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GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2017 Day 3

Take a look at the brand-new stomps, axes, and gizmos, including new stuff from Analog Outfitters, Hungry Robot, Modulus, and Blackstar.

Tomkat Pedals The Ripper

Brooklyn's Tomkat Pedals loves creating inspired takes on somewhat forgotten pedals. The Ripper Octave Fuzz is a modernized version of the Ibanez Standard Fuzz. The result is a beautifully destructive upper-octave fuzz that can go from silicon to germanium clipping via the toggle switch. The footswitchable tone control is also a nice touch that helps add another variation that I'd imagine would cut through a mix. It's available now for $195.

An ’80s legend returns in a modern stompbox that lives up to the hype.

A well-designed recreation of one of the most classic tone tools of the ’80s. Sounds exactly like the tones you know from the original. Looks very cool.

If you don’t like ’80s sounds, this isn’t for you.

$229

MXR Rockman X100

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Was Tom Scholz’s Rockman the high-water mark of guitar-tone convenience? The very fact that this headphone amp, intended primarily as a consumer-grade practice tool, ended up on some of the biggest rock records of the ’80s definitely makes a case. And much like Sony’s Walkman revolutionized the personal listening experience, it’s easy to argue the Rockman line of headphone amps did the same for guitarists.

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Warm Audio introduces the Fen-tone, a modern ribbon microphone inspired by a classic 50s Danish design.

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AI, which generated this image in seconds, can obviously do amazing things. But can it actually replace human creativity?

Technology has always disrupted the music biz, but we’ve never seen anything like this.

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Our columnist’s bass, built by Anders Mattisson.

Would your instrumental preconceptions hold up if you don a blindfold and take them for a test drive?

I used to think that stereotypes and preconceived notions about what is right and wrong when it comes to bass were things that other people dealt with—not me. I was past all that. Unfazed by opinion, immune to classification. Or so I thought, tucked away in my jazz-hermit-like existence.

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