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ntroducing the NíquelPuro line of Electric Guitar Strings by the Gabriel Tenorio String Co. These are still constructed and formulated like the original GTSco line but feature the highest quality pure nickel wrap available. (original GTSco strings already feature the highest amount of nickel available in nickel plated steel)   NíquelPuro is an evolution in my string making. My goal has always been to make the best sounding and feeling string. I wasn’t interested in pure nickel at first. I felt that all the pure nickel I had ever seen in the market didn’t feel comfortable and that it was a gimmick to improve the signal strength of a hex core string. Many folks felt that nickel was warmer, others swore that nickel was louder or brighter. I wasn’t going to make pure nickel if it meant making strings that didn’t feel right to me or if it meant appeasing a boutique “tone fetish.”   I had been testing nickel out for about a year and had come to enjoy how durable and strong pure nickel is to nickel plated steel. I felt this right away while making a batch of D strings which feature a very fine wrap wire. The tone once the string was installed was rich and full. A very good strong tone that had even more body than the NPS.   After running more tests, I’ve decided to bring these to market. Like with my own personal strings I used on tour in my younger days, it took me a while to feel comfortable and confident in selling these to the public. I just want to make a good string that is worth your hard-earned gig money.   I am always surprised at how long the strings last for a majority of the professional musicians who put them to the test show after show, session after session. I know that the NíquelPuro will also stand up to that test.   ·      Pure Nickel is stronger and longer lasting than nickel plated steel wrap wire ·      Pure Nickel has stronger magnetic properties than nickel plated steel, thus producing a more output and improving signal strength ·      NíquelPuro strings by GTSco feature the same round core construction and custom twist innovations of the original line ·      GTSco strings in general, use more “Tone Metal” per wound string than most brands   Some more background and thoughts on the matter….  Nickel is a very vague term thrown around the gear industry. Almost every single wound electric guitar string employs nickel. There are varying grades of nickel plated steel and pure nickel wrap wire in use in the modern string industry. Nickel is ferromagnetic, that is important because it makes it possible to get more output from an electric guitar. It is a widely known characteristic of this metal. Steel is not magnetic on its own therefore other metals are added to different kinds of steel alloys to add magnetic properties. Without it, strings across the board would not perform as well. We know already that different metal wraps produce their own signature sound. That is also true of the NíquelPuro line. For lack of a better term, I am going to call wrap metal “Tone Metal.” By virtue of my construction and formulation techniques, I offer more tone metal in my products as a rule.  Cost cutting techniques in the industry have compromised the quality of metal some string companies use and even guided formulations focused on using thicker cores to save on expensive wrap wire. This can make for an opaque, albeit durable, string. I don’t believe this approach serves the instrument, the player, nor the tone, well.   NíquelPuro Electric Guitar Strings are made to help musicians play better, feel confident, and rest assured that they are getting the most from their instrument. You shouldn’t have to beat your instrument or destroy your hands to get a good sound, the strings just need to work for you.   That’s just how I feel about it.   ABOUT The Gabriel Tenorio String Company is dedicated to the evolution and further dissemination of the string making tradition established by Francisco Gonzalez, founder of Guadalupe Custom Strings. As a partner in Guadalupe Custom Strings, I insisted on only making round core strings--for all its lines. With remarkable results, it was only natural to revisit old acoustic formulae such as the PB 13s, known as Phosphor*Rounds and the Gypsy Jazz ManoucheTone Strings to learn from what made them so distinctive in tone and quality.  I went on to create an entire brand new line of electric guitar strings along with a slew of other steel stringed instruments. I didn't try to make something new, just something good. But it wasn't enough to just be good enough, I wanted to make the best fitting string possible, the way Francisco had many years a go when he made my first set of custom Requinto Romantico strings--in front of my very own eyes--based on what i was doing as a guitarist and what i wanted to get from my experience as a musician. That experience has left a long lasting mark. It took years of research and testing of set after set.  Then reconceptualizing a custom shop type of business into something I could share with the professional musician, at large. Over the last year at GCS, I was able to develop this model while developing my lines of products. I am proud to have had the positive response of 2014 and 2015.  2016 marks the birth of this new company, theGTS,co theGTSco uses only the finest first-drawn wire and are 100% made by hand in the USA. The Gabriel Tenorio String Company will continue to work alongside The Guadalupe Custom Strings team at the CustomLab location in East Los Angeles. We share a tradition, a part of a community of artists and artisans, and we share the joy of working collaboratively.

