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Super stoked on these two new pedals! Dawner Prince Effects has imposed a new standard in the world of high-end class guitar effects. Being fully professionally designed and hand built, each pedal offers long term reliability and studio sound quality in an appealing casing – durable powder coated and screen printed die-cast aluminium enclosure. Diktator is a two channel dirt box with a host of various tonal and gain options. Starla houses the most compact size, top sounding, all - feature tap tempo tremolo engine available today.... Click on the title for more
After releasing a steady run of EPs throughout the last couple years, EULA decided to go full-length and self-released Maurice Narcisse in 2011. It was on many “Best of 2011” album lists. Opening up for Mission of Burma at Music Hall of Williamsburg in February 2012 was another highlight for the band. At the time of this i... Click on the title for more
I am a big fan of short delays or slap backs if you will. Nothing like a little "Nashville spank" to liven up your guitar tone. If that's all this pedal I'm about to review was capable of, then we'd still be in pretty good shape. However the Quantum Leap can do a lot more. Diamond Pedals claims it to be a tone toolkit of short delays - and if you consider that affects like chorus and flanger are also delay-related effects - that's exactly what this box is. Construction is solid and high quality components were used in the making of this pedal... Click on the title for more
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Snazzy Fx is a cool company I stumbled accross recently. They specialize in both boutique guitar pedals as well as Eurorack format modular synthesizer modules. Their pedals feature elaborate artwork and tons of knobs. With pedals such as the Wow and Flutter, Mini-Ark, Tracer City and now the Divine Hammer, they have a quite unique arsenal.... Click on the title for more
Jam Pedals are a unique boutique pedal manufacture from Greece I stumbled across at this year's NAMM. They specialize in crafting vintage-inspired designs that use high quality components and feature custom artwork. One thing I found really cool is that they do customized point-to-point combo pedals. So if you wanted a pedal that had two pedals in one they would make it for you. Very cool! Each pedal is uniquely painted by in-house artists.... Click on the title for more
A couple of new boxes from Electro-Harmonix that aren't very traditional-but cool nonetheless-are the RTG and 8 Step Program. The RTG or Random Tone Generator is actually a recreation of the device box of the same name produced in 1980. It creates randomly pitch changing tones over a four-plus octave range and has controls for rate, glide and a stomp to turn the cycle of tones on or off. It has only a 1/4" output. This would sound great going through effects pedals that are being sequenced by the next new item from EHX.
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I'm really digging the concept of clean boost pedals. They preserve the integrity of your amp input's driven state without imparting any color of their own. I haven't actually tried one myself but I think it's what I need rather than an overdrive. I love the way my amp sounds when it breaks up naturally and that's always the sound I'm going for. I work with a one channel amp, therefore a clean boost would come in very handy. - Gus Green... Click on the title for more
