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Here are the 13 must-try guitar accessories for under $25 this Prime Day - including the Hetfield-approved Dunlop Black Fang guitar picks for only $8.25!
From picks to tuners, slides to strings, these are our choices for the best guitar-related items under $25 on sale right now at Amazon
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The secret behind Marcin, Matteo and Paco? How rest note picking can improve your tone, speed and volume
Paco Peña, Marcin Patrzałek and Matteo Mancuso all use rest strokes to play powerful single notes – here's how to make them work for you
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“My gosh, that's a big guitar”: 10-year-old guitarist nails Are You Gonna Go May Way during America’s Got Talent – on a PRS that’s almost as tall as he is
Bay Melnick Virgolino’s PRS might make him look tiny, but the sounds he gets out of it are huge
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“I remember reading it and thinking, ‘Why did he say I left the band?’ I never left the band. I was fired”: Vivian Campbell sets the record straight on his infamous departure from Ronnie James Dio’s band
The guitar icon joined and departed Dio in the space of a few years owing to disagreements over the financial running of the band, Campbell says
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"This is the kind of guitar that encourages you to play your best, allowing you to perform faster, smoother, and more expressively than you thought possible": Gibson Marcus King ES-345 review
Marcus King delivers a royal reimagining of an ES classic – and it may take the crown as the finest signature guitar of the year
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“I stepped on the stage really hard and the guitar fell over and exploded. The headstock shattered into five pieces”: That time Ty Segall accidentally smashed his beloved ’60s Gibson
We’ve all got at least one broken gear anecdote, and if you think yours is a horror story, think again...
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“Sound like your favorite song with a single click”: This ambitious pedal uses AI to recreate the guitar tones from any song you feed it
Show the OnePedal a song and it’ll steal its tonal secrets, its developers say
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I thought Amazon’s Prime Day sale was a dud until they slashed the price of these Boss favorites – and yes, it includes the beloved DS-1W
Save big on everything from the Katana Artist-Head to Boss compact pedals, and much more this Prime Day
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3 Positive Grid Spark amps just got hit with big Prime Day discounts – and they all scored 4.5 stars in our reviews
If you're on the hunt for a budget practice amp this Prime Day, look no further
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“A modern take on vintage tones”: PRS gives its celebrated NF 53 the SE treatment – tabling a bid for the best sub-$1k electric of 2025
The workhorse six-string is loaded with the firm’s innovative Narrowfield pickups and a bunch of premium specs – and it’s already received rave reviews
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Shhhh... Donner's 4.5-star Hush-X travel guitar just dropped by a chunky 20%, making practice at home or on vacation more family-friendly
This Prime Day, you can bag an electric travel guitar that sounds so good you won't believe it isn't a regular solidbody
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“I like a standard-tuning guitar. If you can’t put your ideas across with that, you’re in trouble”: Justin Hawkins on why he’s not convinced by alternate tunings
Hawkins believes that E standard offers plenty of opportunity for expression
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“There were a lot of things I wish I had done with Greta that if I could go back in time and do differently, I would”: Jake Kiszka’s Greta Van Fleet journey so far has been an astounding success – but there are some things he’d change about it
Kiszka looks back on GVF’s early days while looking ahead to the future with his brand-new project, Mirador
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“Korn was doing their 30th anniversary show with Gojira. I was like, ‘I have to go give Christian a guitar, and I have to give Head a guitar’”: Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones
The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all
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“Rule number one: When you’re notusing a pedal, your guitar must sound like your original guitar sound”: Steve Stevens on the pedalbord the guru Dave Friedman made him, his favorite Klon klone and why he can't use chorus anymore
The effervescent Billy Idol guitarist reveals the secrets of his pedalboard
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I bought the HX Stomp years ago and it's still one of my smartest gear purchases - get up to $200 off Line 6 in the Sweetwater sale
Most Line 6 purchases will also come bundled with a free Eminence IR sampler pack
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“Well-spec'd and looking like it could do serious damage on the battlefield, this guitar is as muscular as Rammstein’s live shows”: ESP LTD RZK-III OW review
Rammstein’s riffer-in-chief Richard ZK returns with his third signature guitar, marking a departure from its predecessors with an arsenal of fun features
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"If you just think PRS make guitars for well-heeled doctors and dentists you might have to change your opinion here": PRS SE NF 53 review
A new month, a new PRS. This time the USA NF 53 gets the affordable SE treatment
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“I miss being at the end of the stage and turning up my amp as loud as possible”: Oasis have performed their first live shows in 16 years – and Noel Gallagher re-embracing guitar solos after all this time is set to be a highlight of the entire reunion
After largely spending years as the rhythm guitarist for his High Flying Birds project, Gallagher is finally letting loose on the fretboard once again
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Amazon Prime Day has dirt-cheap guitar pedals starting from only $20.79. But are they too cheap? Here's my thoughts and recommendations
With discounts on cheap pedals from the likes of Electro-Harmonix, Donner, Mooer, and more, it's never been cheaper to build a fully stocked 'board
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