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If you love the sound of a bright and clear single-coil pickup, but hate the hum, then we have what you’ve been searching for. Unlike most single coil pickups, EMG's internal shielding and a low impedance preamp makes this pickup virtually noiseless while maintaining an authentic single coil sound. The ceramic bar magnet provides a balanced and bright guitar tone, while the added X preamp gives players increased headroom and amazing touch sensitivity. The SX has plenty of output to give your sound top end sizzle while maintaining solid lows with articulation and presence. Whether you are playing jazz, country, metal or blues, the versatility is undeniable. With EMG's solderless wiring, you can install our pickups easily at home.

The PA2 is a boost preamp you can mount to your guitar and turn on/off via on a minitoggle switch. It's the perfect solution if you want to increase your instrument's overall volume for solos or push an amp on the edge of breakup into overdrive. It has a trim pot so you can preset the amount of boost you want up to 20 dB.

The EMG AB (Afterburner) is a boost you can use instead of your tone or volume knob (does not function as a tone or volume) and activate with our variable gain push/pull pot. When the Push-Pull pot is in the “down” position there is no boost and the control has no effect. In the “up” position, rotating the pot can boost the input by up to 20dB at full rotation. The AB has up to 20dB of available gain and is perfect for increasing the signal of your clean tone or pushing a tube amp into overdrive. This is a great option for players looking to maximize their output for leads. This boost works with both active and passive pickups.

The Lace Sensor Hot Gold Sensors have a fat, full bottom end, a singing midrange and all the high end sparkle and class you would expect from a killer Strat, everything is there like never before. There is Gold and there is Hot Gold Sensors - a modern take on the Classic Gold Sensor from the people that brought your the Gold standard in guitar sound - Lace Sensors.

Music Styles: Rock, blues, R & B, Country, Funk, Jazz, and Pop

Think: Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Townshend, Bonamassa, Buddy Guy

Sound: A hotter 50’s Style single coil sound with a classy bell tone

The Silver Lace Sensor Pickup - Also available in Reverse Wind-Reverse Polarity! Silver Sensors are fat 70's single coil sound with increased output and more mid-range. The Lace Sensor® family has a unique radiant Field Barrier system that surrounds both the coil and magnets, reducing annoying 60-cycle hum. The patented Lace Micro Combs® replace traditional bobbins, yielding a wider tonal range and better string balance than traditional pickups.

Music Styles: Vintage & Classic Rock, Blues, and Pop

Think: Smashing Pumpkins, The Breeders,

Sound: Fat 70’s single coil sound w/increased output & more mids..

The Purple Lace Sensor Pickup - Hot overwound single coil electric guitar pickups tone, between a Burgundy Sensor & Blue Sensor. The Purple Sensor is made for bridge placement or a P90 sound in the neck position. The Lace Sensor® family has a unique radiant Field Barrier system that surrounds both the coil and magnets, reducing annoying 60-cycle hum. The patented Lace Micro Combs® replace traditional bobbins, yielding a wider tonal range and better string balance than traditional pickups.

Music Styles: All Rock, Blues, R&B, Funk and Pop

Think: Blackmore, Hendrix, Ron Wood, McKnight

Sound: Hot overwound single coil tone, between a Burgundy & Blue Sensor. Designed for bridge or a P-90-type tone in the neck.

The quintessential ‘classic-rock-in-a-box’ guitar pedal, the Trashy Blonde is inspired by tones reminiscent of classic British tube amplifiers and especially on the definitive Marshall® amp sound, allowing you to drive any clean amplifier with controlled and musical crunch. Trashy Blonde is a sexy British beauty that features a great deal of classic rock with unquestionable control. Imagine you wanted some classic Brit tones from your super clean jangly amp? Well, she will turn any prancy little thing into an over-driven crunchy distorted badass. Roll her back with your guitar volume and she cleans up very nicely. You may also want to mix it up with her mix knob, allowing you to toggle through trebly distortion, to a more rounded vintage tone with plenty of warmth.

Extremely versatile, you can get those JTM45 subtle break-up tones all the way through to saturated JCM800 territory and then suddenly you’re feeling just like Slash stepped in with his heels. Plus, the design allows mixing clean and distorted signals with ease for a more vintage, well rounded and less saturated tone, to more classic rock tones reminiscent of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. The in-depth EQ settings let you refine the sound to your exact preference, while the parametric filter and noise gate assists in suppressing unwanted feedback so that you’re always in control.

However, Trashy Blonde does have another ‘secret’ channel up her sleeve. By cranking the Balance (output) knob on the clean channel, into a ‘just about to break up’ amp will take you into boosted valve break up, step on the Trashy side and then boom! You’re into full-on distortion nirvana. Add a Stone Deaf EP-1 active expression pedal to the expression input control and on top of the impressive regular tone shaping features, Trashy Blonde can also achieve wah, phaser and manual tonal shift sounds as well as the ability to control your drive tone on the fly with your foot. Each Trashy Blonde is proudly manufactured by Stone Deaf in our factory based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

Katana—the traditional sword carried by the historic samurai of Japan—is a symbol of honor, precision, and artistry in Japanese culture. Adopting the majestic sword’s name with pride, the Katana series presents guitar amplifiers with smooth, cutting tones honed by generations of dedication and expertise. Born of the development process behind the acclaimed Waza amplifier, these innovative amps embody BOSS’s determined pursuit of the ultimate rock sound. Featuring proprietary circuit designs and meticulous tuning, the Katana series combines traditional craftsmanship and breakthrough functions to produce true next-generation rock amplifiers.

