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El Músico Loco is a small team of designers, founded in Spain but currently based out of California. They shoot for concise design, stating, “… [our] effects are one box, one effect. Simple designs. The essence of utility.” Not everything about their catalog is COMPLETELY utilitarian though; their pedals are all housed in beautiful chrome enclosures, giving them that little bit of flash and style every boutique pedal deserves. Their latest, the Siamese Scream, uses the same basic circuit as the EHX Big Muff, but tweaks the classic design for a more compact circuit size, better tone control, and grittier fuzz.... Click on the title for more
Leading string manufacturer D'Addario recently launched a new line of guitar strings that proudly features the letters "NY" in its name: NYXL. This is to bring attention to the fact that the Long Island based company, after spending the last few years working towards centralizing every step of their operation, can claim that the new steel wire at the core of the NYXL has been formulated, created, and perfected in the Empire State - not only made in the US, but made in NY!... Click on the title for more
I played bass in a band in high school, but because I was 16, I wasn't familiar with the concept of discretion and constantly played through a cheap fuzz pedal with all the knobs turned all the way up. My band mates would complain that I was too loud and all the songs lost their fullness without the low end... but I wanted so badly to be heard in the forefront! If I had been playing through the El Rey Lucha Fuzz, all my problems w
ould have been avoided.... Click on the title for more
