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New Pedals: Black Cat N-Fuzz

Our friends at Black Cat Pedals just released a new fuzz stompbox called N-Fuzz based on an N-Channel transistor (hence the 'N' name). This box is based on the Fuzz channel of the OD-Fuzz, but with Japanese components and an extra wide ranging Bias control that allows you to dial…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Black Cat N-Fuzz

New Pedals: DLS Effects’ Rotospin

DLS Effects is offering the guitar world a new 'spin' on a classic and timeless guitar effect – the rotary speaker effect. Long used paired only with a Hammond organ, early guitar players and recording engineers discovered that the rotary effect sounds ridiculously good when used on electric guitars. The…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: DLS Effects’ Rotospin

Red Panda Raster Delay

It’s not really fair to classify the new Red Panda Raster Delay as just a delay pedal. The Raster is actually more of a Leatherman type multi-tool effect, as it not only has all your standard digital delay needs covered (up to 750 ms and three delay modes for standard,…Click on the title for more

Red Panda Raster Delay

Bowmont’s Gear, Synths and Creative Process

Hovering by Bowmont BOWMONT'S CRUCIAL GEAR KORG Mono/Poly Bowmont (pictured, photo by Fabrizio Del Rincon) is a Brooklyn based trio that's been delivering beautifully textural and atmospheric synth-pop since the beginning of the decade. It has the luck of having a GRAMMY award winning engineer among its ranks (Jeremy Loucas), who also happens…Click on the title for more

Bowmont’s Gear, Synths and Creative Process

Skreddy Kusanagi Fuzz

The Tone Bender is one of the most legendary effects in guitar history, and for good reason. The signature fuzz sound it produced inspired a generation of burgeoning rock guitarists. It was a notoriously fickle design though, using rare components and positive ground connection (almost all effects are negative-ground power).…Click on the title for more

Skreddy Kusanagi Fuzz

Big Knob’s Wah Fix

Big Knob Pedals, out of Studio City, CA (interesting name!), recently introduced the Wah Fix filter pedal, a stompbox that allows guitarists to lock into the sweet spot of the frequency sweep of a wah pedal - a trick Frank Zappa, among others, used quite frequently. Controls are simple enough…Click on the title for more

Big Knob’s Wah Fix

New Pedals: Matthews Effects Conductor Tremolo

Eastern Washington based manufacturer Matthews Effects has created a new spin on one of the most popular effect in music history: the tremolo. The controls for the Conductor are where the pedal really shines with its unique versatility. The depth knob, capable of quite a wide range, is the only…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Matthews Effects Conductor Tremolo

Ava Luna’s Gear and Creative Process

" We love to run drums (and sometimes guitars and vocals) through an old Heil HM88 mixer. It really blows sounds out in an incredibly pleasing way. It's all over everything we record, Ava Luna or otherwise. " Obviously not, I don't think it's possible to have a good band…Click on the title for more

Ava Luna’s Gear and Creative Process

Eventide H9 giveaway ends on 06.10!

Our friends at NYC's own Eventide just sent us a review unit of their multi-effects studio-worthy processor, hidden in a stompbox form: the H9 Harmonizer Effects Processor (one of them is also up for grabs until Wednesday here by the way). We will be giving this monster a full review,…Click on the title for more

Eventide H9 giveaway ends on 06.10!

New Pedals: Chellee’s Odie Classic Overdrive

Chellee Guitars, out of Orange City, Florida has conceived a new take on a classic overdrive design and packaged it into a solid and affordable guitar pedal. The Odie Classic Overdrive offers the articulation and compression of the great vintage overdrives with more options to shape the drive than in…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Chellee’s Odie Classic Overdrive

J. Rockett Boing Spring Reverb

If you belong to the category of guitarists who get lost when presented with too many options, J Rockett Audio Designs, out of Nashville, is your friend: the manufacturer's latest pedal, the BOING Spring Reverb, features ONE footswitch (On/Off) and ONE knob (Mix) - there's no way you can lose…Click on the title for more

J. Rockett Boing Spring Reverb

WIN WIN’s Gear and Creative Process

WIN WIN'S CRUCIAL GEAR Apple Logic One may say that producers are like the chefs of the creative process (the studio being their kitchen), so it's hard to conceive how a band like NYC's WIN WIN - comprised of three electronic producers - can actually function without major and recurrent…Click on the title for more

WIN WIN’s Gear and Creative Process