The Greer Lightspeed Organic Overdrive is the transparent boutique drive that earns its name, keeping every note clear even at higher gain and shining as an edge-of-breakup boost in low-gain settings.
Extra super light gauge electric guitar strings make fretting, bar chords, and bends dramatically easier. If you already play 09-42, stepping down to 08-38 is the simplest, cheapest upgrade to how your guitar feels.
The Empress Echosystem is one of the most inspiring big box delays ever made, and it has quietly become one of my favorites. To my ears it sounds better than a Strymon Timeline and more musical than a Meris LVX, while still being deep enough to keep you experimenting for years.
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.
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.
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.