• Constructed with hard maple body
panels that form a highly resonant
open chamber
• Design also serves to isolate the through
neck from the player’s body, which in
turn increases the natural sustain and
clarity of notes
• 25" scale length with an ebony fretboard
on a maple neck
• Coil-tapped Seymour Duncan pickups—
Custom 5 in the bridge and Jazz in
the neck
• Tune-o-matic-style bridge and custom-
designed solid stainless-steel tailpiece
Direct $3000
thesonicwind.com
2 maxon real Tube II series rTC600 Compressor,
r TO700 Overdrive, and
r Td800 Overdrive/distortion
• Rugged, lightweight (approximately
1. 5 pounds) chassis made of cast zinc
• Each unit features a handselected Sovtek
12AY7EH (or equivalent) dual-triode
vacuum tube. Tube socket is isolated
from main PCB for low-noise operation
• Mechanical 4PDT switch provides
transparent bypass
• Includes Maxon AC2009 universal 9-volt
DC adaptor
• Three year limited warranty
Street $389 (TRC600 Compressor
and RTO700 Overdrive); Street $435
(RTD800 Overdrive/Distortion)
maxonfx.com
3 Charvel desolation ds- 1 Fr
• Carved mahogany top, neck-through-
body design, and a 24-fret, bound
mahogany neck with scalloped heel
• Abalone position inlays, abalone body
and headstock binding
• Dual Seymour Duncan Blackout active
humbucking pickups
• Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo and
black nickel hardware
MSRP $929
charvel.com
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4 Fender Bronco 40 Bass amplifier
• Computer connecting via USB to engage
the exclusive Fender FUSE software
interface, which lets you customize and
store a wide variety of parameters
• A single, punchy Fender Special Design
10" speaker
• Eight distinctive amp models and digital
effects including chorus, reverb, delay,
envelope filter, flanger, phaser, octave,
and more with Fender Fuse
• Other features include a compressor,
chromatic tuner, auxiliary input, head
phone jack, XLR output, and optional
single-button footswitch (stores two
quick-access presets)
MSRP $349
fender.com
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5 albion amplifiers TCT35
• Designed by Steve Grindrod—Chief
Engineer at Marshall from 1973–2003
• TCT35 delivers 35 watts into either 8
or 16 Ω loads and is powered by four
12AX7s and a pair of 6L6s
• The power amp section provides
switchable feedback loops, Edge and
Presence controls, Output Phase and 33
percent power switching
• Included with both models is a two-way
(channel A/B and reverb) footswitch
• Each channel offers separate Gain, Drive,
Bass, Mids, Treble and individual
Volume controls
• Available in head form or 1x12 combo
that features a proprietary 12" speaker
and birch ply cabinet construction
MSRP $712 (head); MSRP $836 (combo)
albionamps.com
