The XS-100 and XS-1 pitch shifters set out to give modern players dominion over the wildest effect on the pedalboard. Boss’s Matt Knight tells us more

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PRS has ignored its existing signature artists during most of its 40th Anniversary year, but finally we get two new artist models that illustrate huge diversity and prove PRS does indeed make guitars for us players

Electro-mechanicals revisited, analogue modulation refined and esoteric ambiences combined

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