The Ugly Guitar Truth

This year at NAMM, Ibanez has unveiled a new pedal. It is a collaboration with a Japanese pedal maker, Vemuram. Vemuram has made a name for ...

If you are a fan of inexpensive compact guitar pedals, then you probably already know about Outlaw effects. They hit the scene a couple year...

I almost didn't believe it. I almost had to make sure that today wasn't April first and not January first because I saw something th...

Upon the announcement of the new El Mocambo, Tore himself practically called the new pedal a Tube Screamer. Uncertain whether this is a TS-9...

I've had a small credit sitting around at a music store. I honestly had no idea what I was going to use it for. I'm fairly well off ...

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 ...

Lately I've run into a problem. My pedal board is full of great pedals. I know. That is a horrible problem to have, but hear me out. I m...

Some time ago I was going through the bargain bin at the local music store and found a Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer. I already had a TS-9DX and...

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...

In a world that seems to be filled with reissues and clones of everything, we have very little in the way of genuinely new products. Whi...

There are large number of pedal in this world. It is hard to know where to start. Basically, you have to find out what your needs are. But s...

So if you haven't heard, EHX has been cooking up some new dirt. There has been some backlash since a few of their "ideas" ha...

A little while ago I posted about the new pedal being released from Visual Sound. This is the pedal that has so many of us waiting in uncont...

All of us that are lucky to live near a great local music store know what greatness can await us in the discount bin. Lately I had a gr...

So here it is. I have to be honest. I've been geeking out about this one. There are a couple of videos up on Visual Sounds' YouTu...

Let's pretend that the last couple years didn't happen, OK? ...OK! Here is a little bit of what I've learned: Children will chan...