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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - Pedalboards I

Premier Guitar readers show us their boards!

"This is the larger version of Robert's board, he called ""my noisemaker hiss factory."" The signal path is a Keeley Looper, DigiTech Whammy, Dunlop GCB95 Wah, Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi, Boss OC-3, Boss BF-3, MXR EVH Phase 90, back into the looper, then Fulltone OCD, MXR Wylde Overdrive, Boss DD-3, Line 6 DL4, MXR Carbon Copy, TC Electronic PolyTune to amp. He says the board has too much hiss to take out in public, and has a smaller board (not pictured) with the Keeley Looper, Dunlop Jerry Cantrell Wah, MXR EVH Phase 90, Fulltone Catalyst, Fulltone OCD, Boss DD-3, Line 6 DL4, MXR Carbon Copy, and TC Electronic PolyTune."
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We chat with Molly about Sister Rosetta’s “immediately impressive” playing, which blends jazz, gospel, chromaticism, and blues into an early rock ‘n’ roll style that was not only way ahead of its time but was also truly rockin’.

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OM-balance and comfort suited for the fingerstylist on a budget.

Comfortably, agreeably playable. Balanced dimensions. Nice fretwork.

Lighter mahogany top looks less classically mahogany-like. Some compressed sounds in heavy-strumming settings.

$299

Guild OM-320
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The Premier Guitar crew is spoiled when it comes to hanging out with nice flattops. But while those too-brief encounters with acoustics we can’t afford teach us a lot about the flattop at its most refined, they also underscore a disconnect between the cost and the acoustic guitar’s status as a true folk instrument of the people.

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Bohlinger Tests EMG's SL20 Steve Lukather Pickguard on a '90s Strat
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PG's demo master quickly (and easily) drops in an H-S-S setup into his 1994 40th Anniversary Stratocaster that needed help. Find out what happens when gets his first taste of active pickups.

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Barry Little’s onstage rig.

How you want to sound and what makes you happy are both highly subjective. When it comes to packing and playing gear for shows, let those considerations be your guide.

I was recently corresponding with Barry Little, aPG reader from Indiana, Pennsylvania, about “the One”—that special guitar that lets us play, and even feel, better when it’s in our hands. We got talking about the gear we bring to gigs, and Barry sent me the photo that appears with this column.

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