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Seymour Duncan Deja-Vu Delay Pedal

With thousands of delay pedals available, not to mention recording plugins, choosing an effect can be overwhelming. Are you looking to add a subtle slapback or an intense rhythmic pattern? While it's capable of everything you'd expect from a delay pedal, Seymour Duncan's SFX-10 Deja Vu Tap Delay truly excels…Click on the title for more

Seymour Duncan Deja-Vu Delay Pedal

Pedal Review: Dwarfcraft Devices Eau Claire Thunder

The Eau Claire Thunder from Dwarfcraft Devices is the big one; big tones, big features and a big, knob laden enclosure. This pedal cranks out all manner of fuzz from the blunted, smokey kind of Sabbath style fog to the much more modern aggressive waves of noise rock bliss. The…Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: Dwarfcraft Devices Eau Claire Thunder

Review: Analogman Astro Tone Fuzz

The Astro Tone Fuzz by Analogman is a recreation of the long extinct Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx. This updated clone is loaded into an MXR sized enclosure and is a bucket of rip - roaring 60's style fuzz that is bound to make you blow your top. Clever reverse engineering…Click on the title for more

Review: Analogman Astro Tone Fuzz

Review: Fridgebuzzz’s Land of the Rising Fuzzz

'60's fuzz pedals are some of the most collected and sought after guitar effects. Due to their use on seminal recordings, these pedals continue to sell for exorbitant prices and inspire numerous reissues and sound-a-likes. Keith Richards signature snarl on "Satisfaction" using a Maestro Fuzz-Tone or Jimi Hendrix's soaring solos…Click on the title for more

Review: Fridgebuzzz’s Land of the Rising Fuzzz

Pedal Review: TWA Triskelion TK-01

The TWA's Triskelion TK-01 is a pedal named after an occult druidic sign. If that sounds very metal to you, you won't be disappointed by the pedal's equally aggressive hard rock tones. Cryptically described as a "harmonic energizer modulation" effect, the Triskelion operates more or less as a standard EQ…Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: TWA Triskelion TK-01

Secrets of Mixing: Reverb on slower songs

The sparse arrangements that fit slower songs provide mixing engineers the opportunity to create a perception of space through the use of reverb effects. Reverb, in a mix, allows “placement” of each instrument in a sonic space. But a “realistic” use of reverb is quite tricky to get right. Realistic…Click on the title for more

Secrets of Mixing: Reverb on slower songs

Review: T-Rex Yellow Drive

New from T-Rex Engineering, the Yellow Drive is a dual channel overdrive that covers a lot of territory. Both channels A and B are equipped with their own set of volume, gain and tone controls, and are voiced differently to access a wider range of tonal options. An A/B Select foot…Click on the title for more

Review: T-Rex Yellow Drive

Digitech Whammy DT review

Since 1991, the field of pitch-shifting effects has been dominated by the DigiTech Whammy; an effect which allows users to perform dive bombs and radical octave-shifts using digital pitch-manipulation rather than a guitar-mounted vibrato-bridge. But in the last decade or so, DigiTech’s Whammy has been given a run for its…Click on the title for more

Digitech Whammy DT review

Moog Cluster Flux Review

TRY THE MOOG CLUSTER FLUX IN NYC AT THE DELI'S FREE STOMP BOX EXHIBIT In scientific terms, flux is the rate of movement of some energy or matter. When something is in a state of flux, it is changing from one state to another. In audio terms, the Cluster Flux…Click on the title for more

Moog Cluster Flux Review

Line 6 M5 Stomp Box Modeler

The sounds of velcro separating are familiar to me and more so perhaps to those that know me. Like many musicians, effects pedals and processors have crept into my setup at a steady pace and as a result I have spent a good chunk of time adding, rearranging and removing…Click on the title for more

Line 6 M5 Stomp Box Modeler

TC Electronic MojoMojo Review

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing TC’s TonePrint line. Since then I kept thinking to myself... I really wish there were an easy go-to distortion that featured the same quality and no-brainerness. The TC tone gods have answered my prayers! Usually anything that claims to have…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic MojoMojo Review

T-Rex Tap Tone Delay Review

Boutique purists must have winced when Danish pedal maker T-Rex partnered with Guitar Center on four new pedals, but judging by the Tap Tone Delay (TTD), they don’t need to worry. At $169, the TTD is at least a Benjamin short of T-Rex’s regular pricing, but its makers don’t seem to have cut many…Click on the title for more

T-Rex Tap Tone Delay Review