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Pictures of the Austin Synth Expo 2017

Yes folk, this blog is mostly about pedals, but yours truly also organizes a Synth Expo. Its latest installment was in Austin, in the same room that hosted the Austin Stompbox Exhibit, check out a selection of pictures below, more pictures here!Click on the title for more

Pictures of the Austin Synth Expo 2017

Delay Mixed Board at the Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Hey delay maniacs! This is going to be out for ya'll to play with it at our upcoming Austin Stompbox Exhibit! P.S. Pretty darn exciting board if you ask us!Click on the title for more

Delay Mixed Board at the Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Austin Stompbox And Synth Expo this Friday and Saturday!

Add to your: A 13 minutes walk from the Convention Center Everybody's favorite pedal and synth parties will be back in Austin (in the same awesome space!) on March 17-18, during the notorious live music festival. This year we have two great co-presenters, one per expo! STOMPBOX EXHIBIT Once again, we…Click on the title for more

Austin Stompbox And Synth Expo this Friday and Saturday!

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

If you are in Austin this week, bring your guitar to the Lewis Carnegie Gallery (hosting the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017) and give these bad babies a try!Click on the title for more

Mixed Distortion board at the ATX Stompbox Exhibit 2017

SSD Devices EVA Fuzz (demo)

We are always intrigued when we see a demo of a pedal by a manufacturer we are not aware of - in particular if the effect looks cool and has something different to it. Not much info can be found about SSD Devices, but it sounds like a UK/US collaboration (the…Click on the title for more

SSD Devices EVA Fuzz (demo)

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

We saw this pedal by NJ based TWA (an acronym for "Totally Wicked Audio") at our NAMM 2017 mixed booth and it looked intriguing indeed, if anything for the name of its controls - there's a Kafka/Ovid switch, and a "Gestation" mini-knob! The effect's presentation is also interesting: "Distortion? Fuzz? Filter? Synth?…Click on the title for more

New (Crazy) Pedals: TWA Dynamorph

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Strymon, at last, seems to have gotten the distortion bug - and overcome their aversion for the color red! The Californian stompbox manufacturer just unveiled their second distortion pedal ever, after 2016's Riverside Overdrive (since their birth in 2008, they had only released non-distortion pedals, developing a reputation for luscious clean sounds, although…Click on the title for more

Strymon debuts Sunset Dual Overdrive at Austin Stompbox Exhibit

Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

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Klon + Tube Screamer in one pedal: Greenchild K818 Dual Overdrive

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

You may think that Bondi Effects is another Italian manufacturer (we covered a bunch of them as of late), but the name actually originates from an Australian aboriginal word meaning "the sound of waves crashing over rocks." Is that natural sound the precursor of fuzz? Founded in 2013 and run by husband…Click on the title for more

Bondi Effects 2026 Compressor Limiter

Electro-Harmonix SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine

This press release just came in from Electro-Harmionix, it sounds intriguing... The SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine transform your guitar sound into classic electronic synthesizers and features nine of the most distinctive vintage synth type sounds: OBX, PROFIT V, VIBE SYNTH, MINI MOOD, EHX MINI, SOLO SYNTH, MOOD BASS, STRING SYNTH and…Click on the title for more

Electro-Harmonix SYNTH9 Synthesizer Machine

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

Double tracking guitar parts has been a technique used in recording for decades (and also live actually, if there is more than one guitarist) to thicken things up. It can make guitars sound bigger, fuller, wider, and more textured. In the '60s Abbey Road Studio's engineer Ken Thousand came up…Click on the title for more

TC Electronics Mimiq and Keeley 30ms

New Pedals: Jellyfish Electronics Murder By Fuzz (demo)

Fuzz, as an effect, seems to inspire pretty gruesome names, and fuzz lovers, who play musical genres that tend to sublimate violence through heavy hitting music, love that. On the heel of names like Death by Audio and Fuzzrocious, New Hampshire based boutique manufacturer Jellifish Electronics - which offers religiously gain related, original…Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Jellyfish Electronics Murder By Fuzz (demo)