Upgrading iPad Recordings with Apogee BOOM
The Apogee Electronics BOOM is a small, portable, robust audio interface that has a few tricks up its sleeve.
Author: Emily
OTIS Love Beams Cosmic Echo Pedal
If you love chorus, fuzz, pitch shifting and more in your delay repeats, multiple modulation modes squished together, and reverb with phaser and more, this is the pedal for you.
Get Offset Episode 205: Killer Parties and Confetti feat. The Hold Steady’s Steve Selvidge
Emily recently met up with Steve from The Hold Steady during a run of shows in LA. They talked news in Memphis, the sounds of the ’80s, broken fingers, life-changing guitar tracks and more.
Learning Guitar with a Light Up Fretboard? Trying Out and Reviewing Fret Zealot
If you’re new to guitar, you might have noticed there are a lot of ways to learn. You have books, tabs, teachers, videos, and now you have Fret Zealot. This one-time-use adhesive LED strip sticks to your fretboard and lights up in tandem with a library of courses and videos. But is this a useful tool, or a goofy gimmick?
Which Hercules Stage Accessories are Most Worth Your Money
My friends at Sweetwater set me up with a few HERCULES STANDS stage accessories and I got to try them out at a few shows! Here’s where I stood on their guitar stands and iPad stand.
Get Offset Episode 204 Sounds Like a Cult with Hondo Felder
Joined by special guest, the amazing Hondo Felder, Emily and Joan take audience suggestions and talk about the cultiest parts in guitar culture.
Shoegaze Guitar in a Box? Catalinbread Soft Focus Demo
Reverb pedals might be the ultimate shoegaze guitar pedals. With that in mind, the Soft Focus is a modified plate reverb pedal with three reverb channels: chorus, octave up, and unaltered.
Get Offset Episode 203: A Full Recovery
This week Emily took a camera and the Tascam Mixcast 4 to the Recovery Room Studio, aka where Recovery Effects does their thing.
Taking the Mission Engineering 529i Rechargeable Power Supply to the Park
No outlets? No problem. I’ve played so many gigs where there simply weren’t enough well-placed power supplies for the stage. Thankfully, Mission Engineering has the 529i rechargeable isolated power supply for those times you can’t find a plug.
Pigtronix Gloamer Analog Polyphonic Amplitude Synthesizer
The Pigtronix Gloamer can do compression, swells, and tremolo beautifully. Oh, and did we mention it’s all analog and polyphonic? Check out a few of the ways I’ve been using the newest Pigtronix pedal.