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The My Bloody Valentine tone maestro helps design an intricate, complex, but ultimately intuitive source of potent octave fuzz and overtones galore.

Huge swaths of unexpected sounds that can exist well outside the My Bloody Valentine tone sphere. Beautiful, high quality build. Fascinating, organic interactions between controls.

Pedalboard space freaks are going to complain that it’s big.

$299

Fender Shields Blender
fender.com

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Kevin Shields tone chasers are a minor cult—sharing insights and discoveries about ways and means to replicate the intoxicating, enveloping sounds of My Bloody Valentine’s LPs, and in particular, their masterwork, Loveless. It’s a curious pursuit, in a way, for it is well documented that Shields created most of that album’s time- and space-bending sheets-of-sound guitar parts via the rather economical combination of reverse reverb and the vibrato on a Fender Jazzmaster.

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Martin GPC-13E Demo | PG Plays

Watch Alex Maier of Superdanger Studios cover all the ways this sleek Grand Performance acoustic-electric excels.

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The bass side of a Pultec EQP-1A is the jumping-off point for a superb op-amp-driven EQ that adds meat and substance to guitar and bass tones.

Classic outboard bass effect in analog stompbox form. Muscular-yet-clear bass tones. Easy to use.

No battery compartment. Modern digital EQ pedals can create similar effects—and many more.

$218

ZeroFive Audio Lowrider
zerofiveaudio.com

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The Lowrider pedal from France’s ZeroFive Audio is a one-trick pony. But it’s a magic pony whose trick, as far as I know, is unique among handbuilt analog stompboxes. It certainly merits a stall in the stables of many bassists, and probably a fair number of guitarists as well.

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