Alessandro Cortini comes through Pedals And Effects again to review another wild effects pedal! This time it’s the Seppuku FX Kompakt Kaset delay! This is a wild pedal that Alessandro describes as producing sounds that resemble a broken channel on a 4 track cassette recorder. Alessandro is an absolute sonic genius, and he manages...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Cas all the way from the Netherlands. Cas plays bass in dutch pop band Rondé and it looks like they’ve developed quite a following for themselves! Word! Cas prides himself on working unconventional sounds into pop music, and his board is very indicative of that. He also...

(5 questions we ask artists – the same 5, every time) Pedals and Effects is back with the first Pedals and Effects 5 entry of the new year! For those unfamiliar, “The Pedals and Effects 5” is where we ask musicians of all styles and all walks of life how they first got into pedals, and what...

Today’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Ivan all the way from Croatia! Wow! Ivan plays under the name Luul which is a solo-looping project of his that, in his words takes after artists like Mylets. Very cool. Ivan’s board is very indicative of looping which also covers all of his sonic bases....

Coming hot off the heels of the NAMM show we got the second part of our series with synthesizer guru Alessandro Cortini! Back with the Abstrakt Electronics Avalon (which is a Roland 303 clone) Alessandro runs the sequencer through Canada’s own Industrialectric Echo Degrader which in Alessandro’s words is “a f@%d up delay” aka perfect for Pedals...

I wanted to let any of you attending NAMM 2016 know that I will be doing some demos all weekend at the Earthquaker Devices Booth which is booth #4296 in Hall C.  I’ll be demonstrating Earthquaker Devices‘ latest and greatest as well as old favorites.   I will also be doing a demo with the awesome folks at Red Panda...

It’s the first Show Me Your Pedalboard entry of the New Year, and the first pedalboard of 2016 comes from bass player Eric! Eric’s rocking a lot of Pedals and Effects favorites in addition to forging his own sonic path. Let’s take a look at what Eric is moving and grooving to: First off, it’s...

When a pedal gets released on April 1st, there is always the potential that the device is actually a joke, but that doesn’t happen to be the case with Keeley Electronics The Absolüte Würst. Picked by Nick Reinhart for Pedals And Effects Top Ten Of 2015 list the Würst is actually pretty genius, and quite musical in...

Here we go with Pedals And Effects Top Ten Pedals for 2015 and this year came with some radical sounds! As the boutique pedal dominance continues in the industry, a couple of the big guys managed to come up with some over the top pedals. I added a couple of reliable handy man tools,...

On the tenth day of Pedals and Effects you have a chance to win…an Earthquaker Devices Afterneath   Photo credit: Earthquaker Devices  Background: The Earthquaker Devices Afterneath is hands down my favorite pedal made by Earthquaker Devices. It is an incredibly expressive and incredibly musical reverb machine. The Afterneath is Earthquaker Devices take on a digital reverb...

On the ninth day of Pedals and Effects you have a chance to win…a DOD Meatbox  Photo credit: Digitech  Background: Today’s giveaway is an exciting one because we are giving away one of the best re-issue pedals ever put back on the market and that pedal is the DOD Meatbox. This is the infamous speaker...

On the eighth day of Pedals and Effects you have a chance to win…an Ernie Ball VP Jr. Volume/Expression Pedal Photo credit: Ernie Ball   Background: The Ernie Ball VP Jr. has quickly become a standard for musicians everywhere. An Ernie Ball VP Jr. pedal has ubiquitous on pedalboards all over the world, they’re...