Ernie Ball Wah Pedal – review

The Wah effect is fairly ubiquitous in the rock guitar world. Many people have literally rocked this effect over the years. I’ve never been a huge fan of playing with wah pedals myself, although I have liked many players work with one. I was however extremely lucky to win myself …

Muzicosphere Christmas giveaway

My friend Semi over at French guitar blog Muzicosphere is having a Christmas giveway of his own. He is giving away a Line 6 Pod HD500 to one lucky person, and the giveaway is open to all world-wide! To enter you need to do the following: I want to know …

New pedal build: MXR Distortion+ clone part 1

Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending my spare time working on a new pedal build, my first using an integrated circuit (IC). The MXR Distortion+ circuit is a fairly simple circuit to build, using the LM741 operational amplifier (op amp), two diodes, and a handful of capacitors and …

Cool new gear: Seymour Duncan Blackouts Modular Preamp

Seymour Duncan have brought out another great product this week. First it was the Liberator, with it’s great solderless pickup installation capability, now they’ve taken that concept further with the Blackouts Modular Preamp. The Blackouts Modular Preamp gives you the capability to take any 4 conductor passive pickup, and give …