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GALLERY: NAMM 2015 - Day 4

A wrap up of the final day of NAMM 2015.

It's hard to do justice to the cherry sunburst pearl finish on the new BC Rich NJ Retro Warlock, but if a tequila sunrise blended with some sparkling grape essence sounds appealing to you (we found it awesome) then you'll love what's going on here. The maple neck-through design also features mahogany wings. A super-solid Nagoya-style BC Rich for just $599.

Complex tremolo sounds combine in stereo fields that can sound more like underwater swimming than swamp-rocking.

Lovely washes of complex tremolo textures that can be spread across a stereo field. High-quality build. Useful stereo pan control. Practical boost control.

High depth settings could be more intense for some voices. Some harmonic/optical blends can be subtle, compromising their essence.

$279

Walrus Monumental Harmonic Stereo Tremolo
walruspedals.com

4.5
4.5
4.5
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Among fellow psychedelic music-making chums in the ’90s, few tools were quite as essential as a Boss PN-2 Tremolo Pan. Few of us had two amplifiers with which we could make use of one. But if you could borrow an amp, you could make even the lamest riff sound mind-bending.

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An unusual, intuitive amalgam of sustain pedal, looper, delay, and modulator that can be a mellow harmonizer, a chaos machine, and many things in between.

Easy-to-conjure unique-sounding, complex waves of sound, or subtle, swelling background harmonies. Intuitive operation, including secondary functions.

Many possible voices begs for presets.

$229

MXR Layers
jimdulop.com

4
4.5
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4.5

It’s unclear whether the unfortunate term “shoegaze” was coined to describe a certain English indie subculture’s proclivity for staring at pedals, or their sometimes embarrassed-at-performing demeanor. The MXR Layers will, no doubt, find favor among players that might make up this sect, as well as other ambience-oriented stylists. But it will probably leave players of all stripes staring floorward, too, at least while they learn the ropes with this addictive mashup of delay, modulation, harmonizer, and sustain effects.

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A twist on the hard-to-find Ibanez MT10 that captures the low-gain responsiveness of the original and adds a dollop of more aggressive sounds too.

Excellent alternative to pricey, hard-to-find, vintage Mostortions. Flexible EQ. Great headroom. Silky low-gain sounds.

None.

$199

Wampler Mofetta
wamplerpedals.com

5
5
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4.5

Wampler’s new Mofetta is a riff on Ibanez’s MT10 Mostortion, a long-ago discontinued pedal that’s now an in-demand cult classic. If you look at online listings for the MT10, you’ll see that asking prices have climbed up to $1k in extreme cases.

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Although inspired by the classic Fuzz Face, this stomp brings more to the hair-growth game with wide-ranging bias and low-cut controls.

One-ups the Fuzz Face in tonal versatility and pure, sustained filth, with the ability to preserve most of the natural sonic thumbprint of your guitar or take your tone to lower, delightfully nasty places.

Pushing the bias hard can create compromising note decay. Difficult to control at extreme settings.

$144

Catalinbread StarCrash
catalinbread.com

4
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