12 Days of Pedals and Effects, Day 11: Ampeg Micro VR
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On the eleventh day of Pedals and Effects you have the chance to win...an Ampeg Micro VR amp!
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Throwback Thursday: Drive Like Jehu
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Today’s Throwback Thursday is about taking advantage of second, or even third chances! It is festival season now with Coachella coming up, and that means a lot of us musicians are headed to airports, into vans or on trains. But either way, festivals are our best chance to see bands come through our towns. What happens a lot these days is that bands you thought would never perform together again, do, and we all get our chance to see a band we saw back in the day. Or even better, we get to see a band you never saw when they were active. For me, one band I never got to see was Drive Like Jehu, but in 2015, that day finally came!
Read More12 Days of Pedals And Effects, Day 11 - Ampeg SCR-DI
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On the eleventh day of Pedals and Effects you have a chance to win an Ampeg SCR-DI!
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: How To Build A Great Pedalboard
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Throwback Thursday: A brief retrospective on my pedalboard while in the Mars Volta. How large it got, how I downsized it, and the steps that I took, and that you can take in building a better board for yourself, and your music.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Big Sir/Digital Gardens Bass Gear Breakdown Part 2
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Having a website of your own has it's perks, being able to write about the pedals and effects I have used on any given record is one of them! Digital Gardens by Big Sir is essentially a harder rocking re-work of our album Before Gardens After Gardens. This record's distorted bass is the music's driving force and I want to share what I used to get the bass tones!
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Big Sir/Digital Gardens Bass Gear Breakdown
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It is not often that I get to break down, track per track, what gear I used on an album. So I felt like doing a retrospective feature on Big Sir's Digital Gardens - so here we go!
Read MorePedals And Effects: Sub Octave Wars with Janek Gwizdala
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Pedals And Effects has brought you a Sub Wars before but these pedals, though similar, are mainly octave pedals so we dubbed this installment Sub Octave Wars! Please be aware that the low end coming through your speakers may rattle your speakers off their stands!
Read MoreComing up on Pedals And Effects
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It hasn't even been a month since Pedals And Effects relaunched and we are doing better than ever. The T-shirts have been selling well and the FwonkBeta envelope filter promotion with Mr. Black was an overwhelming success and I wanted to say thank you. Your interest and contributions keeps Pedals And Effects alive.
Read MoreNAMM 2016 Schedule
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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.
Read MoreShow Me Your Pedalboard: Eric
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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:
Read MoreTour: Ohio Clinics
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Starting tomorrow, Juan will be in Ohio beginning his run of clinics! Partnering up with Earthquaker Devices, Mono, Ampeg and Sam Ash, Juan will be hosting a short run of clinics at Sam Ash stores across Ohio during the first week of December. Juan will be demo-ing the latest and greatest Earthquaker Devices pedals, plus Q&A’s, and giveaways! So if you’re in the Ohio area come on through!
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