Delicious Audio's London Synth & Pedal Expo takes place tomorrow and Sunday at Studio 9294, Hackney Wick, E9 5LN
NOTE : FREE TO ATTEND!
Great news! - the London Synth & Pedal Expo is back for another year on 16th & 17th of March (tomorrow Saturday and Sunday!) - bigger and better than last year’s fantastic inaugural event. And in a larger and easier to access venue that I’m really very familiar with!
As before you are encouraged to bring an instrument along for trialling new products - please be careful how you handle your axes at the show - as last year’s event proved difficult to navigate at times - do make sure you show some consideration to your fellow attendees - and be careful as to how you brandish your weapon of choice - I saw quite a few folks last time getting clunked by a wayward headstock!
Also as before this is a ’Silent’ Headphones only event!
NEW FOR THE SHOW!
I'm delighted to be welcoming Jinbo and his Singapore team from ALABS Audio - who I helped launch and have featured extensively on this site, and for whom this is their first official UK outing! You get to experience their Adam Adventures Series first-hand and for the first time in the UK - Orbital Pitch Shifter, Nova Drift Modulator, Timeslip Delay, and Cetus Reverb - all excellent!
The following Brands will be showcasing new Pedals at the show :
- ALABS Audio
- Analog Alien
- Cicognani
- Dreadbox
- Gamechanger Audio
- Great Eastern FX
- Keeley Electronics
- Two Notes
- VS Audio
And these following Brands will be showcasing new Synths and peripherals at the show :
- AUZA
- BASTL
- Euterpe
- Expert Sleepers
- Knobbly
- Manifold Research Centre
- Neutral Labs
- Poland
- Rides in the Storm
- Steady State Fate
- ThinkRad
Studio 9294 was the venue for BOSS’s ’In The Loop’ Looping Masterclass and Live Performance event - back in October of 2022. It’s super easy for me to get to - just head east to Stratford on the Elizabeth or Central line - and take one station up on the East London Overground to Hackney Wick. You come out of that station and do a series of right turns - kind of looping around to a really cool looking art-space creative industrial park. One of the great things about the venue is the No.90 Bar and Kitchen right next door - where I had one of the best burgers ever at the In The Loop event. There’s more space, and more breathing room really. Last year’s Shoreditch venue was a little bottlenecked at times - so hopefully this larger venue has a superior flow about it.
There are even more exhibitors this time around too - I feel it's going to be pretty grand - even though it does come fairly soon after the Birmingham UK Guitar Show (fortnight after). The London Synth & Pedal Expo is more focused in that sense - should be all thriller - and no filler!
There are sort of 3 new to me brands listed - Audio Lithe FX (The Mountain Fuzz), Days of Yore (Tower Spring Reverb Unit), Headstock Group / Distribution (Laney + HH Electronics Owner!). Of those the only one I'm not fully acquainted with is Days of Yore - who bring a very High-Fidelity / Audiophile approach to their product design - much more along the lines of extremely High End Audio Components - I except a high ticket price on that Tower Spring Reverb - sort of reminiscent of a 70's B&O console - featuring a lot of wood!!
I'm not going to focus too much on second guessing what the various brands will be bringing to the party - I will just see what move me on the day! As official media partner I will be there on both days - possibly only partial on the Sunday - as I need to write-up the event then - but I will certainly be there for the whole of the Saturday and a good part of the Sunday!
PEDAL EXHIBITORS
ALABS Audio | All Pedal | Analog Alien | Audio Kitchen | Audio Lithe FX | Beetronics | Blackstar | BOSS | Carl Martin | Chase Bliss Audio | Cicognani | Collision Devices | Crazy Tube Circuits | Days of Yore | Death By Audio | Diamond Pedals | Dreadbox | Dunlop | EarthQuaker Devices | Eventide | Flatley | Fulltone | Gamechanger Audio | Great Eastern FX | Headstock Distribution | Ibanez | Intensive Care Audio | Jackson Audio | JAM Pedals | Keeley | KMA Audio | Laney | Meris | Mono | MXR | Nobels | Old Blood Noise Endeavors | Origin Effects | Pedaltrain | PRS Guitars | Rainger FX | Rotosound | SolidGoldFX | Source Audio | Thermion | Tsakalis | Two-notes | Vemuram | Voodoo Labs | VS Audio | Walrus Audio | Way Huge.
SYNTH EXHIBITORS
ALM Busy Circuits | Apollo View | Arturia (through Source Distribution) | ASM (through Source Distribution) | AtoV Projectare | Auza | Bastl Instruments | Bela Buchla (through Source Distribution) | Dreadbox | Elektron | Endorphin.es | Enjoy Lab | Erica Synths | Euterpe | Eventide (through Source Distribution) | Expert Sleepers | Expressive E (through Source Distribution) | Gamechanger Audio | Geek Lab | Herbs and Stones | IK Multimedia | Instruo (through Signal Sounds) | Joranalogue | Knobula | Laine | Leaf Audio | LOCI (through Source Distribution) | Mellotron (via KMR Audio) | Mogami (through Source Distribution) | Novation | Oberheim | Officine del Malista | PMW (through Source Distribution) | Rides in the Storm | Sequential | Soma (via KMR Audio) | Tenderfoot Electronics | Thonk | Vega Trem (through Source Distribution)
VENUE, DIRECTIONS & TIMINGS
The event runs across 2 days - Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th March... 12:00 - 18:00 HRS
Studio 9294 venue can be found at :
Studio 9294, 92 - 94 Wallis Rd, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5LN
Studio 9294 is right around the corner from Hackney Wick station really - which is one stop up / in / along from Stratford Station on the East London Overground Line.
Stratford serves Central, Docklands Light Railway, Elizabeth, and Jubilee Lines!
The venue really is just 5 minutes walk from the Hackney Wick train station - and there are regular trains to Stratford - which is the nearest major Hub.
2023 London Synth and Pedal Expo Highlights
