So - we’ve had 3 incredible guitar gear events this month - covering Birmingham, then Woking, and now London - in probably my favourite venue on the circuit. Studio 9294 is such a unique place - having the outside canal-side terrace, and superb next-door restaurant and bar - in the guise of Number # 90 - which always serve up a very decent lunch! With the sun out - like we experienced at the weekend - this venues is wholly glorious - there’s a cool nearby Sainsbury’s, and indeedned ’Bad Coffee’...
So a brand new Source Audio NEURO 3 App Extension released today gives you a really innovative way to explore the entire library of Source Audio Tones / Effects - across all its individual devices.
This new App Extension is a mix of Presets Manager and Effects Emulator / Sampler. Here the older non-synth meaning of sampler - more akin to carpet and wallpaper swatch samplers - and indeed say Pantone Colour Swatches.
You can call up any of Source Audio’s devices on the NEURP 3 App - ...
So here are the highlights from the very first Woking Boutique Guitar Show - which took place this past Saturday at the Fiery Bird venue - just 5 minutes walk from the train station / town centre.
The show was organised by my good friend Jason Snelling of Maybury Guitars, alongside John Smith of JAS Guitars. The venue was perfectly centrally located, and was spacious - with a lot of natural light - which did make some of the photography somewhat...
NOTE : FREE TO ATTEND HEADPHONES EVENT!
Great news! - the London Synth & Pedal Expo is back for another year on the 22nd & 23rd of March -hopefully just as good as last year’s fantastic sophomore event. And in a superb venue and location - just one stop up from Stratford!
Paolo generally encourage people to bring their own guitar with them - while I’ve been bopped so many times by those guitars - that I rather wish attendees left their axes at home. Space can get somewhat tight on ...
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Well, I had a fabulous Guitar Show this year, best one yet for me personally! I picked up 5 pedals at the show, as well as bumping into Chris Buck, KDH (Kelan Hughes), and my very good friends Markus and Izzy Reeves, also - I had lunch with Jonny Brelliott over at Brew 23!
One of the big highlights for me was meeting the full GigRig Crew - and getting a team photo with all of them. I’m not one for selfies typically - but Dan was very strongly persuasive on this occasion. I...
It’s been a while since I did one of these colour roundups - per the below visual - all the way back in 2020 in fact. I’ve done quite a few of these over the years and there’s a whole Section dedicated to ’Colours’ on the ’Highlights’ Tab of this site.
Every time I do this exercise I try to be more thorough and expansive. Last time I identified 12 primaries, while this time around we have no less than 26 pedals across 20 categories - and I hint at several more - which means there are 6 ...
Even though this wasn’t quite the record year for pedal acquisitions - 206 all told - it was still mighty impressive, where the record is still 216 and happened in 2021. Biggest ever haul in one month is 31 Pedals - which happened back in March of 2022!
I did nonetheless achieve a major record for 2024 - in doing the most articles ever in a year - or 457! - including this one - which is a lot! - and I’ve certainly felt it at times - burning the candle at both ends and all that.
On this ...
NOTE : Competition is now over - while the -20% promotion has been extended until January 15th!
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that we’ve had DryBell Banners on this site since December 1st - to mark the Brand New DryBell.com website. The celebration is in two parts - firstly, all 5 key Pedal Variants are [20% OFF] throughout December - with FREE Shipping.
[20% OFF] is a fantastic deal for these studio-grade pedals, and a rare opportunity to acquire one at these at incredibly ...
Note that there are additional costs in running an onsite AI, and for now if you want to use the GPX AI - it’s a Perk for Paying Patreon Member$ (starting from as little as $1/€1/£1 and equivalent per month). You also need to be registered and logged-in on GuitarPedalX.com. Interestingly a number of Patreon supporters are not registered on this main GPX site - they will certainly need to if they wish to avail themselves of this new facility.
So what is a Conversional AI Chatbot you ask? It’...
So this post covers two things really. I’ve long suffered a backlash in branding - ever since Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to ’X’ and adopted a Symbol / Icon / Ident very similar looking to the then already long since existing Guitar Pedal ’X’ logo ident. A number of you really didn’t like my logo as a consequence - either because it looked too similar to the more domineering new Twitter / ’X’ one, or because you somewhat clashed with everything Elon Musk stands for!
A number of my loyal ...