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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - #1 Guitars

In our inaugural Show Us Your Gear Gallery, we feature the go-to instruments of our readers.

"Blondy is a 1991 Samick factory Korean-made Epiphone Sheraton II. She features Grover Imperial tuners, (not pictured) custom truss rod cover and pickguard, gold pickup mounting rings, gold bridge and tailpiece, gold dome knobs. All new electronics, with treble bleed mod, Sprague capacitors, gold Dunlop Straplocks, and Kent Armstrong hot P-90 humbucker-size pickups. Blondy has been with me since she was new. She spent her first five or six years on a stand in my living room. She's not whole without my Epiphone Valve Jr., Exeter. Exeter was modified by me, and thanks to Dirk Wacker, in part, and is about three years old. Together these are what I play every day. Blondy came together after I had tried several different pickups. Exeter also was remodified several times until I hit the spot Blondy asked for. - Patrick Coleman"

Diamond Pedals introduces the Dark Cloud delay pedal, featuring innovative hybrid analog-digital design.

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Don’t settle for those vanilla open-string shapes. Here’s a way to unlock new sounds without difficult barre chords.

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Digital control meets excellent Brit-favored analog drive and distortion tones in a smart and easy-to-master solution.

Tons of flexibility and switchability that’s easy to put to practical use. Many great overdrive sounds spanning a wide range of gain.

Takes a little work up front to get your head around the concept.

$349

RJM Music Technology Full English Overdrive
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Programmability and preset storage aren’t generally concerns for the average overdrive user. But if expansive digital control for true analog drive pedals becomes commonplace, it will be because pedals like the Full English Programmable Overdrive from RJM Music Technology make it fun and musically satisfying.

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LA LOM from left: Jake Faulkner, Nicholas Baker, and Zac Sokolow

Guitarist Zac Sokolow takes us on a tour of tropical guitar styles with a set of the cover songs that inspired the trio’s Los Angeles League of Musicians.

There’s long been a cottage industry, driven by record collectors, musicologists, and guitar-heads, dedicated to the sounds that happened when cultures around the world got their hands on electric guitars. The influence goes in all directions. Dick Dale’s propulsive, percussive adaptation of “Misirlou”—a folk song among a variety of Eastern Mediterranean cultures—made the case for American musicians to explore sounds beyond our shores, and guitarists from Ry Cooder and David Lindley to Marc Ribot and Richard Bishop have spent decades fitting global guitar influences into their own musical concepts.

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