___NAMM 2026 ___ Thomas Blug of BluGuitars walkthrough

 / THOMAS BLUG \ 

        

____NAMM 2026 ____ the Ibanez booth

IBANEZ GUITARS  ||  

___NAMM 2026 ____walk, stop and talk ____ a must see!!!

 ALL THE MUST SEE BELLS AND WHISTLES! 

___NAMM 2026 ___DOD ...bad is not bad

 DOD

____NAMM 2026 ___METAL GUITARS

 METAL GUITARS  |||     

___ NAMM 2026 ___ REVEREND GUITAR ...condensed and changed

R E V E R E N D 

GUITARS

___NAMM 2026 ___CHAPMAN GUITARS

 CHAPMAN GUITARS 

___NAMM 2026 ___ FENDER ___are NOT at NAMM ...BIG BUT!!!!

 

FENDER

____NAMM 2026 ___NEW ____PRS GUITARS

 PRS GUITARS 

___NAMM 2026 ___GIBSON & EPIPHONE

 GIBSON & EPIPHONE 

___NAMM 2026 ___ A Walk into & thru the Circus

 COME INTO THE CIRCUS  

  

AMP- LANEY Supergrace solid state amp___NEW___ NAMM 2026 ___Billy Corgan model

$600.00 USD

 Laney  

 SUPERGRACE ∴  

A basic old school solid state with 60 watts RMS of power. in short loud enough to drowned out a heavy hitting Metal drummer if you need to. it is all there. A Brit metal sound with a boost and Reverb. Custom Corgan IR to send back to the house or to a DAW.  

CONLUSION ___ 

It gives you very high gain metal but with excellent definition. Definitely a portable solution to get to the gig and not give up using a real amp with its total balz and feedback.  

  

___ NAMM 2026 ___YAMAHA ___New Chris Buck & Pacifica Tele models

YAMAHA

 

FUZZ- VOX VFZ-1 ___NEW ___Tone Bender mk. 1.5 clone, sort of ???

VOX VFZ-1 FUZZ

$150.00 USD

It looks cool with its old school sloped top folded metal enclosure.

The ToneBender 1.5 was sent to dealers as a Version 2 even though those dealers were already selling V.2 models. It was a BETA testing thing and it was very soon discontinued. It resurfaced with a couple 

of mods as the Fuzz Face. Then VOX phoned and wanted a VOX 

Fuzz made. They got the 1.5 and a new enclosure.  

The layout is Volume, Tone & Gain. A toggle removes the tone 

another is a bass cut.

    CONCLUSION __

The original uses Germanium transistors. This uses Silicon. 

They are honest enough to admit it so this is not a case of cashing in in the VOX name. They have made an effort to  

tinker with the voicing to create a faux Germanium sound.

The bottom line is it is its own thing. The price is fair.

Love it or save your coin.  

__<>^ ...a lot of QUACK  

The video is also pushing a VOX version of the Rangemaster Treble booster

The video is an overproduced one minute wonder that tells us squat.

NAMM is on so we may yet get something worth evaluating from 

for both pedals. 

 

___NAMM 2026 ___QUAD CORTEX mini ___$1400.00 USD

Quad Cortex mini  

Features? 

Price $1400.00 USD !

 

                           

PREAMP- ATTIC AUDIO Putty___NEW___a BOSS FA-1 preamp clone

$200.00 USD

ATTIC AUDIO   

PUTTY ••••  

__<>^ quack

It is a take on the BOSS FA-1 a first in being 

a FET preamp boost OD. 

The layout is Volume, Gain, Bass and Treble. 

A toggle lets you choose Pre or Post EQ and 

another lets you boost highs or lows or leave 

it off.

     CONCLUSION __

It adds clarity, boost and punch. 

Alternatively ...Valeton made 

a very accurate clone. 

The Valeton Fret Preamp FP-10.

'Only Pedals' has some NOS

inventory of them. $60.00 USD.

