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Top 10 Rig Rundowns of 2023
PG's video crew recounts their favorite moments from this year's interviews and counts down the most-popular episodes—featuring some obvious big-hitters like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Billy Strings, Steve...
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Why MIDI Matters
In 1983, music had a banner year: U2’s War, the Police’s Synchronicity, Metallica’s Kill ’Em All, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood, Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues, and ZZ Top’s Eliminator were all...
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Martin’s Joe Silvius: For the Love of Exotic Tonewoods
Before Joe Silvius started working for Martin 27 years ago, he thought he was going to become a professional baseball player. When his shoulder told him he could no longer pitch, however, he was...
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Editors' Picks: The Best Albums of 2023
Here at PG, us editors are constantly (and willingly) submerged in the currents of new music. As a result, we may be highly at risk of fancying ourselves worldly eclectics, with ears attuned to what...
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Gretsch’s Custom Shop and the High-Flying Art of Guitar Making
The art of guitar building lies somewhere between Zen and a lightning strike. The watercourse way of experience dictates some processes, their workflow eased by years or decades of practice. Other...
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Strymon UltraViolet Review
Modulation effects are an enduring source of new hooks and riffs. But while I hear loads of vibrato, tasty tremolo, and chorus in a lot of contemporary guitar music, I don’t encounter much in the way...
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Reader Guitar of the Month: Guitiki
Inspired by a family trip to Hawaii in the mid 2000s, I discovered a passion for creating tikis. I’m also someone who enjoys playing surf tunes on the guitar, and I combined my design and 3D-modeling...
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MXR Joshua Ambient Echo Demo | First Look
The new rhythmic ethereal delay voiced by Jeorge Tripps offers vintage-rack-style processing that delivers trippy psychedelia atmospheres, spacy shoegazer journeys, and organ auras with octave...
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A Near-Century-Old Larson Brothers Flattop
From around 1900 up until World War II, Swedish immigrant brothers Carl and August Larson’s two-man, Chicago-based workshop turned out an amazing assortment of handmade instruments. Their products...
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MXR Launches the Joshua Ambient Echo
A new echo pedal serving up vintage rack-inspired rhythmic ethereal delay.Through its array of controls, the Joshua is designed to create everything from trippy psychedelic classics to shoe-gazer...
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Rig Rundown: mssv's Mike Watt & Mike Baggetta [2024]
Sure, guitarist Mike Baggetta and punk bass legend Mike Watt have cool gear. Watt’s got a signature Reverend Wattplower bass in root beer burst, and Baggetta wields his custom Koll Tornado and Benson...
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EarthQuaker Devices Unveils the Blumes Low Signal Shredder
With its all-analog tri-mode overdrive and three different clipping options, this pedal is designed to deliver a three-dimensional tone with added clarity. "At lower gain settings, you’ll get all of...
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Skreddy Skunk Drive Model 1606 Review
Most of the pedals I play that are built by Skreddy’s Marc Ahlfs feel like the product of a lot of deep listening and diligent research. They always seem to go a layer deeper—more detail, more...
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An Epiphone Fixer-Upper with Powerful Pickups
When I was a kid, there were so many World War II veterans in my neighborhood. All these old-timers had pretty impressive sets of skills, and whenever you needed some work done, all you had to do was...
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Castedosa Is Setting the New Standard in Baritone Guitar
“I’m not gonna follow you, you’re gonna follow me.” As soon as I hear these words, I realize this is Carlos Lopez’s ethos. Throughout his career, the Souther California-based luthier has forged his...
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CAGED Pentatonics Made Easy
Need to understand how CAGED shapes and pentatonics work together? Gabriel Bergman breaks down exactly where the shapes land on the fretboard and why mixing major and minor sounds can unlock your...
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Behind the Scenes of a Televised Christmas Special
Two weeks ago, I got a call to MD (music direct/bandlead) for CMT Campfire Sessions: Christmas Edition. It’s a fun series where country music artists perform an intimate acoustic set around a rustic...
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Can AI Build the Perfect Guitar?
There’s no doubt that guitarists simply cannot agree on what is the best instrument. After all, best is so subjective in this context that the very idea is laughable. Still, the unspoken dream of many...
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An Old Kraftsman Fixer-Upper with Powerful Pickups
When I was a kid, there were so many World War II veterans in my neighborhood. All these old-timers had pretty impressive sets of skills, and whenever you needed some work done, all you had to do was...
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How Tom Murphy Restores And Ages Gibson's Most Expensive Guitars
Gibson’s Murphy Lab namesake Tom Murphy joins the pod to talk about the ins and outs of his shop, why he started aging guitars, and the beauty of old guitars.Rhett and Zach kick off the new year with...
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