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New Pedal Manufacturers: Cast Engineering and the Mike Zito Peace Drive

Based in Atlanta, Cast Engineering has been forging stompboxes (and amps) since 2015, shortly after its founder Steve Evans decided it was time to quit the... professional bowling career! Ok, ok, not exactly "shortly after": the man has a long history running and owning engineering companies, and, as it often happens, at…Click on the title for more

New Pedal Manufacturers: Cast Engineering and the Mike Zito Peace Drive

Strymon Sunset Dual Overdrive

Debuted at our recent Austin Stompbox Exhibit, the Strymon Sunset is the Californian company's take on multi-mode overdrive, with a dual angle. A dual, hybrid analog/digital overdrive pedal with 3 different flavors of drive per channel, for a total of 18 possible tones between single and cascaded channel combos. A…Click on the title for more

Strymon Sunset Dual Overdrive

Based in Montreal (the Canadian city hosting this weekend's Stompbox Exhibit!) Ground Control Audio is a small boutique pedal manufacturer that is getting more and more attention for its quality, hand made effects, so far exclusively focused on gain related designs: the company is currently offering three pedals tackling boost, overdrive and…Click on the title for more

Pedal Manufacturer Profile: Ground Control Audio

Pedal to the Metal: Keeley Filaments

New releases by Keeley Electronics always tickle the wallet of many pedal aficionados. We are detecting an above average amount of buzz for the company's new high gain distortion that's about to drop in stores, called Filaments, maybe because the stompbox in question doesn't have one, nor two, but THREE stages of gain, which,…Click on the title for more

Pedal to the Metal: Keeley Filaments

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

If you are in Austin this week, bring your guitar to the Lewis Carnegie Gallery (hosting the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017) and give these bad babies a try!Click on the title for more

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

We saw this pedal by NJ based TWA (an acronym for "Totally Wicked Audio") at our NAMM 2017 mixed booth and it looked intriguing indeed, if anything for the name of its controls - there's a Kafka/Ovid switch, and a "Gestation" mini-knob! The effect's presentation is also interesting: "Distortion? Fuzz? Filter? Synth?…Click on the title for more

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

Doom Metal Band, King Woman, Talks about Guitar and Bass Pedals

If the ground were to one day crack open, and the sounds of Tartarus began to seep out of the earth, I'd like to imagine the hellish cacophony would sound a bit like King Woman. The San Francisco-based four-piece crafts the sort of doom metal that seems to herald the…Click on the title for more

Doom Metal Band, King Woman, Talks about Guitar and Bass Pedals

Best of NAMM 2017: Chase Bliss Audio’s Brothers Analog Gain Stage Pedal

With regular sized pedals featuring incredibly deep functionality (but still holding on to - as they like to say - an "analog heart"), in just a few years Chase Bliss Audio (established in 2013) has been able to create a new standard for the beloved stompbox format. At the NAMM 2017 show,…Click on the title for more

Best of NAMM 2017: Chase Bliss Audio’s Brothers Analog Gain Stage Pedal

Adventure Audio unveils the Dream Reaper Fuzzy Modulation Machine

We love crazy pedals with lotsa knobs and we also love the quirky but beautifully shot videos produced by Knobs. One of their latest is about... this crazy pedal with lotsa knob by Adventure Audio, called the Dream Reaper. Wanna know what it does? Here's how the manufacturer presents it:…Click on the title for more

Adventure Audio unveils the Dream Reaper Fuzzy Modulation Machine

New Pedals: TWA – Hot Sake Overdrive/Distortion

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hTK2VooyrB0 Japanese engineers excel at many things, but seem to have a knack for musical instrument circuits. If they certainly outshine the rest of the world at manufacturing synthesizers (think Korg, Roland and Yamaha!), nobody can fault them for their guitar pedal creations either. BOSS (also part of Roland) is a brand known to the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: TWA – Hot Sake Overdrive/Distortion

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

Based in Albany, Oregon, Pettyjohn Electronics is a new-ish face in the community of boutique pedal manufacturers, but one that is receiving a certain amount of attention (and flattering reviews). Entirely focused, at least for now, on the dirt and color realms, they have been releasing six all analog pedals since 2014 , all featuring distinctive…Click on the title for more

Manufacturers Profiles: Pettyjohn Electronics

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