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Gallery: Shaky Knees 2019

Good news, folks: Guitar is alive and well! PG headed south to Atlanta for three days to celebrate performances (and gather guitar details) from Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Tame Impala, Tyler Childers, Incubus, the Struts, Cage the Elephant, Tash Sultana, and more!

FIDLAR’s Zac Carper

Good-time ambassador Zac Carper got crafty when he used a mic stand as a slide against his no-name No.1 for “No Drone.” Zac Carper told us in our Rig Rundown that one day he was at Old Style Guitars a while back and was looking for a lightweight guitar to help with his ailing back. This black number was hiding in the corner and covered in dust with a $75 price tag.

Experience the pinnacle of Taylor playing comfort and tone with the Builder’s Edition 514ce, 514ce Kona Burst, and 524ce. These models feature solid Shamel ash back and sides, uniquely voiced V-Class bracing, Gotoh 510 tuners, ES2 electronics, and a Deluxe Hardshell Case.

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AI, which generated this image in seconds, can obviously do amazing things. But can it actually replace human creativity?

Technology has always disrupted the music biz, but we’ve never seen anything like this.

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Our columnist’s bass, built by Anders Mattisson.

Would your instrumental preconceptions hold up if you don a blindfold and take them for a test drive?

I used to think that stereotypes and preconceived notions about what is right and wrong when it comes to bass were things that other people dealt with—not me. I was past all that. Unfazed by opinion, immune to classification. Or so I thought, tucked away in my jazz-hermit-like existence.

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Genuine, dynamic Vox sound and feel. Plenty of different tone-sweetening applications. Receives other pedals as nicely as a real amp.

Can get icy quick. Preamp tube presents risk for damage.

$299

Tubesteader Roy
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The Roy is an exceedingly faithful Vox box that brings genuine tube dynamics to your pedalboard.

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