 

                             

WAMPLER- Pedalhead Power Amp ___NEW___ it could be, LITERALLY a game changer!!!

WAMPLER  

PEDALHEAD POWER AMP 

NOTE: 

Neither a pic or price have been published. You know I will get that ASAP as 

I am 99% sure I will buy one. Brian Wampler has a cover band and I know he has 

been using a Friedman IR-D. He loves it. I expect it is why he was inspired to make

this amp pedal. I have the Friedman IR-X and am using a borrowed amp because 

other pedalboard amps are total crap so I have been waiting for something like this.

___ 

WTF no pedal pic no price

The unit is a 240 watt Class D stereo power amp that is
designed to sound & perform like you have a 60 watt RMS Tube amp. It can even push a classic 4X12 if you want.

The unit sweeps whatever speaker cabs using 'machine learning' to match with the amp. It can choose from 6 amp type categories so it for example it can tell if it needs to respond like a Peavey 5150 or a clean Fender etc..  

You then can plug in a Tube Pre or even an Amp-in-a-Box pedal of any make & get a very convincing real Tube Amp creating sag, phase inverter and transformer power 

section distortion. This lets you hear and feel the response 

just like as if it were a  Tube Power amp experience with 

both the sound and the feel.  

You can then send out the same sound to the house system

sound reinforcement or DAW. You can run it without any cabs.

Yes it has a jack for your headphones as well. It plugs right

into the wall so you do not need a flimsy adapter.

CONCLUSION __  

This literally could be a game changer. Other pedalboard amps are just consumer 

stereo amps made to play your CD's etc. on. I am sure I will buy one. At worse 

it will be compact so I can give my borrowed rack mount back.That said the fact

that Brian Wampler uses virtually the same Friedman Pre as I do makes me 

feel hopeful.😇 

OVERDRIVE- THE AUDIO CULTIVATION PROJECT Pala ...Fender Bassman10-in-a-Box

THE AUDIO CULTIVATION PROJECT

$300.00 USD

P A L A 

A take on a Fender Bassman Combo with 4-10" speakers. It

looks like a 74 blackface Super Reverb. It is NOT the model

used by Marshall to make the JTM45. The pedal has a built in compressor to imitate the compression created by the real 

amps output transformer. The layout is Pre volume, Post

volume, Dry to mix in some dead cleans, Treble, 

and Offset which is a gain Control. 

     CONCLUSION __ 

I owned the head version of the this amp. The amp 

was 30 watt but the sweet spot was not even loud

enough to get over the drummer. I did get great 

results in the studio. The PALA is roughly in the

ballpark but really has to be judge as its own thing.

Even if I was really motivated I do not see paying 

more than $180.00 for a clone of an amp that on 

the whole was inadequate and Fender dropped it.

       

___NAMM 2026 ___ Perfecto De Castro ___ prep for TONEX & others live demos

 PREP for NAMM 

 

NOTE:  HOW NAMM DOESN'T WORK

The thing about NAMM is opening day is not the first day to walk around 

and look at the booths etc. It is the day to put them up from scratch. 

In short huge trucks with everything in cases and boxes need to be moved 

by hand about an hour away from where they will be assembled. About half 

will be done by tomorrow and others will show visitors tomorrow

morning with it only half up, half out and very little working, LOL😟 

 

 I have both been a visitor and a buyer for a store and a product specialist 

for Ibanez where I demoed and showed guys all over the world how to use 

the pedals so they can demo them in the stores they work for back home. 

For many English is their second language. That made for a lot of humour 

and fun for all of us. Part of the real fun was working in chaos. Things would 

malfunction, things would fall over and things would have been forgotten to pack.  

 

I can remember one day asking every visitor for a pick. All day long several guys 

would be playing a guitar often unplugged but they wanted a pick. OOPS! 😕 

One of our guys had to go to a local music store and came back with big

bowl of Fender picks. A bit embarrassing, LOL. 

The next day another guy went out. He came back with Gibson picks, WTF!! 😶