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Boss VG 800 Guitar Processor Demo | NAMM 2025

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A blend of guitar and bass modeling and effects processing makes the NAMM-revealed VG-800 a killer sound machine. It does require Boss’ Serial GK divided pickup to open up all its capabilities, but that by-the-bridge-mounted device reveals a world of sound. You can summon up latency-free strings, harmony, modeled synth tones, and a lot more, including changing tunings to Boss’ presets or your own in a snap. The pedalboard-friendly encyclopedia of sound has a $649 street price and is available now.

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Jack White's 2025 No Name Tour features live tracks from his album No Name, with shows across North America, Europe, the UK, and Japan.

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A dose of magic gain potion.

Works like a little vial of magic gain potion. Fattens without obscuring individual frequency bands.

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$129

Solodallas SVDS Boost
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The Schaeffer-Vega Diversity System—an early and very successful wireless system—excelled at the tasks it was designed for. But there was more magic than met the eye. Though designed to sound as transparent as possible, it nonetheless colored the signal in a way that people like Angus Young and Eddie Van Halen found essential.

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Learn about this iconic guitar's journey, its mods done by Frank, and hear how it sounds in the hands of his son Dweezil.


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Neil Young’s ’70s hits are some of the most recognizable radio rock jams of all time. But Neil’s guitar playing continued to grow over the ensuing decades, as he traversed styles from blues to country to electronic to rockabilly and beyond, eventually developing one of the most tonally decadent, fully formed improvisational voices in the entire guitar universe.

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