Loudbox Mini with Bluetooth®
Fishman's lightest and most portable amp now with the addition of Bluetooth® wireless connectivity!
Our lightest and most portable amp, the Loudbox Mini delivers the tonal quality that has made the Fishman name the standard for great acoustic sound. The Mini packs 60 watts of clean acoustic power, and has two channels featuring Fishman's legendary preamp and tone control designs. The amp also features digital reverb and chorus for the instrument channel and reverb for the microphone channel. The Loudbox Mini sports an MP3 input and balanced XLR D.I. output.
With the addition of Bluetooth® wireless connectivity, you can now easily and neatly add backing tracks or other accompaniment to your performances, jams, and practice sessions.
Guild M-25E
Guild introduces the M-25E: a stunning, all-mahogany concert model inspired by the California coast. A concert size acoustic built with solid mahogany top, back, and sides, the M-25E also features a rosewood bridge and fingerboard, and bone nut and saddle. The original M-20 was the first guitar off the production line in 1967 when manufacturing was based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Today, the M series are an iconic part of the Guild name—now manufactured in Oxnard, California. The M-25E's updated appointments include white binding, nitrocellulose gloss top and headstock, a vintage style rosette, Guild's peak logo inlaid in mother-of-pearl on the headstock, and an all-new California Burst finish. Each M-25E comes with a hand-signed, numbered certificate of authenticity, and ships with a hardshell case. Available in California Burst with LR Baggs pickup.
Celebrity Collection - Celebrity Elite Exotic
All of the playability and pristine live sound of the Celebrity Collection Elite is visually enhanced with a stunning top of exotic wood for the Celebrity Collection Elite Exotic guitars. This performance-ready guitar with Ovation's unique multi-soundhole design gives you clear highs and a focused, balanced bass response. The Lyrachord® composite, mid depth body is comfortable standing or sitting and provides excellent projection. A satin-finished neck, Ovangkol fretboard and bridge all combine to make playing effortless and responsive. The Celebrity Elite is equipped with an Ovation Slimline pickup and OP-4CT preamp system featuring a three-band EQ, volume/gain control, onboard tuner and low-battery light that make it easy to dial in your sound. Whether you perform on stage, in church or in the garage, your Elite delivers the classic Ovation Elite sound: articulation and balance, projection, and nuanced tonal complexity.
Capo Royale Series
Shubb have had many requests over the years for a gold Shubb capo with a durable finish. It's common knowledge that gold plating on metal tends to wear fast and isn't the most durable. They are happy to announce the Capo Royale series of capos in two distinct finishes, gold and rose gold. These capos are finished with a PVD titanium base that looks and feels like actual gold, but will not wear down like gold.
FELiX
FELiX is our studio quality, 2 channel blending acoustic preamp, designed for players looking for the highest quality solution for amplifying their stringed instruments. FELiX is built into a roadworthy floor unit chassis of anodized aluminum and steel, portable enough to leave the rack gear at home but bring studio quality to the stage. With legendary audio quality and reliability, FELiX delivers open, musical and nuanced preamplification to any performance or recording situation.
The in-demand Nashville session player unveils what comes with him when he leaves the studio.
Recording artist, hit songwriter, and sought-after session player Jedd Hughes invited PG’s John Bohlinger to his soundcheck before his gig at Nashville’s 3rd and Lindsley. Hughes came in with a home-made T-style, a vintage hollowbody, and some custom acoustics. Check it out.
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Homebrew Tele
Hughes built his Tele using a one-piece lightweight ash body with a Gene Parsons long-pull B-bender. Hughes shaped the maple neck to a soft V profile using StewMac tools. The pickups were both designed by Ron Ellis: There’s a 50B in the bridge and a Killa in the neck position to match the 50B. The harness is from a 1955 Fender lap steel. All of his electrics are strung with D'Addario .010-.046s.
This 1967 Guild ST-403 Studio hollowbody was chopped to make room for full-size humbuckers.
Hughes' Acoustics
This 2004 DeGruchy was built specifically for Hughes, made to replicate a golden-era Martin D-45. The acoustics are strung with D'Addario .012-.052 sets, which Hughes strikes with Fender medium picks. All acoustics have K&K Sound Pure Mini pickups running through them.
Hughes’ second-favorite acoustic is this slope shoulder DeGruchy.
For a nylon string, Hughes goes with his old gut string Del Vecchio.
Party For Two
Hughes uses two amps combined, in a non-stereo setup. Amp number one is his 1952 Gibson GA-20, which has been rehoused in a Tweed Deluxe cab with a Celestion G12-65.
Number two is his tried-and-true 1962 Vox AC30.
