pedals
Pro Guitar Shop Introduces “Demo It Live”
Pro Guitar Shop seems to be one of the webs more visible online guitar gear retailers. With a seemingly endless stream of contests, video demos and recently, a new riff of the day, taught by the popular Andy. Their latest marketing blitz is something they are calling “Demo It Live”. It’s essentially just a web [...]
Boss Introduces 3 New Pedals with “Multi-Dimensional Processing”
Boss has just released 3 new pedals to their incredibly popular line of compact effects. All three incorporate a custom DSP(Digital Signal Processing) chip that has, what their marketing team decided to call “Multi-Dimensional Processing”, or “MDP” for short. Supposedly this new technology somehow senses the incoming guitar signal and adjusts the output of the [...]
Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips Demos the Walrus Audio Janus Tremolo/Fuzz Pedal
I have to say I get a bit burned out on pedal demos from time to time. And though I’m not a fan of the Flaming Lips, I found that Steven Drozd and the Walrus Audio Janus combined into an interesting demo. The 1967 Supro Coronado also helped hold my attention.
Tour of the Wampler Production Facility
Although Wampler is one of the more recognizable boutique pedal builder names, I was still surprised at the size and sophistication of his factory. Especially since so many builders are one-man operations run from basements or garages.
Wampler Ecstasy & Rockett Blue Note Compared
Brett Kingman made this video when one of his friends commented that these two pedals seemed to be suspiciously similar. Usually I’m very impressed with Wampler pedals, but put next to this very organic sounding “Blue Note” overdrive, the Wampler seems flatter and less interesting. Though I agree they are actually very different pedals, that [...]