Browsing: Electric Guitar

Designed for the ultimate bass-playing experience, the Bassman 800 offers two versatile channels and extreme Fender tube tones, while mating perfectly with Fender Bassman Pro Neo speaker cabinets. The foundation of the Bassman 800’s tone is the two-channel tube preamp, which utilizes a pair of premium 12AX7 tubes. The lightweight (17-lb), 800-watt hybrid amp also…

Buena Park, CA (June 30, 2016) -- Yamaha has unveiled the Pacifica 612VII electric guitar, a limited-edition model featuring an SSH Seymour Duncan pickup configuration. Only 100 pieces will be released in the U.S. Yamaha has been making guitars since 1942, and the company’s Pacifica series, first launched in 1990, were inspired by the California…

Fender Deluxe Nashville Tele Straight from the studios of Music Row in the home of country music—Nashville, TN—comes the Deluxe Nashville Tele, a tonally versatile performer with a unique (for a Tele) three- pickup design. A distinctive entry into the Fender family, this Tele growls, snaps and screams with flexible tone that can match any…

Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition Journeyman Relic "'59 Special" Strat Uniting vintage features with modern favorites, the Limited Edition Journeyman Relic “’59 Special” Strat is an exceptional guitar that could only spring from the minds at the Fender Custom Shop. Features include a trio of high-output hand-wound Custom Shop Ancho Poblano Stratocaster pickups, special Strat…

Summer NAMM 2016: Amongst a slew of announcements this week, Fender has unveiled an entirely new series, and a powerful new addition to its Bassman range. The '57 Custom Tweed series is a range of unashamed "tone machines" which deliberately aim to emulate the original '57s in tone, while adding the controllability guitarist expect in…

It's no secret that overdrive pedals are a necessity and staple of worship guitar tone. I have played a ton of different ones over the years and thought, hey, why don't I do an all time favorites list of our favorite overdrive pedals. I have to give you a heads up that this list is not exhaustive.…

Fender's Custom Shop has launched its strictly limited edition 80 Proof Blues Junior Amp at Summer NAMM, and as you can see it's a typically characterful and downright desirable piece of work. Each of the 100 amps available sits in a handbuilt cabinet made from reclaimed Kentucky bourbon barrels, complete with distillery stamps and markings.…

Summer NAMM 2016 -- Providing expression control of pedal parameters is becoming de rigueur for modern stompboxes, but Ernie Ball has gone one further by merging overdrive and delay effects with on-the-fly treadle control. Building on the idea set about by the MVP volume/boost, the Expression Overdrive promises valve-like overdrive right up to gain-laden lead tones, with settings…

Mount Laurel, NJ (June 28, 2016) -- It’s summertime and two companies have teamed up to breed a swarm of noisemakers to the effects world. Greyfly combines Electro-Faustus’ Blackfly spring-activated noise generator with Fuzzrocious’ Grey Stache fuzz. The pedal can be used as a standalone effect from each company or combined to elevate one’s noise…

Athens, GA (June 27, 2016) -- Carrying forward the momentum from last year’s Summer NAMM “Best In Show” buzz, Greer Amps has released an octave fuzz monster, the Super Hornet. The Super Hornet has been a long time in the making…at least in Nick’s mind. Based on one very special Foxx Tone Machine in Nick’s…

Nashville, TN (June 25, 2016) -- Famous for its noiseless clean sustain, Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone stands out as a uniquely powerful guitar effect in the crowded world of compressor pedals. Ushering in a new generation of futuristic analog technology, the Philosopher's Tone Micro delivers all of the parallel optical compression and unrivaled sustain of the…

Foxon, CT (June 24, 2016) -- Black Cat Pedals is pleased to announce the Monster K-Fuzz stompbox, the latest edition of the veteran pedal maker's uniquely hotrodded version of the '60s Kay Fuzztone. The new Monster K-Fuzz stompbox boasts all the bells and whistles features of previous version in a pedalboard friendly enclosure at a…