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GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2018 Day 1

Check out the latest gear from Vox, Gretsch, Dunlop, Trickfish, and more!

Grez Guitars Mendocino Baritone

NorCal's Grez Guitars is here at NAMM showing off their new semi-hollow Mendocino baritone. The 28 1/2"-scale looker is available in black and natural, with or without a Bigsby, and is carved from old-growth redwood for the top, and Honduran mahogany for the back and neck. Add to that the pair of Lollar gold-foils and you've got a ticket to baritone bliss.

From Box to Boost: Building StewMac's Two Kings Pedal
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Curious about building your own pedal? Join PG's Nick Millevoi as he walks us through the StewMac Two Kings Boost kit, shares his experience, and demos its sound.

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John Bohlinger Explores Jack White's Fender Pano Verb Amps
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Inspired by elements of three of Jack White’s vintage amps–a 1964 Vibroverb, a 1960 Vibrasonic, and a 1993 Vibro-King–the Pano Verb Amp delivers many unique design features never before found on a Fender Amplifier. Jack worked closely with Fender to create the Pano Verb, an entirely new and versatile tube amplifier unlike anything you’ve heard before.

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Digital control meets excellent Brit-favored analog drive and distortion tones in a smart and easy-to-master solution.

Tons of flexibility and switchability that’s easy to put to practical use. Many great overdrive sounds spanning a wide range of gain.

Takes a little work up front to get your head around the concept.

$349

RJM Music Technology Full English Overdrive
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Programmability and preset storage aren’t generally concerns for the average overdrive user. But if expansive digital control for true analog drive pedals becomes commonplace, it will be because pedals like the Full English Programmable Overdrive from RJM Music Technology make it fun and musically satisfying.

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LA LOM from left: Jake Faulkner, Nicholas Baker, and Zac Sokolow

Guitarist Zac Sokolow takes us on a tour of tropical guitar styles with a set of the cover songs that inspired the trio’s Los Angeles League of Musicians.

There’s long been a cottage industry, driven by record collectors, musicologists, and guitar-heads, dedicated to the sounds that happened when cultures around the world got their hands on electric guitars. The influence goes in all directions. Dick Dale’s propulsive, percussive adaptation of “Misirlou”—a folk song among a variety of Eastern Mediterranean cultures—made the case for American musicians to explore sounds beyond our shores, and guitarists from Ry Cooder and David Lindley to Marc Ribot and Richard Bishop have spent decades fitting global guitar influences into their own musical concepts.

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