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Five new products to try

Zilla Kemp er Head Shells

1 Ever wished your kemp er Profiler looked a little more… amp-like? or wanted to give it protection from knock son stage? Z ill ac abs reckons it’ s developed the answer with itskp ahead shells. designed to sit on top of traditional guitar cabs, the K em per shells feature the same box joints asz ill a’ s other cabs, and are worked, glued and sanded by hand. the shell adds 4 kg to the Kemp er, measures 410 mmx 243 mmx 226 mm, and is available in a wide range of tolex colours. (£150,zillacabs.com)

MXR Mini Iso-brick

2 Mxrhasshrunkits I so-brick down to seriously compact proportions while retaining those all-important isolated outputs. four 300 ma9v outs are on board, while the fifth can be set to provide 9 or 18 vat a whopping 800 ma. asp litter cable is also included to connect two pedals to a single output, while L eds make it clear every thing’ s operating correctly on dark stages. sure, it use saw all wart, but isolated power supplies don’ t get much smaller than this. (£107,jimdunlop.com)

G 7th Perform ance 3

3 Theuk’ sg 7 th reckons its new performance 3 ca po delivers “unrivalled tuning stability ”. that’ s down to the capo’ s adaptive radius Technology( art ), which adapts to individual guitars’ rad ii and delivers even pressure across the strings, in combination with the company’ s tension control system. art has previously appeared ong 7th’ s premium heritage ca po, but this is the first time it’ s appeared on a mass-marketcapo.the Performance 3 is available in silver, Satin black and 18ktgold plate finishes. (£39.95,g7th.com)

Earthquaker Swiss Things switcher

4 Swiss things has two true-by-pass-flexi-switch effects loops, a flex i-switch A b-y box with transformer isolation between outputs, buffered tuner output, 20db of clean boost, expression pedal output for volume control and a high-head room output buffer. Flex i-switch allows for latching and/ormomentary-style switching with any existing pedals. loop 1 is for fuzz, over drive, distortion and boost pedals, while the buffered loop 2 is for time based and modulation effects. (£249,earthquakerdevices.com)

Electro-harm onix strings

5 Made in the us a, these packs feature wound strings that have been precision-wrapped with round nickel-plated-steel onto a high-carbon-hexagon-shaped steel core. plain strings are made from the same high-carbon steel as the hex cores. ehx claims the high-quality steels and computer-controlled winding process results in strings that deliver improved into nation, tuning and sustain. available in: Superlight(.009-.042),regular Light(.010-.046) and medium (.011-.048). (£Tbc,ehx.com)