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At Gi, we have a lot of respect for Stuart Spector and his work. His bass designs are iconic and are used the world over by some of the very best in bass guitar including, Doug Wimbish, wh...

There’s a common misconception that playing acoustic live means plugging the guitar straight into a DI and job done.  But why should electric players have all the...

Faith truly does deserve credit for the breadth and variety to its catalogue.  Even the most cursory of looks at its website reveals a company that has just about every...

Here, it has taken the bestselling Venus model, and boldly responded to the trend towards percussive slapping and tapping in fingerstyle by adding a body sensor.  

At 2017’s NAMM show, back in January, Patrick James Eggle took the opportunity to announce he’d be focusing on his eponymous electric guitars over his acoustic instruments.&nbs...

In the musical instrument business, as with the music and film industries, creativity has been replaced - to an extent - by a tendency to look backwards for quality.  W...

Two hundred watts from an amp that can fit in your back pocket? Surely not.  Well, Trace Elliot’s tiny Elf does indeed slip into your jeans (we’ve tried it!...

Talk about timing. British distributor Barnes and Mullins, the company behind Faith guitars, re-launched Shergold at the start of this year.  The result of a length...

A fine addition to a genuinely exciting range of guitars - but try them all first. When you’ve got a good thing going, keep running with it. 

The Transit B and its cousin for acoustic guitar, (the Transit A) are floor based preamplifiers with a host of features that are not only useful for both the recording and performing artis...

A decent solution to the problem of an affordable, but Eggle-designed, guitar. The renowned luthier Patrick James Eggle is known for making wondrous guitars under his ...

Spector nails it yet again. At this point in the brand’s history, Spector basses are pretty much unstoppable.  The marque doesn’t need ...