Battle Of Boutiques Round 5 gets a little crazy as we have smallsound/bigsound taking on Earthquaker Devices Hoof, as well as, Tone Reaper fuzz pedals. The competition is between all three, though the Hoof/Reaper takes on itself since it is two fuzzes in one stompbox!  You let us know if you prefer the Hoof...

As we get deeper in the Battle Of Boutique series, the competition has not only been pretty close, the opinions I have read are all pretty committed and everyone seems very certain with their choices. In doing these, I find myself going back and forth between what I like and what I would really...

This month on PedalsAndEffects, we have been running a series on the making of Big Sir’s DIGITAL GARDENS album. I have been writing about what I used to get the bass sounds on this record and other insider info. Last week, I revealed how I got the loudest, most distorted tone with out feeding back...

The Battle Of Boutiques series is getting pretty divided responses and I want you all to know that this is an experiment to gauge what the PedalsAndEffects audience is into. My personal tastes always seem to be pretty off base from most bassists so it helps me and PedalsAndEffects to understand what you all...

It is not often that I get to break down, track per track, what I used on an album I made but here we go! PedalsAndEffects is going to get the gear listing for each track I played on the new Big Sir DIGITAL GARDENS record we released last week. The first track on...

With so many boutique pedal makers popping up, it has to be hard, as a consumer, to know what you should set your sites on in terms of gear. I am pretty sure all boutique builders focus their a lot of their time making fuzz and distortion pedals. There are so many of these...

It has been a while since PedalsAndEffects has done a discontinued pedal review. I decided to review this Peavey Dirty Dog distortion because of its dual distortion ability. The other unique thing about this pedal is it’s size. With the pedal industry going more towards smaller pedals, I thought it would be interesting to...

2014’s first Fuzz Wars is here at PedalsAndEffects and this time Jonathan Hischke (Dot Hacker, Hella, Broken Bells) and Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Nine Inch Nails) review four fuzz pedals! This installment features Justin Meldal Johnsen’s signature Diabolik fuzz (we featured recently here on PedalsAndEffects), Fuzzrocious’s Heliotropic (also featured before, here on PedalsAndEffects but Justin wanted to hear it so we threw it in!) Cog...

In this final installment with Nick Reinhart, Nick discusses how he chains pedals on his pedalboards and discusses signal loss, sound creation and effects use.  I think Nick is the most innovative guitarist out there when it comes to sound design and his use of pedals is nonpareil.  Please view any of the other...

We’re back with more Fuzz Wars here at PedalsAndEffects and this time Jonathan Hischke (Dot Hacker, Hella, Broken Bells) and I review four under the radar fuzz pedals! This installment features Heavy Electronic’s Grind Fuzz, Idiot Box’s Blasteroid Fuzz, Fuzzrocious’s Heliotropic and Pedal File’s “The Fuzz Where There Was No Fuzz Before” (man, that name sucks).  Of these four rarities,...

It’s time for another edition of Fuzz Wars and, once again, I have my good friend Jonathan Hischke (Dot Hacker, Hella, Broken Bells) on board to help review four must-have fuzz pedals before they run out of production! The video features the Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz, the Idiot Box Effects Cool Buzz Bass Fuzz, the Mojo Hand FX...

The 6/4 Giveaway is bringing some more noise to the contest with an overdrive pedal by Wren And Cuff!  The Mercy Phuk pedal is Wren And Cuff‘s answer to the many requests to fill in the gap between muff-style heavy fuzzers and the slightly dirty grind of their Phat Phuk Booster. The Mercy Phuk is designed for the player with a...