I have to admit, at its core, the tourbox is a brilliant idea. For those that aren’t “in the know,” a tourbox is when a small effects builder has a pedal that they’d like to get some more marketing exposure/forum buzz on. They assemble a list of people eager to check the effect out, and …
Category Archive: Effects
Confessions of an Effects Newb VII: Give and Take
One thing I have found with trying to wire up an effects board is that it’s never going to be exactly right. There is a certain amount of give and take that happens, where you compromise with the physics of electricity and the limitations of some of the pedals. For example, one of the biggest …
VS Visual Volume: More than just shiny LEDs
I think the oldest effect that has been around has been the volume pedal. Surprisingly, the pedal has not seen a lot of upgrades or improvements since the original inception in the 40′s, when someone put a string around a pot, and realized they could manipulate it with their foot. So, I didn’t think of …
The Goose v2 Review III: Video
Had some time to record a clip this morning of the Goose in action. You can hear a lot of the things I mentioned in the previous blogs, and a couple of new things too. There are a lot of fuzzy, synth tones in this pedal in the back end (last three parts of the …
Confessions of an Effects Newb VI: Tact
Or, how I get away with using effects in church. I remember back in art class, when you first got introduced to the basic colors, and how you could combine red, yellow and blue in various increments to create a multitude of colors. I felt like a mad scientist, mixing blue and yellow together to …
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