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Guitar effects pedals are built to be stomped on. But for Ron Light, guest curator of the “PedalCulture: The Guitar Effects Pedal as Cultural Artifact” exhibition at San Francisco State ...
The Candela Vibrophase is more work of art and intrigue than it is a guitar pedal, since it costs $6,000 and is entirely useless outside a dark recording studio. ZVEX does say on its website that ...
If you hadn’t picked up from the weapon-related pedal names and art, Snyder loves D&D. He has played as a seafaring half-orc pirate in an ongoing campaign with his wife and friends every weekend ...
Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara are taking their musical talents to Ravinia on Sunday. This weekend's show features their annual gala, which helps support Ravinia's "Reach Teach Play" ...
Here are some really simple projects for building guitar effects pedals. I mean REALLY simple. I’m sure that a little more than this goes into the brightly colored commercial boxes and there … ...
San Antonio born and raised Hernandez, 34, owns Ruckus Audio Pedals, a boutique producer of guitar effects. He started making the boxes six years ago while working as a technician at now-defunct ...
An art exhibition by former Urban Verbs guitarist Robin Rose features a circle of guitar FX pedals stuck to a wall, and a Fender Stratocaster stuck to a ceiling. The works, part of a collection called ...
Pedal-building wizard David Rainger is back at it again with “another brilliantly unconventional dirt pedal”, the Rainger FX Razor Fuzz. More than just a mangled fuzz pedal, it's headlined by ...
Yes, we hear you: how can an optical ‘vibe pedal give you a wholly unique electric guitar sound when it has been inspired by a pedal invented by Fumio Mieda in the ‘60s? Well, Red Witch’s Ben Fulton ...
Armstrong teamed up with effects company Jim Dunlop on a new guitar pedal for its MXR brand that sports the cover art to Green Day ‘s 1994 breakthrough LP, Dookie, on its face.