This post may contain affiliate links If you are not a guitar player, shopping for the guitarist in your family can be a tough task. Whether it’s for birthdays, Christmas, or any other gift-giving holiday – it is hard to navigate the endless sea of guitar gear and gadgets in order to find […]
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The Best Klon Centaur Clones
This post may contain affiliate links The legendary Klon Centaur that we all know and love can be described by some as the perfect overdrive pedal. But unless you have a few thousand dollars to spend on a guitar pedal (Klon Centaurs are selling on Reverb.com for an average of $7,000 right now), […]
How to Build a Pedalboard Out of Wood for Less than $10
This post may contain affiliate links If you’ve been following the @PedalHaven Instagram account, you may have seen that I built a little DIY pedalboard out of wood to use at home. I have been really wanting a medium-sized pedalboard for quite some time. Before building this, I only had the option of a […]
Guitar Pedals for Blues Music
This post may contain affiliate links In the blues world, you may often hear the term, “less is more”. Sometimes all you need in your blues guitar rig is a beautiful guitar and a nice tube amp. However, having a few guitar pedals in your arsenal can definitely help expand your playing vocabulary and add […]
Do You Need More Than One Reverb Pedal?
This post may contain affiliate links As you start to put your pedalboard together, there comes a time when you start asking things like: “Should I buy another reverb pedal?” And while the answer is almost always (in my opinion) “Yes”, I thought I would run through some of the pros and cons of […]
Interview with Widow Rings
This post may contain affiliate links Virginia-based post-punk/new wave band, Widow Rings, sat down with me to talk about their current gear setups. Widow Rings has released an incredible EP and three singles in 2020 and is getting ready to release a brand new EP in February 2021. You can listen to their latest single […]
The Most Popular Guitar Pedals featured on Pedal Haven in 2020
This post may contain affiliate links 2020 has been a rough year for just about everybody. In the Pedal Haven world, we’ve been trying to keep the spirits up by continuing to post pedalboard photos on the @pedalhaven Instagram. And after a year of posting hundreds of your pedalboards and thousands of pedals in 2020, […]
Meet pi-Stomp – The DIY Multi-Effect Pedal from Tree Fall Sound
This post may contain affiliate links What is the pi-Stomp? pi-Stomp is a high definition multi-effects stompbox platform with DIY hardware and free open-source software. And with some decent soldering skills, you could build your own. The pi-Stomp allows you to create virtual pedalboards using MOD, a powerful, easy-to-use drag and drop web […]
A Look at the Animalizzer from TONE.ELECTRONIX + Demo
This post may contain affiliate links “The Big Muff Pi for Big Muff Pi haters” Inspired by the Big Muff Pi, the Portugal-based, family-run boutique pedal brand TONE.ELECTRONIX has taken a classic idea and turned it on its head with their debut pedal, The Animalizzer. And while there is absolutely no shortage […]
Checking out the Flat Pedalboard from G.O.M.C. Cases
This post may contain affiliate links You can make a pedalboard out of almost anything. Since starting Pedal Haven, I’ve seen beautifully hand-crafted wooden pedalboards to people using old skateboard decks as a makeshift pedalboard – and everything in between. But you can never go wrong with a good old-fashioned flat pedalboard. […]