by Jay Ratkowski | Sep 27, 2016 | Reviews
About two years ago, we did a preliminary inspection of a rather neat and highly engineered take on the pedalboard. Fast forward to very recently and Monarch Monark Pedalboards has finally brought their product to the public. We got our hands on their flagship...
by Jay Ratkowski | Oct 21, 2015 | Reviews
60 years from now, I don’t think any guitarists out there will be swooning over a 2015 Blackstar or Peavey amplifier the way we currently do over Fenders from 60 years ago. But it will be interesting to see if those future folks are paying top dollar for 2015...
by Jay Ratkowski | 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 Jay Ratkowski | 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...
by Jay Ratkowski | May 22, 2014 | Pedals, Reviews
You want a flanger for your pedal board, right? And a phaser too, right? Crap… Well, two new pedals isn’t so bad. You know, that Diamond phaser is really nice… but you probably want a Phase 90 for everyday use. That’s like $400 in phasers....
by G. Edward Jones | Jan 21, 2014 | Reviews
If I had to sum up this album in one word it would be “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.” Most bands, I believe, have a defining album in them. It might not be a good album, it might not be a popular album, but it’s an album that you can...
