Mooer Audio have fine-tuned and updated their sleek GS1000 Intelligent Amp Profiling Processor that now allows guitarists around the world to emulate their favorite gear with immense precision–specifically, for distortion pedals, preamps, amplifier heads, and cabinets.
Dunable Guitars introduced the new Strega series of 7-string guitars–-a perfect cut for metal in style and sound, with pickups with extended low-range clarity, custom-wound in their shop. The guitar line, which are tagged at about $3,850, is the brainchild of and hand-built by longtime Dunable luthier Tony Tirado, who explained that they are an outgrowth of his passion for metal as well as his design aesthetic, which tends toward angles, edges, and fins‑–classic flourishes with a fresh spin. They clock in at very well-balanced 7–8 pounds, but sound heavy as hell.
Seymour Duncan and blues-rock hero Joe Bonamassa continue their decade-long collaboration with Strat pickups based on the set from Joe’s own fabled 1964 refin-ed Strat he calls the Greenburst. These are exacting reproductions of that guitar’s stock grey-bottom pickups, made for tone hunters, and carry a $375 MAP. They’ve got period-correct wiring and staggered alnico 5 magnets, and sound notable punchy with a higher output. The first 500 come in limited edition packaging signed by JB himself.
