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Gallery: Bottom Feeder Reader's Edition

We asked to see your best bargain gear finds in the Bottom Feeder world—and what a wonderful world it is! Here are some of the cheap and unique instruments Premier Guitar readers are wheelin’ and dealin’ around the world.

Mike Batke scored this early-’70s Dallas Arbiter L100 4x12 Sound City Amplifier from a friend who got it from his music professor. “Despite slight cosmetic damage, it’s in beautiful condition for its age,” he says. “It was loaded with Fane speakers, but due to moisture damage to the cones, they pretty much disintegrated when I played through the cabinet. It currently holds two Celestion Vintage 30s and two Anniversary Edition G12H speakers.” (Batke says he’s re-coning the Fanes.) “Why is it budget gear?” he asks. “Because I spent $0 to get it. It was a belated birthday gift from my friend many, many moons ago.”

Patterns can be viewed as boring or trite, but a little bit of creativity can turn them into bits of inspiration.

Chops: Intermediate
Theory: Intermediater
Lesson Overview:
• Learn different ways to arrange scales.
• Combine various sequences to create more intersting lines.
• Solidify your technique by practicing unusual groupings of notes. Click here to download a printable PDF of this lesson's notation.
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Improved tracking and richness in tones. Stereo panning potential. 100 presets.

Can be hard to use intuitively. Expensive!

$645

Electro-Harmonic POG III

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EHX’s most powerful polyphonic octave generator yet offers guitarists, sound designers, and experimental musicians an endless maze of pitch-shifted effects to explore.

It’s been a very rainy, moody couple of weeks, which is to say, perfect weather for getting lost in the labyrinthine depths of the new Electro-Harmonix POG III polyphonic octave generator. The POG III is yet another evolution (mutation?) within EHX’s now rather expansive stable of octave effects. But to those who know the POG through its original incarnation, or one of several simpler subsequent variants, the POG III represents a pretty dramatic leap forward.

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Vox’s Valvenergy Tone Sculptor

Two new pedals from the Valvenergy series use a Nutube valve to generate unique dynamics and tone ranges that can be used to radical ends.

When tracking in a studio or DAW, you’re likely to use compression and EQ on most things. Many enduringly amazing and powerful records were made using little else. And though many musicians regard both effects as a bit unglamorous and utilitarian, EQs and comps are as capable of radical sounds as more overtly “weird” effects—particularly when they are used in tandem.

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A FREE update adds up to 150 new Premium Tone Models and presets for all TONEX users.
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