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Rig Rundown: Kurt Vile & The Violators

The Philly-based group explains how they use vintage Fender gear, classic tube amps, and a few homemade pedals to produce their brand of psychedelic folk-rock.

Trbovich admits to recently being enamored with Telecasters because this 1974 Fender model. It was used on a lot of the band’s recent albums, Wakin on a Pretty Daze and b’lieve I’m going down…. He augmented the guitar’s original bridge saddles with Callahan ones for better intonation. When he bought the guitar the neck pickup was dead so he replaced it with a Seymour Duncan Antiquity Tele single-coil. Both guitars are strung up with Ernie Ball Slinkys (.010–.046.).

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In line with the MOOER’s recent expansion on the MSC range, the company is excited to announce the new MSC50 Pro, an Alder-bodied electric guitar with gloss finish, available in the new Magic Crystal color.

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The Oceans Abyss expands on Electro-Harmonix’s highly acclaimed reverb technology to deliver a truly immersive effects workstation. The pedal is centered around dual reverb engines that are independently programmable with full-stereo algorithms including Hall, Spring, Shimmer and more. Place these reverbs into a customizable signal path with additional FX blocks like Delay, Chorus, Tremolo, or Bit Crusher for a completely unique soundscape building experience.

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Axe-wielders Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss take us through their current gear garages.

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Guitarist William Tyler, a restless sonic explorer: “I would get bored staying in the same place.”

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The expansive instrumental guitarist/composer pushes himself out of his comfort zone, beyond the boundaries of his neo-Americana wheelhouse on Time Indefinite.

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