Brit boxes

ThorpyFX’s latest stacks up the germanium transistors for full-fat vintage tone in a functional modern setting

Gibson Les Paul Music City Special £1,599

Electro-Harmonix releases its most ambitious reverb pedal to date – and it goes way beyond ’verb to offer myriad sound-sculpting opportunities

If guitars are actually getting better by the day, us modders will have nothing to improve. Is it the end of the line, wonders Dave Burrluck, when he gets a new guitar on the bench

Nearly 40 years on from the Custom Shop’s inception, its creations are more ambitious than ever. Find out how the team walks the tightrope between ‘canon’ and ‘cannot’, and where its guitars are heading next

French loadbox leader, Two Notes, releases the Swiss Army knife of amplifier attenuation and connectivity – we witness the results