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GALLERY: NAMM 2012 Day 3

Photos from the floor of NAMM on day 3.

Tokyo's Freedom Custom Guitar Research turned heads with their very cool single cutaway and bass inspired by the Rickenbacker Light Show. The pickups are amazingly quiet considering all of the fireworks. They're also exceptionally built and very playable instruments.
From Box to Boost: Building StewMac's Two Kings Pedal
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Curious about building your own pedal? Join PG's Nick Millevoi as he walks us through the StewMac Two Kings Boost kit, shares his experience, and demos its sound.

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Digital control meets excellent Brit-favored analog drive and distortion tones in a smart and easy-to-master solution.

Tons of flexibility and switchability thatā€™s easy to put to practical use. Many great overdrive sounds spanning a wide range of gain.

Takes a little work up front to get your head around the concept.

$349

RJM Music Technology Full English Overdrive
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Programmability and preset storage arenā€™t generally concerns for the average overdrive user. But if expansive digital control for true analog drive pedals becomes commonplace, it will be because pedals like the Full English Programmable Overdrive from RJM Music Technology make it fun and musically satisfying.

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LA LOM from left: Jake Faulkner, Nicholas Baker, and Zac Sokolow

Guitarist Zac Sokolow takes us on a tour of tropical guitar styles with a set of the cover songs that inspired the trioā€™s Los Angeles League of Musicians.

Thereā€™s long been a cottage industry, driven by record collectors, musicologists, and guitar-heads, dedicated to the sounds that happened when cultures around the world got their hands on electric guitars. The influence goes in all directions. Dick Daleā€™s propulsive, percussive adaptation of ā€œMisirlouā€ā€”a folk song among a variety of Eastern Mediterranean culturesā€”made the case for American musicians to explore sounds beyond our shores, and guitarists from Ry Cooder and David Lindley to Marc Ribot and Richard Bishop have spent decades fitting global guitar influences into their own musical concepts.

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Warm Audio Pedal76 & WA-C1 Demos | PG Plays
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Check out Warm Audioā€™s Pedal76 and WA-C1 with PG contributor Tom Butwin! See how these pedals can shape your sound and bring versatility to your rig.

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