Olly Curtis

COVER FEATURE Tone Heaven

60 In our ultimate guide In our ultimate guide to sounding great on to sounding great on guitar, we bring you 30 easy guitar, we bring you 30 easy mods to help shape up your mods to help shape up your sound, with insights from the sound, with insights from the industry’s finest makers and industry’s finest makers and players on how to achieve players on how to achieve the most divine tone the most divine tone

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ISSUE 496  APRIL 2023

REGULARS 026.......... Gas Supply 028.......... Fretbuzz 030.......... New Music 032.......... Tones Behind The Tracks 034.......... Opinion 040.......... Substitute 042.......... Feedback 046.......... Competition 104.......... Subscribe 106.......... Bought & Sold 110.......... The Mod Squad 116.......... Nitty Gritty 120.......... Talking Loud 122.......... Classic Gear 124.......... Vintage Icons 130.......... Next Month

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FEATURES 048.......... Obituary: David Crosby 054.......... Kavus Torabi 060........... Tone Heaven 078........... Obituary: Tom Verlaine

NEW GEAR 008........... Fender Tone Master Princeton Reverb 014........... C9 Custom Guitars

Custom Ventura Standard 020........... Soldano Super Lead Overdrive Pedal 022........... Electro-Harmonix J Mascis Ram’s Head

Big Muff Pi 024........... Gibson Custom BB King

‘Live At The Regal’ ES-335 082........... Rapier 22 & Saffire 092........... Taylor American Dream AD12e-SB 100........... Maestro Agena Envelope Filter, Arcas

Compressor Sustainer, Mariner Tremolo, Orbit Phaser & Titan Boost

TECHNIQUES 126........... Blues Headlines with Richard Barrett

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