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Best guitar amps 2025: Tube-driven triumphs and peerless pedal platforms for home, studio, and stage
By Daryl Robertson last updated
From solid-state practice amps to all-tube stage amps, here’s our pick of the best amplifiers on the market – featuring Boss, Blackstar, Orange, and more

Pete Townshend talks originality, playing loud and which guitarist was first to use feedback
By Phil Weller published
He says Marshall's '60s amps were rife for experimentation while discussing his “musical” use of screaming amps

Joe Bonamassa reveals the world's most expensive three-channel amp
By Phil Weller published
With three Dumbles, two Marshalls, a rare Mesa/Boogie rotary speaker and an original Klon Centaur, it's a no-expense-spared setup

Best tube amps 2025: Top choices from Fender, Marshall, MESA/Boogie and more
By Richard Blenkinsop last updated
From single-channel combos to versatile, powerful heads, here are the best tube amps on offer right now

Ritchie Blackmore once protested hotel construction by cranking his amps at 3 a.m. – but didn't know that Eric Clapton was in the room next door
By Phil Weller published
In a new interview, the founding Deep Purple guitarist also revealed the tonal tip he gleaned from Slowhand in their first, decidedly less awkward, meeting

Origin Effects honors Marshall’s iconic 1990s drive pedal with the Halcyon Blue Overdrive
By Phil Weller published
A second voice joins the “faithful” BB tone, with an added Dry control and improved dynamic response aiming to take the template to new heights

Marshall celebrates 100 years of Celestion with a standout, super-limited and hand-crafted Studio JTM head and cab
By Phil Weller published
A down-sized version of the Marshall JTM45 head, it comes stocked with Celestion's new 100 speaker, which celebrates the latter firm's early innovations

Ronnie Wood on the early days of Marshall, and his loudness war with the Who
By Jackson Maxwell published
Alongside many other budding British guitar heroes of mid-'60s London, Wood – via Marshall – consistently pushed the boundaries of amplification

Marshall Crenshaw looks back on the making of his masterpiece, Field Day
By Christopher Scapelliti published
With the help of producer-of-the-moment Steve Lillywhite, Marshall Crenshaw made the guitar album of his dreams. Critics, however, panned its production, halting his rising career. Four decades later, Field Day is finally being reappraised

“It’s tempting to look for more overdrive, distortion or feedback, but the volume control is what it’s all about. Just listen to Jeff Beck!”: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s Zal Cleminson on tone, Marshalls, and what he learned from his late bandleader
By Michael Molenda published
Scales might be a “mystery” to this underrated riff-master, but few guitarists of Cleminson's (or any) era can match his flair for the dramatic. In this classic interview, Cleminson takes GP inside his enviable tone
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