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Eddie Garcia: Movie Sound Tracks
Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Eddie Garcia has been trying a new setup with his psychedelic/shoegaze band, 1970s Film Stock. He uses two overdrives: a Black Arts Toneworks Black Forest, and one that was custom-built by Brian Doub of Winston-Salem-based company Lyndon Amps. The rest of his boxes include a Death by Audio Apocalypse, Electro-Harmonix Micro POG, Boss TU-2 tuner, Eventide PitchFactor, TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb, MXR Carbon Copy Delay, EarthQuaker Devices Afterneath, MXR Custom Audio Electronics Boost/Line Driver, TC Electronic Ditto X2 Looper, and a Radial Tonebone Twin-City ABY Amp Switcher.

“I’m definitely the type who switches out or adds pedals often,” says Garcia. “Of note to your readers might be that my Boss TU-2 tuner is placed after my overdrives and fuzzes, before my pitch- and time-based effects. I’ve been running this pedal mid-chain for a few years now—the tonal difference compared to front or end of chain is incredibly significant.”

Ready for some self-inflicted pedal envy? Just check out the extraordinary setups from some of our fellow players. These recent submissions include a crafty “skateboard,” a fuzz “smorgasboard,” and submissions from a few players who may have gone “overboard.” (Puns intended.)

Pedal lust has no end—these pedalboard pics keep rolling in, and there are plenty more where these came from. Check out other reader boards at premierguitar.com.

CuNiFe-driven Wide Range pickups and a 7.25" fretboard radius make this the most period-correct Thinline since the original.

Awesome, alive, and individual Wide Range pickup sounds. Great neck. A 7.25" fretboard radius. Light weight. Period-authentic 1 meg pots.

Taper on 1 meg pots not very nuanced. Less-than-plentiful ash supplies could mean odd grain matches on natural-finish guitars.

$2,399

Fender American Vintage II '72 Thinline Telecaster
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In the 50 years since their big, chrome covers first reflected a hot stage light, Fender’s Seth Lover-designed Wide Range humbuckers have gone from maligned to revered. The guitars built around Wide Range pickups are legends in their own right, too. Keith Richards’ Telecaster Custom is synonymous with the Stones dynamic and adventurous late-70s-to-early-80s period. Scores of punk and indie guitarists made the Telecaster Deluxe a fixture of those scenes. And Jonny Greenwood almost singlehandedly elevated the Starcaster from a curiosity to an object of collector lust. The fourth member of the Wide Range-based guitar family, the ’72 Telecaster Thinline, lived a comparatively low-profile life. Yet it is a practical, streamlined, uniquely stylish, and multifaceted instrument with a truly original voice—qualities that are plain to see, feel, and hear in this new American Vintage II incarnation.

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