The original PB*Round was designed by Guadalupe Custom Strings founder, Francisco Gonzalez.  I continue to make the formula for Phosphor Bronze 13 gauge strings today.  I built the rest of the line of acoustic from extensive testing and feedback from both players and luthiers. This line definitely builds on the classic punchy sound of the PB*Round string set while offering consistent tone and more durability without the use of any additives or coatings.   For Resonators, I recommend 13 or 14 gauge PhosphorBronze, remember to opt for Tailpiece length strings which feature the stronger and tighter LongTwists.   I personally love the result of Brass 12s on Taylor x14 sized guitars and Brass 13s on Gibson J45s.   Now available in Nashville Tuning The Gabriel Tenorio String Company is dedicated to the evolution and further dissemination of the string making tradition established by Francisco Gonzalez, founder of Guadalupe Custom Strings. As a partner in Guadalupe Custom Strings, I insisted on only making round core strings--for all its lines. With remarkable results, it was only natural to revisit old acoustic formulae such as the PB 13s, known as Phosphor*Rounds and the Gypsy Jazz ManoucheTone Strings to learn from what made them so distinctive in tone and quality.  I went on to create an entire brand new line of electric guitar strings along with a slew of other steel stringed instruments. I didn't try to make something new, just something good. But it wasn't enough to just be good enough, I wanted to make the best fitting string possible, the way Francisco had many years a go when he made my first set of custom Requinto Romantico strings--in front of my very own eyes--based on what i was doing as a guitarist and what i wanted to get from my experience as a musician. That experience has left a long lasting mark. It took years of research and testing of set after set.  Then reconceptualizing a custom shop type of business into something I could share with the professional musician, at large. Over the last year at GCS, I was able to develop this model while developing my lines of products. I am proud to have had the positive response of 2014 and 2015.  2016 marks the birth of this new company, theGTS,co theGTSco uses only the finest first-drawn wire and are 100% made by hand in the USA. The Gabriel Tenorio String Company will continue to work alongside The Guadalupe Custom Strings team at the CustomLab location in East Los Angeles. We share a tradition, a part of a community of artists and artisans, and we share the joy of working collaboratively.

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• Body: Eastern Poplar• Neck: Hard Maple – Bolt On • Scale: 34"/864mm• Frets: 20• Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot• Tuners: Wilkinson® WJBL200 • Bridge: Adjustable• Pickups: 1 Wilkinson® WBP • Hardware: Nickel• Controls: Volume/ Tone

Body: American Alder Neck: One Piece Hard maple – Bolt-on Scale: 25.5″/648mm Frets: 22 Medium Neck Inlays: Black Dot Nut: 42mm Wilkaloid Tuners: Wilkinson® Deluxe WJ55S Bridge: Wilkinson® WTB intonatable Pickups: 2 Wilkinson® WJTD Alnico 2 Single Coils Scratchplate: White Single Ply Controls: 1 Volume/1 Tone/Custom Wired 5-Way Lever Switch

Body: American Alder Neck: Hard maple – Bolt-on Scale: 25.5″/648mm Frets: 22 Medium Neck Inlays: Pearloid Dot Nut: 42mm Wilkaloid Tuners: Wilkinson® Deluxe WJ55S Bridge: Wilkinson® WTB intonatable Pickups: Wilkinson® Single Coil x 2 (N) WVTN Alnico (B) WVOB Alnico Scratchplate: White Single Ply Controls: 1 Volume/ 1 Tone/ 3-Way Lever

Body: Eastern Poplar Neck: Maple Fingerboard: Maple Scale: 25.5″/648mm Frets: 22 Tuners: Wilkinson® WJ55 Bridge: Wilkinson® WVCD Distressed Pickups: 3 Wilkinson® Single Coils WVS Scratchplate: White Hardware Color: Chrome Controls: Volume/Tone/5-way Toggle Switch

