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Keeley Electronics: Loomer • Mag Echo • Tone Workstation

Directly from the Keeley FX YouTube Channel, check it out! "Spent a little time with the Tone Workstation, Mag Echo, and Loomer yesterday, and the results were inspiring. We love how the Loomer's Soft Focus reverb plays with the Mag's warm delay. Also used in this video: 1994 Fender Jaguar…Click on the title for more

Keeley Electronics: Loomer • Mag Echo • Tone Workstation

The Landing’s Gear and Creative Process

Meditating about the universe is heavy stuff but, like much in life, you have the option of being consumed, or delighted by your surroundings. Brooklyn-based electronic artist, The Landing, does the latter. Producing synth-pop tracks that have their feet planted firmly on the ground, but their eyes to the sky,…Click on the title for more

The Landing’s Gear and Creative Process

A new synth pedal: DigiTech Dirty Robot!

One of the guitar world’s leading innovators of unique effects has done it again. The DigiTech Dirty Robot is a little bit synthesizer, a little bit pitch shifter, and a lot of fun. There are 2 different synth voices to choose from via toggle switch. The first recalls the sounds…Click on the title for more

A new synth pedal: DigiTech Dirty Robot!

LA Stompbox Exhibit at Sam Ash on Dec 3-4!

- A Smorgasbord of Pedals, in LA! - RSVP HERE December 3-4 from 12pm until 6pm at Sam Ash Hollywood Add to Calendar03-12-2016 12:00:0004-12-2016 16:00:0020Austin Stompbox Exhibit200+ Guitar Pedals - bring your guitar!Lewis Carnegie Gallery, AustinThe DeliOrganizer e-mailhttps://www.facebook.com/stompboxexpotrueDD/MM/YYYY DIRECTIONS TO SAM ASH MUSIC STORE HERE READ THE DELI/GEARPHORIA ISSUE LINED TO THIS…Click on the title for more

LA Stompbox Exhibit at Sam Ash on Dec 3-4!

Big Thief’s Buck Meek shows us the effects on his pedal board

Masterpiece by Big ThiefBig Thief's debut album "Masterpiece" has been rocking our world this year - our sister blog named it The Deli NYC's Record of the Month back in July. We asked the band's guitarist Buck Meek (who also has a solo folk project we recommend checking out) to tell us about…Click on the title for more

Big Thief’s Buck Meek shows us the effects on his pedal board

New FX Manufacturer: Friday Club Pedals

Newcomers to the pedal game Friday Club, out of Portland Oregon, have designed a solid line of 3 knob stompboxes. The line features almost exclusively distortions, fuzzes and overdrives: there one for all palates, including metal-heads (PD-100) and a screamer emulation (Green Menace). The only exception is their signature echo…Click on the title for more

New FX Manufacturer: Friday Club Pedals

Modular on the (NYC) roof, with Wandertalk

One of the cool things about organizing the Brooklyn Synth Expo is that we get to know some new, local, talented electronic artists. Enter Wandertalk, the project of NYC based synth-head Nick Kwas, who also enjoys shooting videos of electronic musicians playing their modular racks on a roof facing Manhattan - at dawn. This…Click on the title for more

Modular on the (NYC) roof, with Wandertalk

BK Synth Expo draws 1k – see you in Austin!

More than 1,000 synth lovers attended the third edition of the Brooklyn Synth Expo on November 12-13, 2016! Lots of synths were played, desired and... acquired! We'd like to thank Main Drag Music, the participating manufacturers, our sponsor Blue Headphones and all the visitors who made this a fun and unforgettable…Click on the title for more

BK Synth Expo draws 1k – see you in Austin!

New Pedals: Nunomo Limbo Overdrive

Newcomers to the pedal game Nunomo are offering an innovative take on overdrive with the Limbo Overdrive. The coolest feature of this pedal is the ability to tailor the clipping voltage, which enables a very wide range of overdrive sounds. The standard ‘Drive’, ‘Tone’, and ‘Volume’ controls are present with the…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Nunomo Limbo Overdrive

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!

Seminal vintage pedals: Marshall Supa Fuzz – by Gearphoria

In production for over a decade starting in the mid-1960s, the Marshall Supa Fuzz bounced through several iterations during its run. Those examples were built by Sola Sound’s Gary Hurst chiefly using the Tonebender MkII circuit. The earliest Supa Fuzz’s actually used a version of the MkI circuit and boasted…Click on the title for more

Seminal vintage pedals: Marshall Supa Fuzz – by Gearphoria

New Pedals: MXR Shin-Juku Drive

MXR has been rolling out some new overdrive designs lately, and have teamed up with legendary amp designer Shin Suzuki to present the Shin-Juku Drive. Providing a dynamic, amp-like feel, the Shin-Juku drive is great at pushing your amp’s front end or as an overdrive pedal. Yet another 3 knob design, with…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: MXR Shin-Juku Drive