NAMM 2019 Editors' Picks Day 2 Session guitarist/demo guy extraordinaire (and PG Tone Tips columnist) Pete Thorn joins us to discuss the latest gear from Ernie Ball, Alexander Pedals, Waterloo, Sound City, and more. | | GALLERY: NAMM 2019 Day 2 The second day of the year's biggest gear show was full of tone toys from Orange, Seymour Duncan, Nu-X, Electro-Harmonix, and more. | | NAMM '19 - PRS SE Paul's Guitar, CE 24 Semi-Hollow & McCarty 595 Hollowbody Demos Paul Smith's upscale personal solidbody gets reinvented at the sub-$1,000 mark, and impressively equipped hollow- and semi-hollow axes make their debut. | | NAMM '19 - Fender Acoustasonic Demo Witness how the company engineered a hybrid design that goes from dread to Tele with the flick of a switch. | | NAMM '19 - Marshall Studio Classic (JCM800 2203) and Studio Vintage (JMP 1959SLP) Demos Two vaunted amp heads—the Super Lead and the JCM800—get distilled into impressive-sounding 20-watt incarnations with a smaller footprint, power scaling, and DI outputs. | | NAMM '19 - Headrush FRFR-108 Demo The multi-effector specialists show us their scaled-down, 1000-watt (peak power) 2-way speaker cabinet for modeling devices. | | NAMM '19 - ESP LTD RM-600 Reba Meyers Signature Viper Demo Reba Meyers, guitarist for hardcore outfit Code Orange, demos her new signature Viper model. | | NAMM '19 - Epiphone Dave Rude Flying V and Jared James Nichols "Old Glory" Les Paul Demos Dig Halestorm, Tesla, and/or stripped-down Les Paul sounds? Then check out the classic brand's latest signature solidbodies. | | NAMM '19 - Taylor Guitars Builders Edition 517e, 717e & 512e 12 Fret Demos Master Builder Andy Powers demos the new slope-shouldered, old-school-voiced body style that inspired the company's recent V-Class innovations. | | NAMM '19 - Eventide Rose Demo The tech gurus' latest combines a whopping 50 seconds of delay-time/modulation functionality with an op-amp input stage that yields bucket-brigade-like warmth. | | NAMM '19 - Orange Pedal Baby 100 & Trem Lord Demos The storied U.K. outfit shakes things up with a compact, solid-state platform for pedals, and an American-toned combo with the ability to switch between two trem speeds. | | NAMM '19 - Ibanez RGA61AL & S61AL Demos PG takes a listen to two new Axion Series throwdown machines, one with Bare Knuckle Aftermath pickups, and the other with Fishman Fluence Modern 'buckers. | | NAMM '19 - MXR Vintage Bass Octave & Dyna Comp Bass Demos Get hip to a pair of new mini pedals aimed at bassists who love compression and vintage octave sounds. | | NAMM '19 - Martin Guitars D-18 Modern Deluxe, Road Series & Dreadnought Jr Demos The acoustic mainstay demos new Modern Deluxe, Road Series, and Dreadnought Jr. instruments. | | NAMM '19 - Geddy Lee SansAmp YYZ & Paul Landers Signature Fly Rig Demos Analog-amp-modeling pioneer Andrew Barta shows us the legendary Rush bassist's streamlined preamp pedal, as well as Rammstein guitarist Paul Landers' custom multi-effector. | | | | |