Guitarist - February 2025

In dieser Angelegenheit

Gretsch Professional Series Hollow Body Tennessean.

PRS Private Stock 40th Anniversary McCarty Dragon.

And Your Bird Can Sing...

We travel back to the future to bask in the glory of Gibson’s reincarnated 1960s rare classic, the Falcon combo

4 mins

Outer Limits

Walrus Audio revitalises its very first pedal, the Klonemulating Voyager, with some tasty additions

2 mins

Larkin Poe

Seventh studio album, Bloom, sees Rebecca and Megan Lovell embrace family dynamics, take the spark from stage to studio, and serve up the guitars neat”

9 mins

BECK THE GUITAR AUCTION

Jeff Beck had no equal for the joyous, headstrong energy and beguiling subtlety he brought to his playing. When he died suddenly in January of 2023, he left behind the lightning rods through which his electrifying talent passed an eclectic collection of guitars, many of which are as heavily customised as the hot-rod cars that were Beck’s other ruling passion. Almost exactly two years after his passing, these legendary instruments are now set to go under the hammer in London. We join the experts from Christie’s auction house on the eve of the sale to take a closer look at Oxblood’ and other historic instruments from Jeff’s career and discuss the portrait they paint of a pragmatic, restless yet peerlessly gifted talent and his musical legacy

10+ mins

DON MUSSER ACOUSTICS

He’s built guitars for some of the very biggest names in the business and yet Don Musser remains a known unknown. We track him down to fill in the blanks

6 mins

Top Tier

The upgraded American Ultra guitars get a subtle makeover, creating what Fender believes is its most advanced series of electric guitars. Vintage buffs, look away...

7 mins

Virtual Pedalboard

Fractal Audio puts its Axe-Fx III effects in a conveniently sized stage-ready floor unit

4 mins

POWER STATION

Founded by Jimi Hendrix mere months before his death, Electric Lady Studios was a mind-expanding creative mothership where his guitar playing reached new heights. As a new documentary explores this lost chapter, longstanding Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer and filmmaker John McDermott tell us about Jimi's final brainwave

10 mins

BRIDGE OF SIGHS

While our mainly recycled build cracks on at a pedestrian pace, Dave Burrluck pauses to ponder that old chestnut: the offset bridge

6 mins

New York City Guitar Shops

For vintage guitar enthusiasts, a shopping trip to the US is surely a fixture on the bucket list.

8 mins

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