Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome ninth annual Best & Worst Guitar Gear of the Year video! This is a list of lots of stuff I got to test since mid-December 2024 to December 2025. I hope you like it. Drop a comment and thumbs up and let me know what the best or worst piece of gear you tested in 2025 was.

Video Playlist - youtube.com/watch?v=eOYVjAsPQR8&list=PLNYCekIbACISjmXC5UFmepAGf3Yb-xC-6

Gear mentioned in the Best & Worst of 2025
🛒 Peavey Bandit 112 (used) - guitar-center.pxf.io/EEnE4Q
🛒 Marshall DSL20CR - sweetwater.sjv.io/dOXOm7
🛒 Marshall JCM900 - sweetwater.sjv.io/7aAaZd
🛒 Mooer Intelligent Amp -
🛒 Epiphone Casino (USA) - sweetwater.sjv.io/POLOPN
🛒 G&L ASAT Blues Boy - guitar-center.pxf.io/Z6k6Zg
🛒 RJ Guitars - https://www.rjguitars.store
🛒 Artist AT53 - alnk.to/3njQhHD
🛒 Eart Guitars - eartguitar.com
🛒 Fender Player Series - sweetwater.sjv.io/dOXOQ7
🛒 Gibson 59 Les Paul - sweetwater.sjv.io/yqDq0b
🛒 Peavey Bandit Pedal - sweetwater.sjv.io/K0R01y
🛒 ToneX Gear - sweetwater.sjv.io/DyEyPa
🛒 Tonerider APEX Classic Pickups -
🛒 Zoom R20 Recorder - sweetwater.sjv.io/ravaZ5
🛒 Fender Super Amp - sweetwater.sjv.io/jeEekv
🛒 Sonicake Pocketmaster - intheblues.net/go/sonicake-pocket-master
🛒 Hotone Ampero II Stomp - sweetwater.sjv.io/YR5R5m
🛒 Valeton GP-5 - intheblues.net/go/valeton-gp-5
🛒 Taurus Servo 3 - https://www.taurusamps.pl/servo-3
🛒 Kernom Ridge - intheblues.net/go/kernom-ridge
🛒 VS Audio Royal Flush Plus - intheblues.net/go/vs-audio-royal-flush-plus
🛒 CTC Killer V - intheblues.net/go/crazy-tube-circuits-killer-v
🛒 Gamechanger Audio Auto Delay - sweetwater.sjv.io/kOnOBn
🛒 Hotone Verbera - sweetwater.sjv.io/9L1L50
🛒 Sonicake Trio Rider - intheblues.net/go/sonicake-trio-rider-klon
🛒 TWA Source Code - intheblues.net/go/twa-source-code-pedal

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Guitar Stores Mentioned:
@guitarsanctuary @Southpawguitars1980 @SouthAustinMusic
Brands Mentioned
@SONICAKE @Valeton @marshall @fender @peavey @ikamultimedia
@ArtistGuitarsDemo @CrazyTubeCircuits @vsaudio3506 @ToneriderOfficial
@GamechangerAudio @Eartguitarsofficial @OfficialEpiphone @Zoom

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Video Chapters
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00:00:00 - Best & Worst Music Gear of 2025
00:01:30 - BEST AMPS - Amplifier 01
00:04:22 - Amplifier 02
00:06:53 - Amplifier 03
00:08:49 - Favorite Practice Amp of 2025
00:10:40 - Amplifier 04
00:12:11 - BEST GUITARS:
00:12:53 - Guitar 01 - Best Epiphone
00:14:59 - Guitar 02 - Most Surprising
00:17:30 - Guitar 03 - Best Quality Handmade Guitar
00:20:01 - Guitar 04 - Best Budget Electric
00:22:59 - Guitar 04 - Best Value Mid Price
00:25:45 - Guitar 05 - Fender Guitars
00:28:45 - Guitar 06 - Best Gibson
00:30:54 - Guitar 07 - Best PRS
00:32:37 - Most Divisive Amplifier
00:37:12 - Most Divisive Pedal
00:39:00 - Most Divisive Guitar
00:41:32 - Most Divisive Digital Gear
00:44:38 - Best Accessories of 2025: Best Pickups
00:46:56 - Best Accessory of 2025 - Recording Tool
00:49:09 - Worst Products of the Year
00:51:15 - Least Finished Product of 2025
00:53:24 - MEH - Tube Amp
00:55:57 - Weirdest Guitar Pedals
00:59:34 - Weirdest Guitar Pedal 02
01:01:29 - Best Guitar Stores 01
01:03:14 - Best Guitar Store 02
01:04:05 - Best Guitar Store 03
01:06:04 - Best Multi-Effects Processor Pedals
01:06:59 - Multi-Effects 02
01:08:05 - Multi-Effects 03 - My Pick for the Best
01:09:54 - Favorite Traditional Effects Pedals of 2025
01:10:48 - Pedal 02
01:11:24 - Pedal 03
01:12:19 - Pedal 04
01:13:15 - Pedal 05
01:14:18 - Pedal 06
01:15:40 - Best Reverb
01:16:34 - Pedal 07
01:17:06 - Pedal 08 -
01:17:42 - Pedal 09
01:18:12 - Pedal 10 & 11
01:19:19 - Best Pedal 12
01:20:11 - Final Thoughts / Patreon / Members / Subscribers & Thank you

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