Guitar Technology

This four-stage analogue phase-shifter pedal delivers the kind of chewy swirl that we all know and love...

We get up to speed with the latest leaps in Line 6’s guitar-modelling technology.

Ever wanted to tailor your own software amp in a plug-in, and pack the result into a box to take on stage with a real speaker?

Don’t have a great-sounding room? Can’t turn your amp up to get the sounds you want? Want to turn down your speaker without sacrificing your tube amp’s tonality? Maybe this changes everything...

Celestion have made available impulse responses for a wide range of their classic speakers mounted in 1x12, 2x12 and 4x12 cabinets, and miked with appropriate single or double mic arrays.

Lawing Musical Products have been building their own take on noiseless replacement pickups for Stratocasters for some years...

With an all-analogue preamp stage, combining solid-state components with Korg’s new ‘flat’ 6P1 Nutube triode valve, these diminutive 50W lunchbox amps are ideal in the studio.

We’re used to seeing convolution technology in plug-ins, but recent years have seen this increasingly appearing in hardware form. DigiTech’s take on this is a compact stompbox-format dual-channel cabinet emulator.

The Strum Buddy is a miniature solid-state guitar amp with built-in speaker.

We check out Boss' Katana series of affordable modelling guitar amplifiers, all of which include a USB recording output.

Electro-Harmonix’s Operation Overlord Allied Overdrive is a slightly unusual overdrive pedal, in that it has full stereo capability.

Building on Avid’s Eleven Rack technology, this new hardware amp modeller promises to combine great sound with ease of use.

This Vox-inspired special edition of Roland’s analogue modelling amp is equally impressive at home, on stage or in the studio.