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New Pedals: Chellee’s Odie Classic Overdrive

Chellee Guitars, out of Orange City, Florida has conceived a new take on a classic overdrive design and packaged it into a solid and affordable guitar pedal. The Odie Classic Overdrive offers the articulation and compression of the great vintage overdrives with more options to shape the drive than in…... Click for more

New Pedals: Chellee’s Odie Classic Overdrive

J. Rockett Boing Spring Reverb

If you belong to the category of guitarists who get lost when presented with too many options, J Rockett Audio Designs, out of Nashville, is your friend: the manufacturer's latest pedal, the BOING Spring Reverb, features ONE footswitch (On/Off) and ONE knob (Mix) - there's no way you can lose…... Click for more

J. Rockett Boing Spring Reverb

WIN WIN’s Gear and Creative Process

WIN WIN'S CRUCIAL GEAR Apple Logic SoundToys Plug Ins One may say that producers are like the chefs of the creative process (the studio being their kitchen), so it's hard to conceive how a band like NYC's WIN WIN - comprised of three electronic producers - can actually function without…... Click for more

WIN WIN’s Gear and Creative Process

Hotone’s striking product line: Skyline mini-pedals, Nano Legacy Mini-Amps and Xtomp

We were recently introduced to Hotone, the winners of "Best in Show" at NAMM 2015. Reminding me much of the now-discontinued Guyatone mini series (I still treasure my lil' green compressor!) Hotone's Skyline pedal series is a great collection of tiny pedals with a unique look. Eschewing the "double-pack of…... Click for more

Hotone’s striking product line: Skyline mini-pedals, Nano Legacy Mini-Amps and Xtomp

Build a DIY guitar amp with DIY Mod Kit’s MOD 102+

Many guitarists are familiar with MOD Kits DIY for their pedal kits, which allow stompbox geeks to build their first effects following the provided instructions, and at once learn about simple electrical engineering concepts applied to pedals. What they may not know, though, is that the manufacturer also offers a…... Click for more

Build a DIY guitar amp with DIY Mod Kit’s MOD 102+

And So I Watch You From Afar’s Gear and Creative Process

AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR'S CRUCIAL GEAR Orange ThunderverbEarthQuaker Devices Pedals The guys in Irish "post-math" band And So I Watch You From Afar are the kind of people who never choose the simple route. Bblending metal, psychedelia, post rock and prog rock, their music is like a…... Click for more

And So I Watch You From Afar’s Gear and Creative Process

Greer Ghetto Stomp Overdrive

What's so great about another 3-knob overdrive? In an industry saturated with overdrive pedals, Greer makes an interesting offering with the Ghetto Stomp. This stompbox is designed to emulate the heavenly harmonics and sweet saturation of Tweeds and Valcos amps pushed into overdrive. I find this is one of the…... Click for more

Greer Ghetto Stomp Overdrive

Turbo Fruits’ Gear and Creative Process

TURBO FRUITS' CRUCIAL AUDIO GEAR Custom SG Guitar Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212 Turbo Fruits' new album 'No Control' sees the Nashville quartet tackle more "adult" themes like relationships, break-ups and losses, conveying a full range of not-so-fun emotion without ever giving up their signature, punchy rock'n'roll sound. While on…... Click for more

Turbo Fruits’ Gear and Creative Process

Matthews Effects’ Conductor and Cartographer

In an industry overflowing with boutique pedal manufacturers, Matthews Effects has delivered two very interesting products with with their Conductor Tremolo and Cartographer parametric overdrive pedal. The Cartographer is capable of delivering everything one could want in an overdrive pedal – clean boost with the gain down and tube amp-like…... Click for more

Matthews Effects’ Conductor and Cartographer

Buscabulla’s gear and creative process

BUSCABULLA'S CRUCIAL AUDIO GEAR Art Tube Pac Valhalla VintageVerb With their sophisticated, bi-lingual synthpop, full of texture and pretty melodies, Puerto Rican duo Buscabulla - now Brooklyn residents - conquered The Deli NYC's staff, who declared their debut, self-titled EP NYC Record of the Month in October 2014. We asked…... Click for more

Buscabulla’s gear and creative process

New Pedal makers: McCaffrey Audio

Wisconsin' s McCaffrey Audio may sound like a new name in the world of guitar pedals, but the company's CEO and founder Ryan McCaffrey is not a novice to the manufacturing game, having been running RJM Effect before starting this new adventure in 2014. The company's goal is to create…... Click for more

New Pedal makers: McCaffrey Audio

Elliot Moss: the gear and the creative process

ELLIOT MOSS'S CRUCIAL AUDIO GEAR OBERHEIM SEM NEVE 33114 Mic Preamp For some songwriters, writing good songs is simply not satisfying enough - and besides, that's not how their creative process works. These musicians feels compelled to wrap those songs in complex arrangements and original sounds, and sometimes arrangements are…... Click for more

Elliot Moss: the gear and the creative process