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Akron, OH, 44307
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Official website for EarthQuaker Devices. We build guitar effects by hand in the quaint landlocked city of Akron, Ohio.
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Bobb Bruno plays all sorts of instruments and his gear collection reflects that. Heavily. Basically an entire wishlist of hard to finds, studio rarities, really rads, and just plain oddball music equipment.
Read MoreOlivia Jean has a very streamlined board where pedals are chosen after lots of trial and error. Using her gear night after night in a live setting allows for utilitarian features to stand out, and only the ones that are "just right" survive.
Read MoreDIY recording engineer, natural experimenter, tinkerer, multi-instrumentalist, mad scientist... the list goes on. Ed Rodriguez has been feeling his way through the musical universe for quite some time.
Read MoreMark and Steve decided to sit down and divulge pedal set-ups for this episode of Board To Death! Classic circuits that were around when they started their first bands are still in the mix, but modern updates promoting reliability definitely don’t hurt.
Read MoreJonathan Nuñez gives us a tour of his minimal set-up in this episode of Board To Death!
Read MoreSweet Spirit is a thought provoking rock band from Austin Texas that has about one billion members. Josh Merry is one of them, and plays guitar. He agreed to give us a tour of his JAM PACKED pedal board in this episode of Board To Death!
Read MoreThe Guitar Shop NYC is home to luthiers and string makers but most importantly, people who are passionate about what they do. This joint oozes with hand made quality goods and good vibes, a true "boutique" in every sense of the word.
Read MoreLindsey Jordan of Snail Mail takes us through a tour of her pedalboard, while on stage at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland Ohio.
Read MoreSylvia Massy has been engineering and producing sessions for longer than most of us have been acting like we know what we’re talking about. Sylvia was kind enough to guide us through Studio Divine in this episode of EarthQuaker Devices Show Us Your Junk!
Read MoreAs musicians, we are attempting to express our creativity through a series of organized sounds and controlled variables. However, we do not want unintended noise entering our audio signal, or less sound altogether.
Read MoreJoel Hamilton takes us on a tour of Studio G in Brooklyn New York, home to a generous amount of impossibly rare studio gear.
Read MoreRafael Brasil is very enthusiastic about his board(S), and really digs octave pedals. A LOT! Board to Death Episode 23 features Rafael going over his effects for two different boards and explaining their use to create his unique sound.
Read MoreSince entering our world at the end of the first decade of this century, the Rainbow Machine has turned more than a few heads with its bizarre and captivating trademark sounds. Take a trip over the rainbow into the mind of the creator of this somewhat misunderstood musical contraption, as Jamie Stillman shares some historical anecdotes.
Read MoreSteve Albini has recorded hundreds upon hundreds of bands spanning three decades. He has probably engineered one of your favorite records. His organic, non-meddling approach requires dependable and versatile recording equipment. With all of this great studio equipment, there had to be some oddball pieces floating around that he could dig up. Don’t worry, he will show you some of it.
Read MoreIn this episode of Board to Death, Cesar Soto was kind enough to give us a detailed rundown of his touring kit when the all-powerful MINISTRY came to town!
Read MoreOhio native rocker Doug Gillard visited the EQD studios for our latest episode of Board to Death! Doug has played in many bands including Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, and Cobra Verde.
Read MoreYou may know of Phil from his far-out bands Trans Am and Life Coach; but what you may not know is that this guy is also the owner of a historic diamond in the rough recording studio located in San Francisco, California.
Read MoreIn thirty short years, Sonic Youth produced one of the largest and most stimulating bodies of work of any American rock band…
Read More“I’m interested in how a new tool can inspire a new artistic creation. When I get a new pedal, I’m like, ‘Oh wow! I can figure out what this thing does,’ and I spend all this time tweaking knobs [and] learning the pedal, but maybe in that process you come up with a new riff, and that riff becomes a new song, and then that song takes on a life of its own.”
Read MoreThe Aqueduct vibrato to be simple enough that you could treat it as a replacement for built-in amp vibrato, but deep enough to inspire new musical ideas, and if you really crank it, weird enough to be down for whatever.
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