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GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2014 Day 2

Check out the latest and greatest gear from the first day of the 2014 Summer NAMM show.

Luthier Andy Elliott out of North Carolina brought his latest creation to Summer NAMM: his Elliott Guitars 357 James Duke signature. It features two single-coil gold foil pickups (which Elliott described as sounding like "a good humbucker on the low end and a smooth single-coil on the high end), an alder body, maple neck with rosewood, and an acrylic pickguard that's handpainted in vanilla shake pearl and white from the back. Priced at $4,700.

The bold English band return with their eighth record, Dreams on Toast. The brotherly guitar duo tell us about their pilgrimage back to Tonehenge.

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Very diverse slate of tones. Capable of great focus and power. Potentially killer studio tool.

Sculpting tones in a reliably reproducible way can be challenging. Midrange emphasis may be a deal breaker for some.

$199 street

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Bold-voiced, super-tunable distortion that excels in contexts from filtered boost to total belligerence.

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The New ToneWoodAmp2 is smaller, lighter, rechargeable, and offers foureffects simultaneously, along with a mobile app and much more.

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Paul Reed Smith also continues to evolve as a guitarist, and delivered a compelling take on Jeff Beck’s interpretation of ā€œCause We’ve Ended As Loversā€ at the PRS 40th Anniversary Celebration during this year’s NAMM.

After 40 years at the helm of PRS Guitars, our columnist reflects on the nature of evolution in artistry—of all kinds.

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