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The DigiTech Whammy 1: Glitches, Saints, and the Revolution of Imperfection

The DigiTech Whammy 1: Glitches, Saints, and th...

The DigiTech Whammy 1 was never just a pedal. It was a red machine that misheard reality and turned mistakes into scripture. Born from the unholy union of a psychologist...

The DigiTech Whammy 1: Glitches, Saints, and th...

The DigiTech Whammy 1 was never just a pedal. It was a red machine that misheard reality and turned mistakes into scripture. Born from the unholy union of a psychologist...

Triangle, Ram, or Russian Tank: Why Your Muff Sounds Different Than Your Neighbor’s

Triangle, Ram, or Russian Tank: Why Your Muff S...

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi isn’t just a fuzz pedal—it’s the fuzz pedal. Born in New York in 1969, it turned guitars into screaming sustain machines that rewrote rock history....

Triangle, Ram, or Russian Tank: Why Your Muff S...

The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi isn’t just a fuzz pedal—it’s the fuzz pedal. Born in New York in 1969, it turned guitars into screaming sustain machines that rewrote rock history....

Haunted Hardware: The Machines That Go Bump in the Night

Haunted Hardware: The Machines That Go Bump in ...

This Halloween, we’re tuning in to the sounds that slither under your skin. Have you ever felt a noise crawl up your spine like it was searching for the exit...

Haunted Hardware: The Machines That Go Bump in ...

This Halloween, we’re tuning in to the sounds that slither under your skin. Have you ever felt a noise crawl up your spine like it was searching for the exit...

The Chip Age: Bucket Brigades, Jetpacks & Why Nerds Whisper “SAD-1024”

The Chip Age: Bucket Brigades, Jetpacks & Why N...

Before flangers lived in pedals, they lived between tape machines and a brave finger. This guide traces the swoosh from tape to BBDs—SAD-1024, MN300x/MN320x, TDA1022—why they sound different, and how...

The Chip Age: Bucket Brigades, Jetpacks & Why N...

Before flangers lived in pedals, they lived between tape machines and a brave finger. This guide traces the swoosh from tape to BBDs—SAD-1024, MN300x/MN320x, TDA1022—why they sound different, and how...

The Delightfully Twisted, Mostly-True History of Delay (with chips, tape, and just enough scandal)

The Delightfully Twisted, Mostly-True History o...

A tour of delay—from slapback and Binson drums to oil-can weirdness and dub-era wizardry. Meet the chips that changed everything: Reticon SAD-1024 and Panasonic’s MN3005/MN3205 (MN32xx). Packed with lesser-known tales,...

The Delightfully Twisted, Mostly-True History o...

A tour of delay—from slapback and Binson drums to oil-can weirdness and dub-era wizardry. Meet the chips that changed everything: Reticon SAD-1024 and Panasonic’s MN3005/MN3205 (MN32xx). Packed with lesser-known tales,...

Bleeps, Bloops, and Shocks: The Wacky World of Early 20th Century Electronic Instruments (1900-1920)

Bleeps, Bloops, and Shocks: The Wacky World of ...

Step into the smoke-filled parlors and buzzing laboratories of the early 1900s—an era when electricity was still a novelty, and music was just discovering its wild side. From the Helmholtz...

Bleeps, Bloops, and Shocks: The Wacky World of ...

Step into the smoke-filled parlors and buzzing laboratories of the early 1900s—an era when electricity was still a novelty, and music was just discovering its wild side. From the Helmholtz...