gear giveaway

Win two Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Distorted souls with fuzzy thoughts, To celebrate the upcoming Austin Stompbox Exhibit (scheduled for March 17-18, during $X$W's Music Week) we are giving away two sweet, sweet pedal effects! Strymon needs no introduction, they are the leading manufacturer of digital, studio quality pedal effects. Their latest pedal, the Riverside Multistage Drive, is…Click on the title for more

Win two Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

You may think that Bondi Effects is another Italian manufacturer (we covered a bunch of them as of late), but the name actually originates from an Australian aboriginal word meaning "the sound of waves crashing over rocks." Is that natural sound the precursor of fuzz? Founded in 2013 and run by husband…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

New Pedal Manufacturers: Deep Trip

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New Pedal Manufacturers: Deep Trip

Electro-Harmonix SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine

This press release just came in from Electro-Harmionix, it sounds intriguing... The SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine transform your guitar sound into classic electronic synthesizers and features nine of the most distinctive vintage synth type sounds: OBX, PROFIT V, VIBE SYNTH, MINI MOOD, EHX MINI, SOLO SYNTH, MOOD BASS, STRING SYNTH and…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

Double tracking guitar parts has been a technique used in recording for decades (and also live actually, if there is more than one guitarist) to thicken things up. It can make guitars sound bigger, fuller, wider, and more textured. In the '60s Abbey Road Studio's engineer Ken Thousand came up…Click on the title for more

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

Seen at NAMM: Baroni Lab Pedals

Italian based pedal manufacturer Baroni Lab offers an array of quality, hand-built stompboxes (they also manufacture amps). Their pedal range covers all kinds of ground, including distortions, modulation, time-based effects, and tube preamps. What sets the company’s pedal line apart from the rest is that all their stompboxes run on 12v DC…Click on the title for more

Seen at NAMM: Baroni Lab Pedals

Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pedals & Creative Process

Western MA-based GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! is one of those bands crafting deliciously head-spinning math-rock licks so labyrinthine, that you'd imagine it'd be tough for even a full four or five piece band to execute. So, when you hear that their music is the work of solely Joseph Andreoli (guitar) and Kenneth Topham (drums), it's…Click on the title for more

Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pedals & Creative Process

Welcome to the pedal blog/aggregator Delicious Audio!

Welcome to Delicious Audio, the official blog of the Stompbox Exhibit! This is what we do: 1. We aggregate the best YouTube videos of pedals in interactive galleries like this one, from the Eric Merrow's video you just saw: 10 "Must See" pedals from Winter NAMM 2018 2. We provide daily news about new…Click on the title for more

Welcome to the pedal blog/aggregator Delicious Audio!

The EHX Blurst is the Best Looking Pedal of NAMM 2017

I had a friend in high school who would just buy some records (from the equivalent of the $1 bin) for their covers. Even though I've never done anything like that, this idea has been slowly growing on me: beautiful art makes things more desirable and therefore more valuable. In this regard,…Click on the title for more

The EHX Blurst is the Best Looking Pedal of NAMM 2017

Stylish new pedals: Gurus Amps

You know how Italians are, right? Everything needs to be "BELLO," because... who on earth wants to see things that are "BRUTTE"? (By the way, we are using full caps because Italians are notoriously loud, and truly yours, who in the Mediterranean peninsula was born and raised, can certainly confirm that!). Well, maybe it's…Click on the title for more

Stylish new pedals: Gurus Amps

Alexander Sky Fi Reverb/Delay

Some guitarists (the ones into shoegazer in particular) can be very attached to their digital reverb rack units from the '80s (Alesis ruled at the time), even though they have become obsolete and as ridiculed for their size as the primitive cellphones from that same decade. But sometimes you just need THAT sound,…Click on the title for more

Alexander Sky Fi Reverb/Delay

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