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GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2015 Day 2

Everything from retro-style axes to interstellar effects and insanely powerful amps caught our eye in Nashville.

Seymour Duncan's new Apollo 4- and 5-string Jazz pickups ($95 each) feature parallel linear wiring to add a little oomph and definition to the J recipe while also decreasing extraneous noise. The 5- string version is available in 67/70 mm and 70/74 mm models.

Do you overuse vibrato? Could you survive without it?

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The author dials in one of his 20-watt Sonzera amps, with an extension cabinet.

Photo courtesy of PRS

Knowing how guitar amplifiers were developed and have evolved is important to understanding why they sound the way they do when you’re plugged in.

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Tobias bass guitars, beloved by bass players for nearly half a century, are back with the all-new Tobias Original Collection.

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Joshua Kim

Sublime, fronted by Jakob Nowell, son of late Sublime singer Bradley Nowell, are in the studio writing and recording new songs for an upcoming full-length album. This marks their first new album since 1996.

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