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Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…

BOSS RC-600 LOOP STATION

1 Alongside th et able topbased 505mkii, bossis expanding its flagship floor Looping station at the end of the year. It’s a unit so full of features it could be ao ne-stop tone shop for some players. Including; six stereo phrase tracks and nine assignable foots witches to controls them ;49 inputfx and 53 Track fxtypes; over 200 built-in rhythms in styles ranging from pop, rock, latin, jazz, acoustic and electronica. Available december ,£527 www.boss.info

HARLEY BENTON MINISTOMP EFFECTS

2 If you’re eyeing up that small space you have left on the pedal board for something, the prices of Harley Benton’ s new mini pedal range might be just the excuse you need to fill it. at just 20ma, they won’ t take a toll on your power supply either. There’s 27 models in all covering all manner of effect types, and many of the fuzz, overdrives and distortions are based on popular circuits –Rodent pedal, anyone? From£16.80 www.thomann.de

ELECTRO-HARMONIX NANO DELUXE MEMORY MAN

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An iconic delay pedal scaled down for your pedal board? always great news. but ehxh as managed to add in rate and depth controls for the chorus and vibrato modes –even better! the nyc company has even extended the maximum delay time available to 550ms. Other controls are Blend, Feedback, Delay and Level, plus there’s a Tails Switch for fade outs after you switch off. £188 www.ehx.com

UNIVERSAL AUDIO VOLT

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Ua are a brand we associate with premium quality with the prices to match but the new volt range of us bin te rf aces is a marked change on the latter. The inspiration is the mic/line preamp in UA’S 610 tube console; tube emulation circuitry designed to let you dial in a “rich, full sound on vocals and instruments”. Pay more and you can move up to the volt 76 models, adding an analogue circuit based on Ua’ s 1176 compressor. From£120 www.uaudio.com

EPIPHONE JOE BONAMASSA ‘LAZARUS’ 1959 LES PAUL STANDARD

5 A £799 model based on the guitar the blues man helped bring back from the dead( it had been refinished in red) with features including 50s-style wiring, Mallory capacitors and Gibson us a burst buck er st hat keep the paf dream alive .“we wanted to make a model that was accessible to everyone at a price point that you could buy it and go out and gig with it; it looks and feels like the original guitar,” saysbonamassa. £799 www.epiphone.com