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Doubling Down: Using Two Identical Pedals on the Same Pedalboard
The first stompbox I ever owned was a DOD Distortion FX55, purchased from one of the stores along 48th Street – Manhattan’s legendary “Music Row” – in the mid-1980s. As the only guitarist in Voodoo Sex Party, my aptly-named college band, I needed something that would add a nice helping of hair to guitar solos…
July 26, 2019 -
Stompbox 101, For Real: Learning to Build Pedals the Classy Way at Roberto-Venn
I could make one of these things, is how the thought usually takes form. Indeed, it proves a common mantra among stompbox enthusiasts. Once one becomes an aficionado of effects pedals, suddenly the urge strikes to not just acquire a new stomp, but… build one oneself. That’s about where I was in the journey when…
April 18, 2019 -
Klon Centaur #005 | Stompbox Stories
When guitarist Suke Cerulo took a leap of faith on an exceedingly expensive, unknown overdrive pedal nearly two and a half decades ago, there was no way he would’ve known the part he was about to play in stompbox history. As a player, Cerulo knows his stuff. Currently the Lead Guitar Program Director at the New…
March 31, 2019