PG Editors Ted Drozdowski, Jason Shadrick, and Director of Video Content Chris Kies pick favorites for NAMM day 3. Gear from Dumble, Novo, Cream Guitars, Collings, EHX, and more.
Ted Drozdowski - Editorial Director
Cream Guitars Revolver Deluxe Bass
The newest bass variation from Cream is the Revolver Deluxe, and it’s got a slew of sonic options via its eight independent pickups that can be reconfigured at sonic whim. Louis explains it all in our on-the-showroom floor video. There’s also a toggle that activates a piezo pickup for an acoustic tone. What else? A Seymour Duncan preamp and volume, blend, and tone controls.
Jason Shadrick - Associate Editor
Dumble "Woody" Amp
Dumble Amplification brought an impressive collection to the show, but this amp might be the most significant. Before Dumble would agree to build you an amp you had to make the pilgrimage to see him and play for him. This amp, dubbed “Woody”, would be what each player would plug into. It’s a single-channel design that has this beautiful, smooth compression. And like many of Dumble’s amp designs, there’s nowhere to hide.
Chris Kies - Director of Video Content
EHX POG3
EHX always brings some fresh goodies to NAMM and this year they showed us a trio of tone twisters. The most impressive unit had to be the POG3 that builds off their stupendous previous iterations and put lightning-fast tracking and perfect polyphony over four octaves with smoother tone and performance than ever before. It has six voices including DRY, -2, -1, +5th, +1, & +2, you can mix each with individual sliders and create enveloping stereo effects with dedicated pan knobs and selectable LEFT/RIGHT/DIRECT outputs. The effects section has been expanded to offer envelope control and adjustable Q for the new multi-mode FILTER, enhanced DETUNE section with SPREAD, and individual DRY effect selection, plus the famous ATTACK slider for subtle or dramatic swell effects. It also includes expression effects like Freeze, Glissando, Volume, Filter, X-Fade, and Warp.