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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - Unique Instruments II

Even more custom-built, handmade, and oddball gear from Premier Guitar readers.

"Bachety's 27"" scale electric sitar was handmade in Germany."

Have your own unique piece of gear? Send pictures and description to rebecca@premierguitar.com for inclusion in our next gallery! Click here to check out Unique Instruments I.

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

Guitarist Zac Socolow takes us on a tour of tropical guitar styles with a set of the cover songs that inspired the trio’s Los Angeles League of Musicians.

There’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 Dale’s propulsive, percussive adaptation of “Misirlou”—a folk song among a variety of Eastern Mediterranean cultures—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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Songs of a Lost World

The Cure return after 16 years with Songs of a Lost World, out November 1. Listen to "Alone" now.

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Experience the legendary tones of the Enigmatic '82 Overdrive Special Amp emulator from Universal Audio Inc. Featuring dual-engine processing and world-class UAD modeling, this pedal captures the iconic "D-style" tube tones of guitar greats like John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Explore customizable options and classic mic/speaker combinations for authentic ODS tones.

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Drawing courtesy of SINGLECOIL

Here’s how to recreate the wide-ranging Epiphone Tone Expressor system on your guitar.

Hello and welcome back to Mod Garage! This is the second part of the Mod Garage look at the Epiphone Tone Expressor system (Pt.1), which is found on the Al Caiola signature model that was built from late 1963 until 1969. After discussing the individual parts and settings last month, we will now bring it all together and see how to use the system in a modern guitar.

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