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GALLERY: NAMM 2012 Day 2

Pictures from the floor on the second day of NAMM.

Earl Slick
Earl Slick demos at the Orange booth.
See our Day 1 photos here!

The Hi/Low footswitch is designed to provide a gain boost with an EQ shift for tight tones.

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Big guitar-building workshops keep it clean, and so can you!

Developing good, clean workshop practices will help you save time and money.

Who doesn’t like a sweet, sustaining, saturated guitar sound? I know I do, but I also love a clear and full clean tone maybe even more. Dirty or clean, to me a guitar sounds like a million bucks when the tubes are glowing and the playing flows. But most of the time I’m in the workshop making lots of dirt, and I don’t mean the overdriven amplifier kind. Making guitars can be a dirty business. Carving wood, plastic, and steel into a majestic instrument creates a lot of mess, and eventually you have to sweep your way clear.

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A very Vox-like template yields a surprising wealth of trans-Atlantic tones—all in a light, compact head.

Relatively small and light. All-tube power and preamp sections. Surprising versatility for a single-channel format.

You’ll have to be willing to tinker a lot with the EQ to tap into the maximum number of sounds.

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Victory The Deputy Compact Guitar Head
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If a venue’s dimensions demand you turn down, you might as well lighten your load.Victory Amps are hip to this trade-off. Their line is now thickly populated with amps that are smaller, quieter, but still sound massive.

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The Jason Richardson signature includes HT humbucker pickups, 24 stainless steel frets, and custom tremolo.

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