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All Change

Editor’s Highlights

Guitarist

Supreme Team • Blackstar’s latest Amped product adds built-in effects to its 100-watt head – which is small enough to sit on a pedalboard or studio desktop. And it’s set to be another game-changer

Movin’ On Up • Cor-Tek might make a colossal number of guitars for other people, but its own brand, Cort, is gaining traction with sharply priced and very well-spec’d guitars such as this new G300 duo

Show Time • Danelectro’s most famous guitar recently celebrated its 60th Anniversary and now gets a stage-aimed refresh for 2023

Mid Field • Origin Effects builds on the sonic signature of a 1950s EQ unit, offering a flexible new take on drive pedals

Double Header • A step up from the H9, Eventide’s latest Harmonizer multi-effects unit lets you use two algorithms at the same time

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 • It took every ounce of expressive nuance to emulate Dio’s vocals on this instrumental electric tribute to a god of 70s metal, Paul Gilbert tells us…

All In The Fingers? • Neville Marten on the guilt of using our eyes rather than our ears – or, indeed, rational thinking – when it comes to quality of tone…

New Build • Not one to let his students have all the fun, Alex Bishop completes a new guitar in just under three weeks. But does it hit the right notes?

Coma Chameleon • Mike Landau’s 1959 Strat is now the basis of a new signature model. He tells Jamie Dickson about the mods (and magic) of the original

Added Chords • Do you know your ‘add’ chords from your altered chords?Richard Barrett shows you how to spot the difference

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

SAMANTHA FISH • Death Wish Blues is a brand-new collaborative album from Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton and will see the pair touring the UK later this year. We invited Samantha to our studios to hear the story behind the release

Super ’70

Buyer Beware • As Aynsley Lister proves elsewhere in this feature, there are some cracking 70s Fenders to be had. But Strat expert Julian White of World Guitars urges a cool head and a judicious eye when considering Strats built during the bell-bottom era

Underdogs Rule • British bluesman and songwriter Aynsley Lister is one of the finest exponents of the Strat this country can boast. So when he told us he favours his 70s Strats over the many 60s and Custom Shop Fenders he’s tried in the past, we were intrigued. Here’s what he had to say about the merits of the 70s Strat, when he brought his carefully chosen collection in for us to admire...

UNEARTHED ’BURST • This undocumented one-owner vintage Les Paul recently arrived at Vintage ‘n’ Rare Guitars from South Africa. We take ‘Sunny’ for a spin…

MARTY STUART • As he readies his first studio album in six years, the country legend reflects on being a road dog, surviving Covid, his favourite memories of Johnny Cash and why heartbreak will never go out of fashion

True Colours...