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Crazy Tube Circuits cooks up a crazy tube circuit for real with Venus overdrive pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
Inspired by the BK Butler Tube Driver, a favourite of Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson's, Venus has a heap of tone-shaping features, including tube bias control – and you can swap out the tube

Benson Amps teams up with Jessica Dobson for the awesome and unorthodox Deep Sea Diver Fuzz-Echo
By Jonathan Horsley published
Three years in the making, this pairs a vintage-inspired silicon fuzz circuit with echo and promises gated skronk, wooly fuzz, “gauzy My Bloody Valentine textures” and much more

Pedal power to go? Harley Benton unveils two high-powered budget power bricks with onboard batteries
By Jonathan Horsley published
Available with five outputs or nine, these pedalboard power supplies can supply current-hungry digital and multi-effects, have a switchable 9V/12V/18V options, and are very budget-friendly

The Tunerette is the headstock tuner that looks like a smoke – ideal for Clapton and Keef fans
By Jonathan Horsley published
And to think that some people find tuning their guitar to be a drag...

Steve Vai shows us just what's needed to play '80s King Crimson in tour of his custom-built BEAT rig
By Jonathan Horsley published
If the Fractal Axe-Fx III is doing the heavy lifting for the effects, Vai's indomitable tech, Doug MacArthur is the power behind the tone

Joe Bonamassa and Seymour Duncan put pre-CBS tones on the menu with “Greenburst” Strat pickup set
By Jonathan Horsley published
The hottest mod of the year? These replicate the same gray-bottomed single-coils in the ’64 Stratocaster that stopped Bonamassa in his tracks at Norman’s Rare Guitars

Keeley Electronics and Sweetwater team up for exclusive $99 fuzz, overdrive and reverb pedal series
By Jonathan Horsley published
Behold, a trio of US-made stompboxes from a top-tier builder at a very budget-friendly price

String theory: Jim D’Addario reveals the real reason why guitar strings are colour coded
By Will Simpson published
It’s to cut down on packaging, apparently
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