead of an amp

It seems digital modelling is good enough for a Foo Fighter

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Strymon Cloudburst Ambient Reverb review

Strymon gives the BigSky Cloud algorithm its own pedal as the first in a new, more compact series – and it sounds phenomenal

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Strymon BigSky vs Strymon BlueSky: which reverb is best for your 'board?

We put two of Strymon’s top-tier pedals head to head

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