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"All those riffs came out with the Mulecaster. An amazing instrument that weighs a ton but sounds utterly timeless and three dimensional": Folk great John Smith on his life-changing Mulecaster experience and why the Quad Cortex isn't just for metalheads

As the influential UK folk guitarist gears up to take his new album, The Living Kind, out on the road, he joins us to explain how a shift in his gear and writing process has had a profound effect on h
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"I've written most Erra records with a Line 6 Spider. I'm not precious about any gear – the first priority is writing good songs": Dirty fret choices and weird bends are more important to Jesse Cash than geeking out on gear

New album Cure sees the progressive metalcore outfit working with a producer for the first time to hone their Earth-shattering riffs – it also showcases Cash’s love of Jerry Cantrell’s bending techniq
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"This is sort of sacrilegious. I might have fibbed and said 'never' with the digital modeling…" Jim Root has switched to the Neural DSP Quad Cortex for some Slipknot shows – and plans on pulling his PRS guitars out of retirement

Despite once saying hed stay clear of digital tech, Root has started dabbling in the amp modeling world – and recently used the Quad Cortex at a high-profile festival performance
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"Metal guitars have more bite, but they lose some of the meat on the attack. Les Pauls are very meaty – there's a big chunk of tonal range there": Why a baritone Les Paul is proving the perfect prog metal weapon for Wheel's James Lascelles

Upcoming third album, Charismatic Leaders, kickstarts a new era for the Finnish prog-metallers with a sound that’s stubbornly traditional but powerfully progressive
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"The Opus might not displace your Helix, Fractal, Kemper or Quad Cortex, but it offers a lot of good-sounding emulation in a compact and usable package at a fraction of the price": Two Notes Opus Amp Sim and IR Loader Unit review

There’s a lot of sound and even more flexibility in this little box, and it should prove to be exactly what many guitarists are looking for
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"The quality of bands is much higher than it used to be… There's something going on here that we cannot describe": Why is Australia turning out some of the most amazing prog metal guitarists on the planet?

From Karnivool, Plini and Caligula’s Horse to Voyager, Dead Letter Circus and Reliqa, Aussie acts that make it overseas are often at the forefront of next-level guitar playing. How come?
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"In pop-punk, you have to be able to sing any guitar part. To have a shreddy solo feels like a waste – it just shows off that individual's musicianship and doesn't do much for the audience": Neck Deep on how to write the perfect pop-punk song

The Welsh pop-punk stalwarts’ six-string engine room share their strategies for mass audience singalongs, praise digital amp rigs, and explain why sometimes you dont have to do what the producer says
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