The Inaugural London Synth & Pedal Expo takes place at Motel Studios, Hoxton - TOMORROW - See you there!
With me being a pedal aficionado first and foremost - that’s obviously my main area of focus for this imminent show and the above pedal brand visual - while there is an equal amount of killer Synth brands present too - as listed below.
This London Synth & Pedal Expo is my good friend Paolo De Gregorio’s first UK Event - who always has a fantastic multi-brand Stompbox Exhibit Booth at the NAMM Shows - and has organised a series of events for several years now throughout the North American Continent. Do check out the Delicious Audio / Stompbox Exhibit site for further details including last minute brand changes and additions.
Entry to the show is entirely FREE for visitors - who are encouraged to bring their own Guitars / Instruments to the show to test the gear. While Event Partner PRS Guitars usually has some of its own Guitars present too.
Looking at the roster we see the crème de la crème of pedal and synth brands - and several of which are rarely present at UK Shows.
The venue is relatively easy to get to - while you should note that Hoxton Station is on the East London Overground Network rather than the core Tube Underground Network - meaning most will need to use a change-over station (like Whitechapel) - as I detail for my own travel preferences below!
I’m incredibly excited to be a Media Partner for the Show, and will be in attendance for the whole day. The venue is new to me personally, but looks really cool - a series of spacious Railway Arch Units. It looks like it’s going to be a magnificent show for sure - and I’m looking forward to seeing all those of you that can make it!
VENUE
MOTEL STUDIOS
406-408 Long Street, Hoxton, E2 8HG
www.motelstudios.co.uk
TIMINGS : 11:30 - 17:30
Motel Studios is a multi-use venue, often used for photography and art exhibitions. It is actually composed of a series of 3 railway arches - which each correspond to a unit number - 406, 407, and 408. Where the key spaces are Studio 1 and Studio 2. For this Stompbox Exhibit, Pedals will be in Studio 1 and Synths will feature in Studio 2.
NEAREST STATION is HOXTON (approx 8 minutes walk from the venue) on the East London Overground Line.
I will be catching the Elizabeth Line from Paddington to Whitechapel, and changing there to the East London Overground Line, where Hoxton is 2 stops up from Whitechapel - just past Shoreditch High Street.
NOTE - There is some Travel Disruption on Saturday 18th of March - there is industrial action and maintenance on quiet a few of the lines - so you may need to use alternative routes - my route seems to be OK thus far.
Live Worshops
Taking place @ the Room at the end of the Pedal Area :
11:30 - Synthesizer Secrets of Krautrock
12:20 - Boss Waza-Air Wireless Guitar Application System
13:00 - Soma's Pulsar-23 and Cosmos Pedal
13:40 - Gamechanger Audio's Pedals and Synths
14:20 - Built a Korg NTS-2 Oscillscope Kit
15:00 - Dreadbox : Exploring Sonice Textures through Erebus and Raindrops
15:40 - Semi-modual Synth Workflow using Moog, PWM and Eventide Modules
16:20 - Integrating Guitars into Synthesis - with Sequential
15:00 - Two Recent Releases from Rainger FX (Presumably Break Box and Flanger X!)
PEDAL BRANDS SHOWCASE
Sponsors - PRS Guitar, Rotosound Strings, and Voodoo Lab, with Regent Sounds as Event Partner
Beetronics, Bleak District, Blurry Pedal, BOSS, Chase Bliss Audio, Cicognani, Cioks, Collision Devices, Cornerstone Music Gear, Crazy Tube Circuits, Daredevil Pedals, Darkglass Electronics, Death By Audio, Dreadbox FX, DryBell Effects, Dunlop Manufacturing, EarthQuaker Devices, Emma Electronics, Empress FX, Eventide, Great Eastern FX, J Rockett, Jackson Audio, Keeley Electronics, KMA Machines, KSR Amplification, Maxon, Meris, MXR, Nobels, NuTekt (Korg), Old Blood Noise Endeavors, Origin Effects, Peterson Strobe Tuners, PRS Guitars, Rabbit Hole FX, Rainger FX, Red Panda Lab, SolidGoldFX, Source Audio, Studio Boost, Two-notes, Valco FX, Venuram, Walrus Audio, Way Huge.
SYNTH BRANDS SHOWCASE
Event Partners - KMR Audio, and Blicken Synths
2HP, ASM (Ashun Sound Machines), Antonus, Apollo View Modular, Arturia, BASTL Instruments, Blicken Synths, Buchla, DPW Designs, DivKid, Doepfer, Dreadbox, Empress Effects, Endorphin.es, Erica Synths, Eventide, Expert Sleepers, Expressive E, Frap Tools, GS Music, Gamechanger Audio, Haken Audio, Instruo, Joranalogue, KMR Audio, KORG (+NuTekt),LA Circuits, Leaf Audio, Majella, Mellotron, Moog, Moon Modular, Noise Engineering, Northern Light Modular, Novation, NuTekt (Korg), Oberheim, Playtronica, Qu-Bit, Rebach, Rossum Electro-Music, Sequential, Soma, Thonk, Venus Instruments, Winter Modular.
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