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REVIEW: Guyatone’s ULTRON Optical Auto Wah & ULTREM Optical Tremolo

24. September 2007

I’d been in the market for an envelope filter for more than a few months when Godlyke approached me about reviewing their new Guyatone Optical effects pedals… so needless to say I just couldn’t resist taking them for a test drive. For those of you who aren’t already acquainted with this latest line of effects [...]

Line 6 Unveils POD X3 & POD X3 Live Guitar Effects

20. September 2007

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Well, it was leaked late last month, and the whole thing got kind of overshadowed by the news that Line 6 had developed a new line of hybrid tube/digital-modeling amps with Bogner, but today the company officially unveiled their latest line of POD products––the POD X3 and POD X3 Live. While the two products have [...]

First Look: Guyatone Ultron & Ultrem Optical Hybrid Effects

28. August 2007

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Just got these two beauties in from the good folks over at Godlyke, and I thought I’d better give you all a sneak peek before we get too deep into the review process. Ultrem Optical Tremolo & Ultron Optical Auto Wah What you’re looking at here are the Guyatone Optical Hybrid Effects––a pair of pedals [...]

Building The BYOC TriBooster: Part 4 – Finishing It Up

27. August 2007

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OK, so at this point all of the various parts and pieces have pretty much been installed into our BYOC Tri-Booster, short of two things––the vast majority of the wiring, and of course the star of the show, our Germanium transistor. Clip, Solder, And Repeat Probably the single most annoying step in this whole build [...]

Building The BYOC TriBooster: Part Three – Fillin’ Up the Chassis

22. August 2007

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Well, with Part 2 out of the way it’s time to finish populating the circuit board on our BYOC Tri Booster, and then get to filling up that chassis. Installing The Transistors & Capacitors If you check out Step 7 in the official PDF instructions you’ll see that our next move is to install two [...]

See & Hear The Electro Harmonix Germanium OD In Action

17. August 2007

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Just a quick note for the vintage effects freaks out there––over on YouTube Avi Bortnick & Michael Leonhart have posted a short clip of the new Electro-Harmonix Germanium OD in action, and it sounds pretty much like you’d expect… a little bit sweet, a little bit raunchy, and a whole lot of old-school overdrive. Would [...]

Sneak Peek: Flying Eye Envelope Filter Due From ProTone At Winter NAMM

17. August 2007

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Word on the street has it that ProTone Pedals––makers of some of the world’s most wonderfully raunchy guitar effects––will be unveiling at least three new pedals at the upcoming Winter NAMM 2008 show in Anaheim. But while the Brown Sugar Vibrato and Peligro Fuzz both sound like fun pedals for analog-effects fanatics, to my mind [...]

T-Rex Unveils Their New Viper Vibe Pedal… Sort Of

16. August 2007

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Back in May of this year (2007,) and apparently without an ounce of fanfare, T-Rex released their seriously stylin’ new Viper vibrato pedal onto the world. I don’t know how it went unnoticed––wrapped in black & white snake print it’s one of the more striking stomp-boxes I’ve seen in quite some time––but when I stumbled [...]

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