
Dave Hunter
Dave Hunter is a writer and consulting editor for Guitar Player magazine. His prolific output as author includes Fender 75 Years (opens in new tab), The Guitar Amp Handbook (opens in new tab), The British Amp Invasion (opens in new tab), Ultimate Star Guitars (opens in new tab), Guitar Effects Pedals (opens in new tab), The Guitar Pickup Handbook (opens in new tab), The Fender Telecaster (opens in new tab) and several other titles. Hunter is a former editor of The Guitar Magazine (UK), and a contributor to Vintage Guitar, Premier Guitar, The Connoisseur and other publications. A contributing essayist to the United States Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board’s Permanent Archive, he lives in Kittery, ME, with his wife and their two children and fronts the bands A Different Engine and The Stereo Field.
Latest articles by Dave Hunter

Watch Carlos Santana Bringing Mesa/Boogie Amps and Yamaha Guitars to the Masses
By Rod Brakes, Dave Hunter published
Video Here’s why the Grammy-winning legend was a guitar gear innovator.

“I Always Look at Playing Guitar as an Attack. It Has to Be a Fight”: How Jack White Made Cheap Guitars Cool (and Expensive!)
By Dave Hunter published
Video The White Stripes guitarist proves music is in the heart, mind and fingers of the maker in this awesome SNL performance of “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground.”
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