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First Looks

Keeley Blues Disorder, Super Rodent & Angry Orange Demos | First Look
Keeley Angry Orange, Super Rodent, & Blues Disorder Demos | First Look

Three new flexible, combination gain machines offer a slate of overdrive, distortion, and fuzz sounds from rambunctious to raging.

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Steve Albini in the control room at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago.

Photo by Kevin Tiongson

Words of wisdom from the legendary engineer, proprietor of Chicago’s Electrical Audio, World Series of Poker champion, and, in the band Shellac, the compass for brutal guitar aesthetics.

“All day every day, we’re grinding it out,” says engineer Steve Albini of his team at Electrical Audio, the Chicago studio he built and has run since 1997. “We’re constantly in session, constantly under fire.”

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First Look: EarthQuaker Devices Zoar Dynamic Audio Grinder Distortion
EarthQuaker Devices Zoar Dynamic Audio Grinder Distortion Demo | First Look

Discreet circuitry and a flexible EQ mean mainline thrills and malleable tones in the latest drive from Akron’s finest.

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Each of the MT100's three channels is built from its own unique circuit with dedicated preamp tubes to ensure the voicing of each channel is exactly as intended.

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First Look: PRS MT 100
PRS MT100 Mark Tremonti Signature Amp Demo | First Look

Mark Tremonti’s 100-watt signature amp—five years in the making—features three totally independent channels spanning silky, substantial clean tones, responsive, controlled overdrive, and white-hot lead sounds that exhibit incredible definition at the highest gain levels.

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