BLEASS Dragonfly is an elegant tremolo effect, even if you never loved tremolo before

It’s not just nostalgia for old tracks driving the vintage look and sound of so many effects — it’s tough to create new ideas in sound and interface. But Dragonfly is a rare “on-trend” new effect you’ll want to hang onto.

Pedals: The Musical, where pedals sing to you about their history, is an actual thing

The age of YouTube channels about stomp pedals now has its own… well, not quite Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat so much as its own Red, White and Blaine. But it is historically accurate.

Peter Kirn - March 17, 2021

Strange Moog history: a telephone, a table hockey game, more

You know the Minimoog and the modular. But do you know The Operator – a business telephone? Or the Moog table hockey game? The Moog name wound up in some strange places in the 80s.

Peter Kirn - June 3, 2019

Here’s an Electro-Harmonix pedal in concrete, for some reason

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2018

A haunting ambient sci-fi album about a message from Neptune

Peter Kirn - November 30, 2018

This hidden gem adds a sub bass to anything, because you want that

Peter Kirn - April 16, 2018

Balalaikas to synths, the Russians at Musikmesse cover the gamut

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2018

Finally, a new controller for your feet, for software or hardware

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2018

KORG just released a bunch of new stuff – here’s what’s what

Peter Kirn - January 18, 2018

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