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How to Sound Like Jimi Hendrix | from Reverb.com

We found this cool video by Reverb.com about how to get Jimi Hendrix's guitar sound and thought our readers might appreciate, check it out! In our latest edition of Potent Pairings, we’re taking a stab at the legendary recorded tones of Jimi Hendrix, using modern pedals. While Jimi’s famous live…Click on the title for more

How to Sound Like Jimi Hendrix | from Reverb.com

Elektron enters the guitar pedal world with the Analog Drive!

Well, this was kind of unexpected: Our upcoming Brooklyn Synth Expo will serve as a launch platform for a... stompbox! The pedal, manufactured by Swedish synth maker Elektron, is called Analog Drive, and it seems to borrow, at least in part, from the distortion stage of the company's "audio enhancer/destroyer"Analog Heat. The first member of…Click on the title for more

Elektron enters the guitar pedal world with the Analog Drive!

Pedals at the BK SBE: the updated Rockbox Boiling Point

The notorious Boiling Point from Rockbox has returned in 2014 with an updated look and slimmer price tag (check out the old version here) You'll be able to check out this new version this very weekend at our Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit. While sporting some new features, the amp-like mojo that made…Click on the title for more

Pedals at the BK SBE: the updated Rockbox Boiling Point

New Pedal: Mu-FX Boostron 3

A power trio of pedals, the Boostron 3 from Mu-FX (owned by west coast designer Mike Beigel, founder of stompbox pioneer Mu-Tron) totes three classic circuit designs in a compact, pedalboard-friendly housing. This versatile standalone pedal includes circuits emulating the Alembic Stratoblaster clean boost (here named "Blaster"), the Dan Armstrong Squeezer compressor (here called "Squeezer"), and the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Mu-FX Boostron 3

The WrightSounds Fuzz-Stang comes to Brooklyn

The '70s were prime-time for deliciously dirty fuzz tones, and the Sam Ash Fuzz-Stainer - a pedal that harkens back to a time when the music retail giant was cranking out their own brand of effects - delivered delirious levels of fuzzy goodness. For most pedal connoisseurs and fuzz-lovers alike,…Click on the title for more

The WrightSounds Fuzz-Stang comes to Brooklyn

Seminal, vintage pedals: the Seamoon Fresh Fuzz – by Tones Machines

It’s 1973 in Berkeley, California, and a young electrical wizard named Craig Anderton has just developed his take on the envelope filter. He calls it the “Funk Machine”, and together with John Lang, starts an innovative and experimental guitar effects brand, Seamoon Inc. Hand-building each individual unit, they launch their…Click on the title for more

Seminal, vintage pedals: the Seamoon Fresh Fuzz – by Tones Machines

AJ Peat Pedals’ Screaming Flamingo and Dirty Buzzard

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AJ Peat Pedals’ Screaming Flamingo and Dirty Buzzard

SNAMM 2016 Stompbox Exhibit: Amptweaker introduces the FatMetal Pro

Amptweaker’s James Brown - whose self-described specialty is not necessarily in the wild ideas but rather in the tweaking of ideas - is becoming one of the most nuanced pedal manufacturers for high gain distortion and we are proud to have him at our Summer NAMM booth next week. Built on…Click on the title for more

SNAMM 2016 Stompbox Exhibit: Amptweaker introduces the FatMetal Pro

Lone Wolf FX at Summer NAMM’s Stompbox Exhibit

We met Joe Anastasio from Lone Wolf FX in Austin back in 2012 when we organized our very first Austin Stompbox Exhibit - at the time he was part of a now defunct manufacturer called Enormous Door FX). To be fair, he never struck us as the most organized of people (you can gather…Click on the title for more

Lone Wolf FX at Summer NAMM’s Stompbox Exhibit

Distortion board at the Bklyn Stompbox Exhibit

Here are the pedals hosted in our Distortion Mixed boards, part of the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit at Williamsburg's Main Drag Music. There will be a few hundred pedals for guitarists to try, do not miss!Click on the title for more

Distortion board at the Bklyn Stompbox Exhibit

Matthews Effects’ Conductor and Cartographer

In an industry overflowing with boutique pedal manufacturers, Matthews Effects has delivered two very interesting products with with their Conductor Tremolo and Cartographer parametric overdrive pedal. The Cartographer is capable of delivering everything one could want in an overdrive pedal – clean boost with the gain down and tube amp-like…Click on the title for more

Matthews Effects’ Conductor and Cartographer

New Pedal makers: McCaffrey Audio

Wisconsin' s McCaffrey Audio may sound like a new name in the world of guitar pedals, but the company's CEO and founder Ryan McCaffrey is not a novice to the manufacturing game, having been running RJM Effect before starting this new adventure in 2014. The company's goal is to create…Click on the title for more

New Pedal makers: McCaffrey Audio