Guitarist

Guitarist is the longest established UK guitar magazine. You'll find authoritative gear reviews, artist interviews, technique lessons and advice. Plus, Guitarist's digital edition now includes all of the same audio and video content as the print edition; available to download from a special area of the Guitarist website!

Stealing The Scene

Editor’s Highlights

Guitarist

State Of Art • Two acoustic models from Cort’s China-based workshop that couldn’t be further apart in style, from the traditional overtones of the Abstract Delta, to the more contemporary Modern Black

Platinum Blonde • PRS has updated its Texas-voiced David Grissom signature amp with more features, lower wattage and a more approachable price tag

Reach For The Star • Earlier this year Guild reorganised its 70s-era Polara range. We spent some time with this mid-range 2024 model: a modern pawn-shop prize or a copy too far?

Sonic Shaper • Electro-Harmonix revisits the effect that launched the company with the LPB-3 Linear Power Booster and EQ

In The Loop • DigiTech revamps its compact looper pedal with high-definition audio performance

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • “Driving the locomotive” in new supergroup Parlor Greens might be Seattle soul man Jimmy Scratch James’ finest hour yet

String Theory • Neville Marten discusses the merits of various gauges, and bemoans the times his fingers have been stabbed due to knotted string ends

Setting Up ’Shop • This month Alex Bishop expands into a nearby studio and moves in the heavy machinery. But luckily he has help…

Size: Does It Matter? • Neville Marten asks, what’s the optimal output power, size or style of guitar amp you need to give me the best possible live sound?

Fretboard Mastery • Richard Barrett experiments with various voicings of the same chord to enhance chord progressions and expand your fretboard knowledge

Feedback • Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

CARLOS ALOMAR • Playing professionally since his teens, Carlos Alomar was part of the DAM Trio rhythm section that backed David Bowie from the mid-70s – and now, he says, it’s time to commemorate that legendary collective

BRITISH BLUES BOOM • With the death of John Mayall in July, we lost one of the architects of the 60s blues boom that not only transformed Britain’s music scene but restored America’s blues guitar pioneers to their rightful place on the world’s great stages. Here we trace the story of the grass-roots movement that gave birth to rock itself

CLAPTON’S HIDEAWAY • The tone EC achieved on the ‘Beano’ album has become a benchmark for how a ’Burst and a Marshall should sound together. But it’s a little more complex than that...

BLUES BOOM ON RECORD: MUST-HEAR ALBUMS • Take a musical crash course and work through this list of important and influential records that chart the journey blues took from its roots in the Delta to the Mayall-Clapton masterpiece

GOLDEN AGE GRETSCH DUO JETS • As solid-bodied models began taking the guitar world by storm in the early 50s, Gretsch joined the party with the revolutionary single-cut 6128 Duo Jet and its twangsome DeArmond ‘Dynasonic’ single coils

JOE SATRIANI • As Sammy Hagar’s The Best Of All Worlds Tour scales the globe, Joe Satriani joins us to explain how he set...