Make this summer the hottest yet with Guitar World’s third Summer Ultimate Gear Guide

Looking for the best new gear to make sure this summer is the hottest yet? Look no further than Guitar World’s Summer Ultimate Gear Guide.

In this third installment, Guitar World’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput select guitars, modelers and pickups that are guaranteed to keep your music sizzling.

PRS’s Custom 24 has been the company’s standard bearer for decades, and fans of the model would be wise to check out the impressive new Custom 24-08, which retains that design’s iconic features while also taking it to new sonic territories.

Essentially a marriage of the Custom 24 and PRS’s 408 model, the Custom 24-08 keeps all the same foundational specifications as the original Custom – maple top, mahogany body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 24 frets, 25-inch scale length, PRS patented tremolo – but adds a new level of versatility with its dual TCI “S” humbuckers controlled by a three-way blade switch and two mini-toggle coil-split switches.

The simple-to-use switching system provides a full array of humbucker tones and single-coil sounds unlike any other PRS, including a dual single-coil option. That’s eight distinct pickup combinations in all, for one of the most versatile PRS guitars ever offered.

Next, Paul and Alan turn your attention to the NUX MG-30, which boasts two NXP RT processors and drives 1024 samples with Impulse Response resolution with ultra-low system latency. There’s also two premium 32-bit two-channel audio CODECs for high-quality sound performance and a dynamic range of 110dB.

Other features include 25 electric guitar amp models, two acoustic amp models and three bass amp models, as well as eight guitar and bass cabs, eight mics and three mic placement options.

There’s also a variety of pre- and post-effects, as well as a tuner and phrase looper, 4-inch LCD screen with intuitive UI, external foot control, USB recording interface. QuickTone edit software, meanwhile, allows users to tweak parameters, download patches, load third-party IRs and more.

Finally, Paul and Alan highlight Fishman’s Fluence Greg Koch Gristle-Tone Signature Series P90 pickups, the newest offering from Fishman and Koch, who last teamed up to bring you the Fluence Gristle-Tone single-coil pickup set.

Like the single coils, the P90s are enhanced by Fishman Fluence technology, retaining that classic P90 sound – minus the hum, noise or feedback. The result is just pure, unadulterated, Fluence Multi-Voice tone.

The Fluence P90 pickups are available as aftermarket, body-mount, drop-in replacements, or as original equipment in Greg’s Gristle 90 Signature Reverend guitar. Like all Fluence pickups, it can be powered by either a standard 9V battery or a Fluence Rechargeable Battery pack.

To find out more about the Fishman Fluence Greg Koch Gristle-Tone P90 pickups and all this amazing gear, check out the video above.