Choosing a reverb pedal is a daunting task. There are so many different pedals out there covering everything from traditional reverb sounds to genre-bending madness … and beyond. My goal today is to help you narrow things down and choose the perfect EarthQuaker reverb pedal for your tastes and needs.
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Thanks to digital technology emulating analog circuitry, it is possible to find smaller effects units that provide the feeling of a real tube amp. Some pedals are meant to emulate only tube amps, while others can handle a variety of amplifier simulations.
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We are very excited to announce that Mission Engineering has created an EarthQuaker Devices Expression Pedal, the EQD-1!
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The Data Corrupter is a lot more than just your passport to noise nirvana. Here are half a dozen super-usable Data Corrupter settings that are well worth checking out.
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Here are five classic songs with instantly recognizable chorus sounds, along with the Aurelius settings that will help you replicate them.
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Being a huge admirer of players such as John McGeoch, Keith Levene, and Robert Smith, I like to have some form of modulation and/or chorus on almost all the time. This is also the case for distorted sounds. I’m almost always trying to do something to disfigure the sound.
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Here are five things you can do with a phaser — i.e., five good reasons you should definitely have one in your sonic arsenal…
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For most guitarists, choosing an overdrive or distortion pedal is one of the most important decisions to be made, because a lot of us consider our distorted tones to be our signature sound.
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Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))) discuss the transformation and evolution of the latest Sunn O))) Life Pedal.
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If you're a regularly working and gigging musician you probably know how important an EQ or Boost can be to ensure your awesome sounds cut through or at least sit properly in any live mixing situation.
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During the pandemic, EQD Production Manager Jeff France built an amazing and amazingly complex basement wall-sized audio/visual/gear behemoth for a musical and video project. It features numerous pedals, mixers, samplers, and 11 televisions and VCRs. Yeah, really, VCRs!
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EQD has joined forces with Brain Dead, the L.A.-based creative studio, for an ultra-cool collaboration featuring a special, limited colorway of the Ghost Echo Vintage Voiced Reverb available NOW!
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We're back with another look at an entire category of EQD pedals- octave and pitch. This category is perfect for the sonic adventurers and the knob tweakers looking to really weird out their signal and introduce different sounds into their music.
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This unique Plumes is part of a fundraising campaign spearheaded by the organizing committee of the Firestone High School Class of 1972, who wanted to do more for their 50th reunion than simply have a good party.
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If you like the bands in the music genre of shoegaze guitar, you will need lots of pedals to recreate the layers of sound.
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It's time for another walkthrough focusing on a specific category of EarthQuaker Devices for you to chew on as you fill out your dream pedalboard with cool-sounding stompboxes.
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We polled a few of our in-house music makers to see what pedals they have on their pedalboards and in their home studios and how they use them.
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For this edition of "...for Noodlers," we're focusing on EarthQuaker Devices' latest stompbox sensation, the Special Cranker Overdrive!
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There are countless options for power supplies, and they all have their features, advantages, and disadvantages. You should assess how many pedals you have with each of their voltage needs, polarity, and how much current they draw.
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Are you new and interested in the world of signal modulation, but not quite sure where to start and what you need to for your sound? Well, EQD has got you covered with a new roundup and dive into our three excellent and versatile modulation pedals.
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