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Influential Vintage Pedals: Lovetone Meatball

In April 1995, Dan Coggins gave up his night shifts as a BBC engineer and the Lovetone company was founded. That summer, Dan and partner Vlad Naslas took their Meatball envelope filter production prototype to effects guru Pete Cornish, who provided them with some solid advice moving forward. The Meatball…Click on the title for more

Influential Vintage Pedals: Lovetone Meatball

How to use amp distortion with pedal effects – by Wampler & Strymon

Those who like the distortion of their amp but still use stompboxes for delay and modulation effects, should be aware of how to connect the various pieces together - the order greatly influences the results! The educational videos below by Brian at Wampler Pedals go through the basics. Those of you who like…Click on the title for more

How to use amp distortion with pedal effects – by Wampler & Strymon

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

Demos of the Strymon Riverside Multi Stage Overdrive

The Strymon Riverside was certainly one of the most anticipated pedals of 2016, if anything because it represented the first take on distortion from a manufacturer that was able, in recent years, to redefine the stompbox format for pretty much any other kind of effect, from modulation to delay to reverb.…Click on the title for more

Demos of the Strymon Riverside Multi Stage Overdrive

Best Guitar Pedals of 2016 according to Gearphoria

Our friends at Gearphoria recently published the list of the best guitar FX of 2016. Below you can find an interactive gallery linked to this article - each picture links to the pedal's most popular YouTube video! You can read the reviews for each pedal in the full feature in the…Click on the title for more

Best Guitar Pedals of 2016 according to Gearphoria

Surf Rock is Dead’s Guitar Pedals

With a sound both meditative and gothy, Brooklyn duo Surf Rock is Dead pairs sunny melodies to melancholic tinges, ala the Drums. Their guitar sound, although not distorted, has heavy shoegazer leanings, a genre that's tightly connected to the use of stompboxes. Since guitarist Kevin Pariso confided us that he often gets asked about the…Click on the title for more

Surf Rock is Dead’s Guitar Pedals

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

The selection of the ideal stompboxes for your effect rig is made a lot more complicated by how they interact with each other, and - of course - by the order you put them in. One the the eternal questions related to pedal order is: what goes first, reverb or delay?…Click on the title for more

Pedal order: Reverb into Delay or Delay into Reverb? – advice from Wampler

Pavo Pavo’s Gear and Creative Process

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K9P5p94x2Os With psychedelic leanings and spacey synths that could believably been beamed down from Pluto, Brooklyn-based Pavo Pavo has a sound that's both warm and familiar, and yet hard to place. In their stunning debut album 'Young Narrator in the Breakers' the band seems to comfortably straddle between the deeper trenches of…Click on the title for more

Pavo Pavo’s Gear and Creative Process

How To Sound Like The Cure on Guitar | from Reverb.com

Recreating the sound of classic rock and pop bands from the past is always fun, but probably not high up in most guitarists' list of priorities. That's why we are highlighting this cool series of videos produced by Reverb.com, dedicated to the theme. The Cure is probably THE band that made…Click on the title for more

How To Sound Like The Cure on Guitar | from Reverb.com

Computer Magic’s Synths and Creative Process

Danz Johnson, aka Computer Magic, is by no means a tyro when it comes to navigating the music scene. In just 6 years, the Brooklyn-based synth-pop artist amassed 10+ releases, became something of a sensation in Japan, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Her latest EP, Obscure But…Click on the title for more

Computer Magic’s Synths and Creative Process

New Pedals: Hungry Robot [fz] Fuzz

We got to meet Eric and his Hungry Robot Pedals in person earlier this year at our Summer NAMM shared booth. Living Room Gear just produced this demo for their pedal - as you guessed, it's a fuzz - check it out! Gear used for the demo: Guitar: Fano PX6 Amp.…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Hungry Robot [fz] Fuzz

Minature Tigers’ Gear and Creative Process

Miniature Tigers is officially back with their first release since 2014. I Dreamt I Was A Cowboy, the new 11-track LP from the indie rock band is a short departure from the group's previous releases--often unpolished, organic, and lovingly displaying the dirt and hiccups that come from recording via couch surfing.…Click on the title for more

Minature Tigers’ Gear and Creative Process