Watch Slash and Edgar Winter Play Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition" in 2006
On February 8, 2006, some of the world’s greatest guitarists came together in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the one and only Les Paul. The performances that took place…
Read more »Watch Paul Riario Demo the Horizon Devices Precision Drive
Horizon Devices, a pedal company co-founded by Misha Mansoor of Periphery, recently unveiled their first creation: Precision Drive. Demoed in the video below by Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario,…
Read more »Former Black Crowes Guitarists Rich Robinson and Marc Ford Talk Magpie Salute
Rich Robinson wanted to do something special for the three studio sessions he performed last summer in front of live audiences in Woodstock, New York, to promote his solo album,…
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Review: Taylor Guitars Grand Concert 362CE 12-String
The Taylor Guitars Grand Concert 362ce is a new small-body 12-string guitar that’s extremely player-friendly. The 362ce’s compact cutaway Grand Concert shape features solid Tasmanian Blackwood back and sides and…
Read more »Everything You Need to Know About Seven- and Eight-String Guitars
Ibanez Introduced the industry’s first mass-produced seven-string solidbody electric guitar—the Universe UV7, designed in collaboration with Steve Vai—in 1990. Although guitarists overwhelmingly applauded this new innovation that expanded the instrument’s…
Read more »Review: Xotic California Classic XSC-2 Guitar
For a long time, I only knew Xotic to be an effects company that specializes in wickedly great preamp and boost pedals. I have seen many players whom I respect…
Read more »Review: D’Addario Chromatic Pedal Tuner
The D’Addario Chromatic Pedal Tuner features a sleek, reduce-sized (1.75-inch x 4.75-inch), lightweight design to preserve valuable space on a player’s pedal board and a vertical-sweeping LED pitch display for…
Read more »Review: Electro-Harmonix Canyon Delay & Looper Pedal
With its compact size, four control knobs and humble price, the Electro-Harmonix Canyon appears on the surface to be a basic version of what the name on the box suggests:…
Read more »Review: Fulltone OCD V2 Overdrive Pedal
The Fulltone OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Drive), has been kicking around for more than a decade. Every so often its creator, Mike Fuller, introduces a newer version, and despite all the…
Read more »Review: Ibanez RGD3127 Prestige Seven-String Guitar
Although a few dozen companies collectively produce the several hundred different seven-string solidbody electric guitar models that fill the market today, Ibanez has had a head-start on all of them,…
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