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Reverend Pickup Giveaway!

Reverend Pickup Giveaway!

TWO Winners! Enter below for your chance to win your preference in Pickup sets from Reverend!


Prize #1 - HA5 Humbucker Set

The Reverend HA5 bridge humbucker is a classic style humbucker, but wound slightly hotter than vintage for extra drive and punch. Warm but open tone with excellent clarity.

The Reverend HA5 neck humbucker is a vintage PAF style humbucker. Warm but open tone with slightly relaxed mids and excellent clarity. Slightly underwound for neck position.

Reverend
$160 per set

Prize #2 - Split Brick Pickup for Bass

Strong lows and highs, open mids. Like a vintage P bass pickup but with more beef, yet retains clarity.

Reverend
$160 for set


Bohlinger Tests EMG's SL20 Steve Lukather Pickguard on a '90s Strat
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PG's demo master quickly (and easily) drops in an H-S-S setup into his 1994 40th Anniversary Stratocaster that needed help. Find out what happens when gets his first taste of active pickups.

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While creating her new solo record, Kim Deal was drawn to exploring the idea of failure.

Photo by Kristin Sollecito

The veteran musician and songwriter steps into the spotlight with Nobody Loves You More, a long-in-the-making solo record driven by loss, defeat, and friendship.

While Kim Deal was making her new album, she was intrigued with the idea of failure. Deal found the work of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared at sea in 1975 while attempting to sail by himself from the U.S. to England in a 13-foot sailboat. His boat was discovered wrecked off the southern coast of Ireland in April 1976, 10 months after Ader departed the Massachusetts coast. Aderā€™s wife took one of the last photos of him as he set off on the doomed journey from Chatham Harbor: Ader, wearing a blue tracksuit and a bright orange life jacket cinched around his neck, is beaming.

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The legendary Dobro player talks about how to get session work, working with Allison Kraus, and the ā€œbaton passā€ involved in recording great songs.

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The perennial appeal of one of Gibsonā€™s most accessible Les Pauls is stoked anew in this feature-rich version.

Lots of nice vintage touches and features that evoke the upmarket Les Paul Standard at a fraction of the price. Coil-splitting capability.

A thicker neck profile would be a cool option and distinguishing feature.

$1,599

Gibson Les Paul Studio
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Effectively a no-frills version of theLes Paul Standard, the Les Paul Studio has been a fixture of Gibson product rosters since 1983, which says something about the enduring, and robust, appeal for affordable alternatives to the iconic original. The notion behind the original Les Paul Studio was that it didnā€™t matter how a guitar looked when you were using it in the studio. Who cares about a flamed top, binding, inlays, and other deluxe cosmetics in a session as long as it sounds and feels good?

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