Jonathan Horsley

DeCola was still only a teenager in 1982 but he had already had a reputation for being able to work magic on a tremolo system, which he duly did on Rhoads' iconic polka-dotted Sandoval V

Available in standard white or in limited edition black, the latter with a Turbo mode featuring NOS Germanium 1n34a diodes, this Bat is a mutant Rat with more than a few tricks up its sleeve

The Gov't Mule frontman says a Les Paul and a Firebird are incoming...

Basilio's Violet is available now in Purple and Black and features a clever 3-Band EQ in which the midrange controls are placed before the distortion to expand your palette of tones

For a super-budget travel and practice option, the 10-watt JAMster series is hard to beat. It has Bluetooth connectivity, a headphones out and can be battery-powered. All for less than $50

The making of Queen's debut album was a learning process for all, none more so than Mercury who used the studio as a tool for radical self-improvement and take full command of his instrument

Harley Benton teams up with the YouTube star for the Standard lineup, featuring weight-relieved bodies, humbuckers with coil splits, roasted maple necks and locking tuners

With a radically-modded cheapo classical guitar, a head clouded by darkness, May wrote a great Queen epic and tore up the production rulebook that said you can't mix electric and acoustic

Brian Wampler's breadboard has been running hot this week. Besides this greatest hits of reverb/delay, his stompbox brand also unveiled Syntax, a MIDI-enabled micro-pedal to take control of your rig

This limited edition practice-friendly 1x8 combo has two-channels, reverb, heaps of gain, cab simulated output and fancy white Tolex just like Orianthi's Rockerverb 50-inspired signature tube amp