The Pedals Needed to Play Shoegaze Guitar
Shawn Leonhardt
If you like the bands in the music genre of shoegaze guitar, you will need lots of pedals to recreate the layers of sound.
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Q&A with Andy Martin
Malcolm X Abram
Reverb.com’s Tone Report star and longtime YouTube effect pedal demonstrator talks about his creative process, musical influences, and making every pedal he demos, look, and sound great.
Read MoreDead Pedal Office
Malcolm X Abram
The Disaster Transport SR was originally introduced in 2013 following its smaller relatives the original Disaster Transport and the Disaster Transport JR which all hold a special place in the history of EarthQuaker Devices.
Read MoreDelicious Audio / Paolo DeGregorio
Malcolm X Abram
For enthusiasts and musicians who prefer a one-stop stompbox search shop, Delicious Audio may be just what you’re looking for.
Read MoreInterview: Ex Hex
Anna Blumenthal
Ex Hex is quietly saving rock n roll. They’re not too in-your-face about it, but go to a show, and you’ll walk away in a daze, wondering how the hell you’ve gone this long without having seen these guitar god torch bearers.
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 24 - Broken Social Scene
Uri Garcia
Brendan Canning and Andrew Whiteman give us a look at a portion of their effects arsenal while on-stage with Broken Social Scene in this tag-team episode of Board to Death.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 16 - MATMOS
Aaron Rogers
Since 1997, MATMOS have pushed the boundaries of what would soon be called “intelligent dance music” beyond the natural limits of self-contained software and circuitry by using found objects…
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 18 - Nels Cline (Wilco, the Nels Cline Quartet)
Aaron Rogers
Nels has multiple pedalboards, but today we’re looking at “the big one,” which is actually two small pedalboards stacked neatly inside a Pelican case to save space, because this is New York City, folks…
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Stems - "Good Times"
Aaron Rogers
Akron’s goodtime indie-rockers Stems (featuring EQD wire wizard Justin Seeker on vocals and guitar) stopped by the studio to tear through this earworm of a track titled, appropriately enough, “Good Times…”
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Actual Form - "In the Food Court of the Crimson King"
Aaron Rogers
When EQD circuit builder Josh Novak isn’t making pedals, he shreds with Akron-based prog-punks (and meme masters) Actual Form. “In The Food Court of the Crimson King” is a happy-meal sized nugget of rock - an entire 70s prog LP’s-worth of twists and turns stuffed into just under three-and-a-half-minutes and served on a toasted sesame seed bun…
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 15: Elle Puckett (Eisley, Maggie Rogers)
Aaron Rogers
“It’s a lot of fun. Growly. Nice. Like it. Love it. Awesome.”
Elle Puckett of Eisley and Maggie Rogers’ touring band calls upon a carefully selected collection of boutique stompboxes including the Avalanche Run, Spatial Delivery, and the occasional Altiods tin to craft the ambient tones for which she is known.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 11 - Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Foo Fighters, Tool)
Aaron Rogers
The former Big Business guitarist and regular Melvins collaborator has a long history of engineering and/or producing top-tier rock bands - the bathroom in his Sound of Sirens studio is decorated with platinum records honoring his contribution to albums by Foo Fighters and Tool…
Read MoreThe Black Angels’ Kyle Hunt: “My main goals were to buy a Moog synthesizer and a BMX bike.”
Anna Blumenthal
I wanted to move away from home, get a BMX bike, and a Moog. Those were the two things that were on my list, and those were the first two things that I did.
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Hot Snakes - "Death Doula"
Aaron Rogers
Ladies and gentlemen, it is our distinct and perverse pleasure to present newly resurrected Sub Pop recording artists and The World’s Greatest Living Rock ‘n Roll Band™, Hot Snakes, performing an extra special “wet & wiggly” rendition of their interdimensional #1 smash-hit, “Death Doula,” from the album Jericho Sirens...
Read MoreGettin' Weird With Har Mar Superstar
Aaron Rogers
Har Mar Superstar are experts when it comes to gettin’ weird. We met up with Mr. Superstar himself, Sean Tillman, and trumpeter Jake Baldwin to see what might happen if we paired up a handful of our wildest Devices with trumpet and vocals...
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 13: SQÜRL's Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan
Aaron Rogers
In SQÜRL’s music, the twisted scraping of industrial wreckage (to my ears the byproduct of musician/filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s northeast Ohio upbringing) gives way to uneasy drones seemingly stuck in time like crestfallen Lake Erie tides fighting a losing battle against subzero temperatures before resolving at last into saturated but sparkling reverberated arpeggios. It’s what The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly might have sounded like if Ennio Morricone booked studio time with Steve Albini and hired Sunn O))) as session musicians...
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 11: Pallbearer's Brett Campbell & Devin Holt
Aaron Rogers
“For live stuff, I stick with pedals that are going to be the most useful,” says Pallbearer’s Brett Campbell. As the frontman for the Arkansas sludgelords, Campbell’s ideal tone is much like his powerful vocal delivery, “heavy…warm, and clear.” To achieve his signature sound, Campbell needs gear that can keep up with his low A-E-A-D-F#-B tuning. “[The Hoof] is very controllable for a fuzz,” he says...
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: The Beyonderers - "Science Friction"
Aaron Rogers
Akron, Ohio gets a lot of credit for being LeBron James’ hometown. More impressive still is the fact that we’re also home to the world’s heaviest surf band, The Beyonderers. Not too shabby considering Lake Erie is our only surfable body of water. Put a championship ring on that, why don’t you?
Read MoreGet In Line: Pedal Order 101
Aaron Rogers
A little knowledge of color theory and perspective never hurt an aspiring painter, and the same applies when thinking about the basic audio concepts influencing signal routing and pedalboard layout.
Read MoreYob’s Mike Scheidt Has Ninja Powers
Anna Blumenthal
I don’t think Mike Scheidt is going to like that we’re calling his interview “Ninja Powers”, because he is pretty much the most humble person I’ve ever met in my life. He’ll never utter a bad word about any person, band, or piece of gear, bristles when anyone says Yob is better than any other band, and even assured me at one point that he knows “exactly jack and shit...”
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