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A Few Words On Double Tracking

Humans are strange creatures. They fall in love with sounds. They invent machines to capture those sounds. Then they invent other machines to make those sounds sound even better. Often by playing the exact same parts they just played.What am I talking about?The magic of Double Tracking! It all started with Les Paul. Not the guitar—though, yes, also the guitar—but the man. He was a brilliant jazz guitarist who, sometime in the 1950s, decided one version of himself wasn’t enough. He rigged up some tape recorders, stacked one solo on top of another, and called it progress. His song “How High the Moon” with Mary...

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Tap-Exp. Schematic

Want a Tap-Exp. pedal but cannot find one? Well you're in luck! Below is the original factory Tap-Exp. schematic, now available for download, so that you can build your own Tap-Exp.!Click the image below (or click HERE) for a full-size downloadable file. Notes:-Switch is a Normally-Open Momentary Contact type.-Designed for use with Mr. Black stereo effects pedals featuring our proprietary "TAP/EXP" input.-We DO NOT have the resources to provide ANY further technical data, support or advice/input on the schematic below.-Jack Deville LTD./Mr. Black pedals is not responsible for unpredictable/undesired behavior resulting from the use of this schematic. This circuit and schematic is NOT...

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How does the Heaven's Gate actually work, anyway?!

How does the Heaven’s Gate [actually] work? Heaven’s Gate is a unique, specialty reverberator, and as such, it was designed following a somewhat “unconventional” approach and methodology. Let’s take a moment to walk through the simplified (and I mean HIGHLY simplified) block diagram below. (Bypass system, power-supplies, all filtering, LED indication, etc. have all been omitted from this diagram in an effort to provide only the information necessary for a solid understand of the basic operation of the circuit.) So lets get right into it, eh? (click the image below to open a high-resolution version in a new window for...

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Second to One: A word about "Stereo Pedals" and the B.S. surrounding so many so-called "Stereo" processes

Man oh man.  To say I've got something for you that may change your perspectives and make you think twice about how you plan and execute your pedal-board would not do this article justice. I've got a lot to say here, and I'll do my best to keep it as concise and direct as possible; with that said: I am CERTAIN some people are not gonna like what they read here. FUCK IT.  I've never been one to "go with the flow," and I have always caused trouble, wherever I am.  I believe this article is gonna ruffle some feathers,...

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SuperMoon Limited MS Edition

Eighteen years ago my mother woke up one morning, just as she had every day in her life prior. However, that particular day was different. Half of her body was completely paralyzed. This made her speech difficult, and actually moving nearly impossible.  In the days to follow, she received life changing news and was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS); a permanent, degenerative nerve disease.  For more information about MS, please click here. My mother, as well as my best friend’s mother, and countless other mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandmothers, grandfathers, teenagers, adults and everywhere in between have given themselves to...

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