Charles Saufley
Charles Saufley is a writer, editor, and musician from San Francisco. He has been the gear editor at Premier Guitar since 2010 and previously served as an editor at Acoustic Guitar magazine.
ARTICLES
Eventide Blackhole: The Premier Guitar Review
February 24, 2021
A popular and particularly versatile mode from the Space and H9 processors is now an easy-to-use stompbox all its own.
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Taylor GTe Urban Ash: The Premier Guitar Review
February 18, 2021
Inventive bracing, uncommon tonewoods, and a shorter scale make this small-bodied flattop both big voiced and super playable.
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Walrus Audio Mako Series R1: The Premier Guitar Review
February 9, 2021
Familiar and freaked-out reverb colors live side-by-side in a powerful, sensibly sized ambience-generating tool.
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EarthQuaker Devices Astral Destiny: The Premier Guitar Review
February 5, 2021
EQD dishes deep, dimensional reverbs in an elegant package that won’t mire you in menus.
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Fender American Professional II Stratocaster: The Premier Guitar Review
February 4, 2021
The most successful electric guitar of all time evolves subtly, but substantially.
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Wren and Cuff Caprid Blue-Violet Special: The Premier Guitar Review
January 28, 2021
A master of Big Muff-style circuits builds a Ram’s Head clone that’ll be tough to beat at any price.
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Electro-Harmonix 1440 Stereo Looper: The Premier Guitar Review
January 25, 2021
The middle kid in EHX’s expansive family of loopers inhabits a sweet spot between deep functionality and accessible, intuitive operation.
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Walrus Audio Julianna: The Premier Guitar Review
January 13, 2021
Digital-control-enabled features makes Walrus’s already immersive modulation machine a scalpel for carving precise waveforms.
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Maxon’s Elegant Spin on the TS808
December 28, 2020
The father of the Tube Screamer dishes a refined take on the pedal that propelled an overdrive revolution with the Apex 808.
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MXR Tremolo: The Premier Guitar Review
December 24, 2020
Immersive sounds and a nice price make this fine modulator a multi-trem for the masses.
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Gibson Lukas Nelson ’56 Les Paul Junior: The Premier Guitar Review
December 21, 2020
Design economy doesn’t stand in the way of delicious, wide-ranging tones on this straight-ahead rock machine.
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Warm Audio Jet Phaser: The Premier Guitar Review
December 10, 2020
The masters of affordable analog mimicry resurrect one of Roland’s most far-out ’70s effects.
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13 Watts of Ringing, Raging Splendor
December 2, 2020
This unique, low-wattage combo produces a potent mélange of Vox and Fender sounds—and sings with a loud and outsized voice. The PG Balthazar Cabaret 13 review.
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IK Multimedia Z-Tone Buffer Boost: The Premier Guitar Review
November 30, 2020
An understated, utilitarian buffer/boost/preamp that can profoundly reshape your tones.
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Mike Campbell Rides Again
November 19, 2020
Unbridled from duties as string-slinger extraordinaire for the Heartbreakers and Fleetwood Mac, the wild gator partakes of rock’s rowdier joys with his own band the Dirty Knobs.
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JHS Supreme: The Premier Guitar Review
November 13, 2020
Classic fuzz-pedal chaos meets modern tone shaping.
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Carbon + Wood Looks and Sounds Good
November 1, 2020
A spruce-and-carbon-fusion top yields a tough, sweetly ringing dread with a more traditional look. The Premier Guitar RainSong V-DR1100N2 review.
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Guild X-175 Manhattan Special: The Premier Guitar Review
October 22, 2020
An extroverted hollowbody that deftly spans styles—and the ages.
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Danelectro 3699: The Premier Guitar Review
October 19, 2020
One of the furriest, foxiest fuzz machines ever is reborn in a compact and more capable incarnation.
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Origin Effects RevivalTREM: The Premier Guitar Review
October 16, 2020
A positively luxurious stomp nails the liquid textures of brown-panel Deluxe bias tremolo.
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