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The Big 5

This year’s quick-hit interviews revealed that Phil Collen sees a connection between your vibrato and ego, how a short-scale Strat is rocking Neal Schon’s world, Halestorm hates “Instagram guitar” faces, and Steve Vai’s secret weapon.

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Steve Albini in the control room at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago.

Photo by Kevin Tiongson

Words of wisdom from the legendary engineer, proprietor of Chicago’s Electrical Audio, World Series of Poker champion, and, in the band Shellac, the compass for brutal guitar aesthetics.

“All day every day, we’re grinding it out,” says engineer Steve Albini of his team at Electrical Audio, the Chicago studio he built and has run since 1997. “We’re constantly in session, constantly under fire.”

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Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada on Using a Pick: “I Was Just Shredding My Nails”

The soulful guitarist talks about his flamenco and classical background, and shares what he learned from Thurston Moore.

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“You Turn Me on, Derek!”

Evergrey prog-metallers Henrik Danhage and Tom Englund on their unlikely guitar heroes, and how to improve bad vibrato.

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“You’re Not Playing Tennis!“—Fontaines D.C.'s Conor Curley on Shredders & Sweatbands

Plus, the Fontaines D.C. axeman explains why he’s reticent to fix the microphonic pickup in his ’66 Fender Coronado.

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