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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - Pedalboards IV

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"Butler uses this board with his five Teles and a 1979 Gibson ES-335 to play contemporary praise and worship music. The board is a Pedaltrain with a modded Boss DS-1, Wampler Paisley Drive, Wampler Ego Boost, Way Huge Aqua Puss, TC Electronic Corona Chorus, modded Boss GE-7 Equalizer, and DigiTech RP-255. It's powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus and wired with Monster cables."

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This is perhaps the most rare Iwase guitar: one volume, one tone, and a quality adjustable bridge, plus a raised pickguard and some beautiful shading on the burst.

A 6-string found in the workshop of the late luthier Yukichi Iwase may be the only one of these small, nearly full-scale guitars. Our columnist tells the story.

I’ve been thinking a lot about snowflakes lately. We are getting some snowy weather up my way, but there’s a few other items rattling around in my mind. Like, I just got a car for my daughter (thanks to those who bought guitars from me recently), and it’s so freakin’ cool. I bought her a Mini Cooper, and this thing is so rad! I was doing research on these models, and each one is sorta different as far as colors, racing stripes, wheels, etc. Her friends say she has a ā€œmain characterā€ car, but you’ll probably have to ask a teenager whatthat means.

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In this episode of 100 Guitarists, we’re talking all things surf rock, from reverb to tremolo picking and much more. And while ā€œMisirlouā€ is undisputedly his most influential work, maybe Dale’s best records didn’t come until a few decades later.

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Tetrarch, from left: Ryan Lerner, Diamond Rowe, Josh Fore, and Ruben Limas.

Photo by Guillermo Briceno

The heavy quartet, led by shredders Diamond Rowe and Josh Fore, returns with a second full-length that advances the nu-metal revival.

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Analog modulation guided by a digital brain willing to get weird.

Fun, fluid operation. Capable of vintage-thick textures at heavier gain settings. High headroom for accommodating other effects.

MIDI required to access more than one preset—which you’ll probably long for, given the breadth of voices.

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Kernom Elipse

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If you love modulation—and lots of it—you can eat up a lot of pedalboard space fast. Modulation effects can be super-idiosyncratic and specialized, which leads to keeping many around, particularly if you favor the analog domain. TheKernom Elipse multi-modulator is pretty big and, at a glance, might not seem the best solution for real estate scarcity. Yet the Elipse is only about 1 1/4" wider than two standard-sized Boss pedals side by side. And by combining an analog signal path with digital control, it makes impressive, efficient use of its size—stuffing fine-sounding harmonic tremolo, phaser, rotary-style, chorus, vibrato, flanger, and Uni-Vibe-style effects into a single hefty enclosure. Many of the effects can also be blended and morphed into one another using a rotary control aptly called ā€œmood.ā€ The Elipse, most certainly, has many of those.

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