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Recording Guitar Advice: the Importance of Phase

Most engineers and producers, to allow themselves more options at the mixing stage, record guitars (electric ones in particular) with two or more microphones placed at a different distance from the sound source. Shoegazer bands are particularly famous for using this technique, which indeed can help give the guitar a…Click on the title for more

Recording Guitar Advice: the Importance of Phase

20 Best Selling Boutique Fuzz Pedals in 2017

In recent years Reverb.com has become one the of biggest online retailers of guitar pedals in the US, so it's safe to say that any of their "best selling" pedal charts have a good statistical chance of reflecting the national trends. Here at Delicious Audio we regularly publish extremely thorough shopping…Click on the title for more

20 Best Selling Boutique Fuzz Pedals in 2017

Ryan McCaffrey was a firefighter in central Wisconsin when the pedal bug bit. A member of the Air Force before that, you could say he knew a thing or two about discipline. So it was not without a lot of research (and some trepidation) that he chose to take his…Click on the title for more

Manufacturer profile: McCaffrey Audio (from Gearphoria)

Bangladeafy Jon Ehlers’ pedalboard (Bass)

If you understand music from a technical and creative angle, Brooklyn/Long Island duo Bangladeafy will, in all likelihood, blow your mind. We praised them enough already in our sister blog The Deli (they placed 2nd in our Best of NYC 2017 Yearly Poll for emerging artists, and their 2016 album…Click on the title for more

Bangladeafy Jon Ehlers’ pedalboard (Bass)

New Pedal Manufacturers: Beetronics FX

The look of Beetronics FX's pedals made me think of a conversation I had years ago with a friend who was scandalized at the fact that there was a factory whose sole purpose was to wear down new pairs of jeans and make holes in them so that they looked "cooler." At the…Click on the title for more

New Pedal Manufacturers: Beetronics FX

Seminal, vintage pedals: the Rosac Nu Fuzz (from Gearphoria)

Nu-Fuzz designer Ed Sanner (of Fuzzrite design fame) was working on the new pedal as Mosrite filed for bankruptcy in 1969. Out of the bankruptcy sprang Sierra Electronics, a new partnership that would release the Nu-Fuzz, which was basically a Fuzzrite with a tone control. Sierra was forced to change…Click on the title for more

Seminal, vintage pedals: the Rosac Nu Fuzz (from Gearphoria)

Summer camp can really have a crucial impact on people's lives. Just ask Dave Fox, owner of New Jersey's pedal company Foxrox Electronics: My fascination with electronics began as a kid at summer camp, where I learned how to solder parts into circuit boards. From then on, I was intrigued with…Click on the title for more

Pedal Manufacturer Profile: Foxrox Electronics

Malekko board at the Montreal SBE 2017

The guys at Malekko Heavy Industry definitely like to think outside the box, and their latest effects have been more and more interesting and unusual. They also participate to most of our events, so we thought it would be cool to highlight the pedals in the board they have sent to our latest…Click on the title for more

Malekko board at the Montreal SBE 2017

TC Electronic Thunderstorm Flanger (Reviews)

The latest, super affordable family of TC Electronic pedals (released after the Danish company was acquired by Behringer) has had mixed reviews, but the Thunderstorm Flanger seems to be a true gem - it only costs $49.99! Our friends at Best Guitar Effects gave it a 5 stars out of 5, and also the…Click on the title for more

TC Electronic Thunderstorm Flanger (Reviews)

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

Old Blood Noise board at the Montreal SBE

For those of you who missed our Montreal Stompbox Exhibit, we just thought of a way to give you the opportunity to experience it, one board at a time, in a... flawed but interactive way! Old Blood Noise sent the pictured mini-board for that show;o we have recreated it below in our…Click on the title for more

Old Blood Noise board at the Montreal SBE

New Pedals: Gearmanndude Luther Drive v.3

Y'all may know GermannDude for his very popular demo videos of stompboxes - we actually aggregate many of them in the "pedal strip" on our site's homepage (under the blog's top picture). Even though the dude is probably among the most knowledgeable human beings in the guitar effect department (he's got almost 2k…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Gearmanndude Luther Drive v.3