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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

Announcing The Austin StompBox Exhibit

Like us on Facebook! - Signup for Email Newsletter - Pics from the NYC 2012 Exhibit --- Austin, TX - This upcoming March The Deli and Delicious Audio will be presenting the first edition of The Austin StompBox Exhibit, a free, interactive, in-the-headphones display of guitar effect pedals that will coincide with the busiest days of the big music festival…Click on the title for more

Announcing The Austin StompBox Exhibit

Get your Vintage Fuzz Tone Right

When you play garage or psych rock you can get away with sloppy drums and vocals (it's lo-fi, baby!), but you better do your homework as far as your distorted guitar tone is concerned. ’60s fuzz pedals are some of the most collected and sought after guitar effects. Due to…Click on the title for more

Get your Vintage Fuzz Tone Right

The new Boosta Grande from BBE got even better with a sweet new look and compact chassis to conserve space on a pedal board. Just like the original Boosta, the new Boosta Grande BG-20 doesn’t change the tonal balance of an amp, even with its max gain of +20dB slamming…Click on the title for more

Guitar Pedal News: BBE Boosta Grande BG-20