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GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2013 - Day 1

Our editors pick their favorites from the 2013 Summer NAMM floor.

El Rey Effects unveiled two gnarly fuzz pedals at Summer NAMM today. The Fuzz De La Muerte is a silicon-based fuzz with an onboard gate and 3-way color selector, allowing for broad fuzz tonal tweaking. The Mystic is reminiscent of dirty ’70s fuzz boxes and has an adjustable clipping switch to adjust voicing.
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Cut the cord! PG contributor Tom Butwin goes hands-on with three compact wireless guitar systems from Positive Grid, NUX, and Blackstar. From couch jams to club gigs, find the right unit for your rig and playing style.

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Elliott Sharp is a dapper dude. Not a dandy, mind you, but an elegant gentleman.

Photo by Andreas Sterzing

The outside-the-box 6-string swami pays homage to the even-further-outside-the-box musician who’s played a formative role in the downtown Manhattan scene and continues to quietly—and almost compulsively—shape the worlds of experimental and roots music.

Often the most potent and iconoclastic artists generate extraordinary work for decades, yet seem to be relegated to the shadows, to a kind of perma-underground status. Certainly an artist like my friend Elliott Sharp fits this category. Yes, his work can be resolutely avant-garde. But perhaps the most challenging thing about trying to track this man is the utterly remarkable breadth of his work.

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Martin Guitar is celebrating 30 years of collaboration with Eric Clapton with the release of two special anniversary guitars—the 000-42EC 30th Anniversary and the 000-EC 30th Anniversary.

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The least exciting piece of your rig can impact your tone in a big way. Here’s what you need to know.

Hello, and welcome back to Mod Garage. This month, we will have a closer look at an often overlooked part of our guitar signal chain: the guitar cable. We’ll work out what really counts and how your cable’s tonal imprint differs from your guitar’s tone-control function.

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