The Ugly Guitar Truth

If you are familiar with the Behringer line of guitar effect pedals, then you know that they are mostly BOSS clones. They are basically plas...

Along with the RV-500 Reverb and Katana Mini, Boss announced the MD-500 modulation pedal. It sport the same frame of the RV and DD 500 pedal...

This little pedal flew completely under my radar. I paid attention to all the NAMM 2017 debuts but somehow didn't even get a hint of thi...

I loved watching NAMM coverage this year. Seems like attendance is hardly necessary any more. All the cool new gadgets are getting show...

Diffidently not a new thing, but a huge trend this year at NAMM, the pedal board amp has seen a huge rise in popularity among manufacture...

 When I first saw this pedal I really didn't know what it was. I saw the large letters that spoke to me somehow. "Freak Out...

EHX has once again put a new and rather innovative product to market. They call it the Blurst and describe it as a Moddulated Filter. While ...

Recently I was able to check out two of the most promising budget/modeling combo amps released in 2016. The BOSS Katana (100 watt combo) and...

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn... This whole post could be a rant about how boring tuner reviews are, but I'll try to stay on point...

I first reported about these amps when Vox announced them back at NAMM this year. They Stood out because of there styling and features. The...

So Mike Matthews and company have been at it again. Offering us yet another pedal that we didn't even know that we wanted, EHX have serv...

Lately I noticed that a couple of the Fulltone pedals have been marked down to a reasonable price. $80 for a Fulltone pedal used to be unhea...

If you suffer from GAS as I do, then you are probably aware of the influx of pedals from china. I'm not talking about BOSS, or Digit...

Most of us that have peered behind the curtain of our guitar effects have noticed a trend that seems as old as the electric guitar (and its ...

The other day, I was able to sit down with the Electro Harmonix Key9 Keyboard Modulator pedal. It was exciting. This is probably one of the ...

In search of a possible alternative to my trusty DD-20 Delay from Boss, I sat down with the Hardwire DL-8 Delay/Looper. In many repects t...

If you've looked at any music gear website, or have been inside an actual music store within the last few years, you have probably notic...

A little while ago, I wrote a post about Outlaw Effects. Turns out I got some of the details wrong. This led the guys over at Outlaw to poli...

We've all been there, flipping through catalogs of music gear and reading flowery descriptions of every piece of gear found within. I ha...

So I came about this program about five years ago, that tells you how up-to-date it is, and it actually does quite well. It is a recording p...