by Jay Ratkowski | Dec 5, 2014 | Good Finds, Music
I feel no need to explain this. Just...
by Jay Ratkowski | 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 Jay Ratkowski | 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 Jay Ratkowski | Jul 28, 2014 | Building, Gear, Good Finds, Lessons, Music
Whenever guitar players go on a gear rant I usually pull out a line about how guitar players are dumb and bass players will play a bass made out of a2x4 plugged into a speaker from a 1986 Camaro Berlinetta. That’s a thing. About six months out of every year I go...
by Jay Ratkowski | 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 Jay Ratkowski | 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...
