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In recent years Reverb.com has become one the of biggest online retailers of guitar pedals in the US, so it's safe to say that any of their "best selling" pedal charts have a good statistical chance of reflecting the national trends.
Here at Delicious Audio we regularly publish extremely thorough shopping guides focused on one specific effect, but, frankly, there are so many fuzz pedals out there that even contemplating such task makes our head spin.... Click on the title for more
Here's the Pro Guitar Shop video of the Luna Stone TrueOverDrive 2.
"TrueOverDrive 2 is as true to transparent and tube-like overdrive as the original TOD 1. Yet it adds a serious punch in the low end frequencies, creating a beefier tone that will fill any venue with warm and fat overdrive.... Click on the title for more



Guitar demo by Pro Guitar Shop of the new
Brooklyn via Boston avant-punks
In our search for new things in life, anything "borderline magic" always strikes a special cord, maybe because it awakens the child in us - that little version of us that, in all likelihood, was a lot more familiar with fun and awe than we are in our adult version.... Click on the title for more
Demo by Shnobel about this interesting Fuzz called
They say that Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was that stompbox empire that goes under the name of BOSS compact pedal series, arguably the most popular pedal line out there, loved as much by top notch pro guitarists and by more or less clueless novices.... Click on the title for more
If you really think about it and aren't afraid to sound a little cheesy, love is always behind the founding of a manufacturing company. Why would anybody otherwise pretty much "condemn" him or herself to building something in (hopefully) humongous quantities for the rest or their lives?
In this light, Peter Taylor's idea to call his guitar and stompbox company with the name of the love of his life (Chellee, the woman he's now married to) seems extremely appropriate.... Click on the title for more
"The classic screamer brought to life in a flexible and dynamic package. The City is the dreamer’s screamer. With so much control over the shape of your tone, you’ll grow to love the classic drive circuit like it’s the late 70’s all over again. Without the bell-bottoms.... Click on the title for more
Most engineers and producers, to allow themselves more options at the mixing stage, record guitars (electric ones in particular) with two or more microphones placed at a different distance from the sound source. Shoegazer bands are particularly famous for using this technique, which indeed can help give the guitar a more roomy and open sound (if the mics are spread across the stereo field), but can also be problematic, because of a little mysterious word called “phase”.... Click on the title for more
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