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“If all you want to do is sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’re screwed. There was only one of him and he did it better than anyone else”: What Guthrie Trapp learned while escaping the country player label – and how the fretboard can change your life

The session ace explains what’s wrong with modelers, why anyone emulating SRV is doomed to fail, and how he nearly missed out on jamming with Billy Gibbons

“A shoo-in for completely natural drive sounds”: Nobels ODR-1X review

“A shoo-in for completely natural drive sounds”: Nobels ODR-1X review

The green pedal loved by Nashville session players gets a reboot with added versatility

"Featuring an array of genuinely useful extras, this is a surprisingly versatile and natural-sounding analogue overdrive": Nobels ODR-1X review

"Featuring an array of genuinely useful extras, this is a surprisingly versatile and natural-sounding analogue overdrive": Nobels ODR-1X review

Building on the ODR-BC, Nobels adds some extras to their legendary overdrive tone

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NAMM 2025: “Combines an outstanding selection of chorus tones, all in a budget-friendly and space-saving enclosure”: Nobels CHO-mini is a stereo mini pedal with three different chorus modes

It is a hard-working unit requiring a small piece of pedalboard real estate – and it's only $99

“A pint-sized powerhouse that’s built for performance”: Nobels stuffs three chorus flavors into its tiny new pedal, the CHO-mini

Skewed towards ’70s-style chorus effects, it comes with tap tempo functionality, space-saving housing, and an affordable price tag

“An outstanding selection of delay tones in a budget-friendly and space-saving enclosure”: Nobels’ DEL-mini offers three delays and the width of the stereo spread all from a super-compact $99 pedal

Analogue, tape and digital modes plus full stereo operation and tap tempo, the DEL-Mini makes the most of its modest pedalboard footprint

“The next generation of the legendary overdrive”: The Nobels ODR has long been one of session guitar pros’ secret weapons – now two new pedals have refined the design based on player requests

The ODR-1X and ODR-Mini2 offer some choice tweaks that update the famed drive stompbox for modern players

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“I saw Adrian Belew playing fretless guitar with King Crimson and I got hooked. I began wearing out my wooden fingerboards – the glass fingerboards solved that problem”: Fretless glass-necked guitar pioneer Ned Evett on the risks of being a true original

“I saw Adrian Belew playing fretless guitar with King Crimson and I got hooked. I began wearing out my wooden fingerboards – the glass fingerboards solved that problem”: Fretless glass-necked guitar pioneer Ned Evett on the risks of being a true original

Ned Evett has shared riffs with Joe Satriani, John McLaughlin and Sting, and modded a guitar for John Frusciante – but it’s been a brutal journey, and he understands why others haven’t followed him

Is the Nobels ODR-1 the real holy grail overdrive pedal?

Is the Nobels ODR-1 the real holy grail overdrive pedal?

Tom Bukovac, Tim Pierce and Guthrie Trapp love the original '90s versions

Top Nashville session guitarist blind tests the most coveted overdrive pedals ever… and you might be surprised by what happens

Top Nashville session guitarist blind tests the most coveted overdrive pedals ever… and you might be surprised by what happens

Tom Bukovac knows what he likes – but also what he can use (and he's not a big fan of the Klon)

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