Mountain View
Guitar Player
PreSonus launches Studio One Pro 7 – the latest generation of its DAW featuring AI tools, improved workflow and more accessible pricing
PreSonus has launched Studio One Pro 7, bringing more than 30 new features to its next-generation DAW.AI-powered stem separation, a global transpose feature, and a new VSTi called Deep Flight One are chief among the additions, alongside a first-of-its-kind Splice integration.First launched in 2009, Studio One has established itself as a leading DAW for producers and bedroom musicians alike. Beyond new features, PreSonus says it’s improved the DAW’s workflow and introduced lower entry pricing.One of Pro 7's most exciting new features is stem separation, which allows users to “unmix” their favorite songs and isolate each instrument into separate tracks....
Hear the final track the Van Halen brothers worked on before Eddie’s passing
The last song Eddie and Alex Van Halen worked on together before the guitarist's death on October 6, 2002 has been released online.Titled "Unfinished," the track features in the audiobook version of the drummer’s new memoir, Brothers. The book details their upbringing together in the Netherlands and the U.S., before covering their time in Van Halen and beyond.A snippet of the track was released shortly after the announcement of its appearance in the audiobook. The full six-minute instrumental has now been made available to coincide with Brother's October 22 release.Gently driven at first by acoustic guitars, the song builds with...
Jimmy Page made sure there's a little bit of himself on every one of his new Gibson signature SJ-200 models
In late spring of 1970, Jimmy Page did a rare thing. He performed on solo acoustic guitar, without the other members of Led Zeppelin, on the BBC’s Julie Felix Show.Felix, an American folksinger from California, was nevertheless so popular in Britain at the time that she was dubbed “Britain’s First Lady of Folk.” Page, whose affection for folk music ran deep — in particular for fingerstyle guitar greats like Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, and Doc Watson — performed a semi-improvisational medley combining his “White Summer” and “Black Mountain Side.” Both tunes, like the later Zeppelin epic "Kashmir," are played in...
Fuchs' ODH hybrid tube/solid-state amp is a gig-worthy tone machine at an approachable price
Amplifier rigs and guitarists’ attitudes toward them have come a long way since solid-state technology made an entry into the marketplace in the mid ’60s.At the time, iffy reliability and even more disappointing tones from many products — including several by big names like Fender and Vox — confined solid-state technology to second-class citizenship pretty quickly, and the hybrid tube/solid-state creations that some makers introduced years later often suffered by association.Today, however, countless guitarists have accepted the veracity of fully digital modeling rigs, and many get stellar results using pedalboard-based preamps into solid-state power amps.So while a tube amp might...
Bob Ezrin reveals David Gilmour's most important guitar technique
"David Gilmour is my favorite guitar player,” producer Bob Ezrin tells Guitar Player. “That's the truth. I love his work. What makes David my favorite guitar player is the combination of beauty, dignity, power and memorability that he musters up every time he picks up a guitar and plays something. I've said in the past that if you gave that guy a ukulele and a Pignose amp, he'd make it sound like the solo in ‘Comfortably Numb.’ He just has a way of massaging sound out of the guitar.”Ezrin is well qualified to make that statement. The Canadian-born producer helmed...
People say, ‘Do you think you'll be able to go out for 10 days'?" Peter Frampton gives health update as he gets his Rock Hall induction
Peter Frampton declined an invitation to sit down as he enters a backstage interview area at Cleveland's Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Saturday, October 19, shortly after his emotionally charged induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."I might not get up," he quipped.That, of course is due to the Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM), a degenerative order, that he's been battling for the past 10 years and made public about six years ago. But it was also because Frampton was still floating on air after his long-awaited (and overdue) Rock Hall honor on Saturday. It included a robust induction speech...
Watch Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson shred “Crossroads” — plus details of their new G3 album
Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson shred the blues classic “Crossroads” in this exclusive new video of the three electric guitar virtuosos from the 2024 G3 reunion tour.Directed by ZZ Satriani, the “Crossroads” video captures the energy, fun and celebratory exhilaration that those concerts delivered.Says Satch, "ZZ’s video brings together all the fun and musical magic of this epic G3 journey Eric, Steve and I have been on since 1996. Because of our shared roots, ‘Crossroads’ is a song that unites us. We are three very different players, still evolving on our instruments but still enjoying the celebration of...
Fender's new American Ultra II series boasts faster necks, advanced pickups and fresh contours to modernize its recipes
Fender's newly announced American Ultra II series combines classic Fender ingredients with hyper-modern recipes to showcase the company at its most forward-thinking.The complement of modernizations include new finishes, body contours, and a modern D-profile neck shape, along with advanced Ultra Noiseless and Haymaker humbucker pickups. The result is a closer relationship between Fender's heritage builds and the high-performance, built-for-speed instruments of its sister firms Charvel, EVH and Jackson.The series consists of two Stratocasters, a Telecaster, and — for fans of offsets — a Meteora, along with Precision, Jazz and Meteora bass guitars and an all-single-coil Strat for left-handed players.Updates include...
“An addictively responsive gem of a humbucker.” Bare Knuckle releases a PAF-style humbucker set in collaboration with producer Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood
British pickup builders Bare Knuckle have reunited with Adam “Nolly” Getgood for a pair of signature, vintage-inspired humbuckers for electric guitars.The producer and former Periphery bass player has established himself on the cutting edge of modern gear and production in recent years. He is also the brains behind the much-loved Getgood Drusm plug-in.The pair previously collaborated on the Polymath humbuckers, which bottled a versatile and distinctly modern tone. This time, the focus is on “taking the past into the future”.As the name suggests, the pickups take their cues from PAF-style humbuckers and are built with 100 percent vintage correct parts....
