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Syd Barret was not your regular electric guitarist - or human being for that matter. His songwriting and guitar work in Pink Floyd's 1967 debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" represent some of the most imaginative and "out there" work in Rock'n'Roll history, and ended up defining the psychedelic rock of that decade. The 
The new T-Rex 
September 2022 was in some way a historic month in the pedalverse: it was the month when the BOSS DS-1 got a makeover AND when the Electro Harmonix Big Muff became a plugin/controller/audio interface! ... Click on the title for more
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Sporting a circuit inspired by the Tone Bender MK1.5, the 
This past weekend, the Brooklyn Synth and Pedal Expo returned for the first time after the COVID-19 lockdowns, and it filled our hearts to see that many NYC musicians are still into gear-partying!... Click on the title for more
The Electronic Audio Experiments Longsword is an op-amp based drive circuit where cascaded gain stages allow for tones ranging from clean boost to dynamic distortion to massively clipped fuzz, all with serious output volume available for driving the front end of an amp.... Click on the title for more
Deceptively simple-looking, the NativeAudio Makoyii Drive hides sophistication under its three-knob layout: it's an amp-like overdrive/distortion with adaptable compression able to deliver a variety of tones including sustained cleans, tight crunch, and wooly distortion.... Click on the title for more
A Silicon fuzz pedal with switchable octave-up inspired by the Ibanez Standard Fuzz circuit and sporting a JFET Preamp stage and a quartet of (new) high-gain Toshiba transistors, the 
