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1 day ago | musicradar.com | Jonathan Horsley

Empress Effects has just launched the Bass ParaEq, an EQ pedal that it says is the world’s first to be designed specifically for bass guitar. That’s right, it’s not just a guitar pedal that does a great job an octave down – everything here is tuned for bass frequencies. After all, Empress already had an EQ pedal on the market that bass players liked. The ParaEq MKII Deluxe was already a super popular fixture on bassist’s pedalboards. It does a great job.

1 day ago | musicradar.com | Jonathan Horsley

Kiesel Guitars, the high-performance electric guitar brand of choice for the likes of Sophie Lloyd and Frank Gambale, has unveiled an all-new design, and it is ridiculously lightweight, and several shades of radical. The Kyber is a twist on the S-style bolt-on doublecut, available as a six-string or seven-string guitar, but what a twist. The contouring on this model is unbelievable, and for players who like nothing more than a lightweight solidbody, it doesn’t get much better than this.

2 days ago | musicradar.com | Jonathan Horsley

The designer of the Klon Centaur, Bill Finnegan, is suing Behringer’s parent company Music Tribe over the release of its $69 Klon copy, the Centaur Overdrive. Finnegan had his IP attorneys file the motion on Friday, 30 May, at the district court of Massachusetts, arguing that Music Tribe’s actions went “far beyond the line of permissible inspiration versus unlawful copying”, and is seeking damages and injunctive relief. Behringer launched the Centaur Overdrive in November 2024.

2 days ago | musicradar.com | Jonathan Horsley

A photo exhibition featuring life-sized photographs of some of the world’s most-famous guitars will open in London this month. The brainchild of award-winning Australian photographer Kane Hibberd, Scale documents 100 acoustic and electric guitars from some of the biggest names in music, and showcases them front and back, alongside some personal testimony from their owners as to what they mean to them.

2 days ago | musicradar.com | Jonathan Horsley

MXR has launched a distortion pedal honouring the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. The Jail Guitar Doors Drive was co-designed with Kramer before he died in February 2024, and it is gloriously simple in its design – at least, from a guitar player’s POV. This is a single-knob drive pedal. Connections for your guitar cables are on the top. One footswitch. No messing. Cool enclosure artwork comes courtesy of Shepard Fairey, the founder of Obey Clothing.