START ME UP!
Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…
FENDER CORY WONG SIGNATURE STRATOCASTER
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This is looking like a very promising Strat indeed; the Sapphire Blue transparent nitro finish pays homage to the Vulfpe ck member’ s highway one workhorse but offers a slightly thinner body than usual, and features a set of his seymour Duncan clean machine single-coils. The Ultra series’ 10-14” fretboard radius features here with a push/pullpotontone 2thatbypassesthe5-way switch and defaults to position 4 – Wong’s favourite place. £2,249,www.fender.com
IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE X-GEAR PEDALS
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Hot on the heels of Universal Audio’s UAX effects, IK Multimedia is channel in git sown acclaimed Amplitube 5 modelling into guitar pedals with the aim to align it with a boutique hardware experience. The X-TIME delay, X-SPACEREVERB,X-VIBE modulationandx-drive distortion each offer 16 onboard effects derived from Amplitube, with the delay andre verb hosting newly-designed algorithms, too. €299.99, www.ikmultimedia.com
BOSS EV-1-WL
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A wireless Bluetooth expression pedal compatible with any device that can receive Control (CC) messages,theev-1-wl’s potential for players is wide open. In addition to Boss’s Waz a-air modelling amps, any hardware or music application with bluetooth midi connectivity is potentially open for expression pedal control. You can also connect via wire du sb or MIDI TRS, and it’s compatible for up to two of the company’ s Fs-series footswitches to build your own wireless pedalboard. £149.99,www.boss.info
FENDER DUAL PUGILIST DISTORTION AND DUAL MARINE LAYER REVERB
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Fender’s effects range has been a real success story that continues with these new version soft he original launch reverb and overdrive. The Pugilist may be called ‘Dual’ but has three stacking mode snow; mute, Series and Parallel with anewly-designedtwo-band masters helv in geq. there verb offers three types (room, hall and modulated) that you can assign to the pedal’s two channels. £179,£194,www.fender.com
HARLEY BENTON EX84 MODERN
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Harleybenton’sex84 Modern has been a big seller already on Black and Vintage white, now benton blue and Shell Pink join the spiky parade with an im press ivespec for the prices; mahogany body and neck, ebony fretboard, Gr over locking tuner sand graph Tech Tusq nut. There’s a nice design touch with the recess for the jack input and pickup options are roswell hum bucker s or a Metallica-esque pairing Emgactive60and81. £406.80,£304.80, www.harleybenton.com