With 100 watts of power and two custom 12-inch speakers, the Katana-100/212 delivers a commanding range of gig-worthy tones that gracefully slice through any band scenario. The amp also excels for home playing, with a uniquely efficient design and innovative Power Control that provides inspiring sound and response at low volumes. In addition, the Katana-100/212 includes integrated access to 55 BOSS effects, which are customizable using the free BOSS Tone Studio editor software. Up to 15 different effects can be configured in the amp at one time, enabling you to bring fully prepared tones to the stage in one amp.

Most families have one. One who is different, all the while resembling the others. The Crown of Horns is that one in the Black Arts Toneworks family. While the Pharaoh is the utilitarian BMP, the LSTR is the wild and outrageous brother, the Crown is the youngster with different DNA, possibly the mailman’s. Living in the BAT family, The Crown of Horns shares traits of the Pharaoh and LSTR. The heart of the Crown is that of the OpAmp muff with the addition of a hybrid Pharaoh/LSTR tone section. Not quite as middy as the Pharaoh, not quite as scooped as the LSTR. The Crown sits squarely in the middle of the two. What makes the Crown very different is the Horns. The Horns switch will bypass the tone stack altogether for a huge, flat boost of volume. The result of this is highly interactive with your amp. Different amps and settings within the amps will give results ranging from a huge volume boost to a slab of fat saturation. Your creativity will find ways to utilize the Horns. As is standard in the Black Arts family, the Crown of Horns portrait includes a big bottom, loud mouth, aggressive personality and a bit of unruly FU. This pedal operates on a Standard 9VDC power supply. No battery connection.

The Destroyer combines the Ritual and Oath into one unified assault. It mauls everything in its path. The elders maybe afraid, but your wenches will love it. The destroyer will make a hole that few can follow. You have been forewarned. If you’re not sure, don’t click the Paypal button. This pedal operates on a Standard 9VDC power supply. No battery connection.

What you have here is a throwback to the glory days of rock and roll, with a Black Arts twist. The Black Forest takes a celebrated circuit and drags it through the dirt. More gain, more fatness. A six way selector allows you to set your gain/low end/voicing along with Fuzz, Bass, Treble and Volume. This forest grew with the helping hand of a tone god. Treat it with care; allow future generations to behold the beauty that is the Black Forest. Behold the ugly beauty of old rock and roll. The beauty of big, fat gnarly tone. It is your duty, it is our destiny. This pedal operates on a Standard 9VDC power supply. No battery connection.

The Supreme has all of the sounds and abilities of the Standard and Primitive Pharaohs, but with some very useful additions and a bit of a twist. In place of the hi/lo switch,the Supreme utilizes a variable pre input control to infinitely adjust the saturation of the front end of the circuit from 1 to 10. In Place of the 3 way diode selector, the Supreme utilizes a 6 way rotary switch to select from the Standard Pharaoh diode settings, plus an additional 3 setting not available on the previous Pharaohs. The Pharaoh supreme allows selection from the following diode settings: Germanium, Asymmetrical Germanium(standard Pharaoh), Silicon (standard Pharaoh), Mosfet, LED and Bypass (standard Pharaoh).

The Pre knob control in addition to the Clip knob, produce an array of sounds and textures that expand the Pharaoh into the ultimate, or Supreme fuzz-stortion that Black Arts has produced.

To visually demonstrate the depth of the new Pharaoh Supreme, a huge 10mm green LED glows with a calm, deep and inviting look into the window of the Supreme soul.

This pedal operates on a Standard 9VDC power supply. No battery connection.

Katana—the traditional sword carried by the historic samurai of Japan—is a symbol of honor, precision, and artistry in Japanese culture. Adopting the majestic sword’s name with pride, the Katana series presents guitar amplifiers with smooth, cutting tones honed by generations of dedication and expertise. Born of the development process behind the acclaimed Waza amplifier, these innovative amps embody BOSS’s determined pursuit of the ultimate rock sound. Featuring proprietary circuit designs and meticulous tuning, the Katana series combines traditional craftsmanship and breakthrough functions to produce true next-generation rock amplifiers.

With 100 watts of power and a custom 12-inch speaker, the Katana-100 delivers a commanding range of gig-worthy tones that gracefully slice through any band scenario. The amp also excels for home playing, with a uniquely efficient design and innovative Power Control that provides inspiring sound and response at low volumes. In addition, the Katana-100 includes integrated access to 55 BOSS effects, which are customizable using the free BOSS Tone Studio editor software. Up to 15 different effects can be configured in the amp at one time, enabling you to bring fully prepared tones to the stage in one amp.