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BOOK REVIEW: Patch & Tweak with Moog

When we received Patch & Tweak in the mail, all work in the office stopped for about an hour – the true sign of any engrossing work. And P&W, at least for...

BOOK REVIEW: Pedal Crush

Guitar related books are plentiful, and many have become the respected bibles...

REVIEW: Boss RC-5 Loop Station Pedal

Looping in general is a pretty simple process using a footswitch-enabled recording...

REVIEW: Boss OC-5 Octave Pedal

Boss pedals generally set the standard, right from the get-go, of that...

REVIEW: Boss RC-500 Loop Station Pedal

It’s no surprise that looping pedals can be a way of providing...

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REVIEW: Boss GT-1000CORE Multi-Effects Processor
By Chris Devine on March 4, 2021
When you take a flagship product, and streamline/consolidate it, the results in many cases are less than half the value. Boss figured out how to...
REVIEW: CopperSound Third Man Triplegraph Octave Pedal
By Chris Devine on March 3, 2021
Back in 2017 we got to review Coppersound’s Telegraph Stutter pedal with its unique momentary switch that uses the mechanical concept of old timey telegraphs....
REVIEW: CopperSound Strategy Analog Preamp Pedal
By Chris Devine on March 3, 2021
OK, yes the new CopperSound Strategy pedal looks like a Jeff Goldbloom/fly merger/accident happened with a stompbox and a Strat. The input is the same...
Introducing Novation Circuit Tracks
By Benjamin Ricci on February 9, 2021
New groovebox encourages music makers to ‘create instinctively; perform immediately’. The latest in Novation’s Circuit family of grooveboxes has arrived! Circuit Tracks is an extraordinary...
Yamaha YC61 Stage Keyboard REVIEW
By Benjamin Ricci on January 13, 2021
The new Yamaha YC61 is quite the beast – a 61-key clonewheel-style organ and piano combo that takes cues from some existing Yamaha instruments (like...