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NAMM 2016: Editors' Picks – Day 4

Take a look at the PG editors' top picks from day 3 of NAMM.

PG editors pick their top gear from the first day of NAMM. See everything from day 3 in our photo gallery.

Hagstrom Condor

For those of you driven to frenzy trying to score Kevin Parker's six string in the rear cover of Lonerism, freak out no more. The Impala and its three pickup cousin the Condor (pictured here) are back, resplendent in a gaggle of switches and sporting are-engineered Hagstrom trem. Other cool updates about, most notably the deep carve in the set neck that puts just about every fret within reach. For all the updates it feels and looks authentically vintage. The Condor will be $649 and the Impala $599.

ESP LTD B-1004SE Multi-Scale

Got fanned frets? The new LTD B-1004SE Multi-Scale from ESP Guitars does, and it made its debut here at NAMM The 36.25" to 34"-scale bass features a swamp-ash body with a rosewood top, a 5-piece wenge/bubinga neck topped with a rosewood fretboard, a Hipshot Solo bridge, and Gotoh tuners. For electronics, the B-1004SE is packed with a pair of Nordstrand Big Splits that are run by the ESP-designed ABQ-3MS 3-band EQ.

Bad Cat USA Players Series

Bad Cat Amplifiers brought their new USA Player Series to ‪NAMM‬. The more affordable line is still made in their California factory, but with printed circuit boards. Along with bass, treble, cut, and reverb controls the line allows you switch between an EF86 preamp or a 12AX7 via a footswitch. Oh, and the fat switch adds plenty of beef. Prices will range from $1099 to $1499 depending on the configuration.

EarthQuaker Devices Sound Projector

EarthQuaker Devices has been bringing its own intriguing amp designs to NAMM as pedal-demo vehicles for the last couple of years, but this year they finally announced a model that's available for purchase: The super-simple Sound Projector 25 is a linear, 25-watt class-A head that features volume, treble, and bass controls, and comes stock with KT66 power tubes. Thanks to its external bias-test points, it can also easily be adjusted to run other octal tubes (e.g., EL34, 6L6, 6V6). It's available in black or white covering for $1,850 street, or with a matching Baltic-birch 2x12 cab with Celestion Vintage 30s or custom Warehouse speakers for $2,450.

Duesenberg Grand Royale

Duesenberg Guitars showed up in Anaheim with a bunch of lookers. The Grand Royale hollowbody (approx. $3,150 street) has 60mm sides, internal soundposts for feedback control, and classic-looking new Phonico pickups controlled by a 4-position dial selector (treble bout).

Voodoo Lab PX-8 Plus

Voodoo Lab's PX-8 Plus loop-switcher (top) features eight loops, multiple preset banks, preset and live operating modes, and MIDI capability, all for around $350 street. The company also got into the pedalboard game with three new sizes that offer simplified pedal and power-supply attachment, as well as an included padded case. The medium-sized board even has a clever feature that allows the PX-8 Plus switcher to attach to the front without hogging any board space. Board prices are TBD.

ESP LTD TE-200

ESP Guitars' handsome new LTD TE-200 ($389 street) offers really impressive build quality *and* tones, thanks to new ESP-Designed humbuckers.

Vox AC30CH

Vox came to NAMM with head versions of its popular AC30 and AC15 Customs—the AC30CH ($899 street) and AC15CH (not shown, $599). Like their combo counterparts, both use EL84s and have normal and top-boost channels, as well as tube-driven tremolo and spring reverb, but they also feature the company's new Reactive attenuator circuit.

Electro-Harmonix Soul POG

Electro-Harmonix is at NAMM with the new and versatile Soul POG. It combines two of EHX's most popular pedals (the Soul Food overdrive and Nano POG) into one potent stomp. The Soul POG is equipped with an effects loop, and the mode switch in the octave section offers up two different octave-up sounds.

Marshall CODE Series

Marshall Amplification's new CODE series amps are Bluetooth and USB enabled, and feature 100 editable presets, 14 preamp models, four power-amp models, 8 speaker-cab models, 24 effects, audio and headphone inputs, and compatibility with the online Marshall Gateway community, where players are encouraged to creatively interact and share sounds.

Vox Guilietta

We're sincerely hoping Vox moves ahead with the compact Guilietta archtop seen here in prototype form at NAMM. Not only is the Guilietta a smart looking and snappy sounding little archtop, the guitar uses the company's Nutube technology, which enables you to plug in direct and still have a huge range of tone shaping control and tube-like preamp dynamics. Here's hoping we can report on a production version before the year is done.