Gravity Guitar Picks are a new player in the guitar pick market. Made from sheets of cast acrylic, they are engraved using a laser, cut into individual picks, and then they are grind and polished one by one into the finished product. They are a bit more pricey than most …
Clean boosts are a pedal that are a good place for beginner DIY pedal builders to start at. They also happen to be quite useful, so there’s no reason to not try building one. The classic first build is an Electro Harmonix LPB-1 boost, one of the oldest pedal designs …
True analogue delays are not typically the cheapest of pedals. The Bucket Brigade Device (BBD) chips traditionally used in analogue delays, and modulation effects like flangers, choruses, and phasers are very hard to come by these days, and only one company (Coolaudio) is making new reproductions of old BBD chips. …
One of my favourite tone memories has been that of the Smashing Pumpkins on their first few albums. The massive thick Big Muff tone always sounded phenomenal to me. Despite my love for this tone I never really had a need for a Big Muff, but since modifying and building …
I’ve been working my way through my Ibanez RG550 RFR reissue, testing out a range of Floyd Upgrades tremolo parts. First up was the Brass Sustain Block for Ibanez Edge. In my review of the brass sustain block I found it made for a massive tonal upgrade over the nasty-looking …