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GALLERY: NAMM 2013 - Day 1

Everything the PG editors saw at Winter NAMM on Thursday.

"Framus brought its new 8-string guitar to NAMM. It features a sculpted, 27""-scale mahogany body and Seymour Duncan Blackout pickups. "

An amp-in-the-box pedal designed to deliver tones reminiscent of 1950s Fender Tweed amps.

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Gibson originally launched the EB-6 model with the intention of serving consumers looking for a ā€œtic-tacā€ bass sound.

Photo by Ken Lapworth

You may know the Gibson EB-6, but what you may not know is that its first iteration looked nothing like its latest.

When many guitarists first encounter Gibson’s EB-6, a rare, vintage 6-string bass, they assume it must be a response to the Fender Bass VI. And manyEB-6 basses sport an SG-style body shape, so they do look exceedingly modern. (It’s easy to imagine a stoner-rock or doom-metal band keeping one amid an arsenal of Dunables and EGCs.) But the earliest EB-6 basses didn’t look anything like SGs, and they arrived a full year before the more famous Fender.

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An '80s-era cult favorite is back.

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The SDE-3 fuses the vintage digital character of the legendary Roland SDE-3000 rackmount delay into a pedalboard-friendly stompbox with a host of modern features.

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