Professional Electric Guitars

There’s a particular kind of dread that hits about four songs into a set, right when your guitar decides the G string has had enough for the evening. A gigging electric guitar is, in the simplest terms, an instrument built to survive repeated load-ins, temperature swings, sweaty stage lights and three sets a night without … Read more

Here’s a confession most gear guides won’t make: the guitar sitting in your mate’s spare-room studio, the one that sounds like a million quid on his SoundCloud, probably cost less than his audio interface. An electric guitar for recording is any solid-body or semi-hollow instrument whose pickups, intonation and electronics translate cleanly into a DI … Read more

Buying your first proper professional electric guitar feels a bit like buying your first car with a manual gearbox after years of automatics — everything responds differently, and suddenly you notice things you never had to think about before. Fret edges. Neck joints. Whether a pickup barks or purrs. A professional electric guitar is a … Read more