Nick Lowe says he’s just a strummer — but these two classic-rock hits launched made him a songwriter's songwriter
"It's flattering of you to describe me as a guitar player," Nick Lowe says with a chuckle via Zoom from his home in England. "I've been just a strummer for a long time."That strumming as served him well, of course — to the tune of 15 albums of his own, and membership in the bands Brinsley Schwarz, Rockpile and Little Village. Along the way he’s produced eight albums for Elvis Costello and helmed efforts by the Damned, Graham Parker, Dr. Feelgood, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hiatt, and his ex-wife Carlene Carter, plus individual songs for Johnny Cash and the Pretenders.Lowe...
"I'm gonna live this for the next year." Jerry Cantrell on the future of Alice in Chains and his heavy new solo album
Is Jerry Cantrell still committed to Alice in Chains? You might well wonder. It's been six years since Alice in Chains released 2018’s Rainier Fog. In the interim, Cantrell has issued two solo albums: 2021's Brighten and, his new album, I Want Blood, released October 18.As the grunge icon tells Guitar Player, he was “fired up” by the success of Brighten — his first solo effort since 2002's Degradation Trip — and was eager to follow it up.“I went through making Brighten and then touring it, and I hadn't gotten to do that in almost 20 years,” he explains. “That's...
Dave Mason on meeting Jimi Hendrix in 1966 and making “All Along the Watchtower” with him
Dave Mason has been one of the great collaborators in rock and roll history, consistently in the room for some of music’s most memorable moments. He was an original member of Traffic, writing the band’s first two great hits, “You Can All Join In” and “Feelin’ Alright?” He quit the group as they took off and rejoined soon after, only to be abruptly fired by Steve Winwood and company.Along the way, Mason played on Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” Paul McCartney and Wings’ first number one hit — “Listen to What the Man Said” —...
George Harrison names the “greatest guitar solo of all time” and the player who left a lasting impression on him
All musicians, no matter how big or small, have their influences, and the Beatles were no exception.While the Fab Four are rightfully regarded as trailblazers, there was a time when the Liverpudlians were doing the idolizing. For George Harrison, no one was better than Buddy Holly.To be clear, Holly held sway over the entire group. John Lennon and founding bassist Stuart Sutcliffe took inspiration for the Beatles' name from Holly's group, the Crickets. His songwriting style would be equally inspirational to Lennon and Paul McCartney's early compositions.But it was Harrison who, as the group's lead guitarst, felt Holly's influence...
Why there are no guitar effects on the Modern English hit “I Melt WIth You"
For English post-punk rockers Modern English, it was a case of being at the right place at the right time. When the group released their ebullient 1982 single “I Melt With You,” it got a lukewarm response. That changed when the nascent MTV network placed the song’s music video on heavy rotation, launching it into the Billboard Hot 100 chart.“MTV had just started,” recalls the group's guitarist, Gary McDowell. “They liked the video, so they put it in heavy rotation — three times a day! Suddenly, in one week, we went from playing small clubs for a couple hundred...
Alex Van Halen talks his and Ed's secret jams with Chris Cornell, the Ozzy-fronted Van Halen album and why the David Lee Roth EVH tribute shows fell apart
Alex Van Halen has lifted the lid on a score of would-be Van Halen projects in a candid new interview with Rolling Stone.The Van Halen drummer is promoting his new book, Brothers, which details his life growing up and taking over the music world with Eddie Van Halen. The audiobook version features their final recording, captured shortly before Eddie’s passing in 2020.Of the revelations dropped during the interview, the most surprising are that, at separate points, Chris Cornell and Ozzy Osbourne each nearly ended up fronting Van Halen.Alex can’t recall when their secret jams with the late Soundgarden frontman happened,...
Steve Cropper says his guitar playing “sucks” — but he knows what sells
As the former guitarist in Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Stax Records' celebrated house band, Steve Cropper made ripples in the guitar world that can still be felt today. He co-wrote that group's classic cut "Green Onions" as well as Otis Redding’s timeless "(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay."But despite his well-earned acclaim, Cropper plays down his talents and achievements with modesty uncharacteristic among most guitarists of his class.“My playing has always sucked, but it sells,” he says in the November 2024 issue of Total Guitar. “I keep it simple, I guess. I'm not a guitar player. I...
"it was stolen right off the stage while the lights were down. Somebody walked right out the door with it." Nuno Bettencourt reveals the mysterious journey of his lost Washburn double-neck guitar
Electric guitars will always be a target for thieves looking to make a quick buck. But the strange disappearance — and reappearance — of Nuno Bettencourt’s Washburn double-neck is one of the wildest you're likely to hear.Stories of brazen thieves walking out of music stores with a Les Paul in their hands, and the theft of four Paul Gilbert guitars have made the headlines in recent months. Bettencourt’s assailants, though, struck while he was busy shredding onstage. “We got to this medley where I was supposed to use it, and my guitar techcomes out and hands me my normal six-string,"...
Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee shot in Las Vegas
Onetime Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee has been hospitalized after he was shot while walking his dog in Las Vegas on the morning of October 15The guitarist was shot several times. He is reportedly fully conscious and doing well. He remains in the ICU unit of a hospital in Las Vegas and is expected to make a full recovery.TMZ.com, which first reported the shooting, said investigators believe the incident was random. Lee was walking his dog around 2 a.m. when the episode occurred. Las Vegas Metro Police say no arrests have been made.Osbourne told TMZ he was shocked by...
Guitar Player
842+
Posts
14M+
Views
Guitar Player spans the broadest range of musical styles, delivering diverse content that covers all skill levels and ages. Exclusive gear roundups, lessons, how-to articles, and artist interviews provide the expert tips and insights that obsessed guitarists crave.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.