Pedals and Effects One Year Anniversary Giveaway!
June 4th marks the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of PedalsAndEffects.com, and I couldn’t be happier with all it has brought to my life. The site is a labor of love that gives me a chance to share my passion for pedals with all of you, and it’s become a valuable creative outlet for me as well. [...]
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Review: MXR BASS OVERDRIVE
When legendary pedal maker MXR asked me to do a video of a couple of their new pedals, I was excited to get started. I already reviewed their Bass Chorus Deluxe, so this time, I wanted to showcase their new MXR Bass Overdrive. MXR has made a bass overdrive that has growl and edge to make [...]
Pedal Review Video: Guitarist Henry Kohen, AKA Mylets Part 2
Here is part two of our first featured guitarist on PedalsAndEffects, Henry Kohen aka Mylets. Henry is the young, one man band recently signed to Sargent House and he’s about to show you how his use of pedals and sonic layering is going define him as a trailblazer. Henry is somewhat unassuming, but talk to [...]
Pedal Video: Guitarist Henry Kohen, AKA Mylets
One thing I found out during the polls we conducted during our 12 Days of PedalsAndEffects giveaway was that you’re all interested in knowing more about pedals and who uses them- not just bassists, but all musicians. So I’ve listened to your requests, and am happy to give you our very first video featuring a [...]
Review: MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe
MXR is an extraordinary pedal maker. They have been around since the 70′s and are as legendary as Electro Harmonix, Boss or any of the other companies that have been in the pedal/stompbox game for decades. So when MXR had asked me to do a video of a couple of their new pedals, I jumped [...]
Fuzz Wars Follow-up: Arc Effects Big Green Pi vs Sovtek Big Muff [review]
After the last installment of Fuzz Wars, I felt it was necessary to give the Arc Effects’ Big Green π a more in-depth look since I had missed an integral section of the pedal. Inside the effect box, there are dip switches inside the unit that greatly affects the sound of the pedal. Dip [...]
Fuzz Wars Round 6: Weezer’s Scott Shriner and Dot Hacker’s Jonathan Hischke
Here is the latest Fuzz Wars installment with Jonathan Hischke of Dot Hacker and Scott Shriner of Weezer as they review four pedals that are still in production and can be easily purchased from their respected manufacturers. This video features three of Scott’s favorites, Dwarfcraft Devices’ Baby Thunda, Wounded Paws Effects’ Battering Ram V2.1 and [...]
Update on New Music: Cedric Bixler Zavala, Big Sir with Dave Elitch, Sugar of Buffalo Daughter, Mark Guiliana
Things have been very busy this year (so far) with new music. Most of all, I am extremely excited about the recording sessions that have been happening with Cedric, Jonny Polonsky, Greg Rogove, John Anderson and me. We have been really hitting our stride in the studio and we honestly couldn’t be happier. The [...]
Fuzz Wars Round 5, Part 2: Sovtek Battle w/ Weezer Bassist Scott Shriner
And the winner of the Sovtek Fuzz Wars is…..watch the video to find out! I had so much fun shooting this video review. We really didn’t have any plans for what we wanted to do; Scott just showed with two Sovteks and I had my own Sovteks so Jonathan suggested to do a Sovtek battle. [...]
Fuzz Wars Round 5: Weezer Bassist Scott Shriner – Sovtek Fuzz Pedals
This shootout is as nerdy as it gets. It starts with three bass players (Weezer’s Scott Shriner, Jonathan Hischke and yours truly) in a room, talking about gear when they realize there are enough Sovtek fuzzes in their possesion to do a Fuzz Wars. High Fives erupt. Sovtek fuzzes are legendary fuzz pedals made by [...]
PedalsAndEffects NAMM 2013 Review
NAMM 2013 was fun this year. The key was not packing in too much in just two days. I went with Jonathan Hischke, and we covered the boutique pedal makers, a few bigger companies, and then bounced. There were some really exciting concepts and innovating sounds happening all over NAMM but we chose to cover [...]
Grindy Bass + Big Sir Album and Live News
Big Sir made a record last year called Before Gardens After Gardens and typically, bands follow up their records with remixes of their songs, sometimes done by others and other times, themselves. Lisa Papineau and I decided to do our own spin on a remix record but with a twist- we re-recorded some songs [...]
Pedals And Effects NAMM 2013 Teaser
I wanted to let you all know I am hustling on all this NAMM 2013 video footage for PedalsAndEffects. We’re going to show what we saw plus what we didn’t get to see but heard about from other musicians. There’s a lot of excitement about what’s in store for the pedal world. It seems that [...]
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