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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - Favorite Overdrive/Distortion

From classics to modded classics, boutique to budget, Premier Guitar readers submit the tools they use to get dirty.

"Adam Rey couldn't choose just his Tonebone, so he also sent in his Fulltone OCD. ""If I could only bring one pedal to a gig this might be it! (or a desert island for that matter, uhhh... if they have electricity of course!),"" he explains. ""I have been living with this tone machine for the past five years and it delivers all that I need in a mid-gain tone box for my rhythm guitar duties especially. I call it my Marshall-in-a-box, as it gives me a pleasant girth that cleans up real well. It's great for getting that 'hair of the dog' rhythm edge, and it nails that bluesy, Texas-approved neck/middle tone that makes you want to play for days! Has a killer tight solo voice with humbuckers!"""

Gibson partners with Warren Haynes to release the Warren Haynes Les Paul Standard, featuring P-90 DC pickups and a 15 dB boost for modern functionality in a traditional 50s-era Les Paul design.

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Minus the Bear announces nationwide tour celebrating 20th anniversary of Menos el Oso album.

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An overdrive and mangled fuzz that’s a wolf in a maniacal, rabid wolf’s clothing.

Invites new compositional approaches to riffs and solos. Gray Channel distortion is versatile and satisfying. Unpredictable.

Unpredictable. Footswitches for distortion and fuzz are quite close.

$199

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Fuzz can be savored in so many ways. It can be smooth. It can be an agent of chaos. But it can also be a trap. In service of mayhem, it can be a mere noise crutch. Smooth, classy, ā€œtastyā€ fuzz, meanwhile, can lead to dull solos crafted as Olympian demonstrations of sustain. To touch the soulful, rowdy essence of fuzz, it’s good to find one that never lets you get quite comfortable. The EarthQuaker Devices Gary, a two-headed distortion/overdrive and rabid, envelope-controlled square-wave fuzz designed with IDLES’ Lee Kiernan, is a gain device in this vein.

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Blackberry Smoke will embark on a co-headline tour with Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs. Lead singer Charlie Starr shares, ā€œWhat could be better than summertime rock and roll shows with Blackberry Smoke and the one and only Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs?ā€

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