Death By Audio Amp Crash: A Real 3-Watt Amp, Speaker, and Microphone Crammed Into a $395 Stompbox
Death By Audio and Rainger FX built a stompbox with a real 3-watt amp, a 2-inch speaker, and a microphone inside it. Here is what that physical signal chain does that a modeler cannot, and who it is...
Fender Lee Sklar Precision Bass: A $3,499 Tribute to a Bass That Was Barely a Fender
Fender's Lee Sklar Precision Bass recreates the session legend's homemade 'Frankenstein' P-Bass, mandolin frets, dual EMG actives and all, for $3,499.99.
Solar CHUG PLUG: Ola Englund’s $49 High-Gain Headphone Amp That Does Exactly One Thing
Solar Guitars' $49 CHUG PLUG puts Ola Englund's high-gain 'chug' tone into a plug-in headphone amp with three sliders and no app. What it is, and how it stacks up against Vox and Fender.
Squier Troy Van Leeuwen Telecaster XII: A $599 12-String That Finally Makes the Jangle Affordable
Squier's first Paranormal signature is a $599 electric 12-string built with Troy Van Leeuwen. The price, not the name, is the real story.
Gibson ELEV8: The Company’s First Alnico 8 Humbucker Ends a 70-Year Magnet Streak, From $139
Gibson's new ELEV8 line is the first production Gibson humbucker built around an Alnico 8 magnet, a tight, high-output voice aimed at the modern players who kept swapping Gibson's own pickups out.
Avantone's GTR-100 is a $599 two-channel rack power amp with built-in cab sim, built to make amp modelers gig-loud without a tube rig or a monitor wedge.
