Another new entry by Dunlop: the Swollen Pickle Jumbo Fuzz Dirty Donny Edition: The Swollen Pickle™ Jumbo Fuzz Dirty Donny Edition serves up the same burly high-gain fuzz as the full-sized Swollen Pickle but in a more petite package, featuring a simplified control set up and a corpulently cool new paint job. The Dirty Donny Edition retains six of the Mark II’s seven … [Read more...]
NAMM 2014: MXR FET Driver
Dunlop has announced an interesting new pedal called the MXR FET Driver: Featuring a unique circuit design, the MXR FET Driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube amplifier by cascading an op-amp gain stage into a FET stage. The FET Driver thickens up lead tones with musical, amp-like distortion and sustain without the fragility and inconsistency associated … [Read more...]
Review: Ampendage Amp Stands
Kevin Wagg, the owner of Ampendage Industries, contacted me several weeks ago to let me know about his line of amp stands. I've long thought about getting an amp stand, but I never really liked the ones that I saw in guitar stores. As a result, I've never really used one. Kevin was kind enough to send me a review unit, and I'm really impressed with what he's … [Read more...]
Pedal Labels
I'm a fan of clever solutions to problems, and I think the Pedal Label System is just such a solution. No doubt you've either added a strip of masking tape to your pedals or have seen someone else do so in order to "remember" the settings that you like for your pedals. However, using masking tape can sometimes lead to residue, or goop, left on the pedals, which can be annoying. … [Read more...]
Guitar Interfaces for IOS Devices
Mark Crump has a nice rundown on GigaOm of several audio interfaces for plugging your guitar into your IOS device. (via Jim Dalrymple) … [Read more...]