Name: Tom Quayle Location: Leeds, UK Links: www.tomquayle.co.uk www.facebook.com/tomqguitar www.youtube.com/tq105 www.twitch.tv/tomquayle What’s your main guitar? – I use Fibenare guitars, handmade in Budapest, Hungary. My main instrument is my Roadmaster FB super-strat style guitar. What amp and cab combo would you say is your go-to? – My main amp is a Laney Lionheart L20 2×12 combo A quick rundown of your pedals and outboard, in the studio and live? – I use a combination of an Axe FX II and my amp with my Wampler Dual Fusion signature overdrive and various other pedals mic’d up with an SM57 and a Royer R121 ribbon mic. This is all recorded using a Universal Audio Apollo interface. Live, I use my pedal board, built by Daniel Steinhardt from the Gigrig into my Laney Lionheart amp.  String gauge? – I use 10-46 on my Strat scale length guitars and 11-52 on my shorter scale ones. I always use IQS strings. Pick of choice? – I use Timbertones Jazztones picks made from Buffalo horn.  When recording, what’s your DAW of choice? – I’m a massive fan of Studio One and use V.3 for all my work. I also use Cubase 8.5 and Logic when I need to. If you had to stick to one guitar for the rest of your life, what would it be and would it have 6, 7, 8 – or 9 strings? – This would definitely be my six string Fibenare Erotic – it’s just so comfortable to play and looks and sounds gorgeous. If you had to describe your style, what would you say…and in what overall genre would you place yourself? – I’m definitely within the Fusion genre but I cross into straight ahead jazz and rock/shred too at times. I guess my style is a smooth legato one based over chord changes and grooves. If you could pick only one track to jam to for the rest of time, what would it be? – Without a doubt it would be Little Wing – that tune is just so perfect and there is quite a lot you can do with the harmony as well as just going for it with a pentatonic scale. Name five players that helped shape you as a guitarist! Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Greg Howe, Allen Hinds, Pat Metheny Who’s the most interesting player today? – For me I am really torn between Jonathan Kreisberg and Julian Lage. They both blow my mind and are achieving new things for the instrument.