Plini
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Guitar Radar has 1 story about Plini, tracking new music, tours, collaborations and gear. Most of it sits under music. The most recent story, from Mar 31, 2026, is “Plini's third album trades a guitar solo for restraint on its own title track”.
About Plini
Plini is a Sydney-born progressive guitarist who began under the pseudonym Halcyon before releasing music under his own name; Steve Vai praised his album Handmade Cities. His guitar is the Strandberg Boden, and in 2017 he joined the company and developed the Boden Standard Plini Edition with a chambered swamp ash body, a maple top with an Australian blackwood veneer, Suhr SSH+ and SSV pickups, a single volume control and the EGS 5 Pro tremolo. Strandberg later released a neck-through version with a five-ply carbon-fiber-reinforced roasted maple neck.
He does not use tube amps, joking that he has never owned one. He developed the Archetype: Plini plug-in with Neural DSP, with Clean, Crunch and Lead channels plus reverb and delay, which he called basically his dream rig; a later 2.0 update added a tuner. Live he also uses a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx III.
Guitar Radar follows Plini's signature Strandberg editions, Neural DSP products and tours.
Sources: Guitar.com: Everything you need to know about Plini · Mixdown: Strandberg reveals new Plini and Per Nilsson signature models · GearNews: Neural DSP Archetype with Plini
