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Rig Rundown: Together Pangea

The California rockers walk us through how they formulate hip garage-rock tones with some oddball vintage gear.

Like his bandmates, Cosio digs vintage Music Man amps. He runs a 1980 Music Man HD150 head into the speakers of a ’70s Peavey Classic 2x12 Combo with Vintage 30 Celestion speakers. If the Music Man dies, the Peavey Classic acts as the backup.

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Our columnist practices a little acoustic channeling while communing with nature.

When playing, try to bring the resistance down to zero.

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Why is Tommy’s take on “Day Tripper” so hard? And what song would Adam Miller never play with him? Plus, we get Adam’s list of favorite Tommy Emmanuel records.

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Patterns can be viewed as boring or trite, but a little bit of creativity can turn them into bits of inspiration.

Chops: Intermediate
Theory: Intermediater
Lesson Overview:
• Learn different ways to arrange scales.
• Combine various sequences to create more intersting lines.
• Solidify your technique by practicing unusual groupings of notes. Click here to download a printable PDF of this lesson's notation.
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Improved tracking and richness in tones. Stereo panning potential. 100 presets.

Can be hard to use intuitively. Expensive!

$645

Electro-Harmonic POG III

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EHX’s most powerful polyphonic octave generator yet offers guitarists, sound designers, and experimental musicians an endless maze of pitch-shifted effects to explore.

It’s been a very rainy, moody couple of weeks, which is to say, perfect weather for getting lost in the labyrinthine depths of the new Electro-Harmonix POG III polyphonic octave generator. The POG III is yet another evolution (mutation?) within EHX’s now rather expansive stable of octave effects. But to those who know the POG through its original incarnation, or one of several simpler subsequent variants, the POG III represents a pretty dramatic leap forward.

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