O to be a rock star! Here is a Guitar World video where Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins shows his numerous pedals. There is some pretty original stuff in there:
Category Archives: Effect News
Soundblox Guitar Envelope Filter
I covered last year the release of the Soundblox Pro Classic Distortion pedal, an innovative modeling unit which can reproduce the tone of many legendary overdrive and distortion pedals.
Source Audio did it again, this time turning its attention towards envelope filters. The Soundblox Guitar Envelope Filter does all the clean 70s funky tones you would expect from an envelope filter but it is capable of much more. I especially love the way it can fatten a distorted tone, much like a good phaser can. The filter “action” can be controlled “manually” using the Hot Hand ring. If you don’t know what I am talking about, I suggest you watch this video showing the Soundblox Guitar Envelope Filter in action:
Note that there is a bass version of the Soundblox Guitar Envelope Filter.
Tone Box 3d Guitar Effects
I stumbled upon Tone Box last night and it took me a little while to realize that their pedals are actually skull shaped with the leds in the eyes of the skull. They have one model called Skull Crusher but it is available in Stainless Steel, Aged, Gun Metal or Ancient. I thought that would be a gimmick until I watched this demo by George Lynch. The little things you see on top of the amp are the pedals. The Skull Crusher is more versatile than it looks and offers four different voicings. It can go from slightly distorted to blistering metal, check this out:
And here is another demo by Phil X and other L.A. musicians (inclusing bass players):
New Boss Pedals: ST-2 Power Stack and PS-6 Harmonist (Update)
Even if Boss pedals represent the anti-thesis of handmade boutique pedals, most of us are still using at least one of them. This is why the release of new models is always an important event.
This September, Boss is adding two new pedals to its arsenal: the ST-2 Power Stack and the PS-6, a long overdue replacement to the PS-5 Pitch Shifter.
The ST-2 is a modeling pedal which emulates the sound of a big amplifier and features a “sound” knob that changes the character of the tone. The PS-6 is a pitch shifter pedal that can do two part harmonies and it seems the tracking is just spot on.
Metal guitar virtuoso Marty Friedman demonstrates these two pedals here. The only other effect I hear is a delay and you have to admit the tones he is getting are killer:
Marty Friedman demonstrating the new Boss ST-2 and PS-6 (Click on the video tab to see Marty Friedman’s performance).
Update: the youtube video I had embedded yesterday has suddenly become private. People at boss, if you have done that, it is not cool.
And here is another video showing the PS-6:
