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Guitar Pedal News: Death By Audio Sunshine Reverb

A Brooklyn based company with super cool boutique designs, Death By Audio just announced the release of a 100 units Limited Edition of the Ty Segall Sunshine Reverberation Pedal - presented as "Blissfull amazing reverb done DBA style." The pedal features controls for Reverb Blend, Reverb Gain, and Reverb Feedback to give you mellow…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: Death By Audio Sunshine Reverb

Guitar Pedal News: Dawner Prince Effects Diktator and Starla

Super stoked on these two new pedals! Dawner Prince Effects has imposed a new standard in the world of high-end class guitar effects. Being fully professionally designed and hand built, each pedal offers long term reliability and studio sound quality in an appealing casing – durable powder coated and screen printed…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: Dawner Prince Effects Diktator and Starla

EULA and the Recording Process

EULA's Gear : Tascam 424 " I am obsessed with my 4-track (Tascam Portastudio 424)" After releasing a steady run of EPs throughout the last couple years, EULA decided to go full-length and self-released Maurice Narcisse in 2011. It was on many “Best of 2011” album lists. Opening up for…Click on the title for more

EULA and the Recording Process

Bedroom Monitoring Basics

DIY musicians, who choose NOT to work on their music exclusively in the headphones, often make easily addressable mistakes when setting up their recording equipment: The most common blunder that I see in DIY project studios is monitors placed on a table and facing the recorder’s nipples (or belly). Near…Click on the title for more

Bedroom Monitoring Basics

Guitar Pedal Reviews: Diamond Pedals Quantum Leap

I am a big fan of short delays or slap backs if you will. Nothing like a little "Nashville spank" to liven up your guitar tone. If that's all this pedal I'm about to review was capable of, then we'd still be in pretty good shape. However the Quantum Leap can…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal Reviews: Diamond Pedals Quantum Leap

Guitar Pedal Reviews: Mod Kits DIY Verb Deluxe

Do It Yourself seems to be a pretty popular theme these days. People are trying to get the most out of the almighty dollar and with a little elbow grease you can score a really nice sounding reverb pedal. I'm talking about The Verb Deluxe reverb pedal kit by Modkits…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal Reviews: Mod Kits DIY Verb Deluxe

Guitar Pedal News: Snazzy FX Divine Hammer

Snazzy Fx is a cool company I stumbled accross recently. They specialize in both boutique guitar pedals as well as Eurorack format modular synthesizer modules. Their pedals feature elaborate artwork and tons of knobs. With pedals such as the Wow and Flutter, Mini-Ark, Tracer City and now the Divine Hammer, they have…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: Snazzy FX Divine Hammer

Stone Cold Fox and the Recording Process

Stone Cold Fox's Gear : Apogee Duet 2 " I've started stripping down my home setup to a bare bones Pro Tools set up with an Apogee Duet 2" There are some records you bring along for a hike through your day, and a precious few that grab you…Click on the title for more

Stone Cold Fox and the Recording Process

Guitar Pedal News: Jam Pedals’ Big Chill

Jam Pedals are a unique boutique pedal manufacture from Greece I stumbled across at this year's NAMM. They specialize in crafting vintage-inspired designs that use high quality components and feature custom artwork. One thing I found really cool is that they do customized point-to-point combo pedals. So if you wanted…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: Jam Pedals’ Big Chill

Guitar Pedal News: Electro-Harmonix RTG and 8 Step Program

A couple of new boxes from Electro-Harmonix that aren't very traditional-but cool nonetheless-are the RTG and 8 Step Program. The RTG or Random Tone Generator is actually a recreation of the device box of the same name produced in 1980. It creates randomly pitch changing tones over a four-plus octave…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: Electro-Harmonix RTG and 8 Step Program

Guitar Pedal News: 4ms Pedals Phaseur Fleur

Every once in a while I stumble across a pedal manufacturer that seems to really think outside of the (stomp) box. 4ms Pedals is one of those companies and has an eclectic product line ranging from DIY noise synth kits to guitar effects to Eurorack modular synth modules. All of…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: 4ms Pedals Phaseur Fleur

Shure introduces guitar receiver/stomp box tuner GLX-D6

At NAMM 2103 Chicago-based manufacturer Shure announced a new, affordable and really unique wireless system for guitarists, the GLX-D6, which is both a powerful transmitter and a reliable stompbox tuner. The GLX-D6 shares with the other Shure new wireless systems the Automatic Frequency Management technology, which – working on 4 different frequencies – guarantees pristine…Click on the title for more

Shure introduces guitar receiver/stomp box tuner GLX-D6