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Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

Based in Albany, Oregon, Pettyjohn Electronics is a new-ish face in the community of boutique pedal manufacturers, but one that is receiving a certain amount of attention (and flattering reviews). Entirely focused, at least for now, on the dirt and color realms, they have been releasing six all analog pedals since 2014 , all featuring distinctive…Click on the title for more

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

The selection of the ideal stompboxes for your effect rig is made a lot more complicated by how they interact with each other, and - of course - by the order you put them in. One the the eternal questions related to pedal order is: what goes first, reverb or delay?…Click on the title for more

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

Pavo Pavo’s Gear and Creative Process

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K9P5p94x2Os With psychedelic leanings and spacey synths that could believably been beamed down from Pluto, Brooklyn-based Pavo Pavo has a sound that's both warm and familiar, and yet hard to place. In their stunning debut album 'Young Narrator in the Breakers' the band seems to comfortably straddle between the deeper trenches of…Click on the title for more

Pavo Pavo’s Gear and Creative Process

Read Gearphoria inside The Deli NYC’s issue #49

A few months ago, right around the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit 2016, our sister site/magazine The Deli kicked off a collaboration with Gearphoria (a digital magazine that focuses on boutique manufacturers of electric guitar equipment). The collaboration continues with issue #49 of The Deli NYC, which is truly a "split issue," with two separate…Click on the title for more

Read Gearphoria inside The Deli NYC’s issue #49

How To Sound Like The Cure on Guitar | from Reverb.com

Recreating the sound of classic rock and pop bands from the past is always fun, but probably not high up in most guitarists' list of priorities. That's why we are highlighting this cool series of videos produced by Reverb.com, dedicated to the theme. The Cure is probably THE band that made…Click on the title for more

How To Sound Like The Cure on Guitar | from Reverb.com

Wren and Cuff Sonder – Analog Chorus/Tremolo

Newbury Park, CA's boutique stompbox manufacturer Wren and Cuff has built a super solid reputation throughout the years, in particular for their distortion pedals (in particular through very popular Muff recreations). Their latest creation, called Sonder, sees them tackling for the first time the modulation realm. The Sonder is a very flexible and…Click on the title for more

Wren and Cuff Sonder – Analog Chorus/Tremolo

New Pedals: Rock Stock Skyline Reverb V2

If you’re looking for a modern spring-style reverb pedal that can easily grab all kinds of sounds, the Skyline, from Columbus, IN manufacturer Rock Stock should be in your atmosphere. The control scheme is fairly standard for a spring reverb. ‘Level’ balances your output signal, ‘Decay’ controls the amount of…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Rock Stock Skyline Reverb V2

How to Sound Like Jimi Hendrix | from Reverb.com

We found this cool video by Reverb.com about how to get Jimi Hendrix's guitar sound and thought our readers might appreciate, check it out! In our latest edition of Potent Pairings, we’re taking a stab at the legendary recorded tones of Jimi Hendrix, using modern pedals. While Jimi’s famous live…Click on the title for more

How to Sound Like Jimi Hendrix | from Reverb.com

New Pedals: Foxpedal Defector Fuzz

The limit of many fuzz pedals is their "one-trick-poniness." The Defector, a stompbox by Richland, WA based boutique manufacturer Foxpedal, doesn't share that characteristic, featuring ways of tailoring both the fuzz sound and the EQ to fit into any rig or playing style. The standard 3 knob control scheme of ‘Level’, ‘Tone’, and ‘Fuzz’ is there,…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Foxpedal Defector Fuzz

Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer Pedal Demo

ProGuitarShop and ToneReport.com just unveiled this new demo of the Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer, a pedal that can be used with all your guitars right away, with no special pickup required, and support polyphonic tracking, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/embed/sRlDvu_HhB0Click on the title for more

Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer Pedal Demo

TC Electronic unveils new series of super affordable pedals

We can't say we didn't see this one coming, after, at winter NAMM 2016, we learned that TC Electronic had been bought by German pro audio manufacturer Behringer, known for their very aggressively priced products for musicians: the news is that (originally) Danish company just came out with a deluge of new, NOT TonePrint enabled,…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic unveils new series of super affordable pedals

New Pedals at the LA Stompbox Exhibit

OK, one day, hopefully, we'll learn how to take good pictures of pedals at our events (hey, if by any chance that improvement requires buying a really expensive camera... ummmm... we shall see!). But we are sure our friends stompbox lovers can appreciate a quick "lo rez" recap of all the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals at the LA Stompbox Exhibit