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.
Thorpy FX Fat General
Compressor users often gravitate toward transparency or boldly colored squish. The beauty of the Fat General is that it can achieve so much of the latter from a foundation strongly and fundamentally rooted in the former. Immaculately and robustly built, Fat General’s transparency is enhanced by its uncommonly noise-free performance. But it also has tremendous range—particularly in the tone control—that makes shaping heavy and light compression effects feel like a truly creative endeavor.
$295 street
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