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Best guitar amps under $500 2025: Premium tones from budget-friendly amplifiers
By Matt McCracken last updated
Who said great tone has to cost an arm and a leg? These amps from Boss, Marshall, Fender, Blackstar, and more deliver incredible sound – all for under $500

Watch Grace Bowers riff on her Gibson SG while she shows us what’s on her pedalboard
By Jimmy Leslie published
Guitar Player caught up with the 18-year-old blues guitar phenom at the Allman Betts Family Revival show in San Francisco. Watch our exclusive video

“The best Binson Echorec emulation ever made.” Dawner Prince tackles the king of all delays with its new Boonar Tube Deluxe. Repeat after us: It's a winner
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Built by hand, and available in limited quantities, it’s a gorgeous emulation of the delay unit famously used by David Gilmour

Mitch Colby resurrects the amp that gave Paul McCartney his start and put the Kinks on the hit parade
By Dave Hunter published
The Colby Elpico AC55 1x12 combo is a modern take on the 1950s/'60s Elpico AC55 that launched young British guitarists into the world of rock and roll

“‘Those old Beatle bashers?’”: Paul McCartney talks Vox amps, and his love of dirty tones
By Jackson Maxwell published
In a 1990 GP interview, McCartney expressed his personal preference for getting gnarlier rock tones out of his Vox amps, despite his pop reputation

The Engl Hardtailer converts your tremolo from full floating to dive-only in seconds
By Jude Gold published
It's easy to install and works on most block-and-springs-based trems and locking trems, including those with the EVH D-Tuna or Tone Vise Pitch Shifter

Seth Lover helped create a Telecaster range that remains one of the decade's shining moments
By Dave Hunter published
With its Wide Range humbuckers, the revised Fender Telecaster Thinline gets higher marks than most of its contemporaries.

Danelectro brings back its famed Spring King – a spring reverb pedal you can kick
By Phil Weller published
Downsized but tonally faithful to the original, the Spring King boasts a real spring reverb
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