2020 Digital Issue 02 February
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Premier Guitar February 2020: 17 guitar heroes hail their heroes, Korn’s James “Munky” Shaffer & Brian “Head” Welch, Ronnie Earl, Anthony Pirog, Los Pirañas’ Eblis Álvarez, and Jedd Hughes. Gear reviews: Ernie Ball Music Man Mariposa, EHX Ram’s Head Big Muff, Blackstar Silverline Standard, and more.
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$3.99$0.99This month we take you inside the Winter 2017 NAMM show—the year’s biggest unveiling of new guitar gear—and show you the axes, amps, and stomps that wowed our editors most. On the gear-review front, this month we’ve also got a roundup of six 8″ speakers, and deep-dives on the new Fender Professional Stratocaster, BC Audio’s Octaplex, Martin’s D-16E, the Line 6 Spider V 120, Darkglass’ Microtubes 900 head, Ovation/Applause’s AE44II, the EarthQuaker Devices Space Spiral, NEXI’s ’70s Distortion, G7th’s UltraLight capo, the Crazy Tube Circuits Planet B, MXR’s Phase 95 Mini, the Phil Jones Session 77, and the Positive Grid BIAS Rack. Meanwhile, our feature interviews this month include chats with Ty Segall and Emmett Kelly, De La Tierra’s Andreas Kisser (also of Sepultura), folk legend Michael Chapman, the Lemon Twigs, and blues troubadour Otis Taylor.
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2017 Digital Issue 11 November
$3.99$0.99Whether you’re completely turned off by fuzz pedals or just brand-new to and overwhelmed by them, this month’s cover story demystifies this sometimes-confusing stompbox niche and explains how the right fuzz can stoke inspiration in any genre imaginable. On the artist front, we’ve got interviews with Wendy Melvoin (from the late great Prince’s band the Revolution), Metalocalypse mastermind Brendon Small, and bluesman Jonny Lang. We’ve also got a feature offering an insider’s perspective on recording guitar for film and TV soundtracks, as well as a primer on both how to play slide guitar, and the pros and cons of different slide types. Song transcriptions this month (print only) are Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” Mastodon’s “Curl of the Burl,” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well (Part 1).” Meanwhile our gear-review section deep-dives on the Coppersound Foxcatcher, Guitar Pro 7, Outlaw Effects’ Deputy Marshal, Korg’s AW-LT100B bass tuner, the Headrush Pedalboard, Ashdown’s SZ Funk Face, Bigfoot Engineering’s King Fuzz XL, the Boss Acoustic Singer Live combo, the MOD Duo, Pinter’s SB1-J Jazz Jr., Allen Eden’s Disciple 5 bass, and the Keeley Compressor Plus.
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2017 Digital Issue 10 October
$3.99$0.99This month the world-famous phenomenon that is PG’s annual Pedal Issue manifests itself with—count ’em!—33 in-depth and insightful stompbox reviews, ranging from simple boosts and overdrives to fuzzes, switchers, freakazoid machines, and, of course, boxes just for bassists. Covered brands include mainstays like Boss, Way Huge, MXR, TC Electronic, and Carl Martin, newer boutique standouts like EarthQuaker Devices, Chase Bliss, and JHS, and stomps from impressive overseas outfits like Stone Deaf, Tsakalis AudioWorks, Rainger Fx. Rounding out our gear section, we also take a look at Gibson Custom’s Modern Doublecut Standard, the Supro 1685RT Neptune Reverb, and Schecter’s CV-4 bass. Artist interviews this month include chats with Sonic Youth icon Thurston Moore, blues-rock vet Robin Trower, acoustic polymath Molly Tuttle, and Mike Watt and Nick Reinhart from Big Walnuts Yonder. We’ve also got a historic piece on post-punk trailblazers Andy Gill (Gang of Four), Keith Levene (the Clash, PiL), and Gareth Sager (the Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic, Head). Tablature transcriptions this month (print magazine only) are Ozzy Osbourne’s “Bark at the Moon,” Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Lenny (Live),” and Ryan Adams’ “New York, New York.”