Though Milwaukee is a long way from being dubbed a hotspot of rock and roll gear innovation, there are a few businesses here creating great equipment for musicians near and far. One of them is Oak ...

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Polyend is a company that takes hardware very seriously. Its stable of innovative products delivers a focused selection of music-making devices including Synth, a pad-based multi-engine polysynth with ...

When a bunch of musicians looked down at their feet and realized the pedals they were pushing were pretty dull-looking, a desire to create something both visually enticing and sonically impressive ...

When hearing the name Dan Armstrong, most people think of that cool, clear Plexiglas guitar made by Ampeg in the late Sixties. For stompbox freaks, the name conjures up images of legendary effects ...

From building your own analog effects pedal to processing audio through micro controllers, a lot of musicians love building their own boxes of sound modification. In his entry for the 2019 Hackaday ...

In this video I show how to make a simple electric percussion instrument called a stomp box and how to install a piezoelectric transducer as an audio pickup. Thanks to my sponsor for this video, ...