Musicians benefit from creating together, and across my career I have been in bands that lasted and bands that were short lived. Two bands I felt that benefited and/or were hurt by their short lives were The Scream and Pet.
Read MoreAs you all may know, I had surgery on my right wrist for post trauma after a 2009 bicycle wreck. I had started noticing a decline in my wrist’s ability to play as fast as I used to. The flexion on the wrist was being impinged by scarring from the crash.
Read MoreAlessandro Cortini comes through Pedals And Effects again to review another wild effects pedal! This time it’s the Seppuku FX Kompakt Kaset delay! This is a wild pedal that Alessandro describes as producing sounds that resemble a broken channel on a 4 track cassette recorder. Alessandro is an absolute sonic genius, and he manages to finds pedals that I have been unable to locate and is willing to share them with us.
Read MoreToday, I am going into surgery for an old injury I sustained on my fixed gear bike back in 2009. l was riding my bike through a road construction in South Pasadena and the workers motioned me to hurry through while they held auto traffic and I didnt see the pot hole they were repairing. Next thing I knew, I was in the air wondering if I had been hit by a car.
Read MoreSorry for the inaction but we have been busy over here! Pedals And Effects is about to upgrade but before we do that, I wanted to look back at my first video post!
Read MoreToday’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Cas all the way from the Netherlands. Cas plays bass in dutch pop band Rondé and it looks like they’ve developed quite a following for themselves! Word! Cas prides himself on working unconventional sounds into pop music, and his board is very indicative of that. He also has some of my favorite pedals ever! You’re just showing me what I want to see!
Read MorePedals and Effects is back with the first Pedals and Effects 5 entry of the new year! For those unfamiliar, “The Pedals and Effects 5” is where we ask musicians of all styles and all walks of life how they first got into pedals, and what pedals are currently inspiring them. It will be the same five questions every time, so be sure to keep an eye out to see what your favorite artist has to say about their favorite pedals and effects. Today’s entry for the Pedals and Effects 5 features long time pedal fiend and friend to Pedals and Effects, Jonathan Hischke.
Read MoreToday’s Show Me Your Pedalboard entry comes from Ivan all the way from Croatia! Wow! Ivan plays under the name Luul which is a solo-looping project of his that, in his words takes after artists like Mylets. Very cool. Ivan’s board is very indicative of looping which also covers all of his sonic bases.
Read MoreComing hot off the heels of the NAMM show we got the second part of our series with synthesizer guru Alessandro Cortini! Back with the Abstrakt Electronics Avalon (which is a Roland 303 clone) Alessandroruns the sequencer through Canada’s own Industrialectric Echo Degrader which in Alessandro’s words is “a f@%d up delay” aka perfect for Pedals and Effects!
Read MoreI wanted to let any of you attending NAMM 2016 know that I will be doing some demos all weekend at the Earthquaker Devices Booth which is booth #4296 in Hall C. I’ll be demonstrating Earthquaker Devices‘ latest and greatest as well as old favorites.
Read MoreIt is an absolute honor to be joined by synth master Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails, to show us the ins and outs of various effects and synthesizers! Alessandro is incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to synths, and he walked us through the details of the Abstrakt Instruments Avalon.
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