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Stompbox-philes,
Once again The Deli will be hosting a mag inside the mag! The hosted mag is Gearphoria, a digital magazine focused on boutique manufacturers of guitar gear. Well, "digital" until now, since The Deli's issue will be in print!
Check out their section about pedals here, linked to the Austin Stompbox Exhibit 2017! The guys from Gearphoria will be there too to pedal-party with us!
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Strymon, at last, seems to have gotten the distortion bug - and overcome their aversion for the color red!
The Californian stompbox manufacturer just unveiled their second distortion pedal ever, after 2016's Riverside Overdrive (since their birth in 2008, they had only released non-distortion pedals, developing a reputation for luscious clean sounds, although the OB.1 compressor and the Deco tape emulator featured respectively a Boost and a Saturation circuit).... Click on the title for more
Distorted souls with fuzzy thoughts,
To celebrate the upcoming Austin Stompbox Exhibit (scheduled for March 17-18, during $X$W's Music Week) we are giving away two sweet, sweet pedal effects! Strymon needs no introduction, they are the leading manufacturer of digital, studio quality pedal effects. Their latest pedal, the Riverside Multistage Drive, is their debut in the distortion world, and it's as unique as it's great sounding.... Click on the title for more
You may think that Bondi Effects is another Italian manufacturer (we covered a bunch of them as of late), but the name actually originates from an Australian aboriginal word meaning "the sound of waves crashing over rocks." Is that natural sound the precursor of fuzz?
Founded in 2013 and run by husband and wife Jon and Anna Ashley, the company's raison d'être can be traced in the desire of the six string playing couple to "create the pedals we wish existed for our own rigs."... Click on the title for more
For anyone out there looking to get intensely specific into fuzz needs, take note of Deep Trip pedals. Deep Trip is a Brazilian manufacturer out of Sao Paolo that specializes in nuanced fuzz pedals based on tireless research of classic analog circuits, and thoroughly dedicated to troubleshooting out all the nuisances of vintage boxes like noise, instability and power supply inconsistencies. All units are overseen, fine-tuned and signed by the lead designer Du Menegozzo. Currently, Deep Trip has five pedals on the market as well as four in development.... Click on the title for more
Double tracking guitar parts has been a technique used in recording for decades (and also live actually, if there is more than one guitarist) to thicken things up. It can make guitars sound bigger, fuller, wider, and more textured. In the '60s Abbey Road Studio's engineer Ken Thousand came up with a way to "automate" that effect on vocals, while working on a record by The Beatles: he called it "Artificial Double Tracking," what today is commonly referred to as "slapback delay" (although at the time, of course, it was done using analog tape).... Click on the title for more



Doods of all stripes and shapes,
We have a rain of pedal giveaways this month, all linked to our upcoming
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For anyone out there looking to get intensely specific into fuzz needs, take note of Deep Trip pedals.
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