Body: Eastern Poplar Neck: Maple Fingerboard: Rosewood Scale: 25.5″/648mm Frets: 22 Tuners: Wilkinson® WJ55 Bridge: Wilkinson® WVCD Distressed Pickups: 3 Wilkinson® Single Coils WVS Scratchplate: Mint Hardware Color: Chrome Controls: Volume/Tone/5-way Toggle Switch

Body: American Alder Neck: One Piece Hard Maple – Bolt On Scale: 25.5″/648mm Frets: 22 Medium Neck Inlays: Black Dot Tuners: Wilkinson® Deluxe WJ55S Bridge: Wilkinson® WTB Intonatable Pickups: 2 Wilkinson® Single Coils (N) WVTN  Alnico (B) WVTB Alnico Controls: 1 Volume/ 1 Tone/ 3-Way Lever

Body: American Alder Neck: One Piece Hard Maple – Bolt On Scale: 25.5″/648mm Frets: 22 Medium Neck Inlays: Black Dot Tuners: Wilkinson® Deluxe WJ55S Bridge: Wilkinson® WTB Intonatable Pickups: 2 Wilkinson® Single Coils (N) WVTN  Alnico (B) WVTB Alnico Controls: 1 Volume/ 1 Tone/ 3-Way Lever

ULTRASHEER is a stereo reverb and vibrato combination inspired by the early digital studio effects units of the late 1970’s, capable of moving you from a lush warbled space to a shallow room through an intuitive and satisfyingly tactile interfaceThe REVERB algorithm is based on the plate reverb sounds of the classic Lexicon 224 from 1978. The digital processing is downsampled to 16 bits and follows the topology described in the Dattorro paper linked here. This mix of legacy digital processing with modern high quality hardware creates a retro lush sound that we love The VIBRATO is a smooth and transparent digital pitch shifter that preserves the full bandwidth of your input signal and does not darken the sound which is often found in the analog counterparts. Two modulation waveforms are available, “cycle” which is a sine wave for classic Leslie-speaker-type sounds and “random” which is a smoothed sample and hold waveform that creates pitch warbles similar to a warped vinyl or sun-baked cassette- 165mm x 140mm x 45mm- 1/4" mono jacks- Input impedance: 50kΩ- Output impedance: 1kΩ- Current draw: 180mA- Soft-touch foot switches- Buffered bypass- Housed in a single block of walnut, CNC routed, hand sanded & polished

PARAGRAPHS is an analog four-pole resonant low pass filter with an attack, decay (AD) envelope generator designed with focus on simplicity and flexibility The heart of the LOW PASS FILTER circuit is the AS3320 analog chip — a modern replica of the same component used in analog classics like the Sequential Prophet 5, Pro-One mono-synth, Elka Synthex, and the LinnDrum. Cutoff spans the full audio spectrum and resonance starts to self-oscillate at about seventy percent.The ENVELOPE GENERATOR offers modulations in an uncommonly wide range of frequencies — starting as low as 0.05 hz for slowly evolving 20 second long cycles, and reaching up to (and past) the audio threshold at 300 hz for a wave shaping effect similar to sounds found on west coast style synthesizers (“think Buchla”).Paragraphs accepts instrument and line level signals. Dedicated controls for input (drive) and output level make it easy to move between a crystal clear clean tone and and a clipping fuzz. A multi-color LED provides a visual representation of the signal level. Red indicates clipping. Orange flashes indicate the start of overload. Green indicates the presence of signal at or below the nominal level.Inputs for CONTROL VOLTAGE and MIDI are available to remotely trigger the envelope generator. This enables your Paragraphs to stay in rhythmic synchronization with external systems like midi sequencers, euroracks, and digital audio workstations -1/4” mono input/output jacks-2.1mm DC Connector-5.7” x 4.7” x 1.5” enclosure dimensions-true bypass-input impedance: 1MΩ-output impedance: <1kΩ-power supply: 9 to 9.6 VDC center negative-current draw: 100mA max

