Compact, affordable and full of Fender DNA, the Blues Junior celebrates 30 years as one of the company’s most iconic and celebrated valve amp designs. Senior product manager, Rick Heins, joins us to mark the milestone

OUR TEST BLONDE version of the Tone Master Deluxe Reverb features the modelling combo series’ first major new software with the IR Manager via the v2 firmware update. It promises to add extra function

Two new lower-end, similarly priced Stratocasters cater for both vintage and more modern tastes and blur the line between Fender’s USA and Mexican manufacturing. Which one has your name on it?

IF YOU’RE EXPECTING something like Rory Gallagher’s or Mike McCready’s tattered Strats, you’re going to be disappointed. The new limited-edition Road Worns — a ’50s Jazzmaster, the ’60s Strat reviewed

THE ROTARY SPEAKER effect is a classic of the early rock ’n’ roll era, and Boss aims to bring back the goodness it captured in its original RT-20 pedal in a more compact guise here. In typical Boss st

More aged nitro finishes and a new US-made line-up that pares back the modernisms. Are our tastes changing? Max Gutnik, chief product officer at FMIC, tells all