Get the most out of your FUZZ pedals

in part 3 we look at FUZZ, and how following a few simple guidelines can help you get the most out of them

DISTORTION Pedals - TheGigRig Effects Pedal Survival Guide Part 2

In Part 2 of the series we check out how to get the most out of your DISTORTION pedals with a sneak preview of some of my fav's. Check it out!!!

TheGigRig Effects Pedal Survival Guide

The first in our series helping you get the most out of your effects pedals is done. Check it out...


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The Ultimate delay shootout - is HERE!!!

here you go guys and gals - enjoy!



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the ULTIMATE delay shootout is on the way!!!

A friend of mine who is another confirmed pedal junkie and I started discussing and comparing notes on what we thought were some of the greatest delays of all time. well, there's only one way to sort this.... FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so we have organized to have some of the best delay units, old and new, in the studio for a quick head to head.
included in the line-up are

TC Electronics - 2290
Cornish TES
Skrydstrup DDL
Hiwatt Custom Tape Echo
Strymon ElCapsitan
Providence Chrono Delay
MXR Rack Delay

We are recording the shootout on Thursday the 9th of June, so we'll get it edited an online as soon as possible.

This is going to be a fun day!!!!!

USA - AOK!

My business partner and our head tech senior Dave Mapleston is off to North Carolina this week to start the process of setting up our USA hub. It will be our American build, assembly, test and distribution centre.
Why are we doing this? We have so many fantastic American customers and we want to look after them as best as we can. We ship so much product to the USA and our postal and courier services are fantastic, but we know we can do even better, so the idea of the USA hub was born. From about the end of June, we will be shipping all TheGigRig USA orders straight from our USA hub. Till then of course its business as usual and we'll be shipping as per normal from the UK.
This is a big step for us. TheGigRig is branching out, we're coming of age.

TheGigRig 'Z' cable on the way!

Its nearly here people. The 'Z' cable, the last piece of the puzzle.

In all our endless hours of testing pedals and signal chains, a certain few things have come to our attention. Things that we've found to make a huge impact on your tone and the way your guitar interacts with your amp.

It may come as no surprise that the output from your guitar is very different than the output that comes from an FX pedal or any piece of gear that has a standard buffered output. Your guitar pickup has so many cool things going on and seems to connect in such a musical way when you plug straight into a nice amp. I'm sure you know yourself its when we put buffers, pedals, racks in the way of that signal it can have a less than wonderful affect on that magic guitar to amp connection.

So how does the 'Z' cable help?

The 'Z' cable gets placed at the very end of your guitar chain, the last thing on your pedal board. It receives all the signals from your pedals, buffers, anything that's put into it, then sends your amplifier and signal that is almost identical to the signal that comes from your guitar.

It tricks the amp into thinking it's receiving a signal direct from your guitar.

You can fine tune this process as well so if your normal guitar tone is warm and round or bright and sharp you can dial it in with the 'REACTANCE' control. You can even decide the length of cable that you want the 'Z' cable to sound like. Long, medium, short, even an active output if you want the cable to disappear altogether.

The 'Z' cable can also be incredibly long with NO AUDIO LOSS. What appears at the start of the cable is EXACTLY what appears at the end of the cable. We have 2 standard sizes.

Stage - 4 metres, and Stadium, which is 8 metres.

We will be launching this very soon, pre-orders are just around the corner, but remember... Facebook friends and Twitter followers find out first. So to be the first know when the 'Z' cable is ready send me a Facebook friend request here... and/or follow me on Twitter here...