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GALLERY: Musikmesse 2015 - Guitars & Basses

The most interesting and unusual axes from Europe's biggest gear show.

Aristides Instruments brought the 080ā€”its first 8-string guitarā€”to the show. It's available in eye-popping finishes and with a variety of pickup and hardware options, including Floyd Rose or Hipshot bridges.

This monthā€™s mod Danā€™s uses a 500k linear pot, a 1.5H inductor (L) with a 0.039 ĀµF (39nF) cap (C), and a 220k resistor (R) in parallel.

Drawing courtesy of singlecoil.com

This simple passive mod will boost your guitarā€™s sweet-spot tones.

Hello and welcome back to Mod Garage. In this column, weā€™ll be taking a closer look at the ā€œmid boost and scoop modā€ for electric guitars from longtime California-based tech Dan Torres, whose Torres Engineering seems to be closed, at least on the internet. This mod is in the same family with the Gibson Varitone, Bill Lawrenceā€™s Q-Filter, the Gresco Tone Qube (said to be used by SRV), John ā€œDawkā€ Stillwellsā€™ MTC (used by Ritchie Blackmore), the Yamaha Focus Switch, and the Epiphone Tone Expressor, as well as many others. So, while itā€™s just one of the many variations of tone-shaping mods, I chose the Torres because this one sounds best to me, which simply has to do with the part values he chose.

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Kemper and Zilla announce the immediate availability of Zilla 2x12ā€œ guitar cabs loaded with the acclaimed Kemper Kone speaker.

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Featuring a preamp and Dynamic Expansion circuit for punch and attack, plus switchable amp simulations.

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Jeff Kollman (of Alan Parsons Live Project) Rig Rundown
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On the road with the history-making engineer, producer, and artist, this guitarist keeps it simple.

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