Buyers Guides

While many people will avoid doing their own setups, there’s no reason not to try to keep your guitar clean and free of gunk! We walk you through our top suggestions for cleaning kits to keep your fingerboard fast and your guitar looking factory fresh.

While there isn’t a “beginner guitar pick”, there are definitely good choices for packs of picks to help you work out what the right pick is for you. We review three of our favorites, as well as looking at some unusual selections, such as steel, wood and stone picks!

If you’re looking to do some minor repairs and general care of your instrument at home, you’re going to need a tool kit. Some things you can do with your standard home toolkit, but when you get into the reeds, you need some guitar specific tools. Luckily, these kits don’t cost as much as even one trip to the luthier. We walk through our choices for best tool kits and multitools for guitars.

KGR’s Guide to the Best Electric Guitar Starter Kit for beginners based on a hands-on side-by-side comparison to evaluate performance, tone, and durability.

Killer Guitar Rigs’ comprehensive list (w/ reviews) of the best guitar wall mounts & hangers based on features, functionality, aesthetics, and affordability.

Looking to get your kid started in music? We give you our top tips for beginner acoustic guitars, electric guitars and bass guitars, specially sized for small, medium and big kids. We also run through a buyer’s guide so you know what to look out for, and to make sure you buy the right instrument to get your little one on the right road.

7 String Guitars are near-ubiquitous in certain styles of music, but many artists play guitars that rival Gibson Les Paul Customs on price.

We walk you through several of our best picks for 7 strings under $500 – new and used – and talk you through what you need to bear in mind as a buyer, and as an owner.

Delay pedals are found on almost every guitarist’s pedal board, but with such a wide range available, and given they’re a higher priced pedal, it can be hard to know where to start. We walk you through how to choose a delay pedal, and give you our top ten choices for delay pedals in 2020.