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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The worst thing about being in a rock band is waiting for the guitarist to set up and adjust—and re-adjust, and then re-re-adjust—his interminable collection of effects boxes and pedals. But now ...