by daftparagon | Aug 15, 2014 | Gear, News
It’s really hard to get excited about pedalboards. You’re paying $300+ for some plastic/wood with carpet on it. Then you’re going to velcro your pedals to it, destroying the resale value of your effects in the process 1. That velcro will lose its...
by daftparagon | Aug 8, 2014 | Pedals, Reviews
Technology is great, but we can easily become trapped in an endless maze of possibilities that it creates. This is bad when it gets in the way of just creating new stuff. That’s exactly my fear when it comes to putting the Strymon Mobius on a pedal board. And...
by daftparagon | Aug 5, 2014 | Good Finds, Music
Justin Adams has played with Robert Plant, Juldeh Camara and many others. He’s spent a lot of his career studying African and Arab music along with all sorts of western blues. He seems to know what he’s talking about and has some nice history to share...
by daftparagon | Aug 3, 2014 | Reviews, Stores & Services
This is how you buy pedals: Way #1 – Go to the local guitar store, where they have 30-50 pedals from a handful of manufacturers, if you’re lucky. You try one out using not-your-guitar into not-your-amp. This combo sounds terrible, but the pedal...
