PG contributor Tom Butwin walks us through a rugged, pedal‑board‑friendly delay that lets you shape time, feedback, and blend entirely with your foot. The Roto Echo features warm, gritty analog‑style echoes, intuitive real‑time control, and a design tough enough for full body weight. It sounds great on its own, but this wheel‐driven innovation opens up worlds of expressive possibilities.
Third Man Hardware and Black Mountain are excited to announce the innovative Roto-Echo delay pedal. Instead of tweaking delay parameters with your fingers, the pedal’s Freewheel® Technology allows players to change them with their feet in real-time as they play – a small change that leads to tons of creative possibilities. The Roto-Echo is built tough and players can put their full weight onto the pedal with no problem. It’s the same size as a regular Boss-style guitar pedal, and fits on any pedal board.
Key Features ● Foot-Controlled Adjustments: Change Time, Feedback, or Blend while you play. ● Analog-Style Delay: Warm, gritty echoes up to 600ms. ● Rugged Build: Built to handle full body weight on stage. ● True Bypass: Keeps your tone pure when switched off. ● Play Sitting or Standing: Built for performance. ● 9V, Center Negative Power ● Morph feedback from short to infinite repeats ● Ramp wet/dry mix for dramatic effect ● Sweep delay time to bend and warble pitch, and so much more
John Bohlinger spends some quality time with the Telecaster powerhouse keeping Don Kelley’s legacy burning bright at Robert’s Western World. McQueary shares some subtle tone tips, recounts memories of performing alongside his heroes (and Kelley alumni), explains his constant pursuit of nuance in tone—often finding more magic in playing softly than turning up, and details the journey that took him from bystander to Nashville Broadway showman.
The TikTok star goes legit on his latest tour with some plum Strats, a Two-Rock, and a masterbuilt pedalboard.
When Ty Myers got injured a few years back and couldn’t play sports, he took to posting videos of himself on TikTok. Before long, his song “Tie That Binds” went viral on the platform, blasting him to overnight-star status. Now, with his debut album, The Select, under his belt, the 18-year-old is taking his songs on the road to packed-out rooms.
PG’s John Bohlinger linked with country’s newest wunderkind at the Egyptian Room in Indianapolis to see how he brings his old-time-meets-new-world country to life onstage.
This FenderStratocaster, the first nice guitar Myers bought himself, was purchased from a guy in a Home Depot parking lot in San Antonio, Texas. Myers swapped in Fender Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups, and he strings it with Stringjoy .010s.
Eye-Catching Custom
If Myers played slide, it’d be with this Custom Shop Master Built Strat, built by Dale Wilson. He went to Carter’s Vintage in Nashville with another instrument in mind, but this one caught his eye, and he had to have it. He kept the pickups it came with, and pretty soon he intends to have the action lowered.
Barry’s Bond
Myers got his first Gibson SJ-200 around the age of 10, and this one, a gift from label executive Barry Weiss, is his current go-to. It’s got an LR Baggs pickup system and goes direct to front-of-house.
Package Deal
Myers’ biggest hero is John Mayer, so it tracks that he went after this Two-Rock Silver Sterling Signature. He saw this one at Carter the same day he bought his Custom Shop Strat, and didn’t even plug it in—he just bought it along with the Master Built.
Ty Myers’ Pedalboard
Myers’ stomp station was built by the pedal professors at XAct Tone Solutions in Nashville. After the Dunlop Volume (X) Mini and the Peterson StroboStomp LE, Myers’ signal hits an Origin Effects Cali76, JHS Pedals Berkeley, Keeley Katana, Analog Man/Boss GE-7, Greer Lightspeed, MXR Duke of Tone, Browne Amplification Protein, Keeley Noble Screamer, Boss VB-2w, Boss TR-2, JHS Flight Delay, and EarthQuaker Devices Dispatch Master. A Strymon Zuma and Strymon Ojai keep the lights on.
PG contributor Tom Butwin highlights the Yorkville EXM Pro10, a “PA-in--a-box” that delivers 850 watts of power, built-in mixer & effects, Bluetooth playback, and up to 12 hours of battery life.
The likes of Joe Bonamassa, Jason Isbell, and Richie Faulkner walk us through a carousel of vintage Gibson Standards
Trace the journeys of some of the world’s rarest guitars including cherry sunbursts pulled from pawnshops, a scorching ’59 that simply refused to be left behind, and more. Along the way these legends debunk hand-winding myths, detail meticulous restorations, and share the emotional pull of instruments that have crossed continents and shaped Rock and Roll.
