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Rig Rundown: The Struts

One of the U.K.’s most buzzed-about rock bands shares the stories behind gear with two settings—loud and louder.

Adam Slack’s go-to is this Gibson Custom Shop Mike McCready Collector’s Choice 1959 Les Paul Standard. He landed on it after a marathon guitar tasting session at Chicago Music Exchange.

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Small spring, big splash—a pedal reverb that oozes surfy ambience and authenticity.

A vintage-cool sonic alternative to bigger tube-driven tanks and digital springs that emulate them.

Susceptible to vibration.

$199

Danelectro Spring King Junior
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Few pedal effects were transformed, enhanced, and reimagined by fast digital processors quite like reverb. This humble effect—readily available in your local parking garage or empty basketball gymnasium for free—evolved from organic sound phenomena to a very unnatural one. But while digital processing yields excellent reverb sounds of every type and style, I’d argue that the humble spring reverb still rules in its mechanical form.

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