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The Year in Gear 2018

Step inside Premier Guitar’s magical, miraculous time machine and revisit the gear that stood head and shoulders above the rest as Premier Gear Award winners in 2018.

Joe Gore Porkolator

The “Porkolator” name may riff on the Interfax Percolator that inspired this beastly distortion. But it’s got more fangs than any boar, and the playing experience is akin to the caffeine rush that follows a mug of high-octane Turkish. Few pedals are this punchy and savage, yet still so responsive to guitar-volume attenuation. It’s a killer distortion alternative—and likely to replace a few pedalboard sacred cows.

$189 street
vintageking.com/joe-gore

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Space Is the Place! Six Next-Level Reverb Pedals
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Can you get more air in your sound? Here’s a good place to start.

Although tremolo was the first guitar effect, reverb was right on its heels, and ever since we’ve all been tweaking our amps and effects to achieve just the right amount. Here are a handful of stomps that give modern players the kind of control over reverberation that we crave.

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Jamiroquai's Rob Harris: Favorite Gear, Studio vs. Stage, and More
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PG's Nikos Arvanitis talks to the funk-guitar master about his musical influences, go-to gear choices, the pros of teaching, working in the studio versus the stage, and future plans for Jamiroquai.

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Ted’s parachute

If you want to escape from the pressures of modern life, go pick up your guitar. Now. You’ll be glad you did.

As I write this, we’re a few weeks away from the election, and I’m feeling as nervous as a cat in a dog park. No matter how you’re voting, there’s a good chance you feel the same way. These are complex times.

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J. Rockett Audio Designs Phil X Signature (PXO) Boost & Overdrive Demo
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The PXO was created as a live or studio tool. When we sent Phil the overdrive sample he found that it saved him in backline situations and provided him a drive that plays well with others.

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