GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into PRS’s SE P20E Lotus Pink acoustic, Eventide’s TriceraChorus pedal and Guitareo.com’s online instructional courses
Looking for the best new gear to make sure this holiday season is the merriest yet? Look no further than Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide.
In this first installment, Guitar World’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput select acoustic guitars, cool new effect pedals and awesome instructional courses that are guaranteed to keep your music sizzling.
First up? PRS’s new SE P20E acoustic in a brand-new Lotus Pink finish. The guitar is the newest addition to PRS’s growing line of acoustics in its SE Series, which include the Angelus cutaway, Tonare grand and Parlor body styles.
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The Lotus Pink finish follows the SE Parlor in Powder Blue and Antique White, and like those models, the new limited-edition guitar is a smaller-bodied acoustic with all the original appointments of the PRS SE P20E, but with the addition of a muted pink solid-mahogany top.
Other features include a mahogany body and neck, ebony fretboard and bridge, bone nut and saddle and vintage-style tuners with butterbean buttons, as well as PRS trademark bird inlays and headstock design.
There’s also PRS’s hybrid “X”/Classical bracing, as well as a Fishman GT1 pickup system for easy plug and play.
Find out more about the Limited-Edition SE P20E Lotus Pink, available in a run of less than 2,500 models, at PRS.
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Next up, we have Eventide’s TriceraChorus, which offers up a host of vintage-inspired chorusing in one enclosure.
The pedal is the newest addition to Eventide’s dot9 series, and aims to pair the classic bucket brigade-style chorus sounds of the late '70s and early '80s with Eventide's MicroPitch detuning.
The TriceraChorus offers three chorus voices and three unique chorus effects, and a three-phase LFO modulates the delay times for the three chorus voices (Left, Center and Right). Combine them, and the three modulated delays create a huge wash of lush, ‘80s-style chorus.
Five presets come loaded onto the pedal, and up to 127 in total can be stored via MIDI or Eventide's Device Manager application.
Any TriceraChorus parameter can be mapped to an expression pedal via the pedal's rear panel Exp. jack, which can also be used to hook up an auxiliary switch for tap tempo, or a three-button switch to cycle through presets.
There’s also MIDI capability, a Guitar/Line Level switch for level-matching with guitars, synths, FX loops or DAW interfaces on its back, and multiple bypass options, including buffered, relay, DSP+FX and Kill dry.
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Finally, Alan and Paul introduce us to Guitareo, one of the newest and most comprehensive names in online guitar instruction.
A Guitareo.com membership provides you with goal-based training programs, hundreds of chord charts and jam tracks to popular songs, and access to real teachers and live Q&As.
And right now, a one-year membership to Guitareo also includes lifetime access to GuitarQuest, where you’ll find yourself writing your own music, learning to jam and shooting a music video.
Guitareo is backed by a full 90-day guarantee, and sign up is fast and easy at Guitareo.com. Head over to the site now to get everything you’ll need to keep you motivated and supported on your path to guitar greatness.
To find out more about Guitareo and all this amazing gear, check out the video above.
Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.
