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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

Kuroma’s gear and their creative process

KUROMA'S CRUCIAL AUDIO GEAR Roland JX-3P EQD Talons Overdrive Started by former Whigs and current MGMT guitarist Hank Sullivant in 2008, NYC Indie pop band Kuroma has gone through various inceptions before finally settling on their current one, the line-up rounded out by James Richardson and Will Berman of MGMT…... Click for more

Kuroma’s gear and their creative process

New Pedals: Electro-Harmonix C9, Organ machine

Until recently, the guitarists interested in recreating organ-like sounds had to rely on pitch shifters and whammy effects. Needless to say, although very cool, those effects sound nothing like a real organ. Then Electro Harmonix came out with the B9 Organ Machine... Today, the NYC based company is raising the…... Click for more

New Pedals: Electro-Harmonix C9, Organ machine

The Cry Baby Mini-Wah was born

The "mini-" trend - inaugurated by visionary comedian Mike Myers in his Austin Power series - is becoming somewhat ubiquitous in the guitar pedal world. At our recent SXSW Stompbox Exhibit we had a chance to check out Dunlop's new Cry Baby Mini Wah, which admittedly inspired cuddly feelings -…... Click for more

The Cry Baby Mini-Wah was born