START ME UP!
Five awesome new products to get your gear engine revving this month…
OPENHAGEN HANGERS
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If you’ve ever witnessed the terror of your guitar falling over, you’ll know the importance of a guitar stand. Openhagen’s range of guitar hangers is now available in the UK, and takes things a step further by giving you back your floor space. These elegant wall hangers are available in four wood types (oak, stained oak, cherry and walnut), they’re collapsable, and designed to work with any guitar featuring an asymmetrical headstock (like a Strat or Telecaster). £59 www.openhagen.com
ZOOM MS-50G+
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Cramming over 100 effects into a single pedal, Zoom’s latest offering in its MS range is capable of storing 100 recallable presets, using up to six FX blocks per patch. There’s preamp modelling and speaker impulse responses too, plus an on-board tuner, colour-changing display (relating to the effect you select) and Zoom says there’s app control coming soon via its Handy Guitar Lab. It’s available to preorder from Zoom’s website now. £TBC www.zoomcorp.com
UAFX LION
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Universal Audio’s roaring trade in pedals continues this month with the Lion ’68, a Marshall Plexi-style preamp with emulations of three classic Brit amps. Labelled Bass, Lead and Brown, respectively, the three modes ape the Super Bass 100, Lead 100 and a modded, hot head in the style of Eddie Van Halen’s Brown Sound amp. It’s got three cab emulations, three-band EQ, a boost circuit, room ambience and more! £TBC www.univeralaudio.com
EHX SPRUCE GOOSE OVERDRIVE
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Sticking with the vintage Marshall theme is the Spruce Goose Overdrive from Electro-harmonix, which has its sights set firmly on classic rock and blues tones. It’s based on a Bluesbreaker-style overdrive for “smooth, rich breakup that retains clarity and transparency”. EHX has included controls for volume, gain, treble and bass, and the Lift toggle switch provides a gain boost for greater saturation. £129 www.ehx.com
DOD CHTHONIC
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With low-output pickups becoming the sound of 2023, it makes sense that the rest of our rigs are tailored to sound great with them too. That’s what DOD has done with its new Chthonic Fuzz, a silicone diode-based vintage style dirtbox offering (in DOD’S words) “fat, corpulent, fudgy, sludgy” sound. It’s got three controls (fuzz, volume, and the post-gain tone control, lustre). The Chthonic is out now. £129 www.digitech.com