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Gallery: Summer NAMM 2019 Day 1

The first day was full of interesting and weird gear from Mythos, Yamaha, Blackstar, Fender, and more!

Greer Amplification’s latest is based on the classic Rat framework, but sounds a bit more like a cranked Marshall. Thanks to a discovery of a large stash of LM-308 chips Nick Greer formulated a new tale on an old classic.

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

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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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Genuine, dynamic Vox sound and feel. Plenty of different tone-sweetening applications. Receives other pedals as nicely as a real amp.

Can get icy quick. Preamp tube presents risk for damage.

$299

Tubesteader Roy
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The Roy is an exceedingly faithful Vox box that brings genuine tube dynamics to your pedalboard.

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Joni Mitchell’s rich, colorful altered-tuning chord voicings have set her work apart in its own musical universe, where the rest of us guitarists either scratch our heads in wonder or have to do dissertation-level research to unpack just how she gets her sound.

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