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Getting Started with Acoustic IRs
Acoustic IRs are a great way do get studio acoustic sounds in a live environment. Depending on your use case, you can improve an existing acoustic sound, get a piezo sound to sound like a mic’d acoustic, or even use magnetic pickups on an electric guitar to simulate an acoustic. Here are some of the…Read More
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Top 5 Dual Tone/Splitting Humbucker Pickups
1) Zexcoil Tribucker Available as both an HH and HSH set, the Zecoil Tribucker combines a mini humbucker and their humcanceling single coil in one package. 2) Lindy Fralin Unbucker The Lindy Franlin Unbucker uses mismatched coils, to create a louder more full single coil when split, and a more open articulate humbucker when combined.…Read More
The Best Lunchbox Practice Amps
1) BOSS Katana Air 2) Yamaha THR-II 3) Positive Grid Spark 4) Bad Cat Paw 5) ZT Amplifiers Lunchbox 6) Vox Adio Air
Latest High End Compact Multi-Effects
1) Line 6 HX Stomp 2) Fractal Audio FM3 3) Boss GT-1000 Core 4) Neural DSP Quad Cortex 5) Headrush Gigboard
Single Sized Analog Tremolos (with tap!)
1) Chase Bliss Audio Gravitas 2) Walrus Audio Monument V2 3) Swindler Effects Red Mountain (Stereo) 4) Flower Pedals Dandelion 5) JHS Pedals Kodiak 6) Stone Deaf Tremotron 7) Starla Tap Tempo Tremolo 8) Coda Effects Montagne 9) Korora Audio Merlo
Top Analog Multi-Effect Overdrives
This is a list of all analog drives which change the circuits enough to be consider multiple drives in one pedal: 1) Subdecay Vector Preamp 2) Tskalis Audio Works Six 3) Elecktron Analog drive 4) Chase Bliss Audio Brothers 5) Empress Multidrive 6) JHS Pedals Bonzai 7) JHS Pedals Muffuletta
Top Single-Pedal Sized Multi Effects
Guitar effects technology is improving every year, and with that effects pedals are to pack more and more into a pedal. This is our list of the top multi-effects pedals that fit in a single (mxr sized) guitar pedal. 1) Hotone Xtomp Touting component level modeling, the Hotone Xtomp allows you to load one high…Read More
Top 5 Compact IR Pedals
Impulse Responses have been making big waves in recent years. Now they’ve finally started to make their way into the compact pedal format, making realistic speaker simulation available to smaller pedalboards and lighter budgets. Here are some of the latest and greatest: 1) Hotone Omni IR Just release from Hotone, they’ve shrunk down their IR…Read More