Nine-string guitars seem to break the metalsphere. Rob Scallon knows this all too well: an original 9-string guitar composition he published in December that boasted it used all 9 strings (unlike so ...

The big news coming out of the NAMM Show this past January — “big news” insofar as the shock/awe/WTF factor — was that every major guitar company with a stake in the metal game had brand new 9-string ...

The melding of 12 string and 6 string electric SGs into one instrument resulted in something that's been described as the coolest guitar in rock, the Gibson EDS 1275. Now techs at PRS have taken a ...

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Neal Schon is no stranger to showing off his incredible collection of electric guitars on his Instagram, but his latest – a nine-string Ibanez – is certainly the most surprising. As is always the case ...

The Earth is going to explode. Last night I was scrolling through my news feed and noticed djent-themed Facebook page The Djentleman's Club was posting about Meshuggah, who I'm always keeping an eye ...

One of guitar playing’s simplest joys comes in ringing out a big, open chord and letting the guitar’s strings and tonewoods work their magic. Now imagine that joy, doubled. The best 12-string guitars ...

There's huge inspiration in your choice of acoustic and electric guitar, effects pedals and guitar amps. Even the guitar pick you choose plays a part, but before all that there's the huge world of ...