POLYPHRASE is a stereo echo and looping device inspired by early proto-digital delays of the 1970’s like the Lexicon Prime Time. As sophisticated as it is easy-to-use, Polyphrase is capable of everything from rich, dubby rhythmic repeats, to metallic resonant flanges. It is unique in being able to generate loops as long as 22 seconds, opening up a new palette of sonic possibilities for the avant-garde, ambient, or adventurous musician.Polyphrase features two independent SLIDERSfor left and right delay times that can be locked into an infinite feedback loop which will produce an ever-changing sample of audio as each channel overlaps with another. This makes Polyphrase a tool for exploration capable of achieving the same kind of harmonic oscillation found on Steve Reich’s seminal tape piece “Piano Phase”.The TIME knob interacts with the left and right faders by providing nine different maximum delay times starting at 85 milliseconds, and doubling in value as the parameter is increased up to 22 seconds. Each new delay section is cross faded into the signal path, an important design consideration that avoids any pitch shifting artifacts and is useful for creating new and often unexpected musical phrases when used with high repeat settings.Three ECHO STYLES are available, and each style configures its own dedicated routing for the delay feedback path. “Dual stereo” provides two independent echos, and they can either be stacked in mono, or routed out of each stereo channel. In “ping pong” mode, each delay feeds back into the other, creating either a classic stereo ping pong sound (with each repeat bouncing between the left and right channel), or a multi-tap delay effect (when used in mono). The last mode is a mono delay - it routes the feedback path to the IN R, OUT R jacks so that you can use external effects in the echo’s feedback path.The TONE control is a bipolar equalizer (EQ) situated in the feedback path of the echo. At 12 o’clock, the EQ has no effect on the audio. Turning the knob clockwise cuts low end - making each repeat brighter than the previous. Turning the tone knob in the counter-clockwise direction cuts high frequencies - it creates darker repeats, which- makes Polyphrase capable of achieving similar timbre to the storied analog, bucket-brigade delays.The echo signal can be pitch modulated with the RATE and DEPTH controls for a sine wave style chorus / vibrato, or with a random wave for detuning effects similar to aging tape echos.Finally, Polyphrase has a fully featured MIDI INPUT that provides tempo sync, full remote control of all parameters on the faceplate, and access to 9 onboard user preset slots. FEATURES- Delay times from 5 milliseconds to 22 seconds- Two delay lines that can be used in stereo or stacked in mono- Infinite feedback- External feedback path- Tone control in the feedback path- Echo pitch modulation with sine or random style waveform- Tap tempo- Midi tempo sync- 9 onboard user presets accessible via midi program change (PC) messages- Remote control of all parameters on the faceplate via midi continuous controller (CC) messages- 3 gain configurations for line level, instrument level, or low instrument level- Housed in a single block of walnut, CNC routed, hand sanded & polished SPECIFICATIONS- 165mm x 140mm x 45mm- 1/4” mono jacks- Input impedance: 1MΩ- Output impedance: <1kΩ- Current draw: 200mA- Soft-touch foot switches- Buffered bypass    

Dynamic, responsive, tube-like, and amp-like. Walrus Audio is extremely excited to announce the new 385 Overdrive that is boastfully responsible for all those adjectives. For decades now, guitarists in search of pure tone have been taking the tube-powered audio sections of vintage film projectors and using it as a guitar amp. Heads up – it sounds amazing. After endless hours of research on vintage Bell and Howell 385 Filmosound projector, Walrus has created a fantastic new overdrive modeled after the projector’s tone. The Bell and Howell 385 gracefully lends itself to create an amazing guitar amp. Its simple, but effective controls, plus dual 6V6 output section make for a simple and extremely responsive amp that has an amazing compressed overdrive when cranked. THIS was the sound and feel Walrus needed to shoot for in an amp-like pedal. The 385 was developed to have the same simple but effective tone control as it’s grandfather. The amp has this as well but bass and treble are stacked behind the single tone knob. With our design breaking them up, we allow for a much wider array of tones to be achieved. The user is able to boost and cut bass and treble, allowing them to be creative with mid-frequency scoops and bumps. The pedal is internally running at 18v, which helps us nail the same dynamic feel of the amp in a stomp box. This means it is extremely sensitive to how hard you dig in – just like the amp.