Browsing: Effects Pedals

The Spark Mini is the stripped-back little brother to the Spark Booster by TC Electronics. It features just one knob that can dial in up to 20dB of clean boost, and like most TC pedals the Spark Mini is true bypass. It comes in a white enclosure with a classy gold graphic that will be…

I feel that I must start this article off by saying that normally I hate compression on guitar. Whether it is my ears or user error I have just never been able to dial in a compression pedal that didn't sound muddy and lacked attack and punch. Other guys like Jeffrey Kunde and some of…

Honestly I haven't had that much excitement for a reverb or delay pedal since the Strymon Blue Sky and the Nuenaber Stereo Wet. Everything else while good has just been a replication of those two pedals with a few slight differences in eq, mix and depth range. So when Earthquaker released their Avalanche Run I wasn't…

Not sure if you all remember NeedToBreathe's first album titled "Daylight", but my wife calls it the Fire Lion album (pictured right). Since she started calling it that, the album cover has been imprinted on my brain, so when Fox Pedals released their Kingdom transparent overdrive pedal a while ago I had to try one…

Risskov, Denmark (September 13, 2016) -- TC Electronic's new Mimiq Doubler is the first pedal ever to offer musicians authentic studio-grade doubling. With its proprietary doubling algorithm, Mimiq Doubler perfectly recreates the random yet subtle changes in time, pitch, and attack that occur when double tracking in the studio. Finally letting musicians access those larger-than-life…

Oklahoma City, OK (August 15, 2016) -- Dynamic, responsive, tube-like, and amp-like. Walrus Audio is extremely excited to announce the new 385 Overdrive that is boastfully responsible for all those adjectives. For decades now, guitarists in search of pure tone have been taking the tube-powered audio sections of vintage film projectors and using it as…

Hey guys, on the last article we discussed what reverb was and how it has changed over the years. In this article, I am going to share with you a cheat sheet on how to use reverb. You don't need to be a sound engineer to use reverb properly and hopefully this will help you…

Reverb is an effect that has recently taken an important place in worship music. We used to think of it as something the guy running front of house would add to vocals and sometimes guitar to help the enhance the overall sound. This was true for a long time, helping give the guitar a nice…

Let's face it. We all stack our overdrives. There might be a few Worship guitar players out there that utilize their amps gain and only use a single overdrive pedal, but most guitarists use a clean'ish amp with 2-3 overdrive pedals stacked on top of each other to get a wide range of overdrive/distortion levels. Most guitarists,…

Berlin, Germany (April 14, 2016) -- Two years after the last successfull release by Kleissonic Boutique Pedals, an extremely versatile and pioneering Fuzz pedal was finally unleashed, the Lucid. It comes with just two controls, Volume and Harmonics – that's right, no Gain/Fuzz control! The Harmonics knob adjusts the harmonic consistency and range of the…

Most of you have heard of Salvage Custom and if you haven't then you are probably new to the boutique guitar and pedal industry. Founded by Daniel Tyack in 2012 Salvage Custom was not necessarily the first raised pedalboard solution. They were one of the first to create custom lift off cases and gorgeous wooden…

We recently did a review on the stellar new volume pedal from Tapestry Audio called the Bloomery.  We were so blow away by the quality of the Bloomery that we had to try out Tapestry Audio's latest overdrive pedal the "Fab Suisse". Built on a classic Marshall Bluesbreaker style circuit foundation the Fab Suisse adds…