Nita Strauss
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Guitar Radar has 2 stories about Nita Strauss, tracking new music, tours, collaborations and gear. Most of it sits under players and gear. The most recent story, from Oct 8, 2026, is “Nita Strauss returns to Alice Cooper's stage after maternity leave”. Coverage here goes back to Sep 2, 2026.
About Nita Strauss
Nita Strauss is an American guitarist best known for playing in Alice Cooper's band and for her solo work. She plays Ibanez, with her own signature model, the JIVA10: a solid nyatoh body with a quilted maple top, a maple and purpleheart neck, an ebony fretboard and an Edge Zero II tremolo, loaded with her DiMarzio Pandemonium humbuckers. Earlier in her career, an Ibanez RG770 DX was a common sight.
Her rig is largely digital: a Boss GT-1000 handles effects and amp sounds live and runs straight into the front-of-house system, so there is no traditional amp on stage, and in the studio she uses a Kemper Profiler with a profile built from the preamp of a Rocktron processor she used for years.
Sources: Premier Guitar: Rig Rundown, Nita Strauss · Mixdown: Gear Rundown, Nita Strauss
Stories
Nita Strauss returns to Alice Cooper's stage after maternity leave
A three-song NFL halftime set in Las Vegas marked Strauss's first show back before her full late-November return.
Ibanez quietly drops new Vai, Satriani and Nita Strauss signatures plus a seven-string Iceman
A surprise September catalogue update brings a gold-leaf PIA for Steve Vai, a fresh JS for Joe Satriani, a Torch Red JIVA for Nita Strauss and a multi-scale Iceman.