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Posts tagged "pedal"

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 bar once again with the newly released C9. Where the B9 featured many types of Hammond sounds, the C9 branches out into many other kinds of organs.... Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Electro-Harmonix C9, Organ machine

JHS Twin Twelve Channel Drive

The smooth buzzsaw. The cloak of delicious grit surrounding a perfectly balanced warmth. The 1963 Silvertone 1484 Twin Twelve is a classic pawnshop amp now rare and coveted. A favorite of many, including Beck and Jack White, this amp's unique tonal qualities are now accessible at a reasonable sum (and a much smaller package) in pedal form, thanks to the good folks at JHS Pedals of Kansas City, MO, in their new Twin Twelve Channel Drive.... Click on the title for more

JHS Twin Twelve Channel Drive

DOD Boneshaker Distortion by Black Arts Toneworks

There's a new tendency in the pedal manufacturing world we really dig and encourage: we are referring to mainstream companies like Dunlop and DigiTech assigning some of their pedal designs to "emerging" boutique manufacturers. One of the new products of this kind of interaction is the DOD Boneshaker distortion, which was created by Tennessee's Mark Wenz, the man behind the Black Arts Toneworks creations. ... Click on the title for more

DOD Boneshaker Distortion by Black Arts Toneworks

New Pedals: Seymour Duncan Vise Grip

The latest offering from Santa Barbara, CA pickup and pedal manufacturer Seymour Duncan is a highly versatile compression pedal designed to allow players to take an active role in sculpting their compressed tone. Its name is Vise Grip. ... Click on the title for more

New Pedals: Seymour Duncan Vise Grip

A look at Red Panda Lab’s Bitmap – a bitcrusher pedal

Remember when all recording engineers and pro audio magazines were saying that digital recordings sound awful? Well, we guess that was so long ago that people are starting to actually miss that sound...... Click on the title for more

A look at Red Panda Lab’s Bitmap – a bitcrusher pedal

New Pedals: TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay

If you often find yourself thinking, "I friggin' love delay, but I need EVEN MORE of the same sound over and over," it might be time to look at a multi stage delay pedal. The TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay can satisfy this need, and probably many others. This pedal means business; it is versatile and big in both features and footprint. It would take a blog post's worth of space to even transcribe the silkscreen labels, let alone describe all the fun stuff it can do.... Click on the title for more

New Pedals: TC Electronic Flashback Triple Delay

4 Fuzz Pedals you can hear at the Brooklyn Stompbox Exbhibit 2014

(There will be many more... more info about the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit here). Click on the image to see other featured pedals. ... Click on the title for more

4 Fuzz Pedals you can hear at the Brooklyn Stompbox Exbhibit 2014

Try the T-Rex Quint Machine at the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit

The good folks at Denmark pedal manufacturer T-Rex Effects have released a new Octaver called the Quint Machine. Presumably taking the name from the fact that in addition to having optionality for “octave up” and “octave down," the Quint Machine also has a “fifth up” option, which adds more harmonic complexity relative to straightforward octave layering.... Click on the title for more

Try the T-Rex Quint Machine at the Brooklyn Stompbox Exhibit

Malekko Spring Chicken – Spring Reverb Emulation

Many forget that Malekko (run by Ministry's legendary guitarist Paul Barker) was one of the first manufacturers to venture in the market of mini-pedals (which are all the rage these days) and that their tiny "Spring" pedal was one of the first (if not THE first) successful attempts to put a reverb inside an enclosure that's half the size of your regular stompbox.... Click on the title for more

Malekko Spring Chicken – Spring Reverb Emulation

An overview of the MojoHand Magpie Overdrive

There is such a thing as too much overdrive. Sometimes you want a chime instead of the church bells. The pedal known as Magpie - by Texan manufacturer Mojo Hand FX - is a new Overdrive for those looking for a refined, transparent crunch that maintains the original tone of the guitar and amp. This pedal falls somewhere between an overdrive and a clean boost. The controls are familiar: Gain, Tone and Volume, and they can be used in conjunction with a mode selecting switch to dial up three different flavors of boost.... Click on the title for more

An overview of the MojoHand Magpie Overdrive

Death By Audio Reverberation Machine Review

The Reverberation Machine is a new "reverb" pedal released this summer by the incredible Death By Audio. DBA released a pedal called the Sunshine Reverberation last year in collaboration with Ty Segall. Like anything limited edition and emblazoned with the Ty Segall's moniker, the original sold out instantly. The Reverberation Machine builds on the concept behind that elusive pedal.... Click on the title for more

Death By Audio Reverberation Machine Review

Pedal Review: The Fulltone Clyde Deluxe

Not too many people actually know the history of the wah pedal. Most folks think it starts with Jimi Hendrix and his iconic Voodoo Chile tone, but the story actually begins with Clyde McCoy - a white Dixieland jazz trumpeter from the thirties who couldn’t sound less like Hendrix. The original Vox wah pedal that Hendrix made famous actually strove to emulate McCoy’s ability to make his trumpet cry in a “wah-wah” sound by fluttering his playing with a mute in the bell of his instrument (see this video).... Click on the title for more

Pedal Review: The Fulltone Clyde Deluxe