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LATE-FIFTIES OIL CAN echoes are fascinating pieces of gear. Imagine a rotating disk submerged in oil and built-in pickups that work in tandem to recreate the delay. Sounds a little wacky, right? But s

WE CAN HEAR many of you cry out, “Please, God — not another Tube Screamer!” And yes, while we understand these pleas, the Source Code by TWA (Totally Wycked Audio) is one of the finest TS808-style ove

FOR THOSE WITH even a passing interest in the amp-modeling world, the Line 6 Helix needs no introduction. Released in 2015, it is arguably one of the pieces of gear that made digital amplifier modelin

JOHNNY MARR’S FIRST signature took the vintage vision of the Jaguar and upgraded it, very much from a player’s perspective. This new addition sticks close to that original, aside from the major differ

I’M NOT SURE Denmark is big enough for the Kalmar 9X9. I meet Jan Kalmar at the impressive My Garage, a petrolhead destination in Jutland. Jan is proudly Danish and, as it turns out, the rural roads c

THE HALCYON HUMBUCKER is the result of a three-way collaboration between the U.K.’s Bare Knuckle Pickups founder Tim Mills, frequent collaborator and musical polymath Adam “Nolly” Getgood and Spiritbo