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Rig Rundown: Architects
June 12, 2019
Check out the digital stomps, profiling amps, and modern pickups the U.K. metalcore warriors use to ignite mosh pits across the globe.
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Rig Rundown: The Tallest Man on Earth
May 29, 2019
Take a look at how Kristian Matsson, one of Sweden’s most enigmatic songwriters, crafts layers of sonic magic with a handful of open tunings and a pile of pedals.
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Strymon Volante Review
April 2, 2019
The Milanese monster of magnetic echo returns in DSP form.
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Rig Rundown: Brothers Osborne
March 20, 2019
Country music’s leading guitar tandem shows us how they mix vintage axes and boutique pedals with high-powered amps and just a little bit of digital magic.
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First Look: Strymon Volante
March 7, 2019
We ecstatically wander the maze of delay, 'verb, and looping possibilities in the digital mastermind's latest stomp.
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Rig Rundown: The Struts
February 20, 2019
One of the U.K.’s most buzzed-about rock bands shares the stories behind gear with two settings—loud and louder.
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Pedal Alley 2019: Reader Boards
February 14, 2019
Whether it’s collections of old-school straightforward stomps or elaborate circuits for spacey experimentation, each year we’re blown away by the different pedalboard setups our readers come up with. Here’s a dozen for the tonal takeaway.
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Rig Rundown: Tyler Childers Band
February 6, 2019
The Appalachia crew prove that ripping T-styles seasoned with effects-rich pedal steel can still be prominent in today’s country and Americana music.
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Rig Rundown: Steven Wilson [2019]
January 30, 2019
The king of modern prog rock unveils his monstrous pedalboard and surprising dual-amp setup.
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NAMM '19 - Strymon Volante Demo
January 26, 2019
Watch how some of the company's favorite vintage tones came together in a new feature-packed echo machine.
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Strymon Unveils the Volante
January 10, 2019
A stereo multi-head delay that also offers a looper and vintage spring reverb.
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Rig Rundown: Julien Baker
November 28, 2018
The melancholic, reverb-loving songstress talks about the Tele, Fender combos, and bountiful board she uses to fill theaters around the globe.
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Rig Rundown: FIDLAR
October 10, 2018
These DIY punkers prove you don’t need custom axes and pyrotechnics to spark a mosh pit and a good time.
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Rig Rundown: Stone Sour
May 30, 2018
Guitarists Josh Rand and Christian Martucci, as well as bassist Johny Chow, provide the dirt on how a revamped lineup of axes (with passive pickups), no bass amps, and a fresh pile of pedals have reenergized the band’s hard-rock sound.
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Rig Rundown: The Dear Hunter
April 18, 2018
Explore the three keys that propel the band’s prog-rock orbit: custom axes, pedal-platform tube amps, and stompboxes strengthened with modeling tech from Line 6.
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Rig Rundown: Pallbearer
March 7, 2018
Learn how these Arkansas rockers move beyond a wall of dark and heavy doom with various modulations, delays, and deep ’verbs to weave their own complex sonic architecture.
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PedalSnake Introduces 24V Adapters for Strymon Power Supplies
November 9, 2017
Multiple Ojai and Ojai R30 units can be chained via the 24V source.
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Rig Rundown: Russian Circles [2017]
May 31, 2017
Guitarist Mike Sullivan chronicles the essential guitars, amps, and noisemakers he needs to construct the band’s instrumental post-rock sonic mayhem.
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Strymon Riverside Review
May 10, 2017
A hybrid JFET/DSP gain machine invites creative, unorthodox playing and defies preconceptions about digital distortion.
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STS9’s Hunter Brown and Alana Rocklin: The Head and the Heart
March 2, 2017
The rhythm guitarist and bassist discuss mating electronica with rock, and how to make soulful music with machines—without becoming ruled by them.
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