Premier Guitar has just posted a comprehensive review of the 3 new overdrive/distortion pedals recently released by WayHuge Electronics under the auspices of Dunlop.

Read it here.

Support electronic music by supporting the Bob Moog Foundation. They have the immense task of archiving a huge amount information created during Bob Moog’s career. It would be a huge loss to the industry if these documents were not preserved, so the foundation deserves our support.

from their site:

“Our mission of documenting, teaching and celebrating innovative thinking in electronic music has been our beacon as we narrowed our focus over the past year and began the momentous task of preserving Bob’s extensive archives. This focus certainly resonated with many of you around the world as we asked for your support over the past year, and gratefully received a generous response.”

Funny spoof on the played-out effect.

From wikipedia.com

“Auto-Tune was used to prominent effect on Cher’s Believe, recorded in 1998. When first interviewed about this, the sound engineers claimed they had used a vocoder, in what Sound on Sound perceives as an attempt to preserve a trade secret.[5] The software came to attention in dancehall reggae music from its use on Tanto Metro & Devonte’s song “Give it to Her” and Beenie Man & Ms. Thing’s song “Dude.” R&B singer T-Pain has been credited with revitalizing the technique in contemporary popular music by making active use of it in his songs, a style that has since gone on to be imitated by numerous other R&B, Hip-hop (including emcees Kanye West and Yung Warsame and Lil’ Wayne, and R&B singer Akon, most notably), and other pop-music artists.[6]
According to the Boston Herald, “Country stars Reba McEntire, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have all confessed to using Auto-Tune in performance, claiming it is a safety net that guarantees ticket buyers a good performance.”[7] It is also used prominently on much recent Ethiopian popular music.”