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 | Jun 12, 2014 | Gear, News
As always, I’m a week late and probably $2500 short, but that’s how it goes when you’re busy being king of the world1. I just noticed that Fractal Audio is teasing a multi-effects unit. No amp modeling, it sits on your floor, you turn it on with...
by daftparagon | May 19, 2014 | Gear, News
While plenty of people have built clones of the Big Muff Pi with various bells and whistles, Electro-Harmonix keeps things pretty traditional. That ends now. The Deluxe Pi looks and sounds pretty slick. It gives you the sound you’re used to, but with a lot...
by daftparagon | May 10, 2014 | Gear, News
One of the common topics here at Daft Paragon is innovation, or lack thereof, in the guitar world. Here is another great example of the failures by the guitar companies to do anything genuinely interesting… I guess Cheech and Chong deserve a signature model now....
by daftparagon | Apr 11, 2014 | Gear, Interviews, News
You may not have heard of Stone Deaf FX and Amplification prior to reading this. I stumbled across them by luck, at the suggestion of a guy at a local guitar shop. They only make one product, the PDF-1, which is based on the old Maestro MPF-1. It’s an amazing...
by daftparagon | Mar 3, 2014 | Gear, News
When stuff like this comes out, I sometimes feel overwhelmed. In one case, we have the launch of Meris, which gives you a few bullet points about the product and chances are the target customer knows it’s for them. On the other hand, EHX gives a ton of info,...
