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Meet the AT Mini: the original V1 AT circuit, permanently set to Andy Timmons' preferred 100-watt voicing — the loudest, most open, most amp-like setting on the version 1. Same four knobs (Volume, Drive, EQ, Air). Same tone. Just a smaller footprint and a smaller price — $129. Want the 25/50-watt voicings or the independent boost channel too? That's still the AT+, still $219, still in the lineup. This is the one for players who just want Andy Timmons' exact setting, in less space on the board.

The MXR Flanger/Doubler brings the sound of MXR’s original rack unit to your pedalboard, re-creating its all-analog flanger and doubler effects in a single stompbox. The flanger and doubler heard on countless ’70s and ’80s records used bucket-brigade circuitry, and this pedal preserves that same all-analog path and the original control set, ensuring you get the real textures rather than a digital approximation

Reviews:

• RJ Ronquillo
• Ola Englund
• Leon Todd

This week JHS Pedals shipped and sold its one millionth pedal. I started this company eighteen years ago — accidentally — on a plastic folding table in the attic of our townhouse in Jackson, Mississippi. This week we celebrated a million little metal boxes later, and in this entry I read you the speech I gave to the fifty people in the room.

Can you hear the difference between a Fender Telecaster and a Gibson Les Paul if both guitars have the exact same Pickups, setup, strings and wiring?

A fun little experiment in the great debate over where the tone comes from.

When Anthony Ferraro highlighted the difficulty blind and partially sighted guitar players face in navigating the fretboard, boutique builder NVision Guitars came to the rescue

“I just found out this year that sighted people have fret markers they can look at on the guitar. This is incredible!” Ferraro exclaims.

You asked for it, but Houston, we have a problem…

Welcome to the show. This challenge has been suggested many times by many people, the idea of pitting one brand against another using a MonoBrand approach to each of our pedalboards.

As it turned out the challenge was very different because of the pedals we had to hand - in short we have LOADS of Boss pedals and almost no MXR pedals. Argh! What to do? Max five pedals, one guitar, one amp… GO!

Enjoy the show!

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Tuesday following a meeting of the Board of Governors that the League will open a six-month process to evaluate the possibility of expanding to either Houston or Austin, Texas.

Commissioner Bettman identified the Friedkin family, led by Dan Friedkin, the CEO of The Friedkin Group, as the prospective owner of the Texas expansion franchise, which would be the NHL's 33rd.

He said the League has entered into an agreement with the Friedkin family to explore the feasibility, adding it would be approximately a $3.5 billion investment made by the family, which includes the expansion fee that goes to the NHL and the cost of building a new arena.

Commissioner Bettman said the exploration phase will determine which market, Houston or Austin, is best suited for an NHL team.

Both markets require a new arena, he said.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Tuesday following a meeting of the Board of Governors that the League will open a six-month process to evaluate the possibility of expanding to either Houston or Austin, Texas.

Commissioner Bettman identified the Friedkin family, led by Dan Friedkin, the CEO of The Friedkin Group, as the prospective owner of the Texas expansion franchise, which would be the NHL's 33rd.

He said the League has entered into an agreement with the Friedkin family to explore the feasibility, adding it would be approximately a $3.5 billion investment made by the family, which includes the expansion fee that goes to the NHL and the cost of building a new arena.

Commissioner Bettman said the exploration phase will determine which market, Houston or Austin, is best suited for an NHL team.

Both markets require a new arena, he said.

Not a totally new pedal, but Walrus Audio has returned the Lüm Texture Engine pedal to production.

Lüm seeks to illuminate your path with three unique granular and textural reverb modes, momentary automation, and presets. Drawing on elements of the Slö Reverb, Lore Reverse Reverb, and Fable Granular Generator, Lüm takes your audio signal and fractures it into tiny "grains" wrapped in different washes of reverb to create sporadic and atmospheric textures.

Ernie Ball Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of premium guitar strings, bass strings and musical instrument accessories, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Source Audio, the Massachusetts-based company behind some of the most innovative and acclaimed effects pedals in modern music.

And don't look now, but JHS used the occasion to announce a collaboration, 7 years in development, with Source Audio. It had knobs and a foot switch.

Home	Away	Kickoff
Chicago Hounds	California Legion	June 21 @ 8:00 PM ET (match center)

Pregame coverage starts at 7:30 PM ET on ESPN2

It's the final week of the regular season! Seattle and California are each vying for 2nd, while defending champion Free Jacks are in a struggle to hold onto their 4th place spot with Old Glory DC and Anthem RC nipping at their heels. If New England loses to Chicago, which seems quite likely at this point, then either DC or Anthem can take the spot. Anthem would need a bonus point win to leapfrog a losing Free Jacks squad. Without the bonus point then Old Glory could still secure the playoff spot with just a single bonus point (either losing by less than 7 or with a try bonus point).

This post calls back to this post covering Fender's default judgement in German court granting a copyright on the Stratocaster shape.

Fender / FMIC have sent multiple cease and desist letters threatening to commence lawsuits for copyright infringement of their Stratocaster body shape. A shape that up until 2 months ago was public domain.

A couple of other videos on the matter:

• Know Your Gear
• Tim Pierce Guitar
• John Nathan Cordy