The Jackson Audio Golden Boy arrived a few years ago to a serious wave of hype, a lot of it built on the idea that one of its modes could get you into Analogman King of Tone territory. Years later the hype has cooled and plenty of players have moved on, which is a shame because the pedal is genuinely great.
My path to guitar started with a Gibson, but the Fender Telecaster pulled at me from the beginning, and I owned one well before I ever bought a Strat. Over the years that single cheap import grew into a small collection of Teles I genuinely love…
I recently sold my Meris LVX, one of the most inspiring delay pedals I have ever owned. It went during a season when I needed the cash flow more than I needed another deep dive into sound design, but that decision was always temporary. The LVX is coming back, and this is the story of why it left and why it has to return.
Guitar pedal manufacturers have quietly turned limited colorways into a sales strategy — and the Eventide H9 Gen 2 launching straight in black shows just how much that strategy has evolved. It makes one wonder what the next color will be.
Eventide has announced the H9 Gen 2. Some of us thought the H90 would be replacing the original H9 forever. Turns out, some of us were wrong. The original H9 will get the update it deserves.
The Universal Audio Starlight Echo Station is one of those rare pedals that genuinely earns the premium it commands, delivering studio-calibre delay tones in a road-worthy stompbox — though a few quirks keep it just short of perfection.
At first glance, guitar and surfing seem worlds apart. However, they are the same thing. Anyone who has spent years chasing progress in either knows they share the same lesson: mastery comes slowly, and only to those willing to keep showing up.
I was doing a little cleanup in my computer and ran into this vector diagram of a BOSS SD-1. I guess I had used this to lay out a pedalboard diagram for a build a while back. It inspired me to write a little something about this amazing classic that every guitarist should own.
Questions that ask for comparisons between the Strymon Sunset and Riverside usually come back with confusing answers. I’m giving you 3 clear comparisons that are definitive and easy to understand. See which is right for you. Maybe it could be both!