Get the holiday gear fires burning with the third installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide

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 third installment, Guitar World’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput select awesome electric guitars and innovative new pedals that are guaranteed to keep your music sizzling.

First up is Baldacci’s Bighorn, the Wyoming-based builder’s flagship six-string model.

Baldacci offers three versions of the Bighorn – the Bighorn Standard, the Bighorn Semi-Hollow, and the Bighorn Hollowbody – which feature mahogany bodies and maple tops, C-shaped mahogany necks, 22-fret rosewood fingerboards with 12th fret “mountain” inlays, choice of wraparound or tremolo bridges and nickel hardware.

The result is a guitar that combines some of the very best attributes of vintage design and modern playability.

All models come loaded with Baldacci’s custom Mountain humbuckers, controlled via single volume and tone knobs and a three-way selector switch, and there’s a host of upgrades on offer, including premium maple tops, neck coil splits and MannMade USA bridges and gold hardware.

Each guitar is also available in a variety of finishes such as Arctic White, Carbon Black, Gold Top, Ice Blue, Cherry Burst, Tobacco Burst, Sedona Fire, Black Ice, Ocean Blue and many more.

We all love IK Multimedia’s spectacular AmpliTube software, and now IK has brought AmpliTube out of the virtual realm and into the physical world with the new AmpliTube X-GEAR pedals.

The newly-introduced line spans four pedals – AmpliTube X-DRIVE Distortion; AmpliTube X-SPACE Reverb; AmpliTube X-TIME Delay; and AmpliTube X-VIBE Modulation – each boasting 16 different effects drawn from the most popular AmpliTube models and all-new reverb and delay algorithms.

X-DRIVE Distortion and X-VIBE Modulation offer a range of iconic, must-have analog pedal effects, all recreated with IK’s finest algorithms, while the X-TIME Delay and X-SPACE Reverb feature cutting-edge, studio-grade effects algorithms custom-created by the IK team just for these pedals.

Each pedal is also accompanied by an exclusive plug-in of the exact same effects, as well as state-of-the-art DSP, 4x oversampling with 192kHz internal processing, ultra-low noise, 24-bit/192kHz converters for class-leading sound quality, an extended 5 Hz – 24 kHz frequency response to capture the full scope of your instrument’s tone, and up to 123 dB dynamic range for whisper-quiet operation no matter how much gain is applied.

There’s also a pure analog dry path, selectable true or soft bypass and because this is an actual pedal, a high-quality, aluminum chassis designed and made in Italy.

Finally, Paul and Alan grab hold of the Cort X700 Mutility, a sleek, ergonomic multi-scale guitar that pushes the limits of conventionality with a “multi-utilitarian” design.

The multi-scale length conforms to a player’s hand movement up and down the neck, so that wrists and fingers naturally follow the layout of the frets from the low to high register. There’s also a mahogany body with a maple/ash combo top and a roasted maple neck and fingerboard.

The Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers, meanwhile, promise to be free from hum and noise while delivering pure, uncorrupted music tones. Controls include a three-way selector switch and push/pull access on both knobs, with the tone knob switching between humbucker and split coil and the volume knob offering a further two voices.

Other specs include corrosion-resistant stainless-steel frets, a spoke nut Hotrod truss rod and an individual hardtail bridge unit for improved sustain, articulation and intonation.

To find out more about the Cort X700 Mutility and all this amazing gear, check out the video above.