The Boardroom
Hughes runs a larger board for his electric and a smaller one for his acoustic guitars. The electric board includes a Prescription Electronics Experience, Clark Gainster, a prototype XTS Shadow Box, Greer Southland, Dunlop volume pedal (with tuner out), VFE Old School tremolo, Boss PS-5 Super Shifter, Guyatone PS-023, EHX Deluxe Memory Man, Echo Fix EF-P2 Spring Reverb, and finally a Shaw Audio Vacuum Tube Splitter Buffer, which splits two mono lines to the amps.
Hughes runs his acoustics into a Grace Design FELiX2 preamp. From there, it hits a Guyatone PS-023, a Universal Audio Golden Reverberator, and a Boss TU-2.
Shop Jedd Hughes' Rig
Vox AC30
Dunlop DVP3 Volume (X) Volume and Expression Pedal
Boss PS-6 Harmonist Pedal
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man Analog Delay / Chorus / Vibrato Pedal
Grace Design FELiX 2 Instrument Preamp/Blender - Silver
Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
Boss TU-2
D'Addario NYXL1046 NYXL Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings - .010-.046 Regular
This pedal offers dual engines, extended IR capability, and a powerful tri-core CPU.
The original BigSky pedal was released in 2013, becoming an icon by redefining how guitariststhe world over thought about reverb, and the new BigSky MX expands on the original design inevery facet. With a super fast tri-core 800 MHz ARM processor, BigSky MX can run two reverbalgorithms at once and route or pan the audio in a number of different ways. The new advancedconvolution engine allows a huge ten seconds of stereo impulse response playback per instance, along with full IR editing and a suite of custom long captures of classic studio tools and oddballvintage gear. Many of the new reverb algorithms are brand-new from the ground up, and weretuned using a state-of-the-art gradient descent algorithm to remove any unwanted artifacts andringing. A crisp OLED display provides clear information about the currently loaded preset, whichmakes managing dual reverb patches a snap.
BigSky MX features stereo I/O and discrete ClassA JFET input preamps, EXP/TRS MIDI, DIN MIDI and USB-C for connection to Strymon’s Nixie 2software editor.“We’ve been working on this thing for the better part of four years”, said Gregg Stock, Strymon’sCEO and co-founder. “It’s been a labor of love, and we knew that the legions of original BigSkyfans were counting on us to get it right the first time. In the end it exceeded all of ourexpectations, and we’re really happy with how it turned out.” Stock continues, “The 12 enginesin BigSky MX produce the absolute best ambiences we’ve ever made, and the ability to run twoengines at once and the impulse stuff is a major step forward.”
Pete Celi, Strymon’s co-founder and DSP guru adds “playing around with BigSky MX duringdevelopment has been a blast. The new algorithms are bigger, wider and cleaner than anythingwe’ve been able to achieve in the past, and impulse response playback is a welcome addition.We’ve included our very own long captures of some classic studio devices and some oddballvintage units collected by one of our engineers too, so there is an entire world of creative reverbin there to explore”.
The BigSky MX was designed and is manufactured in Los Angeles in the USA, and is available now directly from Strymon and from dealers worldwide for $679 US.
Strymon BigSky MX: Next-gen Reverb & Celestial Space-shaping — A Worthy Heir?
More info at https://www.strymon.net.
Slayer’s Kerry King Reclaims the Throne with His Solo Debut
Photo by Annie Atlasman
When Slayer played their last show in November 2019, Kerry King already knew he had no intention of slowing down musically. What he didn’t know was that the pandemic would be the conduit to a second act. But, as German theatrical director, dramaturge, and playwright Bertolt Brecht once astutely observed, “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Duane Eddy Has Died at 86
Photo by Joseph A. Rosen
The guitar legend passed away after a battle with cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his wife, Deed Abbate.
Learn the “Last Child” Solo With Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford
The Aerosmith axeman recounts how he ripped the blazing lead on the Rocks hit, dishing some critical history along the way.
Line 6 Catalyst CX Amp Demo
Dive deep or keep it simple with an ultra-flexible, affordable amp that covers huge stretches of the sonic waterfront.
Death By Audio Octave Clang V2 Review
Every instrument is a tool for expressing feeling. But when you have to convey a certain range of emotions spanning anguish, the rush of sonic anarchy, and the exhilaration of total liberation, octave fuzzes are tops. Generally speaking, octave fuzz isn’t an effect you use casually.
Want Pure Single-Coil Tone from Your Guitar with No Hum? Try a Variable Dummy Coil
Hello and welcome back to Mod Garage. This year, the Fender Stratocaster is celebrating its 70th birthday. Happy birthday, and all the best for your next 70 years! To celebrate, I chose a Strat as our guinea pig for this month. But everything we are talking about applies to all single-coil-equipped guitars.
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