//

gear giveaway

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

For Whammy fans: Molten Voltage G-Quencer

Here’s an innovative niche pedal for fans of the DigiTech Whammy, courtesy of Molten Voltage, an Oregon based manufacturer of guitar effects with a specialization in MIDI controls, displays and interfaces with other pedals. Their latest development is called the G-Quencer, and it serves as a controller and interface for…... Click for more

For Whammy fans: Molten Voltage G-Quencer

Future Punx and the creative process

FUTURE PUNX'S CRUCIAL AUDIO GEAR KORG Electribe MX-1 Roland Lucina AX-09 Finding inspiration in the dancy, angular post-punk of bands like Devo, the early Stranglers, and even Blondie, Brooklyn's Future Punx have delivered with "I'm So Inspired" (recent Deli NYC Record of the Month) one of the most fun NYC…... Click for more

Future Punx and the creative process

New Pedals: F-Pedals’ Edstortion and Phazevibe

Italian manufacturer (with a base in LA) F-pedals is a brand new company that is a bit of an enigma, yet has some very interesting endeavors underway. At the moment, they sell just two micro pedals (the Edstortion and the Phazevibe, see demos below) and a line of cables (with…... Click for more

New Pedals: F-Pedals’ Edstortion and Phazevibe

EQD introduces the Levitation Reverb

It's official: pedal manufacturers are getting creative about their new releases: EarthQuaker Devices might have had a great idea in this regard - one that, considering our sister site The Deli's obsession with musical genres - we fully support. EQD just announced the release of Levitation, a pedal inspired and…... Click for more

EQD introduces the Levitation Reverb

Howard: Q&A about gear and inspiration

HOWARD'S CRUCIAL AUDIO GEAR Apogee Duet Empress Superdelay Howard is a Brooklyn band that plays an atmospheric brand of melodic post-rock (although the band, on their Facebook page, refers to it as "Folktronica"), where gentle textural experiments, synths, samples, varying percussive elements and electric guitars blend effortlessly, guided by the…... Click for more

Howard: Q&A about gear and inspiration

Fuzz + Reverb in one pedal: Keeley’s Sojourner

Edmond, Oklahoma manufacturer Keeley Electronics just announced the release of the Sojourner Fuzz/Reverb, a pedal that will surely tickle the curiosity of guitarists into psych rock and shoegaze, genres that make heavy use of both effects, normally in the same chain. The fuzz side of the circuit is based off…... Click for more

Fuzz + Reverb in one pedal: Keeley’s Sojourner