James Grimshaw
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Sort out your ’board! 7 pedalboard accessories to tidy up your stompbox setup (opens the original)
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Pedals Week 2026: There comes a time in every guitarist’s life when, really, you have everything you need. No stone unturned on the amp front; no room on the wall for more guitars; no glaring holes in the pedal chain. How on Earth do you feed your GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) if you already have everything? Enter: the pedalboard accessory. We’re looking beyond the addictive collectability of the pedal itself, towards something a little more… practical. Even with your ideal effects chain in si
Analog vs digital pedals: what's the difference? And is one really better than the other? (opens the original)
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Pedals Week 2026: The guitar pedal is an ever-evolving format, but also an ever-present one. The first guitar pedals were introduced only in the early 1960s, but in the intervening years they’ve been a source of change in sounds, tastes and techniques in guitar music. As technology has advanced, so has the debate between the two core types of guitar pedal: analog and digital. Each one elicits different opinions, preconceived notions, and even prejudices: analog and digital. Analog warmth; digita
Shoegaze guitar has never been bigger – and these 5 pedals are a shortcut to its otherworldly tones (opens the original)
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Pedals Week 2026: Shoegaze is well and truly back. The return of legendary figures to the touring circuit – My Bloody Valentine chief amongst them – has been a heartening thing, demonstrating the continued, vibrant and powerful relevance of the blissed-out guitar as a mode of unreal expression. These new upwellings of legacy acts are also a reflection of shoegaze’s long and aptly slow second act – newer artists like Glixen, Mo Dotti and They Are Gutting A Body Of Water woozily picking up the man
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