Retro looks can be deceiving – we audition a convention-challenging modern microphone that’s been uniquely designed to capture your amplifier’s roar in all its natural glory.
Legend has it that, for a short while in the mid-50s, Fender changed the recipe of its Telecaster pickups – and House Of Tone has recreated one of those mysterious sets.
Loaded scratchplates are a simple way to radically overhaul your guitar’s tone. Marcus Leadley checks out a pickguard fitted with a trio of up-and-coming guitarist Chris Buck’s signature pickups…
Guitarist Mary Spender puts Elixir’s Optiweb coated electric guitar strings through their paces out on the road and you could be one of three winners to get four sets